Arizona republican., 1912-02-05
And This Relates Solely to the Question of Manu- factured Goods Sold
 Abroad.
EXPORTS GO TO
 ALL COUNTRIES
Report of Manufactures Just Made Public Show a Wonderful Growth in
 Value.
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 WASHINGTON. Feb. 4-More than a billion dollars worth of manufac- lures passed out of continental Unit
 ed States in the calendar year 1911.
 The estimate of the bureau of staris-
 ties of the department of commerce
 and labor made some weeks age.
 thIt the total value of manufactures
 sent tO foreign countries and the
 noncontiguOus territories of the Unit
 ed States in 1911 would aggregate
 more than one billion dollars. is us-
 tified by figures ust received by
 that bureau showing in detail the for
 eign commerce. Of the year They
 give as tn" total value of manufac-
 tures sen; to foreign countries in th-
 year ending December 31. 1911. s964.-
 113.96S; to Porto Rico: $2I.S6I.I37:
 and to Hawaii. $15.337,75S. making #
 total of S1.001.972. .S63 as the value of
 manufactures passing out of conti- mental United States last year
 These figures of manufactures sert ont Of the country last year include both finished manufactures ready for consumption and manufactures for further use in manufacturing Of manufactur s ready for use the total eXportation was $40 million. and of manufactures the product of one in- dystry to be used as materials m other industries. 325 million dollars
 Exports of manufactures frOia the
 United States have more than dou- Liel m 'yn years, and quintIpied in
 twenty years In 1891 they agEre- gated isU million dollars: in 1901. AZ million. and in 1911. 9644 million dollars OF. 1902 million. if We include shipments to Porto Rico and Hawlii. foreign countries in 1891
 Four leading articles oS domestic manufacture Ciron and steel. copper. mineral oil and woOd). supply over half the entire expectations of manu- factures from this country. and to them the gain of over 500 milliOa dollars in ten years is lasgek du@.
 Exports of iron and steel manufac- lures gained - million dOI'ars in the ten years from 1891 to 1901. and li7 million in the ten years from 1901 tu 1911; coppec manufactures. chiefly :n the forms ns pigs. bars and ingOtS. Ia'red 25 million in the ter years from 1891 to 1901. and 69 million in the period I90l-911: refined mineral oil gined 26 million dollars from 1891 to 1901. and 33 million from 1901 t" 1911: and wood manufactures gained g million in the period 1S91-I9OI and 45 million in the 19O1-1911 period. Of the articles included under the head of "al others many show large gains. agricultural implements. from @ 1-3 million dollars in 1891 tO 36 million in 1911; leather and manufac- lures thereof; from 13 1-3 to 57 mil lion: cars ard carriages. from to g. million: cotton manufactures. from 14 to 46 million: chemicals. drugs and medicines. from to 21 million; paper and manufactures thereof, from to 19 million; naval stores. from Is to = million: and scientific instruments. from 1Is tO 13 million.
 American manufactures are sold in all parts of the civilized world Last year the exports of agricultural inn plements rom the United states to Russia aggregated s7.273. 2O3. those to Canada and Argentine. each about 5000 900. to Germany. s2,37S.953 and to Frarce S3.0SS.29S About 3 l-3 mil lion dollars worth of automobiles went to the United Kingdom last year. and nearly double that sum to Canada. Mexico. Cuba, and Argentine. as we'll as Canada. ara taking large amounts of railway equipment, the Talue of
 freight ard passenger cars alone sent tC each If those countries last year ranging from s1.O00.00O -o S2.500 900 Europe took nearly .$1,25O.O0O worth of American clocks and watches in 1911, and Canada an almost equal amount. Our growing exports of copper pigs are mostly sent to the industrial cOun- tries of Europe. All grand divisions and practically all important countries are represented in our high record eN- ports of iron and steel in their num- rrOus fOrms-railS. typewriterS. struc- Jural forms. cash registers. adding locomotives. sewing ma chimes. windmills. printing presses, etc,