Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-08-09 | Page 7 | Raw Material Imports Breaking All Records

RAW MATERIAL IMPORTS BREAKING ALL RECORDS WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. All records for Importations of manufactured material Imported into the I'nltcd States were broken during the fiscal year 1900, according ac-cording to the bureau of statistics In a statement made public today. Raw wool, raw cotton, raw silk, fibre?, hides and skins, India, rubber, tobacco, tin copper, lumber and certain articles Included under the general group, "chemicals, "chem-icals, drugs and dyes," are ho principal articles Imported for manufacturing, and In nearly all of these tho quantity Imported Im-ported In 1900 exceeds that of any earlier year. Raw wool, however. Is an exception. excep-tion. It shows a slightly higher quantity quan-tity imported In the llscal year 1807, pending the enactment of the Dlngley lnw, which transferred wool from the. free to th dutiable list; pig tin, cotton and lumber show In certain earlier years quantities slightly In execu of tho figures of 1900.