The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-12
TRADE IS
GROWING FAST
Trade Of Porto Rico And Share There
Of With the United States.

year Just ended amounted to 72 mil
lion dollars, or IS times as much as
in 1897 the year preceding the annex.
alton of that island by the United
States. The precise figures of the
trade with Porto Rico are, according
to the December summary of com.
merce and finance, recently issued by
the bureau of statistics, Department Of
Commerce and Labor, as follows: Mer-
chandise sent TO Porto Rico, S36, ,793,-
SAG; received from Porto Rico, S35.446.-
1856; a total of s72, 2,2S9,S 1922. In 1897. the
last year in which Porto Rico was for
|eign territory, the figures were: ex-
ports thereto, $2,023,751; imports there.
from, 81 ,943, ,251; a total of $3,967 ,0O2.
Thus shipments of merchandise to
the island gained in the period from
1897 to 1911 $S4,769,S95, or about 1920
per cent, while receipts of merchan-
disc therefrom increased $S3, ,5O2, ,935.
or 1925 per cent.
The trade with Porto Rico since its
annexation has grown more rapidly
than with any other commercial com
munity of Importance, and now ex-
ceeds the value of our trade with
Spain, or China, or India; is nearly
equal TO that with Argentina, and is
more than that with all British Oceania
including Australia or with the entire
continent of Africa. During the period
since 1897 in which shipments from
the United States to Porto Rico in
creased 1920 per cent exports to Can
ada, with which our trade has grown
rapidly in recent years, in
creased 300 per cent, those to Cuba
$40 per cent, to Argentina 745 per cent.
China 100 per cent, Japan IT'S per cent,
Germany III per cent, and to theUnit-
ed Kingdom II per cent.
Manufactures and food stuffs form
by far the largest part of the domestic
shipped to Porto Rico
from the United States. OF the ar
bicles classed as manufactures, cotton
goods, iron and steel, lumber and other
of wood, boots and
shoes, automobiles, cars, patent and
medicines, soap, paper
manufactures, woolen>goods, India rub
Der manufactures, and cement are the
most important, and in many of these,
notably cotton cloths, boots and shoes,
cars and carriages, the growth has
been very rapid. OF cotton cloths the
falue increased from but $401O in
1897 to $3,1S1,955 in 1911; of other
cotton manufactures, from $2,995 to-
of boots and shoes, from
about 81, 900 to $1,144, ,53S; of ears and
carriages, from $1S,953 to $1,557l35;
,atent and proprietary medicines,
rom about $4,000 to $256,b27; and
'oap, from $502 to $5S2,1SO
Of foodstuffs of domestic production
shipped to Porto Rico, rice, meat and
larry products, -four, vegetables, re-
ined sugar, fish, bread and biscuit,
ind confectionery are the leading
TENS. In the period from 1897 to
911 shipments thereto of rice from
he United States increased from nil |
n 1897 to $4,415,566 in 1911; those of
lour, from $573,411 to 1852, no;
lams, from $S5,2O4 to $59S, ,4S9; pork
'ickled, from $195,769 to $1,252, ,7O7; |
utter. from $5,9lS to $132,96 cheese
rom s2,601 to $121.716; lard from
234,715 to $3O5,751; refined sugar,
rom less than 500 to $665, PIP; and
from about $500 to $685.
43.
OF many other articles the ship
lents to Porto Rico last year were
arge: lumber and manufactures of
'ood, $2,029,6S1; vegetables, $SO5, ,4S7; 1
saf tobacco, $S6O,O42; telegraph, tele-
hone and other scientific instruments,
22S,713; wool manufactures, 1920, III; II
coal $31O,665; cement,
S24, 1853, fish s39S,OO3; fertilizers, $3.50,
"a; mineral oils, $461,2O and silk
1886, 1853.
The United States sends to Porto
ico more cotton cloths than to any
,reign country except China, five
mes as much as to Canada, and more
ian to Cuba and Haiti combined;
lore boots and shoes than to all Cen
al america; as many automobiles,
leasured by valut. as to France and
ermany combined and more flour
ian Germany.
The principal articles entering con-
mental United States from Porto
leo are sugar. cigars and cigarettes,
'baeco, and fruits and nuts. Of sugar
10 value increased from 1is million
1897 to s24,71O161 million in 1911;
gars and cigarettes, from nil in 1897
) $5,S4S,166 in 1911; tobacco. from
$50 to $1,9O7 ,209 and fruits and nuts