The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-03
AMERICAN SHOES IN
DEMAND EVERYWHERE

According TO a statement just Is
sued by the bureau OF foreign and do
mettic commerce, department OF COM
merce, boots n shoes exported from
the United States in the fiscal year
which ends with the current month
Will aggregate $40. 100000 in value.
against S. 200, 900 in 1900 and less than
$1,000, 900 In 1890. This total for 1913
includes about $1S,000,000 worth or
leather boots and shoes, $3.50 0 WORTH
OF slippers. n approximately $1,000
900 worth or boots and shoes of rubber.
In addition to this, nearly $2,000,OO0
worth, OF leather boots and shoes went
to Porto Rico and Hawaii. Meantime
the importation OF boots and shoes In
to the United States during the cur
rent fiscal year will amount to about
$3.50. 900. The average value per pair
OF leather boots and shoes exported
during the fiscal year 1912 was: Those
for mems wear SILT women's, S1.72j
chil6ren's, rs cents. INK slippers, $1.O5.
The average import price of boots and
shoes imported was about So cents per
pair.
All the world takes American boots
and shoes. The number of countries,
colonies and dependencies to which the
exports went last year aggregated APP
p~roximately 100. Cuba is the largest
buyer OF this class of merchandise.
The value of boots and shoes exported
to that island from the United States
during the fiscal yea 1912, the latest
period for which details of distribution
to all countries are available, was
practically $4,000, 900 out of a total of
SIG, 000, 900 worth OF leather boots and
shoes exported in that year, To Can
ada the exports In that year amounted
to 81, $50, 900; England, 1880. 900:
Germany, practically VI, 00o, 900; Pam
anna, $750,000; France, Austria
Hungary, the Philippine island and the
British West Indies, each about $780,
600; Argentina and Italy, each $4,000.
and Brazil, $4,000 To all Europe
the total was $4.500,0 Ooi to North
America, 80, 0O0, 600; to South America,
81 1850, 900; to Oceanic, nearly $1,000
900; to Africa, $4,000. and TO Asia,
sS5,170.. $780,
The wide extent of distribution is
shown by the factMtha the list OF
countries named by the bureau OF
foreign and domestic commerce as the
| destinations OF tho sic. 100000 worth
of leather boots and shoes exported in
1912 was, as above Indicated nearly
100, and among them India, the straits
settlements, China, Korea, Siam, Bel
gian Kongo, Persia, Egypt, British,
French, Portuguese and Spanish Al
RIGA and French and German islands
in the Pacific. In addition to the FORE
going exports Of leather boots and
shoes, In the fiscal year 1912, those OF
india rubber amounted to $1,5o2, $50,
distributed to about 20 countries.
colonies and dependencies. The largest
values were to England, 1888, T43; Aus
tralia,i $223,394: Turkey In Europe.
$146, 500, and Germany 1902, 220, ' The
other countries named In the list In
cluded India, China. Korea, British
islands in the Pacific, Liberia, Egypt,
Tripoli and Bermuda. .
The imports OF leather boots and
shoes, which amounted to S225,197 IN
the fiscal year 1912, were chiefly from
the United Kingdom, S112,954; Turkey
In Europe, $34,92s; Spain. 1e,775:
Canada, $4,000: Austria Hungary,
$12, sos; China, S6,247; Germany. &c.
h70, and France, $4,41e. + ~, = 2