New-York tribune., 1875-08-31
WASHINGTON.
AMERICAN INTERESTS ABROAD.

AMERICAN INTERESTS ABROAD.
FURTHER OF WHAT OUR CoNsULs sAY-AMERIcAS
COTTON AND LOCOMOTIVES IN RUssIA-AMERr-
cas- SHARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN
COAL FIELDs-AvERsIOS 70 OUR RAILWAY sE-
CURITIEs-TURKEYs TRADE WITH THE NATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O.-Ihe following are
additional extracts the reports Of our Consu which
embodied In the volume OF the BUREAU u ''A
tistcs:
OUR LOCOMOTIVES IN RUSSIA.
From Russia report is made IN regard 10 American io
comotives follows The first ten locomotives were m
ported 20 St Petersburg in 1872 from the Badwih LOCO
motive Works OF Philadelphia followed by twenty more
from the firm, and last Summer MY more "s'e
contracted for at the Factory In New-forK Inc
great moment of this incipient trade VIII be apparent
from the fact that there is an immense neu mere oi
for their import for many generations 10 coe' Tue Ia
road lines to Russia having just begun 10 oe'eiop on
greater scale those operation hardly pa1nihs 10 %
600 English miles up this day The sha ,
heretofore built in Russia, ~ the rate OF IoV W l-o o
year, also those imported from Germany IN s an an
Belgium were all built for consumption oI Woou 10, icl
till the agent OF the Philadelphia urn hau pfoueh. VI.
attention Of the consuming departments 10 VIC o.
the town Of Worenesk in southern Russia extending
$50 miles, and that whole region5 VIZ fcnt -
feed the locomotives Of the whole continent Ine neI
can locomotives finally accepted ana ID % n
heng expressly built FOR coal consumption ohy nav
led Russian capital TO the deyeoIJner OF the now qu
numerous coal mines In the district nape'i D a a
vl " .e % nrer rnaranteed 10 haul level 1075
TONS in lieu of those heretofore IN use n.uiis o 80 80
IN 700 tons they are much preferred as tle heeF Pfcc
paid for them namely, $4,000 silver ruDi,s, - -
stead Of 900 10 10000 silver ru1Ies po ii;ate
brourbt i'm from Germany and Austria Woulu lhulcae
1xcprAsFD SALE OF AMERICAN COTTON IN RUSSIA.
Concernine imports OF American cotton to Russia re
mort IA made "A follows The total value OF American
cotton brought to Cronstadt during the year enung sept
g. 1874 amounted 10 sl5,3s5lo3, anu tna' Vi co''on
brought to Reva S10S64OOO, giving tosether 'he US
gta -gQ From e.
ment # will be perceived also that the total imports 10
Reyal ia - American vessels amounted dur
inc the three wears of s73 10 while that
brought By 900 foreign vessels ainouhcu W W
The Total value OF imports to these two ports IN Aneichh
and foreign yessels Ia 1S72 amounted To SSoOO,oOo,
(mOst OF which being cotton that IN 1870 ouuo W
81 O2O 569 and that imported in ls4 reache the I'M
yrecented sum OF r26 23l. VIII this rapid increase
n fhe iports of the cotton 10 Russia tiil con
th me- ~ fitnre will decide II would seem. however,
that the impetus given or late years 20 RUSSIAN cVt
enhanced by the markets Russian cotton goods are
ndng outside OF their own far extending eas-i those
Asatc territories lately annexed to their country a.
Also I'm 1okand Kashgar and other neghboring Asiatc
nations having treaties Of annuity, friendship, and COM
Fast india as is well known. cannot compete with tho
Russian article. The subjects being connected with tue
chief article Of American import ~ THIS country Ia de
serving an earnest study.
DIsrRUsT or OUR RAILWAY SECURITIES.
consul writes further from Switzerland: " American
Government securities largely held in Switzerland
and American railway bOnls are almost disappearing
from the market All confidence in the latter securities
lost is il much 10 surprise one, when 1t Is renen
bered that foreign capital tO the amount OF hundreds OF
millions OF dollars Is lying III American railway Dohls
ana drawing cent OF interest investors neIe
have lost faith 80 much IN thc resources ol l1'o
they have IN the common honesty ana uprgLInss "
the managers OF American roads; ana DOUBT very ic
II sufficient money could he borrowed IN -wtZer.hu ~
day to build a single nile Of Amer can railway iAsIe
au abundlTce ~ -Oncy acre u rh Dul lh'se huiIis
II ar dlsoOura- 81 iron Investing III ouT runway
securities"