Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-01-28
isTHMUs TRAFFIC BETWEEN THE
COASTS.

isrHMUs TRAFFIC BETWEEN THE
.-r- COASTS.
Commerce between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts of the United States
via the isthnlises Of Panama and TIE
h%uantepec aggregated approximately
$l25 1000, 900 in 1912. The rapid growth
of the traffic between the eastern and
western coasts of the United States
via the isthmuses which developed
chiefly within very recent years and
seems likely TO further increase with
the opening of the Panama canal, led
the statistical division OF the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce to
establish, at the beginning Of the
present fiscal year a monthly record
of the movements OF the principal ar
ticles forming this traffic. Its record
for the five months ending with No
vember has just been published and,
shows S24, 100000 worth of. mcrchan-
disc passing from the Atlantic coast
70 the Pacific coast via the Tehuan-
tepec railroad. and $5.O0O,0 900 worth
via the Panama railroad; while the
value of that passing from the Pacific
coast to the Atlantic was, via the Te-
h%uantepec line, $~14,3o3,O00, and via
the Panama line, $3,375, 900. This
suggests that the total value OF the
traffic for the half-year ended Deem
Der was approximately $50, 900, 900
westbound across the ~Tehuantepec
route, andd $4,000, 900 via the Panama
line; and of eastbound coming from
the Pacific coast ports and Hawaii,
S16,000,000 via Tehuantepec, aud 81.
100000 via Panama; ana the tlle to.
tai value of this traffic for the full
year approximates $125, 100000. III
The principal articles forming this
interchange between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts are, in the westward
movement, iron and steel manufac.
lures, about $4,000, 900 for the half
year ended with December; cotton
cloths, about $3,0O0,0O0; paper and
manufactures thereof, nearly $4,000
900; manufactures Of wool, $1,250,O00;
chemicals, approximately $4,000, 900;
smoking tobacco, about $4,000; veg
etables, nearly $1,000, 900; rmanufac-
lures Of India rubber, approximately
100000; manufactures of copper, be-.
tween 81, 900, 900 and $4,000 900; boots
and shoes, about $685., 600, 900; cotton
wearing apparel, $780, 900; and min.
eral oil, nearly 100000 in value. The
principal articles forming the $4,000
900 dollars worth of iron and steel
manufactures are machinery, practi-
cally $1yOOO;0O0; builders hardware,
more than 100000; nails and spikes,
about $685., 900; sheets and plates,
about $500, 900; and tools, about $780,
900.
The merchandise shipped from the
Pacific coast to the Atlantic seaboard
included about $1,5O0,O00 worth OF
canned salmon; nearly $500, 900 worth
of raisins; more than $25O,O00 worth
of prunes; more than 81, 800, 900 worth
of preserved fruits; 100000 worth
of wines; and nearly $2;000,000 worth
of wool; while sugar shipments from
the Hawaiian Islands amounted to
over $7,000,000 in value for the five
months in question. =
Considerable quantities of merchan-
disc bound for foreign countries also
utilize now the trans-isthmian routes.
Shipments from the Atlantic coast to
foreign countries via the isthmus go
chiefly via the Panama route and in
clude, for the six months ended with
December, approximately $1.50O;0W
worth to Peru, nearly 100000 to
Ecuador, about $670,O00 to Chilli, and
about $2,00O,00 0 worth to the Central
American States. The eastbound traf.
fic from the Pacific coast to foreign
countries amounted to about $4,000
600 value for the six months in ques'
tion, the largest single movement be
ing from San Francisco 10 Germany,
$1,667 900 value; while that to France
was about $685., 600, and to England,
about 1894, 900 value