Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-07-29
OYER BILLION DOLLAR MARK
Exports Of Manufacturers from
United States Surpass Estimates.
GREATEST IN ALL HISTORY
Figures from Department Of Com-
merce and Labor show stupend-
ous Total or Sales Abroad
Ameri Factories.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-- Expectation
Of manufactures In the fiscal year just
ended more than justified the estimate of
the bureau Of statistics, department of
Commerce and labor. That the total
value would In 1912 for the first time
cross he billion dollar line. That bureau,
which has just completed its figures
showing the expectation of manufactures.
states the total value Of manufactures ex-
ported In the fiscal year at $40 ,75S. .91S,
OF which sS74,a02sos was the value of
manufactures ready for consumption and
$s47, 451,0l5 that Of manufactures for fur
ther use In manufacturing.
Stages of increase.
This does not include foodstuffs which
have undergone process of preparation
for manufacture, since the bureau groups
articles Of that class under the general
heading Of food stuffs" exported. This
81. .022, 100000 worth Of manufactures ex-
ported In the fiscal year 1912 Is more
than double that. Of 1903, three times that
Of 1893, four times that of 1896, five times
as great as in 1894 practically six times
as great as in 1890 and ten times as great
as in 1876, the value OF manufactures ex-
ported In O. single year never having
reached as much as 500. 100000 until the
year 1878. Comparing 1912 with 1902. a
decade earlier, the totals are: Manufac-
lures ready for consumption in 1912,
$674OOo,ooo, against 100000 in 1902;
manufactures for further use In manufac-
turing in 1912, $347OO0O 900, against slS2 900 900
in 1902; total manufactures exported in
1912, Si.022, 100000 against 454,0O0,OO0 In 1902,
having thus increased about 125 per cent
during the decade.
This growth In the exports Of manu.
features is more rapid than that of the
other clesses of merchandise. Manufac-
lures formed At per cent Of the exports
of 1912 against 33h per cent In 1902 and
Is per cent in 1892. This incheasing share
which manufacturers form of the ex-
ports occurs 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 so
per cent in 1892
what Is Sold Ahead.
The principal articles forming this bill
lion dollars worth of manufactures ex-
ported are iron and steel, "copper" mineral
oil manufactures OF wood. leather and
manufactures thereof. cotton manufac-
lures, cars and carriages. automobiles
and manufactures thereof. The total
value of iron and steel manufactures ex-
ported In the year was $26S, 100000, against
900 in 1902. decade earlier, and 29.-
000,000 in 1892, two decades earlier The
chief growth in the exports of iron and
steel manufactures has occurred since
1899, the total value of the exports of
iron and steel never having touched the
$1oeo0o.000 line until the year 1900, and
only crossed the $500, ,00o, 900 line in the
year 1911, when the total was s231, 90, 900,
against s26s 100000 in the year just ended.
Machinery alone amounted In 1912 to s115,-
0000oo value. and this does not include
agricultural implements, Of which the
years exports amounted to $S55O0,O00, or
automobiles and parts thereof, which
amounted to practically $2sooo,oOO.
Increase In Automobiles.
Automobiles shove perhaps the most
rapid growth in the list of manufactures
exported, having been. as above indi-
Gated. s2s,ooo.ooo In 1912, against less than
100000 In 1902 decade earlier. The
total value of complete automobiles ex-
ported in the year is $21. 10000, and to