Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-18

tumwa, Iowa, under the Act OF Con-
gress Of March 3, 1879.
Foreign representatives: Cone. Lor-
eneen d Woodman. Mailers buii1ins,
Chicago; 225 Fifth Ave, New YORK
Catyj Gumbel Bldg, Kansas City, MO.
OUR LOSS OF TRADE.
Figures compiled by the department
Of commerce show that the free trade
or practically so, tariff Of the present
administration Is pc0ving a wonderful
thing for Canada. That country has
Increased it's exports to this country
enormously in the past year or so
while at the same time 1t has managed
to greatly decrease it's imports from
us. In other words it is getting much
nearer to the point where 1t will be
on a. trade equality with the United
States and will sell us as much as it
buys from us. The reports of the de-
partment Of commerce on this subject
follows:
In the calendar year 1913 Canada's
Imports of merchandise were $50 mil
lion dollars In value. while her exports
were 436 million, imports thus aver
aging IS million and exports SO mil
lion dollars per month. Canadian
imports, however, are sharply declin-
ing from month to month, the total
having been 6S million dollars : n
March, 1918, 81 million in May, So mil
lion in August, so million In Novem-
Der, and 38h million in February,
1914, the smallest total shown in any
month within the last two years. Elk
ports of domestic products from Can
ada during October, November and
December last, following the passage
Of the American tariff law now N
force, rose to about 81 million dollars
per month, but In January, 1914, had
fallen to Is million, and in February
to less than 81 million. The temper
ary bulge in the October-December
period reflected the unusually large
shipments to the United States of
faxseed, hides and printing paper, and
of cattle, cream and other foodstuns
transferred to the free list by the
above mentioned law, effective OF and
after October 4, last Nd
Goods from the United States repre-:
scented N tho fiscal year 1913. lending
JULY, SIS per cent Of the entire i'm
ports of Canada. while the markets
Of the United States absorbed 39h
cent of the canadian products
sold In foreign countries. A YEAR
AGO WE WE'RE. SELLING TO CAN
ADA OVER -FOUR TINES AS MUCH
AS WE BOUGHT FROM HER WHILE
WE fARH NOW SELLING A LITTLE
MORE THAN TWICE AS MUCH
AS WE BUY FROM HER. This change
il illustrated in the following sum-
mary Of our own trade with Canada
during tho ten months ended with
April Of the present and Immediately
preceding year:
10 Nc. 10 Mo.
1913. 1914.
Imports from
Canada IS 8 100000 s1s1, 100000
Exports to
Canada 80. $685. % 900 2s6,900,0oO
kinds and quantities of merchandise
exported to Canada during April and
tho ton months ended with April are
not yet available, but the March fig
ures afford q reliable basis as to the
present trend of trade. During the
nine months ended with March we i'm
ported from Canada 210,481 head OF
cattle, compared with. 26,018 head in
the corresponding period a year earlier.
Similar comparisons give the follow
ing results: 2,7Ss head Of horses, as
against 1906; three million pounds of
combing wool, as against $4,000
pounds, 81 million bushels of f1axseed,
against 3 2-3 millions; 40 thousand
tons Of iron re-, against SO thousand;
* millions pounds Of calf and kip
skins, against three million: three mil
lion pounds Of sheepskins, against
IN and one-third millions: 746, 900 tons
Of bituminous coal, against n mil
lion; "a million pounds of copper in
ore, against Is million; "a million
pounds of copper in pigs, ingots. etc,
against ~ million, and n and one
half million dollars worth of IN
dressed furs, against n and two
thirds million; furs, coal and copper
being the only articles In the list
showing decreased imports in the per-
lod ended with March, 1914, when
compared with a like period Of the
preceding fiscal year.
The articles exported to Canada
from the United States are too num-
erous for enumeration within the linn
its Of q brief discussion. Representa-
tive items, however, include agricul-
tural implements, two and one-third
million dollars, compared with four
and three-fourths million in the nine
months Of 1913; cattle, 1886 head,
against 1854 last year; corn, three
and one-half million bushels, against
seven million; wheat two and one
third million bushels, against three
quarters of a million; automobiles,
1851, against 4,919, Canada being a
marked exception to the rule of in
creased exports in this line; passen-
ger and freight cars, four and three
fourths millions dollars. against four
million; coal, twelve and one-fourth
million tons, against twelve and one.
half million; cotton cloth, Is million
yards, against 20 million; locomotives,
n, against 11S; steel rails, 102 thou
sand tons, against SO thousand: tin
plates, SO million pounds, against 70
million; boots and shoes. 1,223,197j
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