The Republican journal., 1912-08-01
TYPEWRITER EXPORTS.

expectation of typewriters. In the
single month of April its exports under
that head exceeded one million dollars in
value as compared with $l38, 232 in
April, 1897, while for the complete fiscal
year which ends with June the total will
be about SIP, 600, 900, or times as much
as In 1897, the earliest year for which
separate record of this trade was made
by the Bureau of Statistics.
The growth in exports of typewritinp
machines has been steadily maintained
during the Is years covered by the Off
cal record. In 1897 the total expectation
was 81, 453, 1T; in 1902, So. 1902. 1871: in
1907, Sc, PA, 439; and in 1912. as previous
ly stated, will approximate SIP, 900, 900.
From these figures it will be observed
that this class of exports doubles in
every five years. For the entire period
from 1897 to 1912 the aggregate excor-
tatlon OF typewriters of domestic manu-
1acture has been S93, 694, 1856.
This rapid development in exports of
typeWrlters is typical of many other in
trlcately constructed and delicateIy adj
]usted machines of American manufac-
ture. Of cash registers, for example.
the exports increased from 1913, O96 in
1900, the earliest available year, to ap-
proxlmately S., 100000 in the current
fiscal year; scales and balances, from
1881, 1856 in 1897 to 81, 900, 900; electrical
appliances, including telegraph and tele-
phone instruments, from So, 631, 759 in
1902, the first year in which a separate
record was kept, to S11, 900, 900; sewing
machines, from So, 340,241 in 1897 to
SlO, 900, 600; printing presses, from $685.
71Oin 1897 to So, 0000 900; and machinery
of all kinds, from S29, 442, 884 in 1897 to
approximately S115,000,000 in 1912.
These figures do not include automobiles,
of which the years exports will amount
to about S27, 900, 600; mowers and reap
ers which will approximate $40, 900, 900;
and threshers, which will approximate
81, 900, 900.
A'NoSN VI eiiN y PC itGLS tA pOELGG lIOtu
the United States are sent to Europe;
where business and industry have long
been IN state of high development. In
certain of the newer communities. how
ever, such as Canada, Argentina, and
Australia, this class of manufactures
finds large and growing market. Bas-
ing the figures for twelve months upon
the 10 months figures already compiled
by the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, the ex-
ports OF American typewriters to the
United Kingdom will be between 50, 500.
OOO and So, 900, 900; to France, about ST.
ooo, 900; to Germany approximately
81, 10000 to Russia in Europe, about
$3.50, 900; and to all other Europe, little
over ~, 900, 900. Nearly 81, 900, 900 worth
will go to Canada, about $500, 900 worth
to Argentina, $780, 900 worth to Mexico
and Brazil, 100000 worth to Australia
and other British Oceania, 5000, DOC
worth to the British East Indies, $780,.
900 worth to Cuba, and about $500. OOC
worth to various other countries located
in every part of the civilized world
The extent to which American tvpe-
writers are finding favor even in the
great manufacturing centers of Europe
as we'll as in less advanced parts of the
world may be inferred from the growth
in exports by countries in the period
1S97-l9l2 covered by the official figures.
Taking the 10 months ending April, 1897,
and comparing the exports during that
period with those of the corresponding
months of the current year, those to the
United Kingdom increased from S619, 1856
to 81, 1877, 297; those to France from $50, :
222 to 81. los, 500; and those to Germany,
from S201, 1863 to S1,095, 121; while those
to all other Europe increased from S142,-
59l to So, 30l, 465. In the same period our
exports of typeWriters to Canada in
creased from less than $4,000 to s745,-
ia; those to Mexico from $780, 600 to
1858, 222; those to Argentina, from So,
$50 to 1881, $40; those to Brazil, from
$3,557 to S24S, 470; and those to the
British East indies, from Sc, 49S to S157,
240.
The supremacy of the United States
in the expectation of typewriters, com
putting machines and cash registers is il
lustrated by the following table showing
the exports of this class of machinery
from the worlds leading commercial ma
lions in the calendar year 1911:
Exports of writing machines, comput-
ing machines, etc. from the United
States, Germany, France, and the United
Kingdom, calender year 1911.
Z,ooo s4o
4Gi,ols
United Kingdom (typewriters only. 1884
Germany's exports under this head
consists mostly of computing machines,
and are chiefly sent to Austria-Hungary
and Russia, very small proportion
being sent to the United States. Most
of the exports of writing and computing