The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-20
EXPORTS FROM
 U. 5. INCREASE

Exports of manufactures from the United States are apparently double in quantity those of the year before the war. While we have known, says a statement by The National City Bank of New York, that the figures showing the total value of all manu- factures exported are three and one half times as big as those of the year prior to the war, we were not able to so readily determine to what extent the increase was due, to a mere ad- vance in valuation or to an actual in crease in valuation or to actual increase in quantity. That prices of all n1anuf2c cures had greatly increas- ed was well known, and it is now pos sible by a careful compilation to de- termine whether or not the increase in values is due in any considerable degree to increased quantities, and beyond peradventure, there has been a very large, in many cases a start lingily large, increase in the quantities of American manufactures sent in the year following the close of the war to other parts of the world when com pared with the year immediately pre- ceding the beginning of the war.
 Just a few examples, adds the banks statement, will illustrate the increase III QudnI1I10S O1 lures exported in the calendar year 1919, all of which followed the war, as compared with those of the fiscal year 1914, all of which preceded the war. Cotton cloths, for example, show total exports in 1919 at 682,- 0O0,00 yards against 415, 100000 in 1914, an increase of approximately 66%o, and the distribution is to every continent and every important coun- try of the world. Boots and shoes show a total in 1919 of 19,ooo,ooo pairs exported against a little less than 100000 pairs in 1914, an in crease therefor of nearly 1809o in the exportation during the war period. Sole leather exported in 1919 amount ed to 122, ,000,00 pounds against only 29,oo00OO in 1914; mineral oil 1A billion gallons against 6, little more than 2 billions in 1914; newsprint paper exported in 1919 aggregated 220,000,00o pounds against 9o,000, ,00O in 1914; sugar 1.476,o0o,oo9 pounds in 1919 against only 62,060,000 in 1914. Automobiles, which can scarcely be considered a, representa- tive factor by reason of the fact that the exportation had only been fairly entered upon prior to the war, do however, show a. tremendous in- crease, the total number of machines exported in 1919 having been S2,654 against 29,oe0 in 1914, these figures including both passenger and com, mercial machines. Locomotives also show @ large increase in number, 91s in the calendar year 1919 against 3S: in 1914; steel rails 652,0o0 tons 1T 1919 against sSS,0oo tons in 1914 wire nails POI, 900 pounds in 1s1! against so,ooo,ooo in 1914.
 Wire, including both barbed and other iron or steel wire, shows i, 1919, after the special demands of thu war had ended, a total exportation o
 I0S, 900, 900 pounds against ST6,oo0,
 poo in the year before the war, Stee plates exported in 1919 amounted t 1,59o,ooo,600 pounds against s59, 900,
 600 in 1914: tin plate 5000, ,Ooa pounds in 1919 against 2es, 1000, ,oeo il 1914. In other and somewhat un usual classes there are also large in creases, including tncandesoent lamps of which the expectations of 1919 ar, | 17,o71,o 900 against less than 1000, ,oot in 1914; and of cigarettes an eSporta ton in 1919 of 16, 209, 100000 agains 2.546,ooo,0o in 1914.