The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-19
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 1s.-What are
the principal articles forming the large
increase in exports of manufactures.
the largest ever recorded in the his
tory of the export trade of the United
States? The figures OF the bureau of
statistics. department of commerce
and labor. show that manufactures
ready for consumption increased
1o1ie million dollars in the export
trade of 1911. and manufacturers for
further use in manufacturing increas-
ed Al. million dollars over the pre-
ceeding year. This increase is larger.
in both classes, than that of any ear
lier year, making the total exports of
manufacturs ready for consumption
COL million dollars, and manufactures
for further use in manufacturing. 500
million or a total of go million. against
million in 1909.
Machinery in the various forms to
which this term may properly be ap-
piled, supplies a larger share of this
total of increasing exports of manu-
features than any other single great
class of products of the factory. The
group of articles which the bureau OF
statistics classes as machinery" un-
der the general head of iron and steel
manufactures. shows growth from
so million dollars in 1910 to los mil
lion in 1911; but this could properly
be added automobiles, and parts of
which alone show a growth OF Az mil
lion dollars; agricultural implements.
a growth of nearly million; and SCI
entific instruments including telephone
and telegraph instruments, growth
of 21a million dollars. To be sure, no
single one of the numerous classes OF
articles designated under the general
head of manufactures" shows as
large an increase as pig copper, clas-
sed as a manufacture for further use
in manufacturing, which shows a gain
of Is million dollars, or approximately
90 per cent over the exports OF the
preceding year; while that class of
lumber designated as boards. deals,
and planks," shows an increase of
about Z million dollars, or 20 per cent
over 1910. Glazed kid, another article
for use in manufacturing shows an in
crease of over 6 million dollars, a
gain of more than so per cent over
1910, but this is probably more appar-
ent than real, in view of the fact that
considerable quantities of kid leather
exported in former years went out of
the country under the general title
of leather but is now, as a result
of insistence by the bureau OF statis-
tics upon greater care in classified
ton, being properly described by the
exporters. Glazed kid alone shows a
total expectation in 1911 of II million
dollars, as against II million in 1910
and less than million in 1909.
OF the finished manufactures ready
for consumption exported, automobile
es and parts show a growth from II
million dollars in 1910 to 1914 million
| in 1911; cotton goods from 33 1-3 mil
lion to practically II million; builders,
hardware and tools from IA million to
| II million; boots and shoes of leather,
from 1211 million to 1917 million; lu-
bricating oils from 20A million to %
91s million; Photographic goods. COM
posed largely of motion-picture films,
from Az millions to over Z million;
ltypewriters from SA million to 9A
million; sewing machines, from 7h
million to over million; structural
iron and steel, from less than 6 mil
lion to 81 million; scientific instru-
ments from 10 to 1914 million; cars
and carriages from 3A million to 8A
million; agricultural implements from
% million to practically SO million;
Woodworking machinery from mil
lion to 9h million; wire, from 1-3
million to over 10 million; locomotiv-
es from 21s million to practically 4
million; stationary engines. from 3
from 1-3 million to 31a million; and
million to million; traction engines,
books, maps, ETC., from Z million to
l8A million, while in numerous other
articles of less value corresponding in
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