New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-28
THE BRAZILIAN TRADE.

Prepared for the Trade Journal by James Fry
Mogridge.
The New Orleans ana Rio Janeiro Steam
ship Company" in connection with the Hi
nois Central railroad and the Mississippi
Valley Transportation Company, have or
ganized. under a charter granted by the
State of Louisiana, with the view of form
ing a semi-monthly line OF steamships to
ply between New Orleans and Rio Janeiro
touching each way at the intermediate
ports between these terminil OF Jamaica
Trinidad, Para, Msranham, Pernambucc
and Bahia. Capital stock, g., 100000 Shares
800 each.
In 1873 the United States purchased OF
Brazil coffee to the amount of 81 ,S59,Sl
and cold to Brazil only about SlO,O0O,O00 in
produce and manufactures, and OF course
had to pay the balance in gold. The pro
voking part of this is that this gold is sent
to England, and is there invested in many
of the very goods We ought to land cam
supply to Brazil ourselves. Among other
items, England buys our wheat, manutac-
lures it into -four, aud then sends it 20
Brazil. Brazil is increasing an immense
market for all our surplus produce and
manufactures, while we require in advanc-
ing ratio all her products; especially her
coffee, contra our -four. Brazil is one of
the most progressive countries in South
America. Over 32,000,000 of people ara
waiting in the Mississippi valley and the
empire of Brazil to mutually aid and advan-
tage themselves by the opening OF this di-
rect steamship line, via New Orleans and
Rio.
In 1874, of the importatiors into Brazil,
England furnished forty-six per cent,
France seventeen per cent, and the United
States five per cent; and OF the expectations
out of Brazil, England took but nine per
cent France five per cent, and the United
States iorty-six per cent!
Commodities seek exchange, for the most
part, across lines of latitude, in regions
where the products are dissimilar. An i'm
mense amount Of the imports of Brazil are
of such articles, produce or merchandise. as
are produced at the West, and in which,
with proper facilities for direct trade, the
West should enjoy the monopoly-contra
the rivalry and opposition OF the whole
commercial world.
Each nation or country, from its climate
and soil, has essentially and exactly, in
Overlooking abundance, what the other re.
quirea, needs, uses and consumes. Bra
lillian merchants are tired of patrOnizing
the slow and uncertain mode of transporta-
ton by sailing vessels, and are not only
eager for the desirable change to steam,
but are shrewdly calculating the reduction
of rates on Western products via New Or
leans, by which the various profits and
charges via New York and Baltimore,
tackled on to the original cost of each arti-
Gle, will be materially lessened and saved.
Brazil depends ON foreigners for nearly all
it's breadstuffs and other produce and manu-.
features, and the Mississippi valley pro-
duces an overplus of just the articles they
must have, do consume and absolutely need
in repayment for their coffee, hides. sugar
caoutchouc and other tropical productions.
COFFEE.
In regard to the Brazil coffee trade with
the United States, New York Is, at this hour
the largest receiver-the total importations
into the United States from Rio alone,
during 1874, were l ,52l ,499 bags, and the
larger part of this eonsumptiye demand
being from the Western States, 1t is reason
able to infer that this direct steamship line
will direct this trade back again to the port
of New Orleans, whereby the Western and
Southern consumer will avoid the expensive
charges of Eastern railroad lines OF trans
portation, the payment of unnecessary mid
dlemen, and loss OF time, the New Orleane
market supplying this very coffee at less
rates of cost and expenses of transportation
than it . is possible for New York
or Baltimore to compete with. In
1872 New Orleans received from Rio
224,948 bags, and the coffee trade is
ever on the increase with the rise of the
to the shores Of the Pacific and the outposts
of Mexico-snd this direct trade is all to
the pecuniary advantage Of the consumers
In both American hemispheres, whether il
be coffee in tho Mississippi valley or flour in
Brazil. In 1859, even when the great West
had . population almost one-third (if not
quite) less than at present, New Orleans
imports of Rio coffee exceeded by 2l9, 9i9
bags those Of 1872, and there can be no
doubt but that for the war the coffee trade
between New Orleans and Brazil-aye, all
South America-would have been to-day
what It was in those palmy days Of old.
In 1856 New Orleans imported 1884,
bags Of Rio coffee; in 1867, 444,669; In
Whils n this latter year all other United
Stats pogts Imported only 81, 525 bags Of