Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-05-15
QUEER THINGS In TRADE.
Whence Comes the Raw Material for the
American Girls Chewing Gum Peculiar

If anybody imagines that the Vassar
girl is not great factor in the COM
merce of this country, writes Wash
ington correspondent TO The 81. LoutS
Globe Democrat, he will be astonished
to learn that during the year 1884 the
republic of Mexico exported 1874, ,537.-
65 worth of chewing-gum, nearly all
of which came to Pittsburgh for manu-
facture, and during the fourth quarter
of last year alone exports from Mexico
of this enchanting raw material
amounted to S4l, ,233.70. When the
public understands that the caoutchouc
exports during the past year only
reached S202, ,49609, and for the last
quarter only SAC, 459. 16, it will begin
to appreciate the exciting race be.
tween the rubber goods and chewing
gum furnished by the Aztec country.
According to Minister Morgan, our
total imports from Mexico for the last
twelve months reached the enormous
sum of S21, 1924, 400.55, exceeding by
over S2,000,0 900 the imports fl ON Mex
leo by any other nation. OF this
amount more than one-half, or $12,-
S22, ,240. was in precious metals, the
remainder being distributed in fruits,
fine woods, hides, live animals, coffee,
sugar, and tobacco
The state of Colima is dwelt upon at
length by Consul Mahlo, of Manzanillo,
as magnificent 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
United States, where it realizes the
highest prices. 1t resembles Mocha,
has an exquisite flavor, and sells for
20 to 25 cents a pound. Colima ranks
second as to quantity and first as to
quality in the coffee producing states
of Mexico. but Colima, in addition to
wrestling now and then with yellow
fever, is on the ragged edge of a liv-
ing volcano, 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 doing an i'm
mense business, and many of them
have been able to retire, after COM
paratively short residence here, to
their native country as rich men," 1t
may not be amiss to add that the pre-
sent consul intimates that he will re-
sign if his annual salary of $3.50 Gin
fees) is not increased, and there may
yet be chance for some of the
patriotic democrats of Missouri to
''catch on" Consul General Sutton,
of Matamoras, calls attention to the
immense profit in establishing ranches
on large scale in Tamaulipas and
raising cattle and horses for export to
the United States and Cuba.
A curious feature of the annual re-
port of Consul Frisbie is that of the
$2,7SS, ,266 62 worth of sparkling cham
pagnes imported by the United States
from Rheims during the past year ST.
Joseph, Mo-, received 80 cases direct,
while st. Louis only imported 10 cases.
This is almost unaccountable, when
New York imported 17S, ,255 cases,
Chicago 1892 cases, Cincinnati ia
cases, and Louisville 80 cases, unless
it be that st. Louis buys all her i'm
ported champagnes in New York at
second hand. 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, 1876, ,696 p worth of brandy exported
to the United States last year, besides
1884, 693 in porcelain and $13, 100 in
paper, for which we exchanged wood
for construction, wheat, and small
consignment of manufactured tobacco,
A peculiar item in this report is
$17S "a worth of ''show-cards and