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NOVEMBER 7, I9OI. THE MARINE: RECORD. EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES. The interest felt by the great manufacturing and ex- porting.countries of the world in the growth of exports from the United States and their invasion of new, fields .is illustrated by. a recent official report of the British Com- mercial Agent at Chicago, in which he discusses the export tirade of the United States for the last fiscal year., A copy “of this report has just reached the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. “The trade returns,” says Mr. E. Seymour Bell, the author of.the report, “show evidence Of a considerable increase ‘in, exports to Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indies... ‘There are many indications that an attempt is about to be made'to capture the trade of South America. Shipping facilities are heing improved, though slowly, and every effortis being made to draw more.close the commercial relations of the two American continents. Particular attention is being paid to the needs of buyers and the conditions of trade are being closely studied. Everything that ‘can give Satisfaction to bpyers is being done. Close: attention is given to packing: of goods, and price lists are circulated in} Spanisn with, in many cases, prices: quoted in the) currént.coin. of the country per 100 kilos. The advantage of this to the customers cannot be leading newspapers of Chicago and New York, in which the statistics of the export trade for the last. fiscal year are presented, and especially those showing the growth of ex- ports to South America and those showing the establish- overestimated.” The report then quotes extracts from ment of new steamship lines to operate along the Pacific coast of North and -South America, and, adds: “The States onthe Pacific Coast have chieflv: benefited by the in- crease of trade with South America. The new steamships trading between Pacific ports of South America and Pa- cific ports of the United States, due perhaps to the new in- terests acquired in the Pacific Ocean, greatly facilitate the trade between the several countries. The development of railways in Venezuela, Colombia, and Argentina, often with American capital, has also “reatly aided the expansion. In _all probability this increase will continue, esnecially if the, plans of certain American investors’ are carried out. The whole of South America only takes about three per cent. of the.total exports of the United States, but thev are in- creasing. ‘‘The increases in trade with Chile is considéred particularly gratifying, as it was unexpected. Chile is rec- ognized as one of the most prosperous and most progressive: countries in South America, and it is expected to haye a great future. ‘I'he desire to increase trade with’ South America is very Keen, and there is probably no part of the world where greater efforts are being made to obtain a supremacy. Not only has the trade been very small, but in most cases the South American Republics have been sell- ing to the United States more than they have been buying. Particular attention is being called to the trade in cotton goods. ‘That the United States should have only sold in 1900 to Mexico, Central and South America cotton goods of the value of $3,605,269, while the United Kingdom sold to these same countries similar goods of the value of $38,- 007,564 causes amazement, taking into consideration the fact that the United States sold to the United Kingdom raw cotton worth about $100,000,000. I merely mention this in order to indicate an important line of goods where severe competition may be expected.” ‘The report also discusses the growth of the export trade from the United States to Japan which, it says, “is becom- ing an important country for American goods.” The report then quotes tables showing the total imports of Japan and the total from the United States and United Kingdom, re- spectively, at. quinquennial periods from 1881. It shows that the imports into Japan from the United States has -risen from 1,781,108 yen in 1881 to 62,761,196 yen in 1900; and that the imports into Japan from the United Kingdom have onlv grown from 16,364,740 yen in 1881 to 71,638,219 yen in 1¢00. Thus‘ the United States exports to Japan were in 19¢co-more than 35 times as large as in 1881, while those - of the United ‘Kingdom to Jaen were less than 5 times as ‘large as in 188r. Commenting upon this penoieal growth in the ex- ports from the United States, Mr. Commercial Agent Bell says: “If we make a comparison between the quantities of: certain merchandise exported this year with those exported the year previous manv a useful lesson may be learned. “After reviewing the growth of exports of manufactures in | leading articles, he says: “That the United Kingdom’ makes such a poor showing in competition with the United . States is due entirely to the use of more perfect and.imore economical machinerv in ‘this country,» By improvements in methods of manufacture and close attention to the wants of buyers, there should be‘no difficulty in competing with the United States. As regards heavy steel goods such as rails, structural material, etc.; the abundance and cheap- ness. of raw material in the United States makes competi- tion more difficult. For finished articles such as machinery, etc., it is more a question of é«conomy of manufacture and design than in the first cost of material: In this country of, high wages and in manv cases long railway carriage, the only way to be able to compete. with other countries is, to cut down expenses as much as possible by the use of labor-saving machinery and general economy. — If this is possible i in America it ought to be equally taeda in other competing countries.” ; ee / Mr. A. E. Lang is greatly pleased with the silver medal given at Buffalo, N. Y., to the Wheeler Condenser & En- gineering Co. for their Admiralty surface condenser, with combined air and circulating pump. THE CHase Machine ComPany,| ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS. MANUFACTURERS, UNDER THE CHASE PATENTS, OF JOHN DONNELLY, SR., Paes. JOHN DONNELLY, JR. Fog Whistle Machines, Hoisting Engines, Steering Engines Automatic Towing Engines, Power and Drop Hammers, and other Machinery. Engineers’. 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