Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-06-18 | Page 4 | Porto Rico a Valuable Possession

e - ... Porto Rico a Valuable Possession. Whatever may be said of the unprofitableness of some of our new possessions, this reproach can hardly be leveled at Porto Rico, which, as shown by the Bureau of Statistics, buys from and sells to this country close to f 1,000,000 worth a month. The total- shipments of domestic merchandise from the United States to Porto Rico in the ten months ending end-ing with April were $9,844,318, and of foreign merchandise mer-chandise $218,276, making the total value of merchandise mer-chandise sent to Porto Rico from the United States $ 1 0,002,594. The total value of the shipments of domestic do-mestic merchandise from Porto Rico to the United States in the same period was $8,744,427, and of foreign for-eign merchandise $89,037, making the total $8,833,-464. $8,833,-464. In the month of April the shipments from the United States to Porto Rico were $931,526, and from Porto Rico to the United States, $1,919,023. These figures indicate that the shipments from the United States to Porto Rico during the fiscal year, which ends with the present month will aggregate about $12,000,000, and those from Porto Rico to the United States nearly an equal sum.' Bradstreet's Weekly says that the trade reports of the next six months will show another remarkable increase in Porto Rican business. But what of the Philippines? Have the lazy Orientals not yet had time to get, down to wbrk, now that the Spanish yoke has been removed from their neckB?