Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-28
j. S. EXPORTS MUCH
CANNED GOODS
Few Realize the immensely Of Tho
One Branch Of Our
Export Trade.

Washington, Jan 2S.-Approximate
ly 20 million dollars worth OF canned
goods passed out of continental United
States in the year just ended.
Meats, fruits, vegetables, dairy prod.
ucts and fish are the principal articles
forming this class of exports, and they
are distributed to all parts of the
world especially the tropics; though
England is a large customer for GER
tain classes, especially salmon and
fruits, while considerable quantities
go to the noncontiguous territories of
the United States which, in turn, send
quantities of canned fruits and fish in
exchange for other classes of canned
goods sent to them.
Salmon chiefly of Alaska produc-
ton, Is the largest single item in the
list of articles forming this large total,
the quantity of canned salmon sent
to foreign countries alone aggregat-
ing practically so million pounds,
valued at about Z million dollars. The
total value of canned salmon sent
from Alaska to the various ports of
the United States, chiefly those on
the Pacific coast, was, in 1913, 10 1-3
as the entire sum paid for Alaska,
and still there is no APPARENT diminu.
ton in the supply. The quantity of
canned salmon exported to foreign
countries in the eleven months ended
with November, 1913, was 661a mil.
lion pounds, against 35A million in
the corresponding months of 1912, and
2SA million in the corresponding
months of 1911. 1t does not follow.
however, that all of the canned sal
mon was of Alaskan production, since
the Columbia river fisheries contrib
ute large quantities to the total sup
ply of this article.
England is the chief customer for
this particular class of canned goods
exported, about two-thirds of the 66ls
million pounds of canned salmon ex-
ported in the eleven months ended
with November having gone to that
country, while practically four million
pounds went to Australia and New
Zealand.
Fruits were next to salmon in the
value of canned goods exported in
1913, the eleven months figures being
4 2-S million dollars, of which over 8
million dollars worth went to the
United Kingdom. This class of canned
goods also shows an increase in ex-
portations, having been about mil
lion dollars in the corresponding
months of 1911. The noncontiguous
island territories are also large con-
tributors to the supply Of this class
of merchandise, about million dol
lars worth OF canned pineapples hav-
ing been sent from Hawaii to CONT
mental United States in the last year
and 100 thousand dollars worth from
Porto Rico Most of the pineapples
from Porto Rico are received in the
natural state, about l million dollars
worth having been received last year.
Canned meats exported amounted
to between and 8 million dollars.
pork and beef being about half mil
lion dollars each in the eleven months
ended with November, while "other
canned meats" amounted to IA mil
lion dollars in the same period.
Canned beef shows a marked falling
off in expectations, having been about
one-half as much in 1913 as in 1912
and little more than one-third as much
as in 1911. Canned pork also shows
a slight decrease when compared with
1912. The canned meats go large to
the tropics, as do also the condensed
milk, of which the exports in the
eleven months ended with November,
1913, amounted to 1-3 million dol
lars
Canned vegetables amounted to IL
million dollars in the eleven months
of 1913 under review, this figure being
slightly less than that for the cor.
responding period of 1912, but in ex-
cess of the expectations during a like
period of 1911.