TRADE DECLINE
IS REPORTED
FOR LAST YEAR
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The total commerce of Alaska for
1919 was valued at $109,652,239, a de
crease of $17,306,793 from the total of
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1918, according to the aiinual report
of the collector of customs for the
district of Alaska, which has just
been completed. The total for 1918
was $127,049,132.
The total exports from Alaska for
1919 were valued at $70,695,0S0, a de
crease from the previous year of
$14,728,488. The imports to the ter
ritory in 1919 were $38,957,259, a de
crease from 1918 of $2,668,305.
Explanatory and in review of the
year’s developments the report says:
, “While the record of the commerce
of Alaska for 1919 showed a contin
ued decline, being the smallest since
1915 in the total value of shipments
to and from the United States, the
situation disclosed is by no means
discouraging, and there are features
which carry the" pi’omise of better
conditions. The volume of commerce
is still very large, perhaps larger per
capita than that of any other section
of the world. The balance of trade
in favor of Alaska was more than
$31,000,000—approximately $1,000 for
each white man, woman and child in
the territory—indicating a very
healthy commercial and industrial
condition.
Immigration Shows Gain
The figures which tell of the com
ing and going to and from Alaska
show that the preponderance of emi
gration over immigration, which was
the marked feature of conditions in
1917 and 1918, has at last been stopped.
The balance was on the side of im
migration. The record shows that
during the calendar year 24,273 per
sons came to Alaska, while those de
parting numbered 23,902—a net gain
of 371. The record for 1917 was 23,030
arrivals and 31,259 departures, and
that for 1918 showed 19,040 arrivals
and 27,732 departures—a net IpSs in
two years of nearly 13,000.
“The shrinkage in the value of the
shipments to the United States for
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approximately fourteen and a half
million dollars, was due mostly to the
$7,951,000 decrease in copper ship
ments and the $6,495,000 decline in the
canned salmon shipments.
^ “The reduction in the value of the
canned salmon shipped from Alaska
in 1919 was due wholly to the fact
that the run of salmon last year in
practically all parts of the territory
was very light and the salmon pack
was the smallest it had been for five
years.
“The reduction in the quantity of
copper shipped from Alaska in 1919
was due to the collapse of the copper
market, early in the year, which caused
copper producers to curtail the pro
duction in Alaska as elsewhere in the
country for a considerable portion of
the year, and resulted in much lower
prices for the product. The year end
ed, however, with conditions more
satisfactory, and shipments approxi
mately up to the 1918 average. The
average monthly shipments for the
last two months of the year was
6,050,000 pounds, as against a monthly
average for 1918 of 6,137,000 pounds.
For six months of 1919 the average
monthly shipments amounted to 2,411,
•00 pounds, and in May the reached
the low level of 1,134,000 pounds. The
quantity of copper shipped during 1919
declined approximately 35 per cent
from 1918, and the value of the copper
shipped was approximately 44 per cent
less than the previous year.
The only really distressing feature
of the year’s business in Alaska is
that indicated by the continuing de
crease in the shipment of gold, due,
•f course, to continued decrease in
production. The cause for this is the
still prevailing labor shortage and the
| abnormally high cost of mining gold
without corresponding increase in the
value of the product. The vast areas
of unworked low-grade gold placer
fields and the great number of only
partly-developed lode properties, to
gether with new discoveries, suggest
that, with readjustments in the in
dustrial and economic world complet
ed, Alaska’s gold output will again be
gin to increase. Many of the low
grade placer mines, and also lode
mines, which were operated prior to
the war but were compelled to close
on account of the shortage of labor,
the constantly increasing cost of ma
terial and operating expense, and lack
of transportation facilities, are still
idle, and probably they will remain so Si
until conditions become stabile. $:
More Herring Fishing ;j;
“One of the most favorable indica- jii
tions of the year was the very satis
factory growth of the herring indus- •:<
try, shown in the marked increase of
the shipments of canned herring. The jj
experience of the year would seem to £
justify the contention of the governor |
and other authorities, that in the £
course of time the herring industry in %
Alaska will rival the salmon industry
in proportions.
“The increase in the importation of £
lurs from British Columbia, Yukon
territory and Siberia was due largely fci
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to the increased activity of the Alaska £
fur dealers, and partly compensated §
for the short catch of Alaska furs last &
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year. •:<
“The decrease in shipments from $
the United States to Alaska for 1919
from the record made in 1917 and §
1918 is explained by the fact that large £
enterprises begun before the war had :j:
been completed, and the materials en- •:<
tering into them delivered, the curtail
ment of work on the Alaska railroad, §
a decrease in building on account of *
the higher costs.
“The principal exports of Alaska
products to foreign countries are fol
lowing copper and other metals export
ed from Southeastern Alaska to Brit
ish Columbia for treatment, to wit:
“Tons of ore, 1,738^; copper con
tent, 359,711 lbs., value $67,986; gold,
352 oz., value $5,986; silver, 3.13 oz.,
value $3,132; platinum, 99 oz., value
$7,932; palladium, 177 oz.,’value $21,
324. Total value, $106,360.”
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Alaska Building 127 W. 27th St.
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market prices are paid on correct grading the day received. If de
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satisfactory, the Furs will be returned to you, transportation charges
prepaid. Ship by Insured Parcel Post or Express. Ship in a dry
condition. Always inclose an itemized list of contents with name and
address. All payments are made by check on the Seattle National
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Headquarters for Alaskans
Ted Taylor, formerly chief steward S. S. Alaska.
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