New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-27
changes of merchandise among our own

people.
The census of 1915 put the value of
the factory products Of the United
States in 1914 at s24,246,O 100000, and
we know from the reports of earlier
censuses that the value of the manu-
features produced by the "hand trades
and neighborhood industries' is nearly
00,000,000, which must be added to
the value of the factory products in an
effort to obtain the true value of all
manufactures produced in the country.
So we may set down the value OF the
manufactures turned out in the United
States in 1914 at fully $4,000, 900 900.
The Secretary Of Agriculture estimates
the value of the farm products of the
United States in 1914 at Approximately
$4,000, 1000, though it is estimated
that about one-tenth of this, or, say.
$l0OO,000,000 was consumed on the
farm, leaving the amount Of agriculture
products entering internal commerce at
approximately $4,000, 100000. The Geo
logical Survey Of the United States es-
Inmates the value of the mineral prod
ucts OF the country in 1914 at over
$2,000,O00,O00, and to this we must
add at least $l,000,000,0 900 for the prod
ucts OF the forests and fisheries and
others of miscellaneous character.
The merchandise imported in 1914. all
OF which enters internal commerce
after passing through the custom
houses. was valued at nearly $1,000
100000 on its arrival at the ports and
OF course, the tariff duties were added
TO this cost before it entered the in
'ernal commerce of the country.
1914 Total, $4,000, 900 900
All of these great groups of mer-
chandise. the manufactures, the apri-
cultural products, the minerals, the
products of the forests and fisheries
and the merchandise imported, form
the internal commerce CT the United
states, the merchandise exchange be-
tween its people, for even that which
Is finally exported is part of the
internal commerce before expectation.
The value of the manufactures in 1914
was $4,000, 100000; agricultural prod
ucts, exclusive of those consumed on
the farm, $9,oo0,0OO,0 900; minerals, 81
ooo'ooo,o0o; miscellaneous products,
$1,000, 100000; imports, $4,000, 900 900
making an aggregate of $4,000, 900 900
as the value of all the articles ex-
changed among our own people. and
thus forming the internal commerce of
the country in the year 1914.
The valuation placed upon these
various groups of articles is at the
place of production. The manufacture
er IN reporting to the Census Bureau
states the value of his product at the
factory, the agriculturist states the
value of his product at the farm. the
valuation OF the mineral products is that
at the mine, and the valuation placed
upon the merchandise imported is that
IN the country from which it was ex-
ported to the United States, though the
importer necessarily adds the cost of
transportation, the duties paid and his
own profits before sending it into the
internal commerce Of the country. This
grand total of $4,000, 100000, the estj-
mated value OF the merchandise form
ing the internal commerce Of the conn.
try, represents, therefore, the products
IN question at the place of production
and does not make any allowance for
the cost added by transportation or the