The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-12

100000 worth of manila '-~-''' carly
million dollars worth I'D ! the
form of base bullion" Ec.. than
half million dollars worth of wool;
one-half million dollars worth of raw
sugar; one-third million dollars worth
of hides: quarter of million dollars
worth of tea; also smaller values in
cocoa, coffee, art works, diamonds,
sisal, and furs and fur skins.
Canada is our largest customer for
foreign merchandise, the total value
of exports of foreign merchandise to
that country being in 1910 thirteen and
one-half million dollars, the principal
items forming this large total being
bananas, nearly one and one-half mil
lion dollars value: hides and skins,
about three-quarters Of a million dol
lars value: India rubber, over three
and one-third million dollars value
manila hemp nearly one million dol
lars value; tobacco, nearly one million
dollars value; gum chicle, used chiefly
In the manufacture of chewing gum,
over half million dollars value. and
In less values, automobiles, bristles,
coal-tar products, glycerin, nitrate of
soda, extract of quebracho, used for
tanning purposes: mineral and vege-
table wax raw cotton, raw silk, raw
sugar, pig tin, coffee. cocoa, burlaps
and other manufactures of fibers.
The value of India rubber of foreign
production exported from the United
States in the fiscal year just ended ag-
gregated about six million dollars, be-
ing, however, slightly less than in
1910, in which year the total value of
rubber Of foreign production exported
was seven and one-half million dollars.
Of this total three and one-third mil
lion dollars value went to Canada.
three and one-third million dollars to
England, and the remainder chiefly to
other European countries. Bananas
are another item in the list of articles
exported amounting to nearly two mil
lion dollars in the year Just ended and
about one and one-half million dollars
in 1910. Nearly all of these go to Can
ada, the only other country to which |
any were sent in 1910 being Mexico,
a little over six thousand dollars |
worth, against nearly one and one-half
million dollars worth to Canada. 9th
er fruits re-exported included figs, cur |
rants, grapes. lemons, olives, oranges, |
pineapples and raisins. OF the more
than one-half million dollars worth Of |
gum chicle exported, nearly all went |
to Canada; the more than one million
dollars worth of coffee re-exported was |
widely distributed to Europe. to Cuba, |
and others of the West Indies Islands. |
TO Canada, Australia and to China. OF
the more than one and one-fourth mil !
lion dollars worth OF foreign cotton |
exported in 1871 considerably over one
million dollars worth went to England, |
and srl2r quantities TO Cauada, Ger
many and Mexico. OF the one and |
onethird million dollars worth of ma
Gil7 hemp exported nearly one million
dollars worth went to Canada, about |
two hundred thousand dollars worth
to England and smaller values to Bel
GUM, France, Italy, Cuba and Brazil.
OF the more than one and one-half mil
lion dollars worth of foreign tobacco
exported nearly one million dollars
worth went to Canada. OF the half
million dollars worth of foreign lum-
Der re-exported, about one-half went
to Argentina, and the remainder prin-
cipally to Cuba, the British West In
dies. Brazil British Guiana, Uruguay
and Canada.