The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-11-21
EUROPE'S CRY FOR
FOOD IS ANSWERED
In October United States Sent Her
Foodstuffs Amounting to Nearly
Forty Million Dollars

Washington, Nov. 17.-Europe's
cry for food Is being answered by the
United States. Exports Of bread.
stuffs in October Of this year amount
ed to $3S,247,570. according 10 stats
tics made public today by the bureau
Of foreign and domestic commerce,
an increase of nearly s25, 100000 over
figures for October; 1918.
Exports of fresh beef also more
than doubled during the month, fig
ures this year being $S9,940 as
against s36,s63 in October. 1918.
In spite of the tremendous increase
in food shipments, exports as whole
did not measure up to last years
figures. The total for the month, as
recorded at the ten chief ports of the
United States, amounting to $S3,513,-
466, as against $147,833,016 the pre-.
vious year. For the week ended No
vember IA. exports at these ports 90
tailed $47,347,35O and officials OF tie
commerce bureau see in that record
a continuance of the marked improve
ment in American export trade al
ready noted this month and upon
which the feeling of confidence in the
bright future opening before Ameri-
can industries is based. The dis
tricts selected handle nearly 80 per
cent of the nations export trade and
the tabulation shows that the balance
in favor of this country on interna.
tional trade stood last Saturday at
$32,392,214 for the first half of No
vember. Imports last week totaled
$25,71O,9SS.
Mondays figures were: Exports,
s4,5S6, 299; imports. $4,442,690. The
average daily exports in November,
1913, were s6,9S3,426; imports $4,923,-
379. Figures on the November ex-
ports as to character and destination
will not be obtainable as Secretary
McAdoo ordered manifests of foreign
bound shipping withheld from publ
cation for periods of thirty days be.
ginning October %. 1t was stated
at the commerce bureau that the in
crease in November exports probably
would show breadstuffs and fresh
meat still to be in greater demand,
while treasury department officials
believed cotton exports had SO in.
creased in the last two weeks that
they now approached 100000 bales 9
week. The daily statement for Mon
day notes the shipment from Balti
more for Liverpool of 1749 bales Of
cotton.
So great has been the European de
mand for breadstuffs that wheat
corn, barley, oats and -four are going
across the Atlantic from every por'
in the United States, Huge ship
ments have been made from Sf%
Francisco via the Panama canal. The
total export in breadstuffs for the II
months ended with October>this yea,
was $2O4,2l647S, as against sl70,22o
$40 for the like period Of 1913.
Export trade in mineral oils show
ed marked. decline last October
probably because of the seizure o
many oil laden ships by the British
cruisers, on the ground that ship
ments bound for neutral countries
such as Italy and Holland, actuall
were destined for the use OF the Gel
man army. OIL exports last mont
totaled $1l,975,s56. while the Octo
Der, 1918, exports were $l5,o53,s9O.
The decrease in all exports for tn
10 month period of 1914 was $40
326,S2l. The figures for 1913 wer
sS12.129, 3Ol, and for 1914, s6s9,S02
$50.
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