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

comes known that Rio coffee west of the
Alleghauies can be purchased via New Or
| leans cheaper than via New York or Balti.
more. The consumption OF coffee sugar and
other products OF Brazil is steadily increas-
| ing, yet there ia no c0rrespoL ding augmenta-
ton in the shipments of our Mississippi
valley agricultural or manufacturing pro-
| ducts in that direction.
| FLOUR.
The whole population of the kim dom of
Brazil, and all the adjoining republics and
States, import flour and other produce. and
| the surplus Mississippi valley -four, lard.
pork and other produce, can be protitab bly,
supplied to them at less rates, in less time
and in better order, and or better quality,
than they can procure from apy port or part
| of the world. At the present date the con-
sumption and trade demand, per annum,
OF American -four a. the following ports,
| at all of which this direct steamship line
will touch going and returning, are as fol-
lows:
Kingston, Jamaica, exceeds. ,.,......... 700 600
Port OF spain Trinidad, eXCeeds............ 100 900
Georgetown, Guiana, exceeds. ..-, 100 800
POI OF Brazil exceed 900
Brazil purchases all her flour for her
millions of population. In the article of
flour needed by Brazil for her whole popala-
ton. New York, Baltimore, Richmond and
| oven LuStouu INV uuubpoltZt iHlb ITAue
! and this prod ct originally and principally
comes from the great West. via ST Louis,
| Chicago and Milwaukee, when its natural!
| speediest and cheape't route is the Mssis-
| sippi river, via New Orleans to Rio and in
tetmediate porte. Ofiour produce alone, the
| Brazil consumption and trade demands at
| the different proposed ports of call aud dis
| tributiOn by this direct steampship line ex-
ceeds 100000 barrels per annnum, and this
| demand and consumption is ever on the in
| crease to supply only one third of which will
! T, quire asemi-lnOnthly steamer ct over 1000
tons freight capacity, leaving no room for
other Western produce and manufactures
At great cost on this bulky article (four)
we rail and water way, by lake and
| canal, our Western wheat to Baltimore and
Richmond and England to be milled shere
| thence shipped 10 Rio, instead of grinding
| it ourselves and shipping it literally from
| the very Mills direct To the wharves at Rio
| via New Orleans, with but single tran
shipment, and by which route wear and
tear, loss by attrition, storage, drayage.
| time, insurance, interest and commissions
at every place to the above cities, of the
many charges of and Oh the shipments are
| avoided.
In the following enumeration of produce
| and manufactures required by Brazil and
the Mississippi valley 1t will be noted the
only articles specially needed and required
ny anu llOu tdCu OlDtT dTt mentioned.
there are hundreds of millions of merchan-
disc imported to and from each country
from other sources of better advantage to
each section or not required by the Missis
sippi valley or Brazil to interchange or pur-
chase. For instance, cotton, etc from
Brazll-but no nation or port can supply
Brazil with Hour land other produce and
manufactures of the Mississippi valley of
better grade and at less rate than the Mis-
sissppi valley, via New Orleans can; and
Rio coffee by tho return steamships can be
supplied, in less time and at less rate. to
consumers of the article west of the Allie,
ghanies than via New York or Baltimore,
or from any other port on the globe The
West now consumes over $4,000 bags of
cotfee-and this -four and coffee trade will
be ever on the increase, and with the rise of
population in both hemispheres, this trade,
with all it's advantages should be controlled
and manipulated by the people and mer.
chants within the Mississippi valley.
The following are the ports between New
Orleans and Rio at which this direct steam
ship line proposes TO stop at, each way
when making a trip:
King ston, jamaica is the first port out
from New Orleans; it is about 1920 miles
from New Orleans and about 4052 miles
from Rio Janeiro. 1t lies about eighty
miles south of Cuba, aud is the principal
seaport of the island of Jamaica: it, has a
pOpuldJlOA VI ON6I ou,UUu ltb eXDOrC6 are
coffee, anatto, beeswax, bamboo canes, CO.
coanuts, ginger, pinento. hides, rum, sugar,
tortoise shells, tamarinds, logwood, fruits,
Lakewood for spars, yacca, mahogany,
fustic, ebony, satin and rosewOods, quassia,
nutmegs, quinquins, chinchOns, dra-
CONS blood, cOpal turtle oil, cacao, tonqua
bean, lignum VITAE, cochinea, aloes, spike
nard, indigo, canela. vanilla, liquorice root,
castor oil nuts, arrOwrOOt, pepper, cassia,
scammony, ialap, ipecacuanha, SIENNA, sage,
euphorbia, cloves, palm and cocoanut oils,
black and white ebony, etc. Its imports are:
Flour lover l00, 900 barrels annually, corn
meal, butter, lard, candles, vinegar, pork,
soap, turpentine, pitch, rOsin, tar, kerosene,
glassware, cOrdage, hops, corn, lumber,
slaves and hoops, shingles, hams, rye flour,
agricultural implements, tallow, potatoes,
onions, sugar pans, tobacco. cheese, bag
ing, pilOt-bread and crackers, furniture, ma
chlnery, grease, coal, bacon, apples, beef
$4,000 barrels annually, salr, celery
earthenware, cabbages, caulifowers, beets,
etc.. The Mississippi valley has special
need for all these exports, and the Missis-
sippi valley produces the imports needed
by Kingston.
Port of Spain, Trinidad, ia the second
port out OF New Orleans. 1t is about 20l0
miles from New Orleans, and 1862 miles
from Rio Janeiro. Trinidad ia one of the
British West India islands, and is situated
w Suo JUL VI Z aria, Oh tuo northern coast
OF Venezuela, and opposite (about twenty
miles) the north mouth of the river Orinoc0.
Port OF Spain, or Puerta d'Espana, on the
west side OF the island, is the capital and
principal seaport of Trinidad, and is also
the receiving and forwarding entrepot for
the trade, freight and travel of the river
OrinocO and its affluents (0ver 400 miles)
with their 10000 miles of uavigable waters
and area Extending from the Andes to the
Atlantic add from Brazil to the Caribbean
seal of 100000 square miles, The fol.
lowing list of exports and imports dis
| cover the natural opening of great
trade between the Mississippi valley, via
New Orleans and the island OF Trinidad. The
exports are sugar, coffee principally from
the Spanish main), socoannts, tropical
fruits, logwood, fustic, tumeric root,
pimsnto, ginger. hgnum-vita, black and
lasses, rum, tobacco leaf, cloves, nutmegs,
cinnamon, indigo, bitumen, cochineal sar.
saparilla, vanilla, c0pal, balsams, copsiba,
dye woods, red and golden cabinet woods,
dividivI, angostura bark, arrowro0t, palm
and cocoanut oils, white mangel, chiqui-
ehiqui, etc. Tho imports are -four, hame,
potatoes, onions, white, red and yellow
pine lumber, cotton, sugar and coffee bag
gng, butter, pilot bread and biscuits, bar
ley, corn, corn meal, soap, candles, kero-
eene. pitch, hope, glassware, cordage, corn
brooms, pals, corn starch, pork. bacon,
cheese, beef, agricultural implements, rosin,
shingles. slaves, hoops, lard, furniture, tai
low, grease, coal, etc. f."
Para, the third port ont from New Or.
leass, Z about $3.50 miles from New Orleans
OF Para, capital q the province Of Psrs,
was f0undAd in 1915. Il 4. situatnd a. tha