Show IMPORTS NEARING THE BilliON DOllAR MARk Figures Shown by Treasury Bureau of Statistics f GREAT INCREASE IS SHOWN I The Manufacturers5 Materials Formed Half in February 1 There Aro Chemicals Copper nnd the Bulk of Iron and Steel Imported Im-ported Into the Country TRIBUNE SPECIAL Washington March Manufacturers Manufactur-ers materials formed more than half of the Imports Into the United States 1 the month of February This Is the fIrst time In the history of our Importations Importa-tions t that manufacturers materials have constituted more than half of the total Imports In 1SS2 manufacturers materials formed 330 per cent of the total Importsj In 1892 342 per cent In 1902 1G1 per cent In the eight months ending with February 1903 1C9S percent I per-cent and In February 1003 513 percent per-cent of the total Imports Into the United V States I HAVE GREATLY INCREASED Meantime Importations as n whole have greatly Increased and seem likely in the fiscal year which ends three months hence to reach for the first time the billiondollar line Yet the growth In manufacturers materIals has been even more rapid than the general growth oC Imports as is indicated indi-cated by 1 the above fIgures which show ii that the percentage which mamifac it turera materials form of this Increased lj total has grown from 330 per cent in iv i 1SS2 to513 per cent In February 1903 FACTS FROM TREASURY These facts are disclosed by the advance ad-vance sheets from the monthly summary I sum-mary of commerce and finance just Issued Is-sued by the treasury bureau of statistics I statis-tics I further shows regarding this Increase I of manufacturers materials that the total value of manufacturers materials Imported In the eight months ending with February 1903 exceeded I by fifty millions of dollars that of the corresponding period of the preceding year In the month of February alune the importation of manufacturers nun terialK was fortytwo millions against t thirtytwo millions in February of last 1 year an increase of nearly onethird IMPORTS HEAVY r For the last fiscal year ending with j June 30 1902 the Importations of manufacturers I man-ufacturers materials for the first time I passed the 100inllllondollar Hue having hav-ing grown from 243 millions In 1SS2 to II0wn 27S millions In 1S92 and 415 millions In I mHlonJ1 1002 The figures for the eight mouths of the fiscal year justify the assertion that rot the twelve months ending June SO 1903 the lotal value of manufacturers manu-facturers materials Imported will exceed i ex-ceed SlnOOOOOOO and will far surpass I that of any preceding year in the history his-tory of our Import trade The principal articles which are classed as manufacturers materials are chemicals copper cotton fibers furs hides and skins India rubber silk tin II tobacco wool and the bulk of the Iron amid steel Imported which comes In a partially manufactured state but for tumuLt In manufacturing Of these articles the Importations In the eight months ending with February 1903 show In the every Instance an Increase over eight months ending with February 1901 Considering these t articles separately it may be said that the value of the Importations of chemicals which an chiefly for use In manufacturing was In the eight months ending with February Feb-ruary 1903 40 million dollars against about 3J million dollars In the corresponding corre-sponding months of JDOt WHAT FIGURES ARE Comparing the same periods copper shows an Increase from 1 to 1 million dollars In the value of Its Imports cotton cot-ton from 4V to 7 millions fibers from 13U to 2U millions furs from C lo S millions hides and skins from 2S to 37s i millions rubber from Ifi to 19 millions mil-lions Iron and steel from 11 to 1i i mll llona 1 silk unmanufactured from 15 to 88 millions tin from 1234 to 13i millions mil-lions tobacco from 9 = l to 10Y millions and wool from 7 to 12i millions of dollars dol-lars I CRASHED INTO FREIGHT Eastbound Limited on the Santa Fo Strikes I Freight Train at Strong City Kan Strong City Kin March 29 Santa Fo California enstbonnd llmltid No 4 1 ran Into the rcntcnd of a freight train aiand IiifT on the main track In ho I yards hero curly today The engine of the limited wan badly damaged five frolght CIM wat hnlly wood and wore nmashed Into kindling lJl the caboose cnutrht lire and was destroyed de-stroyed Three KariRas storkmon nslcop In the caboose were Injured none of them seriously I Many cattle wore killed rite limited wan delayed several hours |