| Show EXPORTS AND PORTS r Increasing I Activity of Manufacturers Manu-facturers of U S INTERESTING STATISTICS I Latest Figures of the Treasury Bureau Bu-reau Nearly All the Principal Manufactured Articles Exported Except in Iron and Steel Show an Increase in Quantity Cotton Goods Show a Harked Increase Copper Exceeds Last Year by Almost Al-most Nino Million Dollars TRIBUNE SPECIAL wt < ihill lon Sept GThe I Increasing activity of the manufacturers of tHe United Stales is i Illustrated on both the export and Import side of the I latest lat-est figures of the treasury bureau of statistics During the seven monlhs aiding with July 1002 the exportation ol manufactures was nearly 10000000 greater than In the corresponding months of the preceding year and the Importation of m manufacturers materials mate-rials was CO000000 greater than In line corresponding months of the preceding I year The exportation of manufacturers manufactur-ers during the seven months of the present year I has averaged 35108000 per month or at the rate of SlJldOOOOO per annum while the Importation of manufacturers materials has averaged aver-aged ot000000 per month or at the late of 432000000 per annum INCREASE IN EXPORTS Nearly all of the principal manufactured manufac-tured articles exported except iron and steel show an Increase in quantity and In stoat cases in value though In a few Important articles the t reduction in price per unit of quantity has brought the value below last years figures I while tho quantity shows an increase This Is true of mineral oils for example I exam-ple the exports of which during the seven months show an Increase of over 1000000 gallons while the figures of value show a decrease of about 1000 000 EXPORT OF COTTON GOODS Among the articles which show a marked increase In exports are cotton goods the exports of which amount to nearly 21000000 In the seven months ending with July 1002 against a lit tie less than 15000000 Inn the corresponding corre-sponding months of 1901 This Increase Is almost exclusively In cotton cloths of which the exportallons In the seen months ending w lth July 1902 were 1700S132 against 111 N01S in the corresponding cor-responding months of 1101 t the number of yards exported being 32ISC59C2 In the seven months of the present year against 207377567 In the corresponding months of last year MORE COPPER EXPORTED Copper in which there was a decrease de-crease In the cxportatlons of last year owing to high prices now shows a marked Increase the figures being 529 011210 for the seven months ending with July 1902 against 20781022 for the same months of 1901 The chief decrease In exports occurs In Iron and steel the total exports during the seven months of this year being 572C3301 against 01100780 In the corresponding i months of last ION I-ON THE IMPORT > > SIDE On the import side nearly all the principal classes of manufacturers materials ma-terials show an Increase Chemicals increased In-creased In Imports from 32591372 In seven months of 1901 to 33831577 In the same months of 1902 Imports of raw cotton Increased from 32970lSG pounds In seven months of 1901 to C11SS9G3 pounds in seven months of 1902 the quantity having thus nearly doubled Of fibers the Importations In the seven months ending with July 1901 amounted amount-ed to 10330780 and In the corresponding I correspond-ing months of 1902 22157293 HIDES AND SKINS Of hides and skins the figures of imports Im-ports for the seven months of 1901 were 32111 30 and for the corresponding months of 1902 33795053 nldla rubber rub-ber shows a slight decrease In importations Impor-tations the total having fallen from 318294lG > pounds In seven months of 1901 to 30205134 pounds In the same months of 1902 though the figures of 1902 are considerably In excess of those for the corresponding months of 1900 INCREASE IN SILK IMPORTS Silk shows n marked Increase the total to-tal value of unmanufactured silk Imported Im-ported having Increased from 19702 053 In seven months of HOI to 22186811 In the corresponding months of 1902 Tin shows an Increase In Imports of from 11398050 pounds In seven months of 1901 to 509181103 pounds In the corresponding cor-responding months of 1902 Importations Importa-tions of lumber and unmanufactured wood have Increased from 5053270 in seven months of 1901 to 10810113 In the corresponding months of 1902 IMPORTATION OF WOOL Raw wool shows an Increase in Importations Im-portations of from JS199025 > In seven months of 1901 > to 12000855 in the corresponding cor-responding months of 1902 |
