The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-05-02
COPPER EXPORTS
GETTING LARGER
Industry is Colossal as Shown
by the Figures on Fed
eral Shipping.

into and exported from the United
States in the fiscal year 1912 will APP
proxlmate $50 million dollars in value,
or more than ten times the total OF
1892 and almost. two and one-naif
times that of 1902. Figures compiled
by the Bureal Of Statistics, Depart
ment Of Commerce and Labor. show
that during the nine months ending
with March imports OF copper, in
Guiding both ore and manufactures,
aggregated thirty-one and one-half
million dollars and exports eighty
six million, the total movement into
and out Of the country thus being
117h million dollars and Indicating
that the approximate total for the
fiscal year will be $50 million dollars.
Of which about 10 million will be on
the export side.
This total of 117h million dollars
worth Of copper and manufactures
thereof passing into and out of the
country during the nine months end
ing with March represents a large
gain over preceding years. Nine
Nine months imports of copper in
its various forms increased from less
than twenty million dollars in 1902
to thirty million in 1911 and thirty
one and one-half million in 1912;
while exports increased from thirty
and three-fourths million dollars in
nine months of 1902 to seventy-seven
and one-half million in the cores
ponding period of 1911 and eighty-six
million in like period of the current
year.
The current fiscal year is alsa char
acterized by unusually large receipts
Of copper from Alaska, the total
quantity, thirty and three-fourths
million pounds, being the largest on
record. The gross value of copper
ore, matte and regulus shipped from
Alaska into the United States in
creased from but $6S,97S in the nine
months ending with March, 1903, 10
$3l6,515 in the corresponding period
of 1911 and $685. 5O in a like per-
Tod of 1912.
Most of the copper imported into
and exported from the United States
is in the form of pigs, ingots, bars,
and plates. OF the thirty-one and
one-half million dollars worth of
copper imported in the nine months
ending with March, twenty-five mil
lion dollars represented the value OF
copper pigs, ingots, etc., two million
matte and regulus, and four and one
half million ore. OF the eighty-six
million dollars worth of copper ex-
ported during the same period,
eighty million dollars represented the
value of pigs, ingots, ETC., two and
one-half million dollars that of matte
and regulus, and three and one-hali
million dollars all other manufac.
lures.
The chief sources of imported cop
per, according to the stated countries
Of origin reported to the Bureau Of
Statistics, are Mexico, Peru, Chile
Canada, Cuba, Spain, Australia, and
Japan. OF the 206 million pounds 5!
copper pigs, etc, imported in the nine
months ending with March, eighty.
four million pounds were from Mex
leo, thirty-three and one-half million
/ from Peru, nineteen and three-fourths
from Canada. OF the sixty-two mil
lion pounds of ore, matte anr regulus
imported from foreign countries in
the same period, fifteen million pounds
were from Canada, thirteen million
from Chile, eleven million from Mex
leo, and ten million from Cuba; while
smaller amounts were brought from
Spain and Germany. The heavy i'm
portations of copper into the United
States, which itself produces prac-
t!cally one-half the copper of the
world, are due chiefly to the superior
facilities in the United States for
smelling and refining, the ore being
sent from comparatively nearby coun.
tries for smelling and that in the
more advanced form OF manufacturing
being, in most cases, for refining or
with the purpose of extracting the
precious metals which it contains.
Europe is the great market for the
copper manufactures exported from
the United States. OF the 621 million
pounds of copper pigs. ihgots, etc,
exported during the nine months end
ing with March, sos million pounds
went to Europe, as against but twelve
million pounds to Canada and about
one million pounds to all other coun-
tries. Netherlands heads the list Of
countries of stated destination with
1853 million pounds in nine mouths.
compared with 157 million pounds ex-
ported to Germany, 11s million Is