Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-06
GROWTH IN EXPLOITATION IN 1911
some OF The CAUSES.

Exports from the United States in.
the fiscal year 1911 will probably ex-
coed by about 300 million dollars the
figures of last year, and cross the two
billion dollar line. The figures of ex-
ports of the Bureau of Statistics, De-
partment of Commerce and Labor, for
the ten months ending with April.
show an excess of 269 million dollars
over those in the corresponding
months of last year. and for the
single month of April, an excess of
% million dollars over April of last
year, thus indicating that the growth
in exports in 1911 will approximate
300 million dollars. and the total ex-
ports of the year probably exceed two
billion dollars.
What are the principal causes in
this enormous growth in exports in
1911 when compared with 1910? II
is well known that In certain articles
such as wheat, flour, cattle, meats, and
others of this class, exports of 1911
are less than those of. earlier years.
Yet despite this falling off in these
important staples, of which the Uni
ted States has in the past been such
large exporter, the total value Of
merchandise exported seems likely
to show a larger growth in 1911 than
shown by any earlier year in the his
tory of the foreign trade. Exports
Of cattle In the ten months ending
with April show an actual falling off
of over two and a half million dol
lars in value when compared with
the corresponding months of 1910.
Wheat shows a falling off of about %
million dollars in value in the ten
months in question, compared with
the corresponding period of the earlier
year; canned beef, fresh beef, oleo
oil, and tallow, all show a decline in
the quantity exported in the ten
months ending April, when compared
with the corresponding months of the
preceding year, yet in that same ten
months the total value of all exports
rom the United States is 26S million
dollars greater than In the CORES
bonding months of the preceding
year. What is the cause?
The cause of so large a growth in
certain articles as to overcome the
oss in certain other articles and still
,reate a gain of 26S million dollars
lver the figures of last year is chiefly
he high price of cotton and the in
'reased outward movement of man
fractures. Exports of cotton for the
en- months ending with April show
llone an increase of l43 million dol
ars over the corresponding months
exported in the ten months ending
april being $40 million dollars,
against 4O6 million in the same
months of last year. The average ex-
lort per pound during the ten months
,nding April was higher than the av-
rage in any full fiscal year during
he last quarter of century Corn
llso shows a gain, the value of ex-
Iorts in the ten months ending with
\pril being nearly 2S million dollars,
gainst little more than 81 million
n the same months of last year, while
neat and dairy products show an in
reae Of about million dollars In
81 over the 1910 period Copper
or the nine months ending with
larch shows an increase OF about 0
million dollars automobiles, an In
roaso from l,3 million dollars 10
~ million; cotton manufactures, 30
million In the same months OF last
year, fruit, 70 mlllloh dollars, against
~ l-8 million In tho same months Ut