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though the importance of manufacturing is probably 

 overstated, because, in some instances, the raw mate- 

 rials are imported from outside the Region. In such a 

 circumstance, the net import of raw material should be 

 balanced against the net export of finished products to 

 secure the export balance made available by any par- 

 ticular activity. In a minor sense, this applies even to 

 forest products. Washington, for example, which had 

 net exports of over $200,000,000 in the forest-products 

 group, imported approximately $500,000 worth of logs. 

 In the manufacturing group, Oregon, which is a wheat- 

 surplus producing State, nevertheless had net imports 

 of wheat worth something more than $400,000, and 

 net exports of flour valued at approximately $15,500,- 

 000. While a large proportion of the value of the net 

 export of flour can be attributed to the natural resources 

 of Oregon, the true net export balance provided by the 

 production and milling of wheat would be approximately 

 $400,000 less than the amount included as the net 

 export value of flour. 



A more striking case is to be found in Washington, 

 where refined copper and manufactured copper and 



bronze exports amounted to over $30,000,000. These 

 were based, however, on an estimated net import of 

 copper ores and concentrates valued at almost $18,- 

 000,000. The net export balance provided by this 

 manufacturing industry, therefore, was closer to 

 $10,000,000 than the $30,000,000 which was included 

 in the net exports of manufactures from Washington. 

 The situation in Washington may be contrasted with 

 that of Montana where processing of copper, lead, and 

 zinc ores is so great that Montana had very small ex- 

 ports of products of mines. The mining products ap- 

 peared very largely as manufactures. In fact, $29,000,- 

 000 of the net exports of the manufactured products 

 from Montana was made up of refined copper, lead, or 

 zinc, and their products. On the chart the classifica- 

 tion "refined copper, lead, or zinc" has been given a 

 different shading for Idaho, Montana, and Washington 

 to distinguish it from other manufactured products. 

 The more highly processed copper, brass, and bronze 

 has not been so included, since manufacture of these 

 products would involve unknown quantities of imports 

 of other materials. 



TONNAGE OF NET IMPORTS 

 OF 

 PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES, 1929 



ESTIMATED VALUE OF NET IMPORTS 



OF 

 PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES, 1929 



IDAHO 



OREGON 



WASHINGTON 



T r 



10 20 30 to 50 GO 70 80 



PERCENTAGE OF COMMODITY GROUPS 



^ 



FOREST PRODUCTS 



3 AGRICULTURAL 

 3 PRODUCTS 



MANUFACTURES AND 

 MISCELLANEOUS 



AREA OF SQUARE REPRESENTS TONNAGE OF TOTALS 

 OF NET IMPORTS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES 

 — 13,396 THOUSAND TONS 



AREAS OF RECTANGLES REPRESENT TONNAGE OF NET 

 IMPORTS OF EACH STATE ACCORDING TO ABOVE LEGEND 



numerals are tonnage in thousands of tons 

 Figure 5 



OREGON 



WASHINGTON 



20 30 40 50 60 70 60 



PERCENTAGE OF COMMODITY GROUPS 



FOREST PRODUCTS 



AGRICULTURAL 

 PRODUCTS 



MANUFACTURES AND 

 MISCELLANEOUS 



AREA OF SQUARE REPRESENTS ESTIMATED VALUE OF TOTALS OF 

 NET IMPORTS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES— 708 

 MILLION DOLLARS 



AREAS OF RECTANGLES REPRESENT VALUE OF NET IMPORTS OF 

 EACH STATE ACCORDING TO ABOVE LEGEND 



NUMERALS ARE VALUES IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 



Figure 6. 



