The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-11-09
For the Year of 1911, Show
ing a Big Increase over
Previous Years.

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WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov g.
The value Of manufactures passing
out of the United States in the
calendar year 1911 may exceed one
billion dollars. The estimate is
based upon figures Of the Bureau OF
Statistics. Department of Com
merce and Labor, covering the ex-
port Of manufactures in the month
ending with September, 1911, which
amount to 1854 million dollars
for finished manufactures and $40 V
million for manufactures for further
use in manufacturing, making the
total exports of manufactures in the
period named 719 million dollars,
against Gig million in the like
period Of 1910. The increase in the
nine months OF 1911 over the like
period of 1910 is~17.4S per cent,
and in case. the increase during the
remainder of the year continues at
the same rate the total value OF
manufactures passing to foreign
countries during 1911 will be about
$40 million dollars. When to this
is added the value OF manufactures
going to Alaska, Porto Rico and
Hawaii, not included in the exports
to foreign countries, the total out
ward movement of manufactures
from continental unoted tSates III
1911 will pass the billion dollar
line. This will bring the total value
of manufactures, exported in 1911
to more than twice that of ten years
ego and more than five times that
of twenty years ago, the exports or
manufactures. in 1901 having been
447h million, and in 1891 about
1S5 million dollars.
Practically all the leading articles
OF domestic manufacture show in
creased exports when compared
with the preceding year, many of
them making new high records in
the year now approaching its close.
Iron and steel manufactures, which
head the list OF domestic manufac-
lures exported, give promise of a.
total of $50 million dollars in the
calendar year 1911, compared with
21O million in 1910 and 1O2 z mil
lion in 1901, decade earlier. Cop
per manufactures. including pigs,
bars, etc, will approximate 100 mil
lion dollars IN the calendar year
1911, as against 50 million dollars
in the years exports. compared
with 81 million in 1910 and 1895
million in 1901. Refined mineral
oil will also exceed 100 million dol
lars in the calendar year 1911, asI
against so million last year and 81
million in 1901. Wood manufac-
lures give indications Of exceeding
80 million dollars in 1911, COM
pared with 50 million in 1910 and
4G million in 1901.
The gains shown in the four great
classes of manufactures already dis
cussed are typical of those made in
other important classes of less mag
nitude in the export trade. The in
dicated totals in the full years eX-
port trade are, in the case of agri-
cultural implements, nearly 40 mil
lion dollars, compared with 81 mil
To- I v,,f11tpp n d.
cade ago; cotton manufactures, As
million dollars in 1911, against 81
million in 1910 and &c million in
1901; leather and its manufactures
30 million dollars, compared with
80 Y million last year and 30 mil
lion decade ago; chemicals, etc,
% million dollars in 1911, COM
pared with % million in 1910. and
IA million 1901; and cars and car
and carriages, about 80 million dol
lars in -19l1, against % million in
1910 and il million in 1901. A
noteworthy feature in this last
named class is the rapid develop
ment OF the export trade in, automo-
bies, which has risen from less than
half million dollars in the last half
OF the calendar year 1901, the earli-
est period for which the record was
kept, to 10 million in 1910 and in
indicated total OF Is million in the
year ending December next
A study OF exports as to countries
of destination indicates a worldwide
distribution OF domestic manufac-
lures, such Industrial centers as the