The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-02-23
A Good Showing.
Trade of the United States with Noncon-
'tiguous Territories in 1910.

| 'tiguouS Territories In 1910.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. Goth. Trade
of the United States with its noncontig-
uous territories aggregated two hundred
million dollars in the calendar year 1910,
against one hundred million in the calen-
dar year 1903, the first year for which
complete statistics of this trade are avail
able. The figures Of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, Department of Commerce and
Labor, just completed, show the total
value of this trade in the year ending
December 81, 1910, to be 1902, 494, 343,
and in the year ending December 81, 1903,
800, 1O7. 234, an increase of 100 percent,
while the trade with other parts of the
world was increasing about 40 percent.
The territories in question are Alaska,
Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines,
Guam, Tutuila and the Midway Islands.
The value of the merchandise shipped
from the territories in question to the
United States in 1910 was Sill, 731, 031,
against SCI, SIG, 756 in 1908. The value
of the merchandise shipped from the
United States to the noncontiguous ter
ritories was 800, 763, 312, against S3s, $780,
Ats in 1903. The increase in the period
from 1908 to 1910 was thus 81 percent in
the value of merchandise shipped from
the territories in question to the United
States; and 139 percent in the value of
merchandise shipped from the United
States to those territories.
The above figures do not include move
ments of gold and silver. The value of
domestic gold shipped from Alaska to
the United States in 1910 was in round
terms Is million dollars, and of foreign
gold presumably from British territory
adjacent to Alaska), approximately 3 12
million dollars; while the value of domes-
tic gold shipped from Hawaii to the
United States in 1910 was about one-half
million dollars.
The principal articles forming this
trade of more than 200 million dollars
between the United States and its nom
contiguous territories are in general
terms tropical products sent from those
islands to the United States, and fish,
copper and furs from Alaska, while of
shipments from the United States to
these territories manufactures and food
stuffs are the principal articles. Sugar
and hemp are the principal articles COM
ing from the Philippines, and as already
indicated, fish, copper, and furs are the
principal articles coming from Alaska.
The quantity of sugar sent from Hawaii
to the United States in the calendar year
1910 was little over one billion pounds,
valued at 80 1-2 million dollars; from
Porto Rico 626 million pounds, valued at
26 million dollars; and from the Philip
pines 219 milliou pounds, valued at
1-2 million dollars. Tobacco is also an
article of some Importance in the ship
ments of merchandise from the tropical
islands to the United States, amounting
to 1-2million dollars of manufactured
tobacco and little less than million
dollars in value of cigars from Porto
Rico; little less than 2 million dollars
worth of cigars, cigarettes and cheroots
from the Philippines and about 9 thou
sand dollars worth of tobacco from the
Hawaiian Islands. Manila hemp from
the Philippines in 1910 amounted to
about 8 2-3 million dollars in value.
Fruits and nuts Chiefly fruits) from
Hawaii amounted to 1-2 million dol
lars sin value; from Porto Rico a little
less than 2 million, and from the Philip
pines the shipments under this general
head Chiefly cocoanut meat, broken, or
"copra") amounted to a little over one
half million dollars.
From Alaska the principal articles
shipped to the United States were fish,
chiefly salmon, to the value of II 13 mill
lion dollars; furs, about one-half million;
copper ore, about one-fourth million.
The principal articles shipped to the
territories in question, are, as already in
dicated, manufactures and foodstuffs. To
Hawaii the group Gears, carriages, etc., )"
amounts to about one million dollars, of
which about e-fourths is automobiles;
cotton manufactures, nearly 2 million
dollars; iron and steel manufactures, 8
3-4 million; leather and manufactures
thereof, more than one-half million; min
eral oils, IL million; paper, and manu-
features thereof one-half million; tobacco
manufactures one-half million; manu-
features of wood Chiefly lumber), 1-2
million; breadstuffs, "a million, and
meats three-fourths of million.
To Porto Rico the principal articles
were cars and carriages, one million
dollars in value, Of which automobiles
formed little more than one-third;
CO tton manufactures, 1-3 million; iron
and steel manufactures, 1-2 million,
leather and manufactures thereof, over
l million; mineral oils, one-half million;
paper and manufactures thereof, over
one-half million; soaps, nearly one-half
million; manufactures of silk, one-third
of million; manufactures of wood, "a
million; breadstuffs, practically million
dollars, and meats, IA million.
To the Philippines the principal articles