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COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The only articles or classes of articles which 

 exhibited any conspicuous increase in the quan- 

 tity and value exported during the fiscal year of 

 1893 were agricultural implements, anthracite 

 coal, fertilizers, iron and steel manufactures, leaf 

 tobacco, oleomargarine, musical instruments, and 

 sausage casings. Among agricultural imple- 

 ments, reapers and mowers, as in previous years, 

 take the lead, showing an increase over 1892 of 

 $500,959 ; plows and cultivators increased $397,- 

 735 ; and other implements, $114,736. The ex- 

 ports of anthracite coal were 1,073,111 tons, 

 value $4,854,604, against 808,277 tons, value 

 $3,419,660, in 1892. The quantity of fertilizers 

 was 460,062 tons, value $3,927,343, against 251,- 

 104 tons, value $2,657,120, in 1892. Of the ex- 

 ports of iron and steel, pig iron increased from 

 15,940 tons, value $289,915, in 1892, to 20,068 

 tons, value $335,339, in 1893; band and scroll iron 

 increased $3,722; car wheels, $3,175; cutlery, 

 $7,685 ; locks, hinges, and other builders hard- 

 ware, from $2,309,688 to $2,648,919 ; machinery, 

 from $10,229,293 to $10,467,091 ; cut nails and 

 spikes, from 12,197,669 pounds, value $273,191, 

 to 15,604,347 pounds, value $330.554 ; iron plates, 

 from 472,401 pounds, value $16,641, to 2,838,- 

 660 pounds, value $65,768 ; steel plates, from 

 243.616 pounds, value $8,048, to 654,614 pounds, 

 value $20,459 ; iron rails, from 277 tons, value 

 $8,007, to 409 tons, value $11,113; steel rails, 

 from 7,983 tons, value $259,531, to 15,289 tons, 

 value $471,230; saws and tools, from $1,900,- 

 444 to $1,902,433 ; scales and balances, from 

 $325,417 to $406.430 ; locomotive engines, from 

 197, value $1,717,715, to 195, value $1,794,- 

 709 ; stationary engines, from 360, value $567,- 

 485, to 401. value $607,758 ; wire, from 26,059,- 

 010 pounds, value $852,659, to 42,798,043 

 pounds, value $1,189,219 ; and unenumerated 

 manufactures of iron and steel, from $3,877,676 

 to $4,896,401. Leaf tobacco and stems and 

 trimmings increased from 255,432,077 pounds, 

 value $20,670,045, in 1892, to 266,083,083 pounds, 

 value $22,891,899, in 1893. In the exports of 

 musical instruments, organs increased from 11,- 

 856, value $772,582, to 12,518. value $897,870 ; 

 pianofortes, from 858, value $246,425, to 2,066, 

 value $76,447 ; and all other instruments and 

 parts, from $145,649 to $165,790. Exports of 

 oleomargarine increased in the item of imitation 

 butter from 1,610,837 pounds, value $195,587, to 

 3,479,322 pounds, value $416,386 ; and in the oil, 

 from 91,581,703 pounds, value $9,011,889, to 

 113,939,363 pounds, value $11,207,250. Exports 

 of -sausage casings increased in value from $878,- 

 675 to $1,409,280. Other articles which showed 

 an increase in the quantity exported in 1893 

 were: Blacking, $20,880; bones, hoofs, horns, 

 etc., $101,209; building bricks, from 4,723,000, 

 value $34,288, to 10,625,000, value $77.846 ; fire 

 bricks, from the value of $53,414 to $118,312 ; 

 brooms and brushes, $60,233; dyes and dye 

 stuffs, from $597,016 to $679,373: proprietary 

 medicines, from $1,842,889 to $1.866,061 ; all 

 chemicals, drugs, etc., not specified, from $3,044,- 

 631 to $3,097.952 ; watches, and parts of, from 

 $208,743 to $241.758 ; ground or prepared cof- 

 fee, cocoa, etc., $22,641 : manufactures of copper 

 not elsewhere specified, from $292,043 to $338,- 

 063 ; colored cotton cloths, from 40,815,450 yards 

 to 43,016,108 yards; cotton clothing, $19,254; 



all other cotton manufactures, $613,363 ; china 

 ware, from $13,824 to $19,589 ; eggs, from 143,- 

 489 dozen to 183,063 dozen ; dried herring, from 

 3,279,263 pounds, value $82,772, to 4,085,378 

 pounds, value $93,412 ; other cured fish, not 

 specified, increased $2,905 ; canned salmon in- 

 creased from 18,215.025 pounds, value $1,738,- 

 465, to 22,052,073 pounds, value $2,279,625; 

 other canned fish, from $146,067 to $166,902 ; 

 flax, hemp, and jute twine, from $621,479 to 

 $767,545 ; preserved fruits other than canned, 

 from $214,738 to $224,381 ; nuts, from $60,684 

 to $94,902; furs and fur skins, $113,240 ; glass 

 and glassware, $31,525 ; glue, from 580,815 

 pounds, value $66,403, to 736,446 pounds, value 

 $74,722 ; explosives other than gunpowder, 

 from $752,079 to $755,966 ; hair and its manu- 

 factures, $89,479; hides and skins, $273,108; 

 hops, while decreasing in quantity from 12,604,686 

 pounds in 1892, to 11,367,030 in 1893, showed an 

 increase in value of $275,365 ; India-rubber boots 

 and shoes increased from 231,105 pairs, value 

 $183,570, to 410,950 pairs, value $252,391 ; other 

 manufactures of India rubber and gutta-percha 

 increased from $1,232,497 to $1,357,015 : lamps 

 and other lighting apparatus increased $23,054 ; 

 lead and its manufactures, $150,865 ; buff, grain, 

 split, and other finished upper leather, from 

 $3,880,475 to $4,440,552; all leather not speci- 

 fied, from $605,094 to $817,409 ; leather manu- 

 factures not elsewhere specified, from $400,175 

 to $443,570 ; lime and cement increased $51,176 ; 

 malt liquors, $7,604; marble and stone manu- 

 factures increased $148,973 ; linseed oil increased 

 from 112,386 gallons, value $54,020, to 128,936 

 gallons, value $54,356 ; oil of peppermint in- 

 creased from 54,987 pounds, value $156,418, to 

 99,629 pounds, value $267,422; other essential 

 oils, from $68,501 to $79,920; and all other 

 vegetable oils not specified, from $73,731 to 

 $236,101 ; gold and silver bearing ores increased 

 $186,199; paper hangings increased from $61,- 

 360 to $71,106 ; writing paper and envelopes, 

 from $99,870 to 114,016; and other paper and 

 its manufactures, from $1,221,021 to $1,355,764; 

 paraffin and paraffin wax increased from 64,998,- 

 867 pounds to 82,675,140 pounds ; quicksilver 

 from 306,047 pounds to 424,613 pounds; silk 

 manufactures exported increased $9,523 ; sper- 

 maceti and spermaceti wax, $14,170; Bourbon 

 whisky increased from 744,172 proof gallons, 

 value $664,330. to 1,550,425 proof gallons, value 

 $1,461,013 ; rye whisky, from 128.273 proof gal- 

 lons, value $135,045, to 142,646 proof gallons, 

 value $179.534: and all distilled spirits not else- 

 where specified from 47,724 proof gallons, value 

 $25,598, to 296,708 proof gallons, value $162,- 

 445 ; starch increased from 20,081,027 pounds 

 to 21,938,456 pounds ; stationery other than of 

 paper increased $5,149 ; stereotype and electro- 

 type plates, $14,810 ; straw and palm-leaf manu- 

 factures, $89,980 ; brown sugar increased from 

 245,783 pounds, value $8,682, to 359,455 pounds, 

 value $13,175; refined sugar from 14,604,608 

 pounds, value $665,477, to 20,386,672 pounds, 

 value $963,123 ; and candy and confectionery, 

 from $204.609 to $334,607: vinegar increased 

 from 74,890 gallons to 86,936 gallons; and 

 whalebone, from 82,797 pounds to 148,130 

 pounds. The exports of wood and its manu- 

 factures show a net increase of $875,868. Fire- 



