Arizona republican., 1912-09-02
YANKEE AUTOS
 SOLD ABROAD
Expectations for Last Fis cal Year Amounted to 3O,O00,0OO- Great Growth of Manufacture and Sale in Ten Year Period.

WASHINGTON, Sept. Thirty million dollars worth of American automobiles found markets abroad last year, against less than 1 million dollars worth ten years ago Figures just completed by the division of statistics of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce show that the exports of automobiles to foreign countries in the fiscal year 1912 were valued at 2112 million dollars, and of parts thereof, including tires, ( 3-4 million dollars. If to this were added the shipments to Hawaii and Porto Rico, we get for the years slaes of American automobiles outside of con- tinental United States a round 30 million dollars, since the value of au- tOmObiles and parts thereof sent to Porto Rico was nearly 1 million dol- lars and to the Hawaiian Islands a little over 1 million dollars. The total number of machines exported to foreign countries was 21.757, val ued at $21,55O.139, averaging slightly less than 5000 each; while those to the nOncOntiguOus territory were higher, averaging $1600 each
 The export price of American au- tOmobiles in 1912 averaged less than in any earlier year in the history of the export trade The average for 1912, dividing the total number of machines exported into stated value, E.was $990 each, against $11OO in 1911. $13SO in 1910, $170O in 1909, and $1SSO in 1908.
 | On the import side, the automobiles ! f,,,,Nnrto1 about million dollars in value, I-against more than 1 million in 1907. fThe average import value of the au- | tomObiles brought into the country ! last year was S2216 each, against S$2138 in 1911. $1936 in 1910, $1788 in | 1909, and S2392 in 1908 Thus the
 export price of American machines has fallen from $1SSO in 1908 to $99O
 in 1912, while the import price of for | eign automobiles entering the country l has only fallen from $2392 in 1908 to | $2216 in 1912, the reduction in price
 on the export side being 47 per cent
 and on the import side but per cent.
 Even the remarkable growth in the l exports of American automobiles
 noted above has not kept pace with ! the growth in production at home l since the census of 1900 showed the
 value of automobiles manufactured in
 the United States in 1899 at S4,74S,- 1 900, while that of 1910 showed $249,- | POP, ,0O0 as the value manufactured in | 1909. The wages paid in the auto mobile industry, as shown by the l census report, aggregated S1,321 000
 in 1899 and $4S,694.O0O in 1909; the ! capital employed in the industry in | 1S99 $5,769,000 and in 1909. $173,837 GOO; and the number of wage earners kemployed, in 1899, 2,241, and in 1909, 75,721
 English speaking people are the chief purchasers of American auto mobiles. Of the 21,757 exported in
 1912, 6288 went to Canada. 5716 to
 the United Kingdom, and 3625 to
 Australia and New Zealand; the next
 largest number, 1911, being credited to South America, while European fcOuntries other than the United
 Kingdom took 2296
 Of the 963 automobiles imported into the country in the fiscal year
 1912, 401 were from France, 18S from
 the United Kingdom, 131 from Italy, 116 from Germany, and 127 from all | other countries.