October, 1911.] 



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Miscellaneous. 



accounted for 4,600,000 of this increase, 

 say 2,700,000 in sugar and 1,900,000 in 

 manufactured ^ tobacco ; and ordinary 

 increases outside of the Payne Bill 

 protection were shown in copra 2,500,000 

 and hemp 1,500,000. These figures are all 

 in gold. 



Every dollar of increase in export 

 values is a dollar won for the Philippines, 

 and every dollar thus won means a little 

 more prosperity for the islands and for 

 all of us. 



The main object of this Association* 

 and the larger and broader Board of 

 Trade that we all hope and dream that 

 this Association and its kindred will be 

 welded into, is to promote, in every way 



Comparative statement of the principal articles 

 Islands during the Fiscal years 1910 and 1911. 



1910. 



possible the inter-change of products, 

 but I do not think I mistake the aims 

 of the Association if I say that I believe 

 that its intention is to go even further 

 than that. While this Association must 

 fitly attend in the first place to its 

 special subjects, it can and will act in 

 friendly conjunction with all the other 

 bodies, official and non-official, whose 

 object is the prosperity and good of the 

 Philippine Islands. 



Mr. Macleod then gave the compar- 

 ative statement hereto attached as to 

 exports in 1910 and 1911, and closed with 

 remarks as to the work that is before 

 the Association for the future good of 

 the Islands. 



exported from the Philippine 

 1911. 



Quantities. 



Values. 



Quantities. 



Values. 



Hemp ... Kilos 



170,788,629 .. 



. $17,404,922 . 



.. 165,649,626 ... 



$16,141,342 



Sugar ... 



127,717,012 .. 



7.040,690 .. 



. 149,376,454 ... 



8,014,360 



Cigars ... Thousands 



196,912 . 



2,973,630 . 



132,217 ... 



1,700,712 



Cigarettes ... ,, 



30,886 .. 



34,045 . 



33,662 ... 



36,132 



Leaf Tobacco ,, 



9,739,015 . 



1,598,557 



... 12,161,949 .. 



1,794,480 



Other Tobacco ,, 



181,039 . 



31,263 , 



325,203 .. 



74,243 



Copra ,, 



115,284,851 . 



9,153.951 



... 115,601,270 .. 



9,899,417 



Hats ... Number 



621,475 . 



290,349 . 



1,025,596 .. 



307,987 



Coconuts „ 







632,503 .. 



13,594 







$38,527,407 





$37,982,267 



All other articles 





1,359,445 





2,080,486 







$39,886,852 





540,062,753 



INVITES CHINA COAST BUSINESS 

 MEN TO LECTURES. 



Series of Lectures under Auspices 

 op Merchants' Association to be 

 given by Bureau op Science. 



(From the Manila Bulletin.) 

 Invitations have been sent the Cham- 

 bers of Commerce of the China Coast 

 asking that their members attend the 

 series of lectures to be given by Dr. 

 Paul C. Freer, Director of the Bureau of 

 Science, and his staff, under the auspices 

 of the Manila Merchants' Association. 



President Milton E. Springer and Dr. 

 Freer have arranged the schedule for 

 the first half of these lectures to accom- 

 modate not only the steamers from the 

 China Coast, but the Pacific Mail and 

 Great Northern liners as well, so that 

 tourists will be able to gain accurate in- 

 formation regarding the resources of 

 the Philippines in authoritative and 

 attractive form, 



It is proposed in these lectures to tak, 

 up the great resources of the Philippines, 

 not only those already being developed, 

 but the great potential resources as well, 

 so that not only the stranger but the 

 dweller in Manila will receive a resume 

 of the accurate inlormation that the 

 Bureau of Science has been gathering 

 for years. These lectures, experts say, 

 will be of great practical importance, in 

 that they will set forth the commercial 

 side of every topic and give the business- 

 man a closer and, at tfhat, a more com- 

 prehensive view of the materials of 

 commerce in the Archipelago. 



Not only have special invitations been 

 extended to the China Coast business- 

 men, but the four Chambers of Commerce 

 of Manila have given most cordial invi- 

 tations to attend all of these lectures, as 

 it is the desire of the Manila Merchants' 

 Association that businessmen— Filipino, 

 Chinese and European— share in the 

 benefits to be derived. 



The Empire theatre has been made 

 available for these lectures through the 

 generosity of the manager, Mr, Bert 



