Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-13

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over two million, and automobile en-
gines two-thirds of million dollars,
making a total for the ten months of
twenty-five million dollars
and fully justifying the assertion that
for the full twelve months the total
will approximate and probably exceed
S27 100000. This figure includes only
the experots to foreign countries and
is exclusive Of the 300 machines sent
to our noncontiguous territory, valued
at about Si,5OO,OOO.
This total of s27,OOO,OOO worth of
automobiles sent out of the country
in 1912 is in marked contrast with the
figures of a decade ago, 1902, which,
by the way, was the first year in
which the Bureau of Statistics found
the exports of automobiles of s,fili7
cient importance to Justify separate
record, the total for that year being a
little less than 100000, as against
$27,0OO,OO ten years later.
The growth in exports of automo-
biles from the United States has been
especially marked during the period
since 1905, this growth being coinCi-
dent with the expansion of the domes-
tic industry and corresponding de-
crease in imports of automobiles.
Thus in the period from 1898 to 1904
the value of domestic manufactures
of this class of articles increased
about twenty-five million dollars, from
FIVE million dollars in 1899 to thirty
million in 1904, an increase of % mil
lion dollars; while in the period from
1904 to 1909 the value of the output
increased practically 220 million dol
lars, from thirty million dollars In
1904 to two hundred and fOrty-nine
million In 1909. Accompanying this
notable growth In production the inn
ports of automobiles decreased from
four and one-quarter million dollars
in 1906 and four and three-quarter
millions in 1907 to approximately two
and one-half million dollars in 1912.
While France still leads the world
in exports of automobiles, the United
States surpasses that and all other
countries in rapidity Of growth of pro-
duction and expectation. For exam
ple, our own exports of that class OF
articles have increased from $4,000
900 in the calendar year 1908 to near
ly $2O,OOO,OOO in 1911; while In the
same period those of France increas-
ed from $24, 100000 to 3l,7OO,OOO;
those of the United Kingdom, from
81 500, 900 to SIS 100000; those of Ger
many from $3.OOO,OOO to Sll,OOO,OOO;
and those of Italy from $5,5OO,OOO to
80, 100. 900. Thus in the brief three
year period from 1908 to 1911 there
there was an absolute gain of about
SIS 900, 900, or 300 per cent. in exports
from the United States; of s7,9O0,OOO,
or over 100 per cent. in those from
the United Kingdom; of $4,000, 900, or
?66 per cent. in those from Germany;
and of $500, 900, or slightly more than
10 per cent. in those from Italy.
Approximately % per cent. Of the
automobiles exported from the United
States are shipped to Canada; about
40 per cent. to Europe, chiefly Great
Britain; about 30 per cent to British
Australia, about s per cent. to South
America; and smaller proportions to
Mexico, the West Indies, and various
countries in Asia, Oceania, and Africa.
During the ten months ending with
April, the latest period for which fig
ures of distribution are available In
the Bureau of Statistics, AIS automo-
biles were exported to the United
| Kingdom, 4,424 to Canada, 1904 to
British Oceania, l,2S2 TO South Amer
lea, $40 to Asia, and other Oceanic;
and / 500 to all other foreign coun-
tries. There were also shipped, dur
ing the same period, 4lO automobiles
| to the Territory of Hawaii, 342 to Por-
to Rico, and II to Alaska. .... ...