Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-02
EXPORTS SHOW
BIC INCREASE
IN PAST WEEK
Thousands of Dollars Worth Of
American Condensed Milk
Is Being Shipped.
WAR MATERIALS ALSO
SHOW BIG INCREASE
Port Of New York Is Swan'ped
With Goods for Europe and
South America.

South America.
The large contracts for supplying
condensed milk to Europe, announced
last week, have not yet made them
selves apparent in the export figures
50 far as relates to current condi-
TONS While exports last week of
condensed milk from the Port Of New
York amounted to about $l5O,lOO
value, bu: little Of it went to Europe,
and practically none to the countries
at war. OF the $l5O,000 worth ex-
ported, reported by the custom house
last week, about 100000 went to
Cuba, $4,000 to Panama, and the re-
mainder to the Netherlands. While
the exports of condensed milk have
more than doubled since the begin
ming of the war for the nine months
ending with September, 45,OO0,OO,
pounds against 100000 last year,
the large additions to the exports, ex-
pected as result of recent con-
tracts, is not yet perceptible in the
trade returns. In fact the growth in
exports of cheese and butter is mucn
greater than in milk, butter exports
having increased from three million
pounds to Is millions, and cheese
from two million pounds to IS mil
lions. ..
Canned Goods Exports.
Canned goods generally, however,
do show q large increase in exporta-
ton as result of the war. Canned
salmon, for example, amounts to ST.
100000 for the nine months ending
with September, against $3,500,000 III
the corresponding months OF 1914,
and $2,OOO,O0O in the same months OF
1913; canned beef amounts for the
nine months to $9,5O0,90O against
S1,500,O0O for 1914, and $50O,0O0 Ill
1913. Canned pork amounts to ST.
10000 against one.third of million
in the same period of last year; can
ned fruits show less increase pro-
pOrtionately, being 4h million do!
lars against ~ million in the same
months of last year; while canned
vegetables amount to little less
than two million dollars against a
little more than one million for the
same months Of last year. Thus the
total value of canned goods exported
in the nine months of the current
year for which we have department
of commerce figures are approximate
ly l6 millions in the same months Oi
1913
War Materials
Exports of war materials continue
to run at the rate of 2i@ to three mil.
lion dollars per day as relates to
those for which there is a distinct
record A considerable quantity OF
material intended for war purposes
continues to 20 under the truthful but
somewhat misleading title of Manu-.
factures of Iron and Steel" "Scienti'
fic Instruments" Machinery and
Parts Thereof" etc. The last weeks
exports, however, showed loaded pro-
jec:iles amounting to nearly two mil
lion dollars. OF which practically all
went to England; smokeless powder
IA million dollars, practically all OF
that going to England; fuses, nearly
million dollars, chiefly to England:
gunpowder, "a million dollars, chief
ly to England; empty shells, approxi-
mately three million dollars to Eng
land and Italy, and cartridges, one
half million dollars, chiefly TO Eng
land and france.
Leather Goods Increase.
The expectation of leather and its
manufacturers has enormously in
creased since the beginning of the
war. Last weeks expectation from
the Port of New York alone amounted
to approximately two million dollars,
including over a million dollars worth
Of leather, nearly a half million dol
lars worth of shoes, and approximate
ly 100 thousand dollars each Of sad.
dlery, betting and miscellaneous man
ufacturers. The total exports of
leather and its manufactures have
jumped from 80 million dollars in the
nine months of 1914 to LIS millions in
the nine months of 1915, for which de-
tails Of the export trade are available.
Harness and saddlery exports amount
to II million dollars in the current
year against less than one million
last year: sole leather 20 million dol
lars against five millions; upper leath-
er 80 million dollars against Is mil
lions, and boots and shoes 80 million
dollars against II millions in the cor
responding months of last year. Most
of this increase is. of course, to Eur
| ope. Sole leather alone to Great
Britain amounting to Il million dol
| lars against four millions. and to 9TH
er European countries six million dol
lars against quarter of million in
| the same months of last year. while
boots and shoes to Great Britain
amounted to Is million dollars
against less than one million dollars
in the same months of last year. and
to France AZ million dollars against
less than one-Quarter of a million in
the corresponding months of 1914.