New Britain herald., 1917-11-23

ger; airplanes, motorcycles and bl- cycles, show a total for the eight months of 1917 of $111, ,O7S, 900 against $3O,361,OOO in 1914. having thus nearly quadrupled in value in the pe- riod under consideration. Copper of all sorts exported in the eight months of 1917 was 1000 against $89,713,OO 900 in the same months o1 1914, having practically trebled in value in the three-year period. LeAth- CT and manufactures thereof more than doubled in the period in ques- tion, having been in the eight months of 1917. $76,303,0oO against $35. 491.- 900 in the same months of 1914. Paper and manufactures thereof ex- ported in the eight months of 1917 amounted to $26,841,0OO against $13,337,O00 in 1914. Tinplate showed a total in 1917 of $24,211.0oo against $2,950,00O in the same months of 1914. Refined sugar, which has sell dom formed an important factor in the export trade, showed for the eight months of 1917 exports amount ing to $48,421 00O against $2,595.000 in the corresponding months of 1914. The wood and lumber industry is ap- parently the only one of the great manufacturing industries which has not prospered as a result of the war, the total value of wood and manufac- lures thereof exported in the eight months of 1917 having been but $41,S32,oOO against $61,27s,ooo in the same months of 1914.
 Import Figures.
 Evidence of the activities of our manufactures Is also shown by an examination of the import figures. The banks statement shows that the total value of raw material imported for use in manufacturing in the eight months of 1917 is $886, 6,683.000 against s436,2s4.ooo in the same months of 1914. having thus prac- tically doubled in the three-year per- ioo. Manufacturers for further use ir manufacturing imported in the eight months of 1917 amounted to $364.287,OOO in 1917 against $198,- 5S4,OOO in the same months of 1914, having also nearly doubled in the tlree-year period. These two great groups of manufacturing material show for 1917 an aggregate of $1,- 051, 100000 against 100000 in the same months of 1914. Raw cot- ton imports in the eight months of 1917 amounted in value to $35,182,- 900 against $18,O25, ,0O0 in the same nlcnths of 1914. Fibers in the 1917 period amounted to $55, ,462,OOO against s36,291.0Oo in 1914; hides and skins in 1917 $166,679, 900 against $S6.8O7,OOO in 1914; India rubber and substitutes in thereof in 1917 $170,- 5S8,0OO against $50,088,0O0 In 1914: raw silk in 1917 $111,787.0O0 against G3,4O7,OOO in 1914; pig tin in 1917 $43,746,OOO against $24,334, 900 in 1914; and wool in 1917 $134.139,0 against $6o.621, ,o0O in the correspond ing months of 1914.
 While no official census of manu- lecturers in the United States has been taken since the year 1914. the very large increase in production is illustrated not only by the above fig ures of increased imports of manu- featuring material and increased ex- ports of manufactures. but also by the fact that the quantity of pig [ iron produced in the country in the eight months ending with August 1917 was 25,660,0O0 tons against 16,- 355,OoO tons in the same months of 1914, and that the quantity of cot ton used by the factories of the United States has increased approximately
 2E per cent in the same period indi-
 Gates that the actual quantity of man.
 Cfactures turned out has enormously
 has still further increased the total
 value of the output as compared with
 1914.