The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-24
BOOT AND SHOE EXPECTATIONS
FROM THE UNITED STATES

The American shoe manufacturer is
extending his sales in all parts of the
world. The fiscal year 1880 we ex-
ported less than 100000 pairs of boots
and shoes; in 1890, 100000 pairs; in
1900, over million pairs; in 1905,
over 5 million pairs; in 1910, over
million pairs, and in the calendar year
which ends with next month the num-
Der will exceed million pairs, to say
nothing of the l million pairs going
to Porto Rico and Hawaii These fig
ures relate to boots and shoes of
leather; while if to this we add those
of India rubber, we get an additional
9 million, bringing the total number
|of American made boots and shoes
passing out of continental United
States in 1911 up to an average of a
million pairs per month, against about
a half million per annum 20 years ago.
This increase, it should be remem-
bered, has come in the face of large
manufacture in foreign countries Of
boots and shoes called American
manufactured by foreign workmen and
of foreign material but upon American
patterns and following American meth
ods of manufacture. 1t is a well known
fact that large quantities of shoes
sold in various parts of the world un-
der the title of American are, in
| fact, made in European countries upon
patteris and forms and methods of
manufacture developed in the great
manufacturing establishments Of the
United States; and it is thus probable
that the number of boots and shoes of
American type and thus American in
the sense of form and method of man
ufacture sold in foreign countries is
very much greater than that indicated
by the mere figures of expectation. In
actual exports of boots and shoes man.
ufactured in the United States, the
total for the year which ends with
next month will as above indicated
aggregate more than II million pairs
including in this figure those Of India
rubber and those sent to our own non
contiguous territory.
Where do they go? Everywhere, ap
parently, that man years boots and
shoes: Japan, Korea, Siam, the Dutch
East Indians, Egypt, Portuguese Africa
Liberia, the Melgian Kongo, Asiatic
Russia. Alden, German Oceania, Brit
Iish Guiana, Ecuador, Salvador, Costa
Rica. Roumania, Turkey in Asia, China
British South Africa, Paraguay, the
Straits Settlements, Spanish Africa
Bulgaria, Honduras, the Dutch West
Indies, Haiti. Santo Domingo, Servia
and the Azores and Madeira Islands, tt
say nothing of the larger importers o
our boots and shoes-Cuba, Mexico
England. Canada, Germany, ant
France.
All these and many other interestin:
facts about the expectation of boot
and shoes and numerous other articles
of American manufacture are to b.
found in that interesting volume o
the bureau of statistics, department o
commerce and labor, entitled Com
merce and Navigation of the Unite'
States" which may be had on applica
ton to that bureau. 1t shows boot
and shoes exported from the Unite
States to no less than 85 countries an
colonies of the world and that tn
I value of boots and shoes exported
. which had never reached as mucn a
: a million dollars per annum prior
, 1896, now exceeds 12 million dollar
o per annum and will in the current yea
h amount to about 10 million dollars /
s value, including those sent to the nol
f contiguous territory of the Unite
States: and if to this we add the yalu
s Of India rubber boots and shoes e,
+ ported. we should have total Of abot
r II million dollars for boots and shoe
d of all kinds passing out of continenti
J. United States in the year which enc
a with next month.
o The United Kingdom is the Chi
! rival of the United States in supplyir
# boots and shoes to the world, Her e
Q ports of boots and shoes are sti
r. greater both in total number of pai
% and total value than those of the Uni
10 ed States, but the growth in her ca
o is far less rapid tina nthat of this cou
If try. The number of pairs exported fro
J. the United States in 1895 was 965,l'
It and in 1910, 7,S1O.9OS; the number
n pairs exported from the United Kin
n dom in 1895 was S,095, ,440; and in 1871
s. 3.039 .656 the percentage of gain
70 the case of the United Kingdom beil
70 ief rer cert. and in the case of Il
80 r..-4.. rItr IN Rc1