Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-30
U. &. EXPORTS PASSES
 BILLION DOLLAR MARK
TOTAL VALUE OF MtNrFACTTRES ENF0RTED IN FISCAL YEAR AMOUNTED TO %i.O2l.153.91S
Iron and Steel Lead List of Principal Articles of Manufacture Shipped
 To Other Nations.

Washington, D. C. July 29.-Expor-
 tation of manufactures in the fiscal
 year just ended more than Justified the estima'e of the Bureau of Sta
 tlStics, Department of Commerce and
 Labor, that the total value would in 1912 for the first time cross the
 billion dollar line That bureau which has just completed bs figures showing the exportation Of manufac-
 lures, states the total vaue of Manl-
 factures exported in the fiscal year at 5 l,021 ,753,91S, of which S6743O2.l 903 was the value of manufacturers ready consumption and $347,451,O15 thaa of manufactures for further use in manufacturing. This does not include foodstuffs which have undergone a process of preparation or manufacture, since lsthe bureau groups articles of that class
 under the general heading of flood stuffs exported. This 1922 million dollars worth of manufactures ,eX- i ported in the fiscal year 1912 is more
 than double lhat of 1903, three times 1 that of 1898, four times that of 1896. five times as great as in 1894, prac- tlcally six times as great as in 1890,
 and ten times as great as in 1876, the value of manufactures exported in single year never having reached as
 much as 100 million dollars until i1lae
 year 1S73 Comparing with. 1902. a decade earlier, the totals are: Man utaGtures ready for consumption. in
 1912, 674 million dollars, against 322 l mllflon in 1902; manufactures for | fllr hnr in 347 million dollars, against 132 mil l Jon In 1902; total manufactures ex-
 ported in 1912, 1922 million dollars,
 against 454 million in 1902, having
 thus increased about 125 per cent.
 during the decade.
 The growth in the exports of man.
 ufactures is more rapid than that of Manufactures formed AZ per cent: of
 the exports of, 1912, against 33 1-2 per cent. ill 1902 and. IS per cent. in lo92. This increasing share which manufactures form of the exports oc-
 CUTS chiefly at the expense of food stuffs, which formed but about 20 per
 cent. of the exports of 1912, against approximately 3S per cent. in 1902
 and 30 per cent. in 1892.
 The, principal articles forming this billion dollars worth of manufactures
 exported are: Iron and steel, copper,
 mineral oil, manufap lures of wood,
 leather and manufactures thereof,
 cotton manufactures cars and car-
 riages, automobiles, and paper and
 manufactures thereof The total val
 ue of iron and steel manufactures
 exported in the year was 16S million
 dollars, against 99 million in 1902, a decade earlier, and 29 million in 1892. two decades earlier The chief growth
 in the exports of iron and steel man. ufactures has occurred since 1899,
 the total value of the exports of iron and steel never having toucher the
 100 million dollar line until the year 1900, and only crossed the 200 million dollar line in the year 1911, when the
 total was 231 million, against 26S mill lion ill the year just ended. Machin- cry alone amounted in 1912 to 115 million dollars value, and this does not include agricultural implements, of which the years exports amounted to 35 1-2 million dollars, or automo- piles and parts thereof, which amount ed to practically 2S million dollars. Automobiles show perhaps ,he most rapid growth in the list of manufac- lures exported, having been, as above indicated, 28 million dollars in 1912, against less than one million in 1902, a decade earlier. The total value of complete automobiles exported in the year is 21 1-2 million dollars, and to this must be added abou,t four mill lion dollars worth of parts of automo- piles and 1-2 million for tires, mak- ing the grand total for automobiles | and parts thereof, including tiress about 28 million dollars, against ) IA million in 1908 and less than one mil lion in 1902.