T86 



QNITJBD STATES OP AMKUK'A. 



The numbers of live animals rxjM.rt.il in 

 noles, and 44,1*> sheep Ti" ixs rl f h nei bai 



in 1*94, and 8,000 or 8,000 in >.-an: the 



expor two year*. but 



wait not as great as in 1309 or 1 v. l 



Hour, 17'< 

 88.096,786 bushels ..f oatv 



h the United Kinpl..ii> 



.'.6H9 hwhrN. i if the exporU of wheat H.-ur 

 MMjMlbitr'. s ,.- ! ,'..:..-.. -fwl.i. I. S/J.V5.MO 



.in.i mi.! a 'he Neth- 



erlands; 8,191.741 -mi- 



tries, ..f ,).!. Canada took 709.87:5. the British 

 West Indies 543.864. rut i ,. 



barrel* went loSuiih America: and l.'J::"*.!:'.- bar- 



oi-ii to Kurope 



bare undergone great fluctuations, amount i; 

 10.009 bos! t 88,856,M 



i86,au2*>,M< in i *'.'. 



TI 1808,69.:.'.' i.:. 1891, 



89.662,689 in 1890,60,04- 989. and t 



n 1888. The coal exports in 1897 coi 



ms of air ! 8 "''.' t"iis >f 



is. The export? have fallen <>1T 



J51.205 pounds in !*!:{ i-ounds in 



1897, but scarcity makes the smaller quantity 

 valuable than the greater. Tin- copper exports in 



,001 tons of ore and 2" 



pounds of i .:>ared with l?.Visu.?ii;> pounds 



in 1896, 148.446,039 pounds in 1st*:,, aii'l 

 pounds in 1894. The ex; -ri '-.tt..n 



have recovered from 7j06a.41.~> |M.und- in !*'.:{ and 



..}:!'. jKMinds in 1 HIM to 21.5ST.:MJ pounds in 

 1897. The exports of ordinary cotton \\.-r. ;.i7i;.- 

 865 bales, or 3,082,169.589 po 



:. 1896.6,965,358 in l^'.r,. and r,.:j'.7.r,o! in 

 1894. The tot a l^'7 \v 



pounds, or 8.757.964 bales, and out of thi> :!.lu:;.- 

 754,949 pounds -rti-d. cxcf.-.lini: the ex- 



ports of any previous crop \ in^ 1895, 



being 70-59 per c nt. of the total product, comj 

 with W> |* 1896,69-8:{ per cent in 



and 71-20 per cent, in 1894 The consumption of 



H-an spinners was 1. p'-un-l- of do- 



mestic and 50,710,403 pounds of foreign, a total of 

 ,'s poiin.N. Ti. ..f ,-ott.n doth 



in the fiscal rear 18!: na.l. 



f 83.400,441 Yards of col., r .-d and'v 

 yards of uncolored. TbepriDoipd ru-toim-r- 



i to the t-\ jrards; tl,. 



-eanica, :w.!i::.mi lU ada, 



1.5^0 yanl- \\ 



th. n-*t of S... ; -,.-, yards- Cen- 



tral America, 10,446,766 xico, 5,577.808 



yanli; Madagascar, 10,831.409 yards; the rot ..f 



a, 5.4524*10 yards; Great Uritain. 11.0!- 

 wrds. Among the flsh exports the most notable 

 iacnasc has been in canned salmon, of which 35,- 

 I08J899 pounds were exported in 1897. The ex : 



rirtl apples wc-iv W.775.401 pound*: of green 

 nne ai.ples, 1^03.9H1 harrels. ajfaii 

 -1W. The expcrt of glucose has grown from 



<> p. un.K 



There were 168^9<> pi- , n , M ,. x ,,. 



against JW8 Urns in 1896: of steel ingots and 



' .' .-"' : ": : -.. '. '.' : ,i, :-. 



Iron manufactures, such as car wh. N. buil-l.-r-' 

 hardware. machin rv. nails arid Fpikes. printing 

 ;---.-.-- . -. ;-...-, 



and plates show a steady expansion. Th< e\p,, r t ..f 

 pig lead has risen from 1,885,198 pounds in 1895 to 



17,632,455 in 1897. " 1. Mini 



in 1897 was 181.726,24:t gallons, a-aii.M H0,9i 

 in 1896; of Illuminating oil. .Ions. 



against 716,455.">i:, : -f lul.ncatin- oil. 

 gallons, nu il 



portswtn > .'7.r.i">--.. 1 gallons, against i;i.-n.\sjs - a |. 



Ions in 1S!MJ. i parallin. am>iintin^ 



'i,365,128 pounds, have doubled ill the <-..i:!-.- 



of live years. , 



9,678,000 pOUOdfl im-iv than 

 in tl. "f fr.-h I. 



jM.IHi (((>' p,, mills |, ; an ,| 



j.ickl. .umls 



less; of tallow, 78,108.834 p-u. "Mip,. IIII ds 



; ..f baoon, :' 



pollll 



J11.(KK> pomi.U more; of piekle.l .,,,rk. 



IK.UII 'Ml pounds levs; of 1. 



x.unds. . r >S.7sl.(HM) poii i. 



i.utt. .1 poumK 1.1 !'..< MM I p..mid- 



>f marpirine oil. 1 1 ::.:.< ;. l.VJ p,,m..|-. 



ton; of butte;. 'inds. 11.- 



MI pounds more: of < 0,944,611 unds. 



1 Ur.?.o(M pounds more. The e\p..rts 



; readied the total of : 



pound-, thou-h the \alue was little rn-atrr than 

 in the pn-ceditiL,' year, when th- 



i DOands. The export- of Inaiis and 

 peas were 90(),'JH> busheN. almost double the 

 amount f ttfl of sa\\d timl.fr 



\vnv :!!!. -J!M thousand feet; of hewn timb.-r. ',. }IH;.- 

 824 cubic feet ; of boards, deals, and planks, 87< 

 thousand f 



Of the total import- by ^< a in 1*07 only 1"> p< r 



cent, were carried in American vessels, compared 



with 1.V7 per rent, in is'.ui. i:>-:, |,,M- cent, in 

 and 1!-J per Cent in l^.'l. Of the total \ 



rived in American vessels and Sul!' 

 838 in foreign "lakini: the total by sea 



$728.'.' in Und'vehi- 



Cles. Of the total 3 \\ei.t by 



land and $!sr,.!M \*: t \ by >ea. s'.Mi:, -, for- 



I and 179,441,823 in American \< 

 the proportion Iwing s-i per cent of the sea-borne 



commerce, compared with -Mt.inlv." 



per cent in 1895, an i nt in i^'.a of the 



total carrying trade t he percentage fallin.i: to Ameri- 

 can ships was 11 per cent., v. 

 cent, in 1896, 12J per cent, in 1891,1 at. in 



i^r>. it;, perccntin 1881, 27| per cent in i*7. :u 

 percent, in 1H71. 5it in 1HJ-J. at 



cent, in 1H60. 



The commercial intercourse ..f the I'nited 81 

 with the dim-rent countries of the world in the 

 year 1897 is shown in the following table : 



