The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-16
DIRECT TRADE.

An Urgent Letter Received From
BrazuiBegging for Direct Trade With
the South.
A letter has Just been received by the
state agricultural department Of Georgia
from Brazil which curiousIy chimes in with
this vital and imperative effort TO get direct
trade for the south, and which has been
turned over to me to use.
l beg the attention of all interests TO this
pressing and timely letter, to its statement
OF great prices In Brazil for south
ern products, which offer large
profit to exporters here and to the
pledge OF money cooperation there:
Sr. BERNADo STATION, ESTADo DE ST..
PAULO, BRAZu.-Somebody must make
tremendous profits on the business transac-
tons in general comestibles bought by Bra.
I'll from your country. AS an illustration l
may say, what q stupendous margin there
is between 80 25 for 250-pound hog and a
box OF canned lard of 200 pounds, entering
here free from duty, selling here, retail, at
6OO refs the pound, or 120 milreis the 200
pounds, that is at our present exchange
about SIS in your money. Beans sell in our
market for about IS a bushel: q sack of rice
for 81; wheat flour, second quality, for
So so the 100 pounds; butter at so cents the
pound. Looking at the pitiable prices your
AoA thcIS kot 1TOn your own merchants, 1
am inclined 10 believe that the most
reasonable way TO settle the enor-
nous difference cropping out between the
producer, and the consumer would be the
cooperation of numerous body of farmers
OF your country, willing to sell direct to our
consumers and retailers, establishing 10
this effect big store in the healthiest,
richest and most civilized part of Brazil
that Is in st. Paulo. Why could not a con-
Germ be started by your alliancel Sucn an
undertaking could not but prove highly
successful l am so thoroughly convinced
or the proftableness and soundness of my
proposal that will not hesitate to take an
active part id its execution to the amount
OF 900, or twice as much II desired.
Santos is the port for the state of st. Paulo,
both cities connected by a railway, to be
double-lined in the next two years. Look
ing at the exorbitant exactions on
the part of our importers aud the
helptesSness OF our consumers, l
must say that never before were
the conditions more favorable to start my
proposed undertaking. l would request
not to lose the opportunity of our present
high prices but to make at once shipment
of riceS flour In barrels and lard in cans and
barrels. Canned lean pork is in demand
here at 40 cents the 2-pound can. There
may be added sweet biscuits, canned fruits
and salmon, butter, hay, oats, apples and
pine boards which sell at fabulous prices
and are always in demand. Your farmers
will find cash sale for all their produce
except cotton, at top prices. Returning
vessels may be loaded with coffee which
sells at 1l-000 the ten relos, that is about, at
the present exchange, cents the
relo. Let the farmers send one or two men
of trust with the first shipment, one to
stop here and the other to return and re-
late about future prospects, which cannot
but be promising. Use this letter as you
like. Your most obedient servant.
LEWIS FUMBUHL."
This is letter Of deep interest, and comes
in seasonablY, to illuminate and emphasize
this direct trade movement, and commend
its perusal to all.
1t plan for the farmers may be impracti-
cable, and it is likely that the time is not
ripe for Brazil as the place for direct trade
from the south, and that its inauguration
should be to England, but this letter is valu-
able as sho wing that foreign conditions, as
well as our own necessities, demand and are
ripe for it, that there is profit ahead, that
foreign business men are eager for and
ready to put money in it, and that Brazil is
a future possibility for us when we get
started.
This letter confirms the value and propri-
ETY. of this crucial and practical direct trade
effort now. l. w. AVERY.