The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-06-25
Uncle Sam Leads World in
Typewriter Exports
GROWTH
During the Single Month or April
ever One Million Dollars Worth or
T,iewriters Went To Europe
Other Delicate Machinery.

the single month Of April it's exports
nn,.er that head exceeded one million
dollars in value as compared with
;I3S,232 in April. 1897. while for the
complete fiscal year which ends with
JIne the total will be about SIP, 0OO,-
OC1. or eight times as much as in 1897,
the earliest yea for which a separate
record Of this trade was made by the
Hureau of Statistics.
The growth in exports Of typeWrit-
ing machines has been teadily main
tanned during the fifteen years covered
~ the official report. In 1897 the to-
tai expectation "a ~$1,453,117; in
1902. $500, 191; in 1907, $~6,274,439;
and in 1912, as previously stated, will
approximate $4,000 600. From these
fplres it will be observed that this
class Of exports doubles in every five
Years. For the entire period from
1897 TO 1912 the aggregate exporta-
lion Of typewriters Of domestic man.
ufacture has been s~S2,ee4,336.
This rapid development in exports
Of y pewriters is typical Of many other
intricately constructed and d~elicately
adjusted machines of American man
ufacture. OF cash registers, for ex-
ample the exports increased from
1913. 0S6 in 1900, the earliest avail
able year, to approximately $500, coo
in the current fiscal a scales and
balances, from $381,S86 in 1897 to
si.oo0,o0o; electrical appliances, in
Guiding telegraph and telephone in
s'ruments, from $3,631.759 in 1902,
the first year in which a separate rec
ord was kept, to $1,000, 600; sewing
machines, from $~3,340,241 in 1897 to
$4,000, 900; printing presses, from
:6:9.710 in 1897 to $3,000,0O0; and
n%chinery Of all kinds, from $2s,442,-
ESi in 1891 to approximately $115,-
100000 in 1912. These figures do not
years exports will amount to about
-, 000, 600: and reapers.
which will approximate $4,000, goo;
ano threshers, which will approx
natc $4,000, 900.
Interesting Figures.
Most Of the typeWriters exported
from, the United States are sent to
Eurrpe, where business and industry
have long been in a state Of high de-
Neiopment. In certain of the newer
communities, however, such as Can
ada. Argentina and Australia, this
lass Of manufacture finds a large and
growing market. Basing the figures
for twelve months upon the ten
months figures already compiled by
the Rureap of Statistics Of the De-
psrtment OF Commerce and Labor, the
exports OF American typewriters to
ne United Kingdom will be between
!2500,000 and $4,000, 600: to France,
Stout s1.500.00 to Germany, ap-
iT"Aimately $1,000, 900; to Russia in
europe. abou $4,000; and to al
o'her Europe, q little over 100000
Ne"rly 100000 worth will go tc
'ahsda, about $500, 600 worth to Ar.
g%ehtina, 100000 worth to Mexico
ana Brazil, $500, coo worth to Austria.
la and other British Oceanic, $1,000 O(
worth to the British East Indies
1IoO. O00 worth to Cuba, and abou'
Ho0,000 worth to various other coun'
H:es located in every part of the civil
~ q world.
The extent to which American type
writer's are finding favor even in tn
Rreat manufacturing centers OF Eu
'op2 as well as in less advanced part
- ne world may be inferred from tn,
hf""th In exports by countries in tn
period 1S97-1912 covered by the Off
clai Dsures. Taking the ten month
ending with April, 1897, and compar
"S the exports during that periO'
with those of the corresponding
I'onths of the current year. those t.
.he United Kingdom increased from
.ol",3S6 to $2,137,297; those t,
rance. from $So,222 to s1,105,6es
aha those to Germany, from $2o1.3S
Sl,O95.121; while those to all othe
europe increased from $142,5s1 t
%"ol,4e5. In the same period GU
Exports Of typewriters to Canada in
,rrnsed from less than $4,000 t
s1f",'l4; those to Mexico, from $50,
voo TO S263,222: those to Argentina
from sl0,s50 to $331,S49; those t
h%Zil, from 1857 to $24S,47o; an
.n"se to the British East Indies, froT
*e,A9S to $157,24O.
ne supremacy of the United State
~ we expectation Of typewriters, com
puuns machines n cash registers
Illustrated by the following tabl
moving the exports of his class c
machinery from the worlds leadin
year 1911:
'AlortS Of Writing Machines. Cor