Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-01-11
THE IMPORTS TO AMERICA.
Resume of Worldwide Comforts
Supplied to American Homes.

The contributions which people of
other parts of the world are making
to the comforts and requirements of
homes in the United States are quite
as interesting as the subject Of last
weeks discussion, regarding the ar
ticles which producers in the United
States had contributed to the com
world.
Our tea, our coffee, our cOrkS,
our bananas, our camphOr, our lico-
rice, onr pepper, nutmegs and other
spices, our silk, some OF our cotton,
q considerable part OF our wool, and,
strange as it may appear, some part
OF the onions, potatoes and cheese
consumed in the United States. are
brought from other countries, and in
many cases from the opposite side
OF the globe and out-of-the-way
places Of the world
Few people would suppose, for ex-
ample. that this great agricultural
country imports onions, or potatoes,
or clover seed, or honey; yet the
value Of onions imported in 1907
and 1908 was nearly million dol
lars in each year, and they came
from Egypt, Australia, Japan, the
Canary Islands, Uruguay, Cuba, the
British West indies. Bermuda. Can
ada, Mexico and Spain.
NOT otnpS moro tbnn tlrnn .,,l
a half million dollars, worth were
imported in 1909, the largest con-
trihuting country being Scotland.
with over 5 100000 worth, ireland
and Great Britain. each thrcc-quart-
crs of q million dollars worth, and
the remainder largely from Europe
an countries, and, in smaller guam
titles, from the British West indies.
Australia and even China and ia
pan.
Pepper, OF course, is not produced
in the United Sta tcs, and it is not
surprising, therefore, that $4,000
600 worth is imported annually,
much OF ii from the Dutch East In
dies, although largely accredited 10
the Straits Settlements. the south
crnmoSt point OF eastern Asia, to
which this merchandise is trans
shipped from the East Indian Is
lands, known century ago as the
"Spicc islands," while smaller
quantities come direct from Ncthcr-
"a ,,-hi ,h h.,
many years administered the govern
ment OF those islands and controll-
ed largely their lines Of production
Nutmcgs, Of which the impOrtatiOns
amount to quarter million dollars
year. are also drawn chiefly from
the Spice Islands, or the Outer
East Indies.
One would scarcely expect that
United States would find it necessary
to import clover seed, but the guam.
tity imported runs as high as twenty
million pounds a year, chiefly from
Germany, and in smaller quantities
from France, Italy and Scotland.
Sausage castings, which We would
scarcely expect to see imported into
country Strengthening food animals
in such large numbers, are imported
to the value OF from two to three
million dollars a year. by far the
largest contributor being England
from which the importations in 1903
Il l,lr = ~
lars, the remainder being from
widely scattered countries, from Ger.
many, Turkey in Europe, China, Aus
tralia and Turkey in Asia.
Natural gas is another article
which we Md scarcely expect &c
sec importcu, yet the importations
run as high as $4,000 per annum
being pipcd across the river from
Canada at or near Niagara Falls.
OF the more commonly used arti.
clcs OF which other parts Of the
world are the chief source. sugar is
the largest in value, its importations
ranging about $l00.0 100000 a year
from foreign countries and $50, ,00O,-
600 year from our own island pos
Sessions--llawaii, Porto Rico and
the Philippines. Nearly all OF that
coming from foreign countries is
drawn from Cuba, which supplied us
the last fiscal year with three and a
half billion pounds, valued at ninety
three and half million dollars.
OF coffee, the importations range
from 60 to Is million dollars a wear
and in exceptional years as high as