Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-10-24
OUR ENORMOUS EXPORTS.

During the year ending June 80,
1870, the exports of goods, the pro-
ducc and manufacture of the United
States, We're greater than ever before
IN the history of the country, the
value being $3.50, ,6s3, 79s. Adding
this to the value of foreign products
exported, $14, 200, 0,402, we have an
aggregate of s694, 1884, 200. During
the same period the imports fell to
Sf37, ,05l ,533, establishing an excess
in the value of exports over imports
of $257, 1882, ,667. This vide dispari-
ty between the inward and outward
movement has created a condition of
the trade balance more extraordinary
than anything hitherto experienced.
The exports of wheat and -four
from Atlantic and Pacific ports since
July 1st have been equal to 50,356,-
239 bushels of wheat, against $685.
6l7 bushels for the corresponding
period in 1877. The exports Of
wheat from San Francisco during
September are the largest on record,
much having been shipped to France,
where the deficiency Of the home
crop will be great. The United
States will probably have surplus of
120, 100000 bushels Of wheat from
the crop of 1878 available for ex-
port.
A constantly increasing portion
of England's external supplies of
cereal and animal food goes from this
country, and there is no reason for
supposing that this market for our
products has reached the maximum
of its demand, for While England i'm
ported last year $500, 600, 900 of those
articles, we exported thither during
the year ending June 80, 1877, only
$3.50, 100000. This leaves a margin
of $3.50, 100000 open for our compe-
tition. Large, therefore, as we have
been wont to consider our trade with
England in food staples, there is yet
ample room for an extension of it
provided we can successfully COM
pete with other agricultural countries
IN the cost of production and trans
portation.
The large and steady increase of
the cattle movement from this side
to Europe excites much attention
abroad. Hamburg papers announce
that American exporters contemplate
extending their operations to some
of the more important ports of the
western coast Of the Continent. One
of the places they have in view is Ant
werp, through which a large trade ls
anticipated with the densely popula-
ted manufacturing centres of Bel
gium, and with the chief towns of
Rhineland and Westphalia. Hamburg,
hitherto an important place for the
export of cattle to England, is now
become an importer of cattle from
the United States. The trade with
England has made beef dear. Berlin,
with its millions of people, is only a
hundred and sixty miles from Ham
burg, whence the American importa-
tions could easily be forwarded by
rail.
Since the 1st of May last and up
to the 1st of September an average of
three thousand cattle a week have
been shipped from Montreal, Boston,
New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more. A large portion of these
some %, 900 head-were shipped from
Boston because the Cunard and War
rem steamship lines have taken their
old boats and torn out the inside so
as to make them exclusively fitted
for carrying cattle from that port. At
present the British market can and
will take, live and dressed, four
thousand head of cattle q week from
the United States. With abundant
crops of grain, and, we may say, mil
lions of live stock, this branch of our
export trade promises to assume vast
proportions in the immediate future.
Nebraska and Wyoming are great
cattle raising points of the United
States. The valleys of the Platte and
it's tributaries have over million cat
tie grazing in them.
That the volume of our present
large export movement will be sus-
tanned and increased appears proba-
BILE from the fact of our annually in
creasing crops, our vast undeveloped
resources, and the stimulus which
the expectation of all sorts of food
products, especially wheat, corn, and
animals, has received from the re-
duced cost of transportation from the
interior to the seaboard.-New York
Sun.
A man with the toothache doesn't
care about anything else. The glo-
ries of the world pail on his taste, the
wonders of creation seem as naught.
The tooth becomes volcano of belch-
ING fury. and the rest of life hidden in