Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-22
EXPORTS SHOW Big INCREASE
Three Hundred and Four Million
Dollars Gain Over Last Year.
COTTON KING IN THIS LIST
pouthern Product Leads All by Many
millions in Total VaIue--some
Interesting Figures from
the Report.

WASHINGTON, July a.-The farmer and
the manufacturer shared about equally in
the remarkable growth in exports which
characterized the fiscal year just ended.
The total increase in exports was SSo4.OOoOOO'
when compared with the Immediately
preceding year, being a larger gain than
ever before shown in a single year OF our
export trade. OF this gain Of 1OiOOoOOO'
manufactures as a whole supplied $4,000
OOO, cotton about $1S5, 100000, meat and dairy
products about Sl9,0O0,0OO, corn approx
mately 100000, food animals N,5OO0O'
flour about 81 50O,000, while wheat shows a
marked decline.
Agricultural Exports.
Cotton is king in the exports of products
Of agriculture, the value exported during
tie year being s5s5OOO,OO0, by far the larg-
est total ever shown in the cotton export
trade, against $3.50, 100000 in 1910 and $751;
100000 in 1907, the former high record year.
Meat and dairy products show total OF
approximately Sl50, 100000. against SlSlOOO,OOC
last year, but materially less than In GER
tain earlier years in which the total ranged
as high as 500, 100000 in 1907 and S2ll,0OO'OOO
in 1906. Food animals show total OF
SlS 900 900. against little less than $l2.OOO,OO
last year, but much below the figures oi
earlier years when the total figures OF
food animals exceeded $lS0O0.00O In the high
record year 1906 Flour amounted to zap
proxlmately $5O,OOO,OOO in value, against
81 10000 last year, but much less than In
certain earlier years, the high record II
flour exports in 1898 showing a total oi
approximately T5,5OO,9Oo.
Price Makes Total Mount.
One peculiar feature OF the cotton ex
port trade Is found in the fact thai
although the value exceeded by more thar
$iOO,0OO,OOO that Of any earlier year the
quantity exported was less than in severa
years The quantity of cotton exported IL
the fiscal year 1911 was about 4O29,oOo,O O'
pounds, against 4,i4sO00,0OO pounds II
1903 and 4.5lS,OOO,O0O pounds in 1907, ye
the value in 1911 was S5S5,0O0,0O0 agains
s4l7,bOOOOO in 1909 and S4S1, 100000 in 1907.
In manufactures the increase in th'
group manufactures ready for consump
ton" is about SlOO, 900, 900. and in the grouI
manufactures for further use in manu-
featuring the increase is approximately
StO.0oo,00O; these figures being subject Il
slight revision since the full returns FOL
the closing month Of the year have no
yet reached the bureau OF statistics Of thu
Department OF Commerce and Labor. from
WnObS ICtuIns inc accompanying oNoNo
tnents are compiled.
Increase tn Manufactures.
The increase In manufactures is apparen
In a large number OF articles Agriculture
implements as a whole show an increas
OF about Ss,OO0.000; mowers and reaper
alone about $4,000, plows and cultivator
about t25OO.oOo. pig copper about ,ooC
lumber about 100000. iron and steel manu-
features as a whole an increase OF abou
s47.OOo000, while the details OF iron ant
steel show for sheets and plates abou
S4.OOO.O0O Increase, structural iron and stee
about 100000, metal working nachiner
about 100000, wire about $4,000. 900. electri
cal machinery about $2,0OOO0O, minln
machinery nearly s2.OOo.OOo. locomotives owe
u.Oo0.OOO. traction engines more thai
u,OO0O 900, while In other articles not classes
under the general title OF iron and ste'
manufactures, automobiles show q gal
Of about $3.Oo0,OOo. railway cars about a
10000. electrical appliances about $1,000
and naphthas about So 900, 900.