East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-02-09
BIG GAINS SHOWN IN
MANUFACTURING LINES
IN UNITED STATES
DECEMBER 1914, REGAINs LEVEL
OF MONTH IN PRICED
ING YEAR.
In Certain Lines, Exports During
Month are Away Ahead of Those In
19iS-Lcather Goods Make Marked
Advance-Zinc Continues the Large
Export Movement.

WASHINGTON. Feb. Especial,
december, 1914. exports OF manu-.
factures regained the level shown b,
December OF the preceding year. {
decrease Of ten per cent in finished
manufactures being more than offset
by the gains in Manufactured food.
stuffs.
In certain lines of manufactures
however, the exports during the month
Of December. 1914. show phenomenal
gains over those of December a year
earlier, as for example. in the case
Of commercial automobiles. the value
Of which advanced from I0l thous.
and 10 1-3 million dollars; cotton
knit goods from 2s5 thousand to over
> millin dollars; wooden clothing.
from lS3 thousand TO l-3 million;
other woolen goods, including blank
cts. from i03 thousand to 81 million
dollars, and rubber boots and shoes
from 50 thousand to s64 thousand
dollars.
Leather goods also made a marked
advance. sole leather exports increas-
ing from asa thousand dollars in De-
cember 1918, to s-5 million dollars
in December Of last year: upper lea
ther, from l 81 million dollars to
over 3 million, and boots and shoes
from 1884 thousand to 1.2SS thousand
dollars; while harness and saddles ex-
ports increased from 43 thousand to
l 1-2 million dollars.
Zinc continues the large export
movement which began during the fall
OF 1914. During the month Of De-
cember last So 2-3 million pounds
were expored as against only 1877
thousand pounds in December a year
ago. Metal working machinery nearly
doubled in value Of exports. from l.
$50 thousand dollars in December,
1918. to 2.432 thousand in December
Of last year; wire increased from ISL !
thousand to s51 thousand dollars;
bars or rods OF steel. from III thous-
and to LOIS thousand dollars; and
from a quarter of a mil
ion 10 3 3-4 million pounds.
Europe is taking an unusually large
proportion OF the manufactures now
,eing exported from the United States
" the 4 Ia million dollars worth OF
including both passen-
er and commercial vehicles; exported
uring the month Of December, 1914,
1-2 million dollars worth went to
rance and one million dollars worth
D the United Kingdom. Those two
ountries also took practically all OF
he metal working machinery and
'ngland a preponderating proportion s
I the sole leather exported. Dem I
lark was the chief market for the 7
oil cake and meal exported S
nd England and the Netherlands the (
lief markets for the cottonseed oil
hich left the country during the ,
Onth of December. Practically all |,
the 70 millian pounds of sugar ex-
,rted during December went TO /,
rance and England and France were
e chief destinations of wooden cloth .
&. blankets and other manufactures =
ported during the month TO the val .
of over 4 million dollars :
Facts in addition to these herein
will be published. in 1.-THE
,cember, 1914. Summary of Foreign
'mmerce." which will contain a :,
mplete survey of the years trade =
owing the significant changes in .
Dvements Of specified articles and ="
our trade relations with the yari- u
s Countries