Part 10

1912 ═════════════════════════════╤══════════════╤════════════ Description │ Pounds │ Value ─────────────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────── Corkwood ................... │ 17,928,000 │ $528,810 Cork squares ............... │ 1,492,000 │ 356,229 Corks mfrd.} │ │ {7,864,299 Cork waste } ............... │ 100,396,000 │ { 754,848 Other mfrs.................. │ 1,166,000 │ 49,783 │ ─────────── │ ────────── │ 120,982,000 │ $9,553,969 │ │ ═════════════════════════════╧══════════════╧════════════

The following is a comparison of the first six months of 1909, 1910 and 1911.

1909 ═════════════════════════════╤══════════╤═══════════ Articles │ Tons │ Value ─────────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────── Corkwood ................... │ 1,686 │ $158,644 Cork squares ............... │ 262 │ 129,646 Corks ...................... │ 2,624 │ 2,361,620 Cork waste and shavings .... │ 9,589 │ 172,604 Cork, other manufactures ... │ 211 │ 25,987 │ │ ═════════════════════════════╧══════════╧═══════════

1910 ═════════════════════════════╤══════════╤═══════════ Articles │ Tons │ Value ─────────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────── Corkwood ................... │ 3,157 │ $255,718 Cork squares ............... │ 485 │ 240,057 Corks ...................... │ 3,629 │ 3,265,760 Cork waste and shavings .... │ 13,935 │ 205,822 Cork, other manufactures ... │ 251 │ 27,133 │ │ ═════════════════════════════╧══════════╧═══════════

1911 ═════════════════════════════╤══════════╤═══════════ Articles │ Tons │ Value ─────────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────── Corkwood ................... │ 5,129 │ $415,432 Cork squares ............... │ 442 │ 218,755 Corks ...................... │ 4,057 │ 3,669,075 Cork waste and shavings .... │ 18,143 │ 326,573 Cork, other manufactures ... │ 248 │ 32,657 │ │ ═════════════════════════════╧══════════╧═══════════

The statistics showing the shipments to various countries are for 1909:

══════════════╤════════╤═════╤══════╤══════╤═════╤════════ │ │ │ │Cork │Cork │ │ │ │ │Waste │ in │ Countries │Corkwood│Cork │Corks │ and │Other│ Total │ │Sqs. │ │Shav. │Forms│ ──────────────┼────────┼─────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────── │ Tons │Tons │ Tons │ Tons │Tons │ Tons United States │ 2,065 │ — │ 158 │ 7,594│ 280 │ 10,097 Great Britain │ 842 │ 4 │1,094 │ 7,539│ 38 │ 9,518 Germany ......│ 5 │ 18 │ 715 │ 4,555│ — │ 5,293 France .......│ 1,256 │ 276 │2,044 │ 189│ 56 │ 3,821 Italy ........│ 6 │ 79 │ 435 │ 11│ — │ 532 Belgium ......│ 164 │ — │ 136 │ 215│ 11 │ 526 Russia .......│ 463 │ — │ 1 │ — │ — │ 464 Aust─Hungary │ — │ 30 │ 346 │ — │ — │ 376 Argentina ....│ 164 │ 123 │ 57 │ — │ — │ 344 Other ........│ 40 │ 7 │ 426 │ 95│ 9 │ 575 ├────────┼─────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼──────── Total ........│ 5,005 │ 537 │5,412 │20,198│ 394 │ 31,546 │ │ │ │ │ │ ══════════════╧════════╧═════╧══════╧══════╧═════╧════════

AMERICAN INDUSTRY

In 1899, there were 62 factories in the United States of varying sizes and located in the following states: New York (Brooklyn), Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Ohio. Employing 2340 wage earners. Importing a raw stock of $2,404,000, and making products valued at $4,392,000.

In 1904, the factories decreased to 50 in number, the wage earners increased to 2895, the imported raw material to $2,459,197 and the products to $4,490,952.

In 1909, the factories increasing again to 62 in number, the wage earners to 3142, the imported raw material to $3,435,000 and the products to $5,940,000: corks selling from 3 cents to 40 cents per pound.

This of course does not appear to be a very extensive business, but the nature of the commodity will readily convince that the money figures are not at all in comparison to the bulk of corkwood, for it would really seem that if the trade should increase to an amount sufficient to vie with other prominent ones, the ships would be at loss how to stow the other freight. The imports of corkwood into this country and the exports, for comparison, may be seen in the following tables:

IMPORTS

January │ Seven Months ending January │ 1912 1913 │ 1911 1912 1913 │ Corkwood, Free: │ $450,082 $367,884 │ $2,265,373 $1,849,550 $1,707,164 Corks mfrd., Dutiable: │ $181,252 130,580 │ 1,380,109 1,137,504 1,180,816 │

EXPORTS

│ Seven Months ending January │ January │ 1912 1913 │ 1912 1913 │ Corkwood, Free: $1,518 $1,195 │ $19,795 $22,393 Corks mfrd., Dutiable: 209 1,086 │ 3,078 2,170 │

And the periods ending December, 1913 will be of interest also.

IMPORTS

December │ Twelve Months ending December │ 1912 1913 │ 1911 1912 1913 │ Corkwood, Free: │ $300,253 $468,937 │ $3,819,651 $3,182,131 $3,616,177 Corks mfrd., Dutiable: │ $164,711 194,457 │ 2,070,672 2,440,399 2,370,527 │

EXPORTS

│Twelve Months ending December │ December │ 1912 1913 │ 1912 1913 │ Corkwood, Free: $2,960 — │ $34,404 $25,091 Corks mfrd., Dutiable: — $8,335 │ 5,552 5,392 │

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=American Institute of Chemical Engineers.= Transactions. 8vo. cloth. Issued annually. Vol. I., 1908, to Vol. VI., 1913, now ready. each, =net, $6.00=

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=ASCH, W., and ASCH, D. The Silicates in Chemistry and Commerce.= Including the exposition of a hexite and pentite theory and of a stereo-chemical theory of general application. Translated, with critical notes and additions, by Alfred B. Searle. Illus. 6-3/4 x 10. cloth. 476 pp. =net, $6.00=

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