The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-26
A COMMERCIAL BONANZA.
OUR TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA, AND
VINO WILL PROFIT BY 1T.

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VINO WILL PROFIT BY 1T.
The readers Of THE BULLETIN have en-
dured the inhiction Of many columns of
Brazil trade discussion, but the following
article from the New Orleans Times, has
the virtue Of originality, and TO some ex
tent local application. These features will,
we dare say, warrant its IN ertion in The
BULLETIN. 1t reads as follows:
The Sue2 Canal was a notable event in
the commercial history of the world. 1t
altered values, and completely revolution
lied commercial methods in all parts OF
the world and with its completion may be
dated the beginning Ola demand, now all
but universal, for trade over direct lines
and directly between producers and CON
sumcrs. 1t is in this light the country must
view the establishment Of a direct steam
line between this port and Rio. 1t is "A
western interest. The communication is
not between New Orleans and Rio, but be-
tween the West and Rio, the Mississippi
river being equivalent to great inland sea,
and affording ample facilities for inter
changing commodities on through bills Of
lading and without Intermediate transfer
charges st. Louis, Cairo, Louisville and
Cincinnati, so far as there may be any
commerce with South America, will be i'm.
porting towns and approximately on an
equal footing with the most favored ports
Of the scaboard.
Ofc0urse the chief article to be obtained
from Brazil is coffee; but in that article
the West has immense interest. 1t is rcla'
lively the largest consuming section Of the
United States, and is to that extent more
interested than other parts Of the country.
The total importation of Rio and Santos
coffee in 1873 was ,S34,313 bags,or 23S,-
4Gs 400 pounds, and reasonably valued at
500, 100000. Fully fiye-eighths-possibly
three-fourths- of this supply is used in the
states west and south of the Allegheny
mountains, and il is therefore matter Of
grave Importance to the people of those
states TO obtain this necessary luxury on
the most economical terms. Experience
in this trade already dcmonstrat the C flee
Imported by this route can be distributed
tavorably 10 consumers. Shipments to
points north and east of LOuisvile-or say
c ist Of the Mississippi-can always be made
on terms as iavorably as from New York.
And to all points along the Mississippi
and west of that river lower rates have al
ways, and always will, prevail.
But there is another and greater b netit
which the West will reap by the estab
lishmeut of direct trade with Brazil. That
country is wanted as an outlet to the in
creasing over production of breadstutfs
throughout the Valley States. The wheat
grown in the Ohio Valley, and south Of the
Missouri river on the west side OF
the Missssi ppi-in other words, the
winter wheat of the West produces
the exact quality of -four required in the
commerce with Brazil and since -four can
he moved by the route more economically
than by any other it can scarcely fail that
regular and reliable communications with
Rio must lead to large Interchange Of
our Western product and Brazilian coffee.
This proposition is abundantly established
in the fact that it costs seventy-tiye cents
FER barrel TO ship Western flour to New
York. whereas the cost for deliveries 1T
New Orleans seldom exceed thirty to
thirty-fyc cents per balr.l.
But the interchange OF commodities on
this side. will not be confined to bread
,uffs. There will also be a profitable de
mand for household furniture and agricul-
tural implements.
With such large and important interest
at stake, it is hoped the house of rcprescn
tatives will complete the enactment of the
law recently passed 10y the senate, and that
Western members will be viMlant to secure
that result