The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
EXPORTS OF STEEL
 AND IRON INCREASE Amounts to $235,0OO,OOO in
 Last Fiscal Year REMARKABLE GROWTH Machinery Constitutes One-Half of
REMARKABLE GROWTH
Machinery Constitutes One-Half of Total Exports and Railroad Rails Comes Second, the Latter
 Amounting to S9,333,O00

Washingon, June 1S.-tspecial9-The following official figures have been issued from the federal bureau of statistics;
 Exports of iron and steel from the United States in the fiscal year about to end will probably be $235,o00000 in value, against $1S4, 900 in the former high rec ord year. 1908. The total for the 10 months ending with April the latest period for which details have been compiled by the bureau of statistics, department of com meree and labor, is in round terms $780, OOO, ,00O, and if the May and June exports approximate in each case those of April the total for the year will be fully $235, OO0 GOO. Ten years ago, in 1901, the total was $117. .O0e,0O0, or ione-half the estimated figure for the current year; 20 years ago, in 1891, it was S29,00O,0O0. and 30 years ago $170O0,000. The value of iron and steel manufactures exported in 1911 will prob- ably exceed by more than s5G,OO,OOO that of the immediately preceding year, thus showing a growth of approximately 90 per cent.
 No feature of the export trade of the United States shows a more remarkable growth than that of manufactures of iron
 
 of iron and steel exports had never reached as much as $25,0O,0DO in a single year. In 1890 the total was $25.542 ,30S; in 1895. $32, ,00O,9S9; in 1900 S121 ,913, 54S; in 1905, S134 723 363 in 1908, $1S3 9S2, 1S2; and in 1911, as above indicated, promises to be fully $235, 5,000,000, and if the record estab- lished in April is maintained until the end of June the total for the year will even exceed that sum.
 pf rio a practically one-half of this total value of iron and steel exported, the figures for the 10 months ending with April be- ing, in round terms, $90, 0,100,0 900, against $65, GOO 000 in the corresponding period one year ago and $55. 900, 900 in the like period two years ago. Typewriters, sewing ma chimes, meta-working machinery, cleo trical machinery, mining machinery, en- zines, pumps and pumping machinery, wind-mills, printing presses, cash reg isters sugar-mill machinery and wood working machinery are the principal items in the list of machinery exported. Exports of typewriters in the 10 months under review amounted to $,000,000, against S5,500,o0O in the corresponding pe- riod two years ago. sewing machines over 1000, coo, against less than S5000,000 in the same months of 1909; metal-workng ma chinery nearly SS,000,000, against 8, GOO, 900 in the corresponding period two years ago; electrical machinery, S6,500,000. against $5, 0OO in the like period two years ago; locomotives $3000,000; station ary engines $325O,OOO; traction engines, nearly $3,000,000 and other engines and parts thereof, s3500,000.
 The largest items aside from machin- cry under the head of Iron and steel exports are rails for railways. $9,330,- 900 in the 10 months under. consideration, against s550000O in the corresponding months two years ago; steel sheets and plates $700o,000, against a little over $3,- 0O0,OOO in the like period of 1909 iron sheets, 5,330,000, against a little less than &, 100000 in the same months two years against $4,500,000 in the corresponding months of 1sO9 wire SS,250,OOO against s5 750, 900 in the corresponding months of 1909: and builders hardware. including locks, hinges saws. tools. etc. Sl4,0o000 against a little less than Sl0.000,000 in the corresponding period of 1909.
 This largest item in the list of manu- factures entering our export trade, in- cluding heavy and sometimes bulky arti- cles and therefore difficult to distribute, is represented in the exports to literally every part of the world. The United Kingdom, Germany, France, The Meth erlands and other parts of Europe: Ar gentina, Brazil and practically all the South American countries; South Africa; the British East Indies; China; Japan; Australia; and the islands of Oceania, to say nothing of our nearer neighbors, the British West Indies, Central Amer ica. Mexico and Canada, appear in the list of the countries to .ehich the va rious articles of iron and steel are sent.