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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
OUR COMMERCE 
TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES WITH ITS NONCON¬ 
TIGUOUS TERRITORIES, 1910 
Trade of the United States with its noncontiguous territories 
aggregated two hundred million dollars in the calendar year, 1910, 
against one hundred million in the calendar year, 1903, the first year 
for which complete statistics of this trade are available. The 
figures of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and 
Labor, just completed, show the total value of this trade in the year 
ending December 31, 1910, to be $202,494,343, and in the year end¬ 
ing December 31, 1903, $100,107,234, an increase of 100%, while the 
trade with other parts of the world was increasing about 40%. The 
territories in question are Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philip¬ 
pines, Guam, Tutuila and the Midway Islands. 
The value of the merchandise shipped from the territories in 
question to the United States in 1910 was $111,731,031, against 
$61,876,756 in 1903. The value of the merchandise shipped from 
the United States to the noncontiguous territories was $90,763,312, 
against $38,230,478 in 1903. The increase in the period from 1903 
to 1910 was thus 82% in the value of merchandise shipped from the 
territories in question to the United States; and 139% in the value 
of merchandise shipped from the United States to those territories. 
The above figures do not include movements of gold and silver. 
The value of domestic gold shipped from Alaska to the United States 
in 1910 was in round terms 15 million dollars, and of foreign gold 
(presumably from British territory adjacent to Alaska) approxi¬ 
mately 3 >2 million dollars; while the value of domestic gold shipped 
from Hawaii to the United States in 1910 was about one-half million 
dollars. 
The principal articles forming this trade of more than 200 million 
dollars between the United States and its noncontiguous territories 
are in general terms tropical products sent from those islands to the 
United States, and fish, copper, and furs from Alaska, while of ship¬ 
ments from the United States to these territories manufactures and 
foodstuffs are the principal articles. Sugar and hemp are the 
principal articles coming from the Philippines, and as already 
indicated, fish, copper, and furs are the principal articles coming 
from Ala.ska. The quantity of sugar sent from Hawaii to the 
United States in the calendar year 1910, was a little over one billion 
pounds, valued at 39^2 million dollars; from Porto Rico, 626 million 
pounds, valued at 26 million dollars; and from the Philippines, 218 
million pounds, valued at %% million dollars. Tobacco is also an 
article of some importance in the shipments of merchandise from the 
tropical islands to the United States, amounting to 1X million dol¬ 
lars of unmanufactured tobacco and a little less than five million 
dollars in value of cigars from Porto Rico; a little less than two 
million dollars worth of cigars, cigarettes and cheroots from the 
Philippines, and about nine thousand dollars worth of tobacco from 
the Hawaiian Islands. Manila hemp from the Philippines in 1910 
amounted to about 8 = million dollars in value. Fruits and nuts 
(chiefly fruits) from Hawaii amounted to 2>2 million dollars in value; 
from Porto Rico a little less than two million; and from the Philip¬ 
pines the shipments under this general head (chiefly cocoanut meat, 
broken, or “copra”) amounted to a iittle over one-half million 
dollars. 
From Alaska the principal articles shipped to the United States 
were fish, chiefly salmon to the value of 111 million dollars; furs, 
about one-half million; copper ore about one-fourth million. 
The principal articles shipped to the territories in question, are, 
as already indicated, manufactures and foodsttxffs. To Hawaii the 
group “Cars, carriages, etc.” amounts to about one million dollars, 
of which about three-foiirths is automobiles; cotton manufactures, 
nearly two million dollars; iron and steel manufactures, 3 ^ mil¬ 
lion; leather and manufactures thereof, more than one-half 
million; mineral oils, IX^niHion; paper, and manufactures there¬ 
of one-half million; tobacco manufactures, one-half million; 
manufactures of wood (chiefly lumber) \% million; breadstulfs, 
1 Vi, million, and meats, three-fourths of a million. 
To Porto Rico the principal articles were cars and carriages, one 
million dollars in value, of which automobiles formed a little more 
than one-third; cotton manufactures, 4j million; iron and steel 
rrianufactures, 4^2 million; leather and manufactures thereof, over 
one million; mineral oils, one-half million; paper and manufactures 
thereof, over one-half million; soaps, nearly one-half million; 
manufactures of silk, one-third of a million; manufactures of wood, 
IX million; breadstuffs, practically six million dollars, and meats, 
3 yi million. 
To the Philippines the principal articles shipped were cars and 
carriages over one-half million dollars in value, of which more than 
two-thirds was automobiles; cotton manufactures, 4j million; 
against‘l| million in 1909; manufactures of iron and steel, four mil¬ 
lion; leather and manufactures thereof, nearly one million; paper 
and manufactures thereof, more than one-half million; manufac¬ 
tures of wood (chiefly lumber) over one-half million; mineral oils 
over a million; breadstuffs, IX million, and meats one-half million. 
To Alaska the principal articles shipped were iron and steel 
manufactures, 4X million dollars in value; wood and manufactures 
thereof, three-fourth of a. million; mineral oils three-fourths of a 
million; tobacco, one-half million; vegetables, one-half million; 
woolen manufactures over one-half million; cotton manufactures, 
over one-half million; explosives, nearly one-half millions; eggs 
nearly one-half millions; breadstuffs, three-quarters million, and 
meat and dairy products, over two million dollars in value. 
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