The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-28

fiscal year 1911.
This growth in foreign commerce
while common to both imports ano
exports. is especially marked in the
export trade. Imports have increased
approximately $50 million dollars
since 1896, while exports in the same
time have increased about 1900 mil.
lion, the excess of exports over i'm.
ports in the same period increasing
from 1O3 million dollars in 1896 to
about 600 million dollars in the cur.
tent fiscal year. This excesse Of ex.
ports of 600 million indicated for the
fiscal year now closing will be larger
imam that OF any earlier years except
1898, 1901, and 1908, in each of whicl
years it was considerably above the
600 million dollar line.
The principal articles comprising
the 1900 million dollars of imports in
the fiscal year, grouped according to
the approximate magnitude of their
prospective totals are as follows.
Coffee, 12O million dollars; sugar, 10
million; rubber 100 Million hides and
skins, 80 million; chemicals. etc. 90
million; cotton manufactures, fiber
manufactures, and raw silk, so to CO
million; tin, fruits and nuts. and
WOOL including manufactures. each
ABOUT 40 million; art works, copper
manufactures, raw fibers, diamonds
ana other precious stones, and woo,
between 35 and 40 million dollars
each; and tea, spirits, wines and
liquors, raw cotton, leather, paper.
meat and dairy products, furs and
fur skins, fish, cocoa, ranging down.
ward from 20 million to 10 million
dollars each. The most conspicuous
increases, comparing with 1911. oc.
cur In art works, over so per cent:
hides and skins, 40 per cent: sugar
10 per cent; tin, 20 per cent; and
coffee, about 30 per cent.
The leading exports and their in.
dictated totals for the fiscal year ran,,
about as follows raw cotton. 5s5
million dollars; iron and steel mann.
Iactures. 26O million; meat and dairy
100 million; breadstuffs
100 million; copper, 40 million; min.
erai oils, 100 million; lumber. etc.
~ million; cotton manufactures and
'oai, each about so million; agricultur.
u implements, cars and carriages.
eather, and tobacco, each about 40
hiiiion; and vegetable oils and
ruits and nuts, between 20 and %
hiiiion dollars each. The largest in.
;reases occur in iron and steel. about
~ per cent, meat and dairy products
~ per cent, and copper and mineral
'iis' each 10 per cent, the comparisons
'oth in imports and exports relating
o values only.
Inc growth in both imports and ex.
'orts occur in our trade with every
'ranu DIVISION of the world except
AFRICA and in the trade with nearly
III the leading commercial countries
'or the fiscal year the exports to Eu
ope seem likely to be about 1850
million dollars, against 1908 million
n 1911, the former high record wear
exports. Exports to North Ameri. {
a VIII approximate 500 million dol. !
ars, against the former high record
I 457 million in 1911; and those 10 ,
'outh America will probably aggre. {
ate 125 million dollars, against 10; I
1illion in 1911, the former high re. |
ora IN that trade. To Asia the years
xports will amount to about lis mil. 1
on dollars, total larger than any I
ther year except 1905, when japan {
'as drawing largely upon the United {
tates for food and other supplies for {
sc In the war with Russia, and China l
'as importing large quantities of 1
&c resulting from the closing of the I
orts and markets Of Manchuria, the G
reat Asiatic consumer OF cotton
GODS manufactured in this country. a
o oceania the exports for the year e
Ill approximate 20 million dollars,
gainst the former high record of GIG |
lillion in 1911. n
On the import side, the totals from
II the grand divisions except Africa
i'll be larger in the fiscal year !. =
nan in the preceding year. while y
hose from North America, South :
merica, and Asia will prob.
bly, establish new high records. From :.
urope the years imports will show -
n increase of about 20 million dol. !.
rs when compared with last yeor