The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-30
WAR STUFF.
America Shipping More Munitions
Than Ever Before.
All Records Broken During 1915, Ac.
cording to Statistics Of Port OF
New York-vaIue OF Ship
ments increases.

New York.-Exports of gunpoWder
and other explosives reached record
breaking proportions during 1915 and
particularly during the last month of
the year. when in this period alone
they. exceeded in volume and value
more than the total of the entire
twelve months of the preceding year.
The total shipments in 1915 were 3d.
884,703 pounds of dynamite. according
to statement issued by Dow, Jones &
Co. The total value of 1915 shipments
of gunpowder was $66,346,770, against
$2S9,983 in 1914. The average price
per pound was 70 cents in 1915, against
80 cents in the preceding year. The
greatest deliveries were in November
and December exports was $2O,201, $50,
and that of the November exports $16.-
730, 1884. which was nearly three times
the money value Of the October ship
ments.
A compilation by the foreign trade
department of the National City bank
Of New York shows that the March
exports from the port of New York
thus far average about $50 100000 per
week against $3S.o00,Oo0 per week IN
February and $51 100000 per week in
December and January. This Is the
more remarkable in view OF the fact
that the difficulties Of obtaining vessel
space on the Atlantic have led certain
exporters Of merchandise to the
Orient to send their goods by rail
across the continent, and thence by
vessel across the Pacific. These rail
shipments, while intended for export,
ere no longer included in the export
statements Of the port of New York.
Nevertheless, the total exports from
the port of New York for the first
week of March were $57,500,000. and
those of the second week, while slight
ly less, will probably bring the aver
age for the first half of the month up
to about s55.000,000 per week, or fully
40 per cent more than the weekly av-
erage of February, and considerably
more than that of December and jan
uary.
War material, foodstuffs and horses
continue the chief articles in the
growing exports.
The announcement that Portugal Is
to be included il the list OF nations at
war lends interest to5a statement COM
piled by the foreign trade department
of the National City bank of New
York on the commerce Of that country
and its trade relations with the United
States. While Portugal is compare
lively small country it has 100000
people, or practically as many as all
Of the New England states. 1t is quite
densely populated, despite its noun
famous area, the average number OF
persons per square mile being 1913. or
nearly four times that Of the United
States.
It's foreign commerce amounts to
approximately $150,000,000 per annum,
having more than doubled in the past
twenty years, and increased about SO
per cent in the last decade. Its i'm
ports are considerably more than
double its exports, the total imports OF
1913 having been $96,OO0,O00 in value,
and it's exports but $38.000,0O0. The
principal imports are coal. cotton.
wool, raw silk. hides, wheat, sugar and
manufactures, especially OF iron and
steel. The principal exports are wine,
cocoa, ,sardines and cork.