Foreign Trade of the United States.

(Compiled from the Report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor.) EXPORTS.

MERCHANDISE AND SPECIE EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1906.

MERCHANDISE AND SPECIE IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1906.

Sugar

8,686,965 Molasses, and Syrup...

8,157,211 Tobacco, Unmanufactured.

lbs. .Kalls.

66,574,881

1,490,797

22,481,530

2, 52,355

.ibs.

22,175,845

312,227,202

Manufactures of.

31,751,375 Vegetables.

FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES-Continued..

VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE, 1880-1906.

The imports and exports of specie are not included in the above table.

VALUE OF IMPORTS INTO AND EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF MERCHANDISE, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1906.

FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES-Continued.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AT PRINCIPAL PORTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Boston and

87,804,492

Baltimore....$21,181,239 $30,0 4,653

Charlestown 100,317,881 106,442,077

$91,215,058 $109,925,046 New York... $679,6.9,256 $734,350,823 $524,726,005 8601,160,51 Norfolk an

780,231 7,654,8101 12,027,21

386,4 7

15,342,265 18,44 !!

60,180,9 1

1,053,684

Galveston....

4, 92.361

5,018,-76 125,182,043 165,317,652 Puget Sound] 4.851,328 18,075,056 21,124,380 San Fran.... New Orleans. 33,933.298 39,454,992 150,936,947 150,479,326 Savannah. N'wp'rt News 2,154,6:0 2,6 0,317)

7,378,328

13,614,438

15,773,353 20,119,831 Wilm'n, NC,

GROWTH OF UNITED STATES EXPORTS.

62,244,837 64.839,55

503,3851 17,481,566 15,465,92

1,488,692

1,503,069

437,242

DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES BY GREAT CLASSES.

FISCAL YEAR

ENDING JUNE 30.

MINING.

TOTAL EXPORT
OF DOMESTIC
MERCHANDISK.

Values.

MANUFACTURES.

Per Cent.

Values.

Per Cent.

1850.

$256,560,972

81.13

$999,465

.31

$40,345,892

12.76

$316,242,423

COMMERCE WITH CUBA, PORTO RICO, HAWAII, AND THE PHILIPPINES.

EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES TO

IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM

Cuba.

Porto Rico.

Hawaii. Philippines. Cubt.

Porto Rico.

Hawaii.

Philippines

Building and Loan Associations.

THE following statistics of local Building and Loan Associations in the United States were reported at the annual meeting of the United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations held at Cincinnati, O., July 25-26, 1906. The returns are for 1905-06:

The following was the statement of receipts and expenditures by local associations in 1905: Receipts: Weekly dues, $153, 103, 440; paid-up stock. $15,434, 048; deposits, 31,799,824; loans repaid, $129,189,184; interest, $36,874,320; premium, $2,926, 784; fines, $473,760; pass books and initiation, $789, 600; borrowed money, $37,363,872; real estate sold, $6,927,424; miscellaneous receipts, $13,138,944; total, $428,621,200.

Disbursements: Pass book loans, $12, 122, 992; mortgage loans, $173,922,560; stock withdrawals, $139,064,352: paid-up stock withdrawals, $15,597,232; deposit withdrawals, $27,409,648; expenses, 5.558,784; borrowed money, $36,111.040: interest, $1,194,928; real estate purchased, $4.105,920; miscellaneous, $11,812,416; total, $426,899,872.

The officers of the League, elected at the annual meeting of 1906, are as follows: President, Chas.. F. Bentley, Grand Island, Neb.; First Vice-President, J. N. C. Shumway, Taylorsville, Ill.; Second Vice-President, W. G. Weeks, New Iberia, La. ; Third Vice-President, B. H. Jones, Boston, Mass.; Treasurer, Joseph K. Gamble, Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary, H. F. Cellarius. Cincinnati, Ohio; Assistant Secretary, Jay W. Sutton, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

In 1893 there were 240 national building and loan associations in the United States, with total assets of $37,020,366. Since that date this class of associations has greatly decreased in numbers, On Jan. 1, 1906, they were approximately sixty in number, with estimated assets of $20,000,000.

Production of Coal.

AREA OF THE WORLD'S COAL-FIELDS, IN SQUARE MILES.

CHINA and Japan, 200,000; United States, 194,000; India, 35,000; Russia, 27.000; Great Britain, 9,000; Germany, 3,600; France, 1, 800; Belgium, Spain, and other countries, 1,400. Total, 471,800.

The coal-fields of China, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, and India contain apparently 303,000,000,000 tons, which is enough for 450 years at present rate of consumption. If to the above be added the coal-fields in the United States, Canada, and other countries, the supply will be found ample for 1,000 years. Improved machinery has greatly increased the yield per miner, and thus produced a fall in price to the advantage of all industries.

The production of the principal countries in 1905 in metric tons of 2,205 pounds was: United States, 352,694,110; United Kingdom, 239, 888,928; Germany, () 173,663,774; Austria-Hungary, (a) 40,725,000; France, 36,048,264; Belgium, 21.844,200; Russia, 17,120,000; Japan, 11.895.000; Australasia, 8,255,250; India, 7,921,000; Canada, 7,959,711; Spain, (a) 3,199.911; Sweden, 331,500; South Africa, 3,218,500; Italy, 307,500; all other countries, (b) 4,550,000; total, partly estimated, 929, 622, 648 metric tons. (a) Including lignite. (b) Estimated. COAL PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1905 (TONS OF 2,000 POUNDS).

Imports of coal into the United States fiscal year 1906 in long tons: Anthracite, 36.708; bituminous (mostly from British America), 1,820,687. (e) Estimated. (f) Fiscal year ending June 30.

Anthracite.

60,503
24.000

$181,509 $3.00

78,000 3.25

78,647,020

178,528,735 2. 27

*Production is for calendar year preceding the fiscal year. + Export statistics for the fiscal years ending June 30. Residuum-tar, pitch, and all other from which the light bodies have been distilled. In 1898 this amounted to 19,973,604 gallons, In 1899 to 30,663,988 gallons, in 1900 to 16,629,186 gallons, in 1901 to 25,696,596 gallons, in 1902 to 30,309,510 gallons, in 1993 to 21,715,720 gallons, in 1904 to 22,550,570 gallons, in 1905 to 75,031,821 gallons.

The above is compiled from the Report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department.

Over 5,000,000,000 gallons of petroleum, according to the office of the Geological Survey, are now produced annually in the world. Of this amount 2,500,000,000 are produced in the United States, 2,250,000,000 in Russia, and the remaind r is distributed among a dozen countries, Austria producing $7,000,000; Sumatra, 72,000,000; Java, 30,000,000; Canada, 29,000,000; Germany, 15,000,000. The United States exported $75,612,000 and Russia $23,676,000 worth of mineral oil in 1990.

Production of Copper, Tin, and Zinc.

THE production of copper in the world in 1905, stated in long tons, was as follows: United States, 389,122; Spain and Portugal, 44,810; Chile, 29,165; Japan, 35,910; Germany, 22, 160; Mexico, 68,907; Australasia, 36,560; South Africa, 7.325; total of the world, 689,277 tons.

The copper production of the United States in 1905, in long tons, was distributed as follows: Alaska,2,100; Arizona, 99, 494; California, 5,844; Colorado, 4,399; Idaho, 2,9 2; Michigan, 97,768; Moutana, 142, 491; New Mexico, 2,517; Utah, 23,192; Wyoming, 1,068; Southern States, 6, 655; other States, 692; total productions, 389.122.

The production of tin in the world in 1905, in long tons, was as follows: England, 3,857; Straits Settlements, 56,847; Australasia, 5,028; Bauka and Billiton, 12,675; Bolivia, 12,500; United States, none; total, 92, 607 long tons.

The production of zinc in the world in 1905, in metric tons, was as follows: Austria, 9,210; Belgium, 143, 165; France, 44,075; Germany, 198, 208; Holland, 13, 550; Italy, -; Russia, 7,520; Spain, 5.500; United Kingdom, 50, 125; United States, 183,014; total, 654,367.

The statistics of Production of Coal, Copper, Tiu, and Zinc, and those of Pig Iron and Steel, which follow, were compiled for THE WORLD ALMANAC by E. K. Judd, of The Mineral Industry.”

Production of Pig Iron and Steel

IN PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES IN METRIC TONS.