Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
QUEER THINGS IN TRADE.

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! Countries.
If anybody inagines that the Vassar
girl is not a great factor in the COM
merce of this country, he will be aston
ished to learn that during the year
1884 the republic of Mexico exported
| S134, 537.65 worth of chewing-gum,
| nearly all of which comes to Pittsburgh
for manufacture. and during the fourth
quarter of last year alone exports from
| Mexico of this enchanting raw material
| amounted to $41, 1880. When the
public understands that the caoutchouc
exports during the past year only
reached 1902, 1860, and for the last
quarter only $40, 459. 16, it will begin to
appreciate the exciting race between
the rubber goods and chewing gum
furnished by the Aztec country. Ac-
cording to Minister Morgan, our total
imports from Mexico for the last twelve
months reached the enormous sum of
S21, S24, 10000. exceeding by over 81
900, 900 the imports from Mexico by
any other nation. OF this amount more
than one-half, or ST., S22, 24O, was in
precious metals, the remainder being
III IL uitS, luC WoOuS, uISlCS,
live animals, coffee. sugar and to-
bacco.
The State of Colima is dwelt upon at
length by Consul Mahlo, of Manzanlllo,
as a ma gnificent country for American
investment in coffee estates, which are
said to be wonderfully successful and
remunerative. The Colima coffee has
become an article of export to the Unit
81 II 1jvoS no h rha
prices. 1t resembles Mocha, has an
exquisite flavor, and sells for twenty to
twenty-five cents a pound. Col ma
ranks second as to quantity and
first as to quality in the coffee
producing States of Mexico, but
Col ma, in addition towrestling
now and then with yellow fever,
is on the ragged edge of livingvol-
cano. which almost destroyed the
city in 1918, and killed two thou
sand people in 1906. Nevertheless,
Consul Mahlo says: The wholesale
trade of Colima. is chiefly IN the
hands of Germans, who are do
ing an immense business, and many of
them have been able to retire, after a
comparatively short residence here, to
their native country as rich men, 1t
may not be amis5 to add that the pres
ent Consul intimates that he will re-
sign if his annual salary of $3.50 Gin
feesl is not increased, and there mav
vet be a chance for some Of the patr OTIS
to .scatch on" COnsul-General SUIT
ton, of Matamoras. calls attention to
the immense profit in tabllshing
ranches on large scale in Tamauli-
pas and raising cattle and horses for
export to the United States and Cuba.
A curious feature of the annual re-
port of Consul Frsbie is that of the
So, 7oS, 266. 81 worth of sparkling cham
pagnes imported by the United States
from Rheims during the past year.
St. Joseph, Mo-, received 30 cases
direct. while St. Louis only imported
10 cases. This is almost unaccountable,
when New York imported 17S, 255
cases. Chicago 1,292 cases. Cincinnati
la cases, and Louisville 80 cases. I'M
less it be that ST. Louis buys all her
imported ehampagnes in New York at
secondhand But it looks like a bad
showing. In Rheims at the present
time there are 10000 mechanics and
other laboring people out of employ
ment, but the city authorities did an
original thing by furnishing employ
ment to married men only on public
improvements at 80 cents a day.
Consul Irish. of Cognac, reports
81, 135, 696.22 worth of brandy exported
to the United States last year, besides
S534 693 in porcelain and S13, 1870 in pa
per, for which we exchanged wood for
construction, wheat, and a small con-
signment of manufactured tobacco.
A peculiar item in this report is
$17S. q worth of "show cards and cir
culars' exported to this country. Con-
sui Irish remarks: Great fortunes
await the successful efforts of ingen-
ious Americans who shall introduce
and develop trade that shall revolu-
tionize the present order of things
The people are wealthy, fond of Their
own country, and rarely emigrate.'
Consul Charlesworth shows that the
Wine trade of Madeira has steadily de-
creased in exports to the United States
from $50, 1868 in 1880 to $17, PIG in 1884.
Last seasons grapes were finely ma
tured. and the wine said to be of better
quality than for years past. 1t may
shock tender stomachs to learn that the
very ancient practice of treading out
the wine with the feet is still in vogue
are placed in large wooden or stone
vat, IN which the peasants, with legs bare
to the knees, travel in circle to the
cadence of an extemporized song-the |
sentiment of which is SUI ted to the oc
casion-until the graz IS are reduced to
a pulp. This is placed in a primitive
press with a. long sweep and wooden
screw. If not too far from shore, the
must-as it is now called-is put in
casks and conveyed by boats to the
IN Eunchal in whose hands |
it undergoes the various operations of
racking and fermentation. 1t tLen
receives the necessary amount of spirit, !
and either undergoes the artificial heat
ing process or is stored in warehouses
until 1t has acquired the proper age
for use. The Consul adds, by way of
solace, perhaps, that all the Wine firms
have steadily refused to handle any
authorizations, and their brands may
always be relied upon.
Consul-General Heap writes from
Salonica that this is most favorable
time to introduce agricultural imple-
ments into Macedonia.
This country has lost caste in Cara
cas-. Oleomargarine has done the job
for us, and many American goods are
now looked upon there with suspicion.
Nevertheless, Consular Agent Rohl says
the United States exports to Caracas
enormous amounts of flour, lard, canned
oysters, canned hams, deviled entire
ments, gum-drops, condensed milk,
beer, paints, sulphate of quinine, phar-
maceutical sundries, ropes, gray drills
and domestics, prints, clocks. cheap
jewelry, electroplate, pianos, carriages,
harness, wheelbarrows, trunks, hunt