Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — A Record Breaking Year. [ARTICLE]

A Record Breaking Year.

in an article on the “Turning of the Tide,” in trade, printed in the North American Review. Mr. Worthington C. Ford, chief of the Federallßureau of Stitistics.ponits out that our exports of iron for 1895 have broken th 3 record, as in the case of copper. In 1891 they reached $30,000,000, and in 1895 have exceeded that fi ure by sl,000,000, while in 1882, a year which had not since be -n exceeded, they amounted to only $20,000,000. These exports ccnsist largely of manufactures of iron and steel, the most desirable goods to sell abroad, as they represent the product of the highest class ot skilled labor. There is no doubt at all that with due diligent e our record of manufactured exports in any line of production might easily be broken within the next twelve months.— But even if we do not at once realize all our opportunities, it is something to have madi in a k single year such great gains in the exports of the two leading metals. two cargoes of iron have been shipped from Ohi J to England during the last few months. Our he aviest exports of copper: revious to 1894 were 56,000,000 pounds, For the fiscal year ending July Ist, 1895 146,000,000 pounds were 1 exported.