The record-union., 1892-07-16
BUSINESS METHODS.
How San Francisco Allows Business to
Slip Away.
She Allows Foreigners in Mexico to
Secure the Trade That Naturally
Belongs to Her.

a young Sacrannentan, who has re-
sided for the past five years in Mazatlan,
Mexico, in private letter TO his father,
discusses the reason for the dull times in
San Francisco. We are permitted to
make the following quotation from the
letter:
You speak of the paralization Of busi-
ness in San Francisco: now let me tell
you this-that the enterprise displayed by
the Santa Ee people is something Won
derful. Why, do you know that the
Santa Fe system have an agent here in
the house with us whose business is to
solicit for Eastern houses merely for the
freight that comes over their road, charg-
ing nothing for his work. Anything can
be bought by him that can be mad any
where in the United States, and they will
bring it over their roads as cheap and
land it here in MaZatlan, ManZanillo, or
even Acapulco, for the same price that it
can be shipped from san Francisco. San
Francisco has sent just two drummerS
here in the last year, while Eastern drum
mers have come to the enormous number
Of thirty, and new ones always coming in
by every steamer. This is monumental
disgrace to the business men OF San
Francisco, who allow the trade which be-
longs to them to be wrested out of their
hands, and they setting quietly on their
Pacific Railroad people and allowing
their coast trade to be taken from them
by Eastern people. / tell you that San
Francisco people are the laughing-stock
OF the Eastern people here, and the Santa
Fe people are quietly hugging themselves
with the assurance that they are absorbed
with their own interests at san Francisco
for competing line, which VIII be the
Santa Ee system, and While the hog is
wallowing in the mud at home they are
laying the foundation Of trade all around
them and taking the cream OF the sauce
Another contention that the American
has Is simply this: that American houses
viii come here and give their agencies to
the Germans here, for the simple reason
that they speak English, and that they
allow themselves to be hattered into buSi
ness transactions that eventually turn to
the German trades interest. 1t is we'll
established fact that the German caSaS
here have taken agencies from American
houses and for American goods, and sup
plant them by German goods, stating
that the Mexican trade requires that Ger
man article, when, as matter OF TACT,
they Go not put forward the American
goods, but, on the contrary, keen them IN
the background; and these same German
houses are mostly supported by Ameri-
can capital, through their agencies OF
mines and other works, which is mostly
American capital.
business men OF san FRANCISCO ShOuId
place some goods here, and make big
fight for the trade, which amounts to
about ten shiploads of merchandise a
year, exclusive of the goods bought in
the States, or, in other words, about u, coo
tons. This same amount of tonnage
comes into MazatIau about the Ist of Sep
tember and finishes up about the 1st Of
October, and all of it foreign goods. San
Francisco has got to establish her goods
here IN Mazatlan, and in that way they
can control the trade, both of the interior
and coast, and hold it for themselves to
the exclusion OF Eastern houses.
could keep up this same strain for q
month, and rehearse nothing but facts
and figures, which tell their own tale.
No BUFFET shouldbe without bottle