The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-23
vxrowth In Manufacturing
Activities in the U. S.

upon the Manufacturing luOuSlI1SS Va
rns( United States can now be meas
Hfed, in some degree at least, by GER
tain official data which renders pos
stbIe the comparison of conditions IN
1917 with those Of 1914. An analy-
sis by The National City Bank of New
|, York of figures of export of manu-
4. jfactures compared with those of 1914
I indicates a wonderful development in
! the exports and evidently large
1 growth in: the manufacturing indus
| tries of the country in that short per-
n 1od. Manufactures exported in the
I nine months of 1917, for which fig
I urss are now available, are more than
! four times as great in value as in the
. same months of 1914. Finished
! Manufactures ready for consumption
l exported in the nine months ending
/ with September 1917 amount to w.
I 0eS,O00, 900 against S466,00O,OO0 In
I the same months of 1914. Manufac-
1 lures for the use in manufacturing
/! ARE $685., 900, 900 against $262,0Oo,000
/ ii the corresponding months of 1914.
Thus the total Of manufactures ex-
! ported in nine months of 1917 is S.
+ .0aQ, 100000 against $72S, 100000 In
the same months of 1914.
while this very large increase oc-
| ours, to a considerable extent, in
/ stx1ctly war material 1t also applies to
4 q large proportion of the classes or
X goods produced by our manufacturers.
I Iron and steel manufactures as q
whole, for example. show q total ex-
I part value in the eight months ending
with August 1917 Of $8o3,767,0oO
! against $140,246,000 in the CORES
pending months of 1914 being thus
SIX times as much in value in 1917 as
/ In 1914. Manufactures Of cotton show
! in the eight months of 1917 total ex-
4 ports $91, 100000 against $34,028,0OO
! In the same months of 1914, having
4 thus q little more than trebled In
value of exports In the period in ques-
tom Cars and carriages, including
In 4his termA freight and passenger
cara for railways, automobiles Doth
4 freight and passenger, aeropianes,
motorcycles and bicycles show total
for the eight months Of 1917 of SILL
01S, 900 against $30,S61,0OO in 1914,
haSing thus nearly quadrupled In
value In the period of consideration
Copper of all sorts exported in the
4 eight months of 1917 was $249,676,-
600 against $Se,713.000 in the same
months of 1914, having practically
trebied In value in the three-year per-
iod Leather and manufactures there
OF more than doubled in the period in
question, having been in the eight
months of 1917 $T6,S0S,000 against
$36,491, 900 in the same months OF
1914. Paper and manufactures there
Z OF exported in the eight months of
1917 amounted to $26,s41,000 against
$13,s37, 900 in 1914. Tinplate showed
q total IN 1917 of $24,211,00 against
$2,s6o,ooO in the same months OF
1914. Refined sugar, which has sell
rfor 70 Of n
the export trade, showed for the eight
months of 1917 exports amounting to
4 $zs. All, 900 against $2,595,0o0~ in the
fccrresponding months Of 1914 The
wood and lumber industry Is appar-
entity the only one Of the great manu-
featuring industries which has not
4 pfospered as a result of the war, the
total value of wood and manufactures
thereof exported. in the eight months
Of 1917 having been but $41, 832.000
against $61.279.0o0 In the same
months Of 1914.
evidence of the activities Of our
manufactures Is also shown by an ex-
animation 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 $886.683,o00 against
81 3436,234,00O in the same months of
y 1914, having thus practically doubled
In the three-year period Manufac-
fufes for further use in manufactur-
ing imported in the eight months of
1917 amounted to $364,287,0o0 in
1917 against $19s, 900 in the same
months of 3914, having also nearly
doubled in the three-year period.
These two great groups of manufac-
turing material show for 1917 an ag-
oF ire
$635.O0o, 900 in the same months of
1914 Raw cotton imports in the
eight months Of 1917 amounted in
value to s35,182,000 against $685.
900 in the same months of 1914. Fib-
resin the 1917 period amounted to
55.462, 900 against $36,291,000 in
1914: hides and skins in 1917 $780,
67s,o00 against s86,807,O0O in 1914;
India rubber and substitutes thereof
in 1917 $170.588,000 against $50,08S,-
600 in 1914; raw silk in 1917 SILL
$4,000 against $63,4o7.oo0 in 1914;
pig tin in 1917. $43,746,o00 against
$z4,884, 900 in 1914; and wool in 1917
91g4,139, 900 against $50,521,0O0 in
the corresponding months of 1914.
While no official census of manu-
factures in the United States has been
taken since the year 1914, the very
large increase in production is illus
trated not only by the above figures
of Increased imports of manufactur-
ing material and increased exports OF
manufactures, but also by the fact
that the quantity of pig iron produced
N the country in the eight months
ending with August 1917 was 25,660,-
900 tons against 16,355,00O tons in
the same months of 1914, and that
the quantity of cotton used by the fac
tories of the United States has in
creased approximately 25 per cent. in
the game period indicates that the
actual quantity of manufactures turn
ed out has enormously increased,
while the advance in prices has still
further increased the total value OF