The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-11-10
Exports of Manufactures Approaching
The Billion Dollar Line.

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The Billion Dollar Line.
The value of manufactures passing
out of the United States in the calen-
dar year 1911 may exceed one billion
dollars. This estimate is based upon
figures of the bureau of statistics,
department of commerce and labor,
covering the exports of manufactures
in the nine months ending with Sep
TENDER, 1911, which amount to 478H
million dollars for finished manufac-
lures and 240H millions for manufac-
lures for further use in manufacturing,
making the total exports of manufac-
lures in the period named ZIG million
dollars, against 6l2 million in the like
period of 1910 The increase in the
nine months of 1911 over the like
period of 1910 is 1748 per cent, and
in case the increase during the re-
mainder of the year continues at the
same rate the total value of manufac-
lures passing to foreign countries
during 1911 will be about go million
dollars. When to this is added the
value of manufactures going to Alas
ka, Porto Rico and Hawaii, not in
cluded in the exports to foreign coun-
tries, the total outward movement of
manufactures from continental United
States in 1911 will pass the billion dol
lar line. This will bring the total val
ue of manufactures exported in 1911
to more than twice that of 10 years
ago and more than five times that of
20 years ago, the exports of manufac-
lures in 1901 having been 4471a mil
lions, and in 1891 about 1875 million
dollars.
Practically all the leading articles
of domestic manufacture show in
creased exports when compared with
the preceding year, many of them
making new high records in the year
now approaching its close. Iron and
steel manufactures, which head the
list of domestic manufactures export
ed, give promise of total of ESQ mil
lion dollars in the calendar year 1911,
compared with POI million in 1910 and
1927 million in 1901, decade earlier.
Copper manufactures, including pigs,
bars, ETC., will approximate 100 million
dollars in the years exports, compar-
ed with ga million in 1910 and 1871
million in 1901 Refined mineral oil
will also exceed 100 million dollars ir
the calendar year 1911, as against IS
million last year and O. million II
1901. Wood manufactures give indi
cations of exceeding 90 million dol
lars in 1911, compared with 81 millior
in 1910 and 40 million in 1901.
The gains shown in the four grea
classes of manufactures already dis
cussed are typical of those made il
, other important classes of less mag
nitude in the export trade. The in
dicated totals in the full years expor
trade are, in the case of agriculture
implements, nearly 20 million dollars
compared with 81 million last year
S and II million a decade ago; cottol
manufactures, IS million dollars i
1911, against 3SK million in 1910 an
& 20 million in 1901; leather and it
I manufactures, so million dollars, com
|. pared with s3h million last year an
% million a decade ago; chemicals
5, ETC., % million dollars in 1911, com
y pared with % million dollars in lol
and IA million in 1901; and cars an
carriages, about IS million dollars
a 1911, against Is million in 1910 and
IT million in 1901. A noteworthy featur
ie in this last named class is the rapi
IF development of the export trade
y automobiles, whoch has risen froi
less than a half million dollars in til
last half of the calendar year 100
the earliest period for which the RI
e. cord was kept, to Is million in lol
ID and an indicated total of IS million
the year ending December next.
It, A study of our exports as to coul
tries of destination indicates a worl'
re wide distribution of domestic mani
features, such industrial centers as Il
United Kingdom, Germany, and Be