Show UNCLE C SAM IN LEAD AS S TOBACCO EXPORTER j WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Feb Fob 26 The The United St tales States tes leads the world as an exporter of ot and is the second leading market of f the world fo for Imported tobacco according ac- ac cording to statistics of ot the department of commerce and labor Last year rear the United States supplied In a total of ot approximately 1 worth of ot tobacco and to to- deco acco manufactures which entered Inter- Inter a markets More than a billion dollars dollars' worth of ot tobacco tobacco- and manufactures of tobacco has has- ag passed through ports of ot the United tate tates since 1890 the value of the ex- ex ports orts IJ In that a period having aggregated o oo and n the imports ts into the United States These figures aro are exclusive of ot trade Passing between e this country u and its contiguous non no tI territories ern which showed W In a n 1909 1903 alone cigars and other tobacco brought r o In and from shipments hl Porto Porte ts R Rico of 10 tobacco valued at to Alaska laska Hawaii and Porto Rico valued at nearly Second to tho the United States In cx- cx of tobacco last year was Cuba whIch shipped worth the Dutch East Indies ranked third with and the tho United Kingdom with I Germany ermany and the United States are the he worlds world's le leading lauding markets the former worth last year and nd he United States Slates worth of ot worth was raw ma- ma erIal Ik The tobacco o o crop of the United d States n l go goo was 71 0 o pounds valued it at a |