The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-29
RUSSIAN EXPORTS RESUME
 PANAMA-PACIFIC ROUTE

Last weeks record of the port or
 New York indicates that the exports
 of merchandise to Russia are again
 passing by way of the Panama Canal, ithe Pacific ocean and the Trans-S1-
 berian Railway. During the summer a large proportion of the material shipped to Russia went to Archangel on her Arctic ocean frontage, but as the time in which that port can no longer be kept open, even with the 1 use of ice breakers, is at hand, the only available route for heavy ship ments is now by the 16,OOO mile route, the Panama Canal, Pacific ocean, Vladivostok on the Siberian frontage, and thence by the Trans Siberian Railway, to ,Petrograd. This renewal of shipments by way Of tv1adivostok is rendered necessary by fthe fact that the railway line which was expected to connect Petrograd
 and Russia's ice-free port of Kola on the Arctic frontage has not yet been
 completed.
 i A single shipment last week of over a, 900 900 worth of. shells, $500,0O0 worth of cartridges. and $200,00O worth of trinitrotoluo1 left the port lof New York for Vladiyostok where
 
 destination in European Russia. This t16,000 mile route has been utilized ito a considerable extent even during the summer months, presumably be- cause of the fact that the large quan- titles on material passing to Russia exceeded the capacity of the Arctic port of Archangel and the railway lines thence to Petrogfad. The ship | ments from the United States by the Pacific route in the six months end- t; ing with September 1916 amounted to nearly $100,o00,000, while those by way of the North Atlantic route
 were about $20o, 100000. Most of this l $200, 100000 passing by the North Atlantic route went to Archangel, though small proportion passed by steamer to Northern Norway, and thence by rail through Norway, Swe- den and Finland to ,>etrograd.
 Even this 1e,000 mile route by way of Panama and the Pacific is mater fally less than that over which the
 bulk of the shipments to Petrograd ! travelled when the Panama Canal was i closed. They were then compelled to go by way of South Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. distance of over 21 900 miles against 19,000 by
 way of the Suez. 16.o0o by way of Panama, 13,00o by way of our Trans Continental Railway lines, $500 by
 the Atlantic route to Archangel and
 rail to Petrograd, and 4,800 if going : by way of the Norway-S Fin
 land rail line. From New York to Petrograd direct via the Baltic the distance is 4,600 miles. but of course. i. this route is not now available by rea-: | x,<,v, conditions
 Even in the face of these enormous distances the exports to Russia have
 steady increased. A compilation by the Foreign Trade Department of the { National City Bank of New York shows that the exports to Russia i which were less than $1,00O,000 a | month in the opening period of the var, have steadily grown. reaching i 310,0O0,000 in April 1915; $20,000,- f0oo, in July, 1915: $42.o0o,o0o in April. 1916, and $64,000,000 in Sep- tember of the current year.
 The total value of merchandise ex- [ ported from the United States to Russia since the beginning of the war i is over $60O, ,000, of which about 1 $z0o, ,000, 900 went by way of the Paci- l f1c and $400.o00,0eo by way of the North Atlantic route. In the fiscal year, 1916, the total exports to Rus- sia were $313,000,000 against $60,-
 000.060 in 1915 and 31,000,0o0 in the normal year, 1914. About per cent. !, of the 1916 exports went by way of Vladivostok, In the nine months ending with September, 1916, the to- ] tai exports to Russia were $364, ,600,- i 600 of which nearly 40 per cent. went l by way of the Pacific.
 1 A very large proportion of this en- {, ormeus total of $6oO,00O,000 worth of :, Merchandise sent to Russia since the beginning of the war has been for use in conjunction with the war,
 chiefly explosives, though there were also considerable quantities of leath-
 CT, clothing, metal working machin- cry, steel rails and railway cars. In the articles which usually form the most striking characteristic of our ex- ports to Russia, agricultural ma-
 chinefy, the total in the fiscal year, 1916, was but SS100OA against Se .