The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-17
BOOT AND SHOE EXPORTS
FROM UNITED STATES
Great Extension Of Sales to All Parts
of the World Is Noted by the
United States Census Bu-

reau.
The American shoe manufacturer il
extending his sales in all parts of the
world. In the fiscal year 1880 we ex.
ported less than 100000 pairs Of boots
and shoes; in 1890, 100000 pairs; in
1900, over 3,000,0oJ pairs; in 1905, over
100000 pairs; in 1910, over 100000
pairs, and in the calendar year which
ends with next month the number win
exceed s,O00,0000 pairs, 10 say nothing
Of the 100000 pairs going to Porto
Rico and Hawaii. These figures relate
TO boots and shoes OF leather; while il
to this we add those of India rubber,
we get an additional 100000, bring
ing the total number Of American made
boots and shoes passing out OF continent
tai United States in 1911 up TO an aver
age of million pairs per month, against
about half million per annum 20 years
ago.
This increase. IL should be remem-
bered, has come in the face OF large
manufacture In foreign countries Of
boots and shoes called American" man
ufaetured by foreign workmen and Of
foreign material but upon American pat
terms and following American methods
of manufacture. Il Is well known
fact that large quantities Of shoes sold
in European countries upon patterns and
forms and methods OF manufacture de.
yeloped in the great manufacturing es-
Establishments of the United States; and
IL Is thus probable that the number OF
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thus American in the sense Of form and
method OF manufacture sold in foreign
countries is very much greater than
that indicated by the mere figures Of
expectation. In actual exports OF boots
and shoes manufactured in the United
States, the total for the year which
ends with next month viii, as above in
dicated, aggregate more than ~ mil
lion pairs, including in this figure those
Of India rubber and those sent TO our
own non-coDtiguous territory.
Where do they got Everywhere, ap.
parently, that man wears boots and
shoes; Japan, Korea, Siam, the Dutch
East Indies, Egypt, Portuguese Africa,
Liberia, the Belgian kongo, Asiatie Rus.
sia, Alden, German 0ceania, British
Guiana, Ecuador, Salvador, Costa Rica,
Roumania, Turkey ia Asia, China, Brit
ISL South Africa. Paraguay, the Straits
of Settlements, Spanish Africa, Bulgaria,
Honduras, the Dutch West Indies, Haiti,
Santo Domingo, Seryia, and the Azores
and Madeira islands, to say nothing OF
the larger importers OF our boots and
shoes--Cuba, Mexico, England, Canada,
Germany and France.
All these and many other interesting
facts about the expectation of boots and
shoes and numerous other articles Of
American manufacture are TO be found
in that interesting volume Of the bu-
reau of statistics, department of COM
merce and labor, entitled Commerce and
Navigation OF the United States" which
may be had on application TO that bu-
reau. Ii shows hpets and shoes export
ed from the United States to no less
than IS countries and colonies of the
world aud that the value Of boots and
shoes exported. which had never reached
as much az million dollars per an
mum prior TO 1896, now exceeds twelve
million dollars per ~snnum and will in
the current year amount to about flfteen
million dollars In value, including those
sent to the non-eontiguous territory of
the United States, and If to this we
add the value Of India rubber boots
and shoes exported, we should have
total of about seventeen million dollars
for boots and shoes of all kinds pass
ing out OF continental United States in
the year which ends with next month.
The United Kingdom is the chief ri.
val OF the United States in supplying
boots and shoes to the world. Her ex-
ports of boots and shoes are still great
en- both in total number of pairs and
total value than those Of the United
States, but the growth in her case is
far less rapid than that Of this country.
The number OF pairs exported from the
United States in 1855 was 065, 1876, and
in 1910, 7,sl0,903; the number Of pairs
exported from the United Kingdom in
1895 was S,095 ,44G; and in 1910, l3,039,-
csc; the percentage of gain in the case
Of the United Kingdom being 81 per
cent. and in the case Of the United
States, nearly no per cent, The value
of leather boots and shoes exported from
the United States, however, ia more
identical with that Of like exports
from the United Kiasdom, having been
in the calendar year 1910, $l3,2l6, 237,
against Sl4,744.969 for the United King
dom, the average price per pair of those
exported from the United States having
been $l.60, against Sl.ls for those ex-
ported from the United Kingdom.