The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-08-13
DlLLlUN DULLAhS
Manufactures Sent From United
States During Fiscal Year Just
Ended Double Those of 1908.
FOOD STUFFS NOT INCLUDED
Proportion of All Glasses of Products
Sent Away Was Forty Seven and
Half Per Cent.
HEAVY METALS IN THE LEAD
Iron and Steel Top List, and are Close
- ly Followed by Copper-More
Autos Being Made.
HEAVY METALS IN THE LEAD

Expectation of manufactures in
the fiscal year just ended more than
justified the estimate of the Bureau
merce and Labor, that the total val
of Statistics, Department of Com
ne would in 1912 for the first time
cross the billion dollar line. That
bureau, which has just completed its
figures showing the expectation of
manufactures, states the total value
of manufactures exported in the ifs
cal year at S1,021, 753,91S, of which
SOFA, 3O2,902 was the value of man
ufactures ready for consumption and
S347, 451,015 that Of manufactures
for further use in manufacturing.
This does not include foodstufs
which have undergone a process of
preparation or manufacture, since the
bureau groups articles of that class
under the general heading of food
stuffs' exported. This 1922 million
dollars worth of manufacturers ex-
ported in the fiscal year 1912 is more
than double that of 1903, three times
that of 1898, four times that Of 1895,
eight times as great as in 1894, prac-
tically six times as great as in 1890,
and ten times as great as in 1876,
the value of manufactures exported
in single year never having reached
as much as 100 million dollars until
the year 1873. Comparing 1912 with
1902, a decade earlier, the totals are:
manufactures ready for consumption,
in 1912, GA million dollars, against
322 million in 1902; manufactures
for further use in manufacturing in
1912, BAT million dollars, against
1872 million in 1902; total manufac-
lures exported, in 1912, 1922 mil
lion dollars, against 454 million in
1902, having thus increased about
1926 per cent during the decade.
This growth in the exports of man
ufactures is more rapid than that of
Manufactures formed Al per cent of
the exports of 1912, against 80 IL
per cent in 1902 and Is per cent in
1892. This increasing share which
manufactures form of the exports oc-
ours chiefly at the expense of food
stutfs, which formed but about 20
per cent Of the exports of 1912,
against approximately SO per cent in
1902 and 80 per cent in 1892.
The principal articles forming this
billion dollars worth of manufac-
lures exported are iron and steel
copper, mineral oil, manufactures of
wood, leather and manufactures
thereof, cotton manufactures, cars
and carriages, automobiles, and pa
per and manufactures thereof. The
total value of iron and steel manu-
factures exported in the year was
26S million dollars, against 80 mil
lion IN 1902, a decade earlier, and
20 million in 1892, two decades ear
lier
The chief growth in the exports of
iron and steel manufactures has &C.
Cured since 1899, the total value of
the exports of iron and steel never
having touched the 100 million dol
lar line until the year 1900, and on
ly crossed the 200 million dollar line
IN the year 1911, when the total was
23l million, against 26S million in
the year just ended. Machinery alone
amounted in 1912 to 115 million dol
lars value, and this does not include
agricultural implements, of which
the years exports amounted to 35 -
million dollars, or automobiles and
parts thereof, which amounted tt
practically 2S million dollars.
Automobiles show perhaps the
most rapid growth in the list of man.
ufactures exported, having been, as
above Indicated, % million dollars in
1912, against less than one million
in 1902, decade earlier. The tota
value of complete automobiles ex.
ported in the year is 21 1-2 million
dollars, and to this must be added
about four million dollars worth OF
parts of automobiles and 1-2 mil
lion for tires, making the grand to.
tai for automobiles and parts there
of, including tires, about 20 million
dollars, against 5 1-2 million in 1905
and less than one million in 1902.