The Foreign Carrying Trade of the Port of New York and of the United States.

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1911.

The following statement exhibits the value of Merchandise and of Gold and Silver in Ore, Coin and Bullion Imported into, and Exported from, the Port of New York by American and Foreign Vessels, and by Land Vehicles, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, compared with all Ports of the United States for the same period:

MERCHANDISE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, 1870-1911.

FISCAL YEARS.

Of the United States and of the Port of New York. Does not include specie. Exports include foreign as well as domestic.

RECEIPTS OF GRAIN AND FLOUR AT NEW YORK.

CALENDAR YEARS 1886 TO 1911, INCLUSIVE,

RECEIPTS.

Yrs. Wheat

Bushels.

Corn
Bushels.

Oats Barley Rye
Bushels. Bushels. Bushels.

Grain Flour Flour*
Bushels. Barrels.

Bushels. 1886. 41,546,610 32,789.951 20.139.820 4.505,180 230,789 99,212,350 5,580.498 124.324.591 1887. 45,222,425 20.231.422 22,266,020 4,200,136 435,991 92,355,994 6.355,924 120.957.652 1888. 20,104,435 24,150,535 23,950,832 3,791.483 238,539 72.235,824 6,089,464 99,638.412 1889. 15,973,258 35,547,467 23,261,150 4.253.290 1.462.070 80.497,235 5.642.481 105,888,400 1890. 15,794,857 34,261,466 33,744,000 4,295,640 1,228,393 89,324,356 5,635,384 114.683,584 1891. 61,006,851 24,342.094 27,737,750 4.937,540 5,591.105 123,615,340 6,122,439 151,166,315 1892. 63,582.260 27,379,321 30,600,177 4,254,541 2,310,972 128,127,271 7,769,639 163,090,646 1893. 48,777,985 19.436.610 29,597.902 3.806.195 556.178 102,174.480 8,190,495 139,031,698 1894. 30,775,426 19.999,411 26,657,514 3.803.051 250.645 81,489.047 7,741.464 116,325,635 1895. 28,922,427 25,744,978 25,207.100 3.494.208 161,035 83,529,748 6,404.036 112.347,910 1896. 28,264,697 29,162,950 42.907,750 11.772,300 4,390,250 116,497,947 6,304,135 144,866,555 1897. 38,445.250 39,636,895 54,624,126 10.218,512 7.059.350 149.984.133 7,123,002 182,037,642 1898. 59.989,427 42,752,363 41,265,625 4,919,150 7,881,360 156,807.925 7,265,161 189.301,150 1899. 40,895,050 43,351,150 43,013,600 10,573,150 3,048,175 140,881.125 6,728,062 171.157,404 1900. 31,812,825 47,077,985 32,937,700 6,773,300 1,266,725 119,868,535 6,895,487 150,898.226 1901. 33,698,20€ 26,236,500 35,235,050 2,812.950 1,306,300 99.289,000 6,863,242 130,173,589 1902. 35,101,950 6,744,960 29,983,327 2,811,302 2,736,395 77,377.934 6,893,734 1903. 22,347,675 27,428,210 29.501,100 3.491,700 1,338,475 1904. 8,401,322 15,504,030 26,826,800 6,432,000 183,671 1905. 11,431,836 30,298,430 35,721,100 9,189,200 338.250 1906. 24,697,600 21,938,715 31,206,800 6,329,400 393,350 1907. 33,573,621 22,286,425 26,754,200 3.027,382 1,493,575 1908. 27,797,800 8,057,305 23,853,600 4,152.765 876,850 1909. 23,304.300 7.428,005 22,717,562 3,469,325 300.100 1910. 16,413,300 12,285,500 23,115,225 2,047,743 287.788 1911. 28.406,40) 16,061,358 24,650,510 3.888.717 301.997

108.399.737

84.110,160 7.686,338

118.698.681

57.347,823 6,379,498

86,055,564 86.978,816 6.436,028 115.940.942 84.565,865 6.260,724 112.739.123 87,135,203 6,509,359 116,427,317 64.738,320 7,393,843 98,010,612 57,219,292 7,069,142 89.030.428 54,149,556 8.098,007 90.590,585 73,308,982 8.304.334 110.678,485

* Flour reduced to its equivalent in wheat on basis of 44 bushels to barrel.

GRAIN (including Flour) RECEIPTS AT NEW YORK IN 1911, 1910 AND 1909 BY DIFFERENT ROUTES.

Philadelphia

Baltimore..

994,591 995,687 1,708.721 2.299.149
982.354 738.974 906.169 1,347,098 1,823.407 1,547.891 1,226.033

2.421.406

2,011,441

1,264.227

Newport News.

Norfolk

New Orleans...

679,156

Galveston...

375.894

Portland. Me..
Montreal...

177.988 130,584 140,308 507,083 646,865 772.497 605,758 64.982 44.200 86.710 324.038 360,111 440,451 68,679 572.801 550,858 602.838 475,655 996,825 311,854 354,590 471,048 351,354 403,921 15.487 19.074 37,417 63.899 65.528 34,510 6,588 1,509.583 1,074,574 1.062.904 746,073 861,936 703.211 538,307

567,398

147,663

This statement complied from tables published by the New York Produce Exchange shows that Philadelphia and Portland are the only ports whose exports of flour did not increase during the last year. New York's gain was very large. Its flour exports which declined from 3,025,701 barrels in 1904 and 3,219,968 barrels in 1908 to 2,898,962 in 1910 advanced to 3,507,628 in 1911. Montreal's increased from 840,005 barrels in 1904 and 746,073 in 1908 to 1,074,574 in 1910 and 1,509,583 in 1911.

Exports of wheat from New York in 1907 were 27,111,717 bushels, in 1908, 27,035,674, in 1909, 17,589,885 and in 1910 only 9,278,270 but jumped to 20,571,965 in 1911. Wheat exports from Montreal were 20,949,496 bushels in 1907, 27,405,024 in 1908, 25,004,491 in 1909, 20,089,558 in 1910 and only 17,718,723 in 1911.

NEW YORK AS AN INDUSTRIAL CENTER.

Most persons-even those living in New York-think of that city as the leading financial and commercial metropolis of the country. Comparatively few know that it is also the most important manufacturing center of the United States.

It has held this industrial supremacy during the past ten years in spite of the aggressive competition of its rivals East and West, their competition being sometimes aided by railroad tariffs. It has held it, moreover, in spite of those natural economic changes which inevitably result from the rapid development of the West and the South, and their transition from purely agricultural sections into territories both agricultural and industrial. These changes have made possible an increase in value of products in the five years from 1904 to 1909, in East North Central States of 44.6 against 26.4 in the preceding five years, of 40.4 per cent. in the West North Central against 32 per cent., and of 44.8 per cent. in the South Atlantic against 36.8; while in the Middle Atlantic States the increase has been 36.9 against 28.1; the increase of the entire United States in the same time being 39.7 against 29.7.

Yet the latest census figures demonstrate how well New York is maintaining her great industrial supremacy, in spite of all adverse forces both natural and artificial; and with the opening of the new barge canal, the removal of railroad differentials and the improvement of port facilities, all tending to reduce costs and expand transportation, the city may be able to make even a better showing in the next five to ten years.

As it is, with 5 per cent. of the population of the country, the City of New York has nearly 10 per cent. of the industrial establishments of the country, while the value of its products is almost 10 per cent. of the nation's. The added value in New York is nearly 11 per cent. of the country's.