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Show li DMTED SHIES Wool, which is llkolv to be tho subject sub-ject of considerable attention In Congress Con-gress and thus thioughout the coun-' try during tho next few weeks, hns been always an important factor in the foreign trade of the United States. As far back ns 18f0 Imports of wool, according to the official reports of tho bureau of statistics, department of commorco and labor, amounted to IS 1-2 million pounds valued at $1,-681,691; $1,-681,691; In 1851. 32 1-2 million pounds valued at $3,SH3,167; In 1?60, pounds not stated, value ?4,S42,152; In 1870, 19 million pouuds valued at ?6,7i3,350. In 1SS0, 128 million pounds valued at $23,727,650; in 1890, 105 million pounds valued at $15 261,083; In 1900, 156 million pounds valued at 20 million mil-lion dollars: In 1910, 201 million pounds valued at 61 million dollars, and In 1911 seems likely to be 165 million mil-lion pounds valued at $27,000,000 The quality of wool imported into the United States during the last ten years wa9 1932 million pounds valued at 324 million dollars, and the quantity produced at homo 3051 million pounds valued at 697 million dollars. The average av-erage of the Imported wool as a whole during the ten-year nerlod In question ques-tion was 17 cents per pounds, and tho average valuation of tho wools produced In the United States during the same poriod. 23 cents per pound, though It Is proper to add that the stated valuation of the Imported wools Is the current, wholesalo price in the countries from which Imported Of the 1932 million pounds of wool Imported Im-ported in the last ten years, 40 million mil-lion pounds were exported, and In addition ad-dition to this two million pounds of domestic wool were exported Moantlmo tho value of woolen manufactures man-ufactures Imported has been. In tho last twenty years. 513 3-4 million dollars, dol-lars, an average of 25 million dollars a year; and the value of woolen goods exported In the samo period, 32 1-2 million, an nveraco of 1 2 0 million dollars per annum. The high record, In Importations of wool was 351 million mil-lion dollars p9r annum. The high record In Importations of wool was 351 million pounds In 1S97, when In anticipation of transfer of wool 'from tho free list of the Wilson tariff law to the dutlablo list of the Dlngley law, exceptionally largo quantities were Imported Prior to 1895 the quantlty of wool Imported never touched tho 200 million line, while subsequent to that period the fiscal years In which a total of 200 million pounds has been exceeded are: 1905, 249 million pounds;; 1906, 202 million, 1907, 204 million: 1909. 266 million; and 1910, 261 million pounds. The Importation of wool Into tho United States has steadtlv increased, the annual average during the five years ending with 1910 having been 212 million pounds- in the five vears ending with 1905, 174 million pounds. In the five years ending with 1900, 1S9 million pounds; In tho five years ending with 1895, 142 million. In the flv years ending with 1890. 117 million mil-lion pounds, nnd in the quinquennium ending with 18S5, 69 million pounds, the average annual Imports of wool In tho five-year period 1906-1910 thus being three times as much as In the five-year period 1881 85. Of the clothing wool imported, over one-third Is stated as from the United Kingdom; a little less than one-third from Argentina; and about one-fourth from Australia and Tasmania. Of the combine wool imported, over half la credited as coming from tho United Kingdom; about one-fourth from South America, and the remainder about equally divided between Canada and'" all other countries" Carpet wools are chiefly from the Chinese Empire, about 33 per cent; the United 1 Kingdom, about 25 per cent; Russia, 14 por cent, and other European coun ties 11 per cent; while about 5 per cent of Imports are credited to Turkey Tur-key In Asia and Argentina respectively. respective-ly. Europe supplies most of the woolen wool-en goods imported, though southeastern southeast-ern Asia supplies a considerable share of tho carpets brought Into the country. coun-try. ' 1 r ii 1.1 1 miii. |