Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-11-06
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tain our best American results in ma
chinery and in specific inventions of
an effective sort on the part Of the
southern states and countries of this
hemisphere to state some Of the facts
which the official statistics only i'm
perfectly disclose It is true that the
manufactures of machinery and
articles Of iron and steel do sell quite
freely to those countries, and q care
fuI separate transcript of the items of
that class on page 110 to 1872 Of the
Commerce and Navigation Report of
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1888
the latest issued-gives a footing of
10,232, 100 as the value of these arti
cles. In the actual uses of South
America, Mexico and the Indies
for fine machinery and rail
road appliances we are already
favored, and have been for
many years. Mining, hydraulic
and sqgarmaking machinery has for
a lona time been sought here, especi
ally for Peru, to which we sent $780,
900 OF more in value yearly before
that country was ruined in 1881.
With Chill we had little trade, al
though many Of the copper works
were supplied from the United States
previous to 1880. In Bolivia we had
all the trade previous to that country"
fall, and although the west coast
countries take little from US now, they
were formerl y very large purchasers
here. Colombia is q large outlet for
American trade, as is Venezuela; but
as to Brazil, while they get locomo-
tives and railway materials here, with
some mining machinery, the most of
th9ir import trade is from Europe.
The export trade Of Brazil Is, how
ever, enormously large to the United
States. We paid them in the last fis
cal year reported $6.662, 961 for crude
Amazon rubber, $27, ,797, ,748 for coffee
with large sums for hides, hair, fine
woods, cocoa, ETC., in all $44, 448, 459
in value, as against So, 159, 330in value
Of all our exports to Brazil. This ad-
verse balance of $35, 400, 600 is less
rather than more than the average,
and IN twenty years past we have paid
them a balance of $72O, ,OOO,0 Il
would appear that such an unbalanced
trade needed the national attention
The countries Of the River Plate, the
Argentine Republic and Uruguay, are
also large exporters to the United
States, and relatively small importers
from us. In 1888 they sent us $1O,-
172, 221 in value, chiefly Of hides, hair
and wool, while they took 81, 743, 1926
IN value, chiefly In lumber, petro-
leum, cotton goods, $715, 764; agricul-
tural implements $S42, III; sewing
machines, $57, 946. There was also
exported to the River Plate S498, 741
IN value of locomotives, railway ma
terials and steel and iron tools, the
entire trade being much more salts
factory than is supposed, and it
May. readily be greatly enlarged. On
the other side of that continent there
is less encouragement. Chill took
only $2,807,551 in value, and Peru
$497, 300 only in 1883 from the United
States, while our importation from
those countries was from Chilli $780,
584 and from Peru 50, 526, 928. Nearly
all OF this was nitrate of soda, 81, 332,-
342, and should have been credited to
Chill, as it came from the conquered
province of Tafapaca. The trade Of
the United States with the west coast
OF South America was once large. In
1871 and 1872 it reached Sc, $50. 600,
and s., 100, coo for the year with Peru
alone, and $4,000 with Chill.
Some direct trade was also done with
Ecuador and Bolivia. The opening of
the Panama canal may help US TO re-
viye this trade, now in ruins, as Peru
is.