Arizona silver belt., 1888-03-31


 Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, China, Japan and Australia than we have with all the Central American States combined. We have nearly as much trade with l Greece as we have with Chili. We sell more sewing machines in Switzer- land than we sell in Chili, and Swlt- zerland sells Chlh more sewing ma chimes than she buys of us.
 Bolivia has foreign trade of ever $16,OOO,OO0 a year, yet the name of that country does not appear in the tables of our Bur au of Statistics. The chief imports of Bolivia are cotton and woolen goods, agricultural imple- ments, mining machinery, hardware, cutlery, clocks, watches, canned goods, and provisions, a list which could be filled in any commercial city of the United States as eheaply as in Europe, and yet the annual reports of the Treasury Department of the United States do not show dollars worth of commerce between the United States and that country.
 The most absurd spectacle in the commercial world is our trade with Brazil. We buy nearly all her raw products, while she spends the money we pay for them in England and France. In 1884, of the exports of Brazil, $50, ,266,OOO went to the United States, $29,OOO,OOO to England, and $24,OOO,COO to France. Of the, imports of Brazil in tbe same year, S35,QO0,OOO came from England, $15,OOOOO from France and only $8,OOO,OOO from the United States.
 The climate in those countries is warm, and the people use for clothing large quantities of cotton goods. Yet, although we produced last year Tn this country between five and six millions of bales of cotton, 1t is a remarkable fact that of the S65,OOO,OO0 expended by Central and South America for cotton goods last year, over $5O,OOO,OOO went to the merchants and manufac- turers of England.
 The countries of Central and South America need the products of our fur naces, of our factories, and of our farms. They need nearly everything we produce, and we need nearly everything they produce. They need American watches, American machin- cry, American mowers and reapers, American sewing machines, tele- phones, scythes, saws, shSyels, hoes, axes, indeed nearly everything of which we have surplus in this ceun- try. The map of the world does not show region that has greater re- sources or-greater possibilities than have North America, Central Amerlca and South Amer1ca.
 I believe in less than twenty years there will be railroad communication between the city of New York and the capital of the Argentine Republic, Buenos Ayres. A few years ago, be-. fore the Central and Union Pacific Railroads were constructed, by which New York and San Francisco were connected by rail, the obstacles in the way of that work were greater than those which now exist in the way of connecting New York by rail with the capital of the Argentine Republic. Already the grand movement has commenced. To-day there is railroad connection between New York and the capital of Mexico, and arrangements have been made between the Mexican Republic and the Republic of Guate- mala for the construction of railroad from the City of Mexico to the capital of Guatemala.
 That has been done on this end of the line. IfyOu go to the other end, you find that the Argentine Republic is now engaged in building railroad from Buenos Ayres, its capital, to it's northern boundary line and when the railroad gets to that northern line, there will come into operation con tract already made by Bolivia, giving S4O,OOO per mile and Il square leagues Of land t3 m English company that Las agreed to build the railroad from the line between the Argentine Re public and Bolivia to the capital of Bolivia. What IS left? But little over 5000 miles between the capital of Bolivia and the capital of Guatema- la; and I assert that the probability of the construction of that railroad is stronger to-day than was the proba- bility of the construction of the Gen. tral and Union Pacific ten years be- fore they-were built.
 Certain IS that no class of men has done more, and that too at their own expense, to advertise Arizona than the newspaper men. In fact so much