The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-01-17
EXPORTS
OF Iron and Steeisas Reported
Show Pleasing Growth
Conditions at / Home.

WiAsHENGTo ES, 10. a., Jan. IL
While the United states ranki
only third as an5sxporteE OF, iron and
steel. her progress IN that branch 81
commerce has been rapid; the totui
exports Of that class of4aricies nav.
ing increased from 1Os million dol
lars in 1901, to nearly Of quite. $50
million in 1911, and Of agricultural
implements, nom seventeen to
tfirtysave nf1llon dollars during tina
same period. Taking the'period 1900,
1910, the latest period for which fig.
ures are available in the case Of
foreign countries, the growth in <
ports Of iron and steel has been as
follows;
The United Kingdom, from 27l to
1851 million dollars; Germany from
III to 1893 million; United states,
from 1870 to 201 million; France from
twenty-seyen TO forty-tf million;
Belgium, from. forty-one to,,slxty-five
million; Switzerland, from eleven to
eighteen million dollars. In exports
of agricultural machinery the United
States leads all other countries, with
a total in 1910 Of thirty-one million
dollars, against sixteen million for
the United Kingdem; nine million for
Germany. and one and three-quart II
million for France.
The $50 million, dollars worth Of
iron and steel and .th.rty?fve million
dollars worth of agricultural imple-
meAts exported from the United
States last year found markets IN
practically every part of the civilized
world. Steam locomotives and steel
rails went largely to Canada, Mexico,
Brazil, Argentine, and Japan, where
the rapid development Of railways
enabled an increased absorption of
those materials from this country.
Structural iron ana sseelof American
manufacture ii being utilized in In
creasing q qualities BY most most IL the
leading; countries of North America,
as,swell as7inl Australia and Japan,
The farms Of Canada, Argentina, Bra
I'll, Australia andl New Zealand are
requiring increasing quantities OF
American wire. !onr sales Of cleo
trtcal. mscSlRery show 4 healthy ex-
pansion in, such important markets
as the United Kingdom and other
European countries as we'll as the
newer communities of the; western
hemisphere. The same might be said
Of sewing machines and metal-work-
Ing machinery, American cash reg
listers and typewFiters are facilitating
business in offices scattered in every
part of the wofld-in France; the
United Kingdom and Germany; in
Canada, Mexico and Clba; in Argen-
tina and Brazil; IN india and Aus
tralia, and in many other countries,
nearly all Of them showing larger
totals. in ,lN1,, than in any earlier
year.
The principal articles forming the
billion dollars worth of iron and
steel products exported from the
United States In the calendar year
1911. with the approximate value OF
each based upon leven months fig
ures already at hand are: Sheets
and plates, eighteen million dollars;
builders hardware, saws and tools,
seventeen million; locomotives and
other engines, seventeen million;
steel rails, twelve million; pipes AMI
fittings, twelve, million; wire, twelve
million; structural. iron and steel,
eleven million; sewing machines, nine
million; electrical machinery, eight
million; mining machinery, seyen
million; bars. and rods, FIVE million;
cash registers, four million; pumps
and pumping machinery, four mil
lion; printing presses, three million;
sugar mill machinery, three million;
and, tin and terhe plates, nearly five
million dollars, or Eve times as much
as in the preceding year; while
stoves and ranges, shoe machinery,
Laundry machinery, scales and bal
arices. castinps. and wire nails narh