Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-03
A COMMERCIAL TOUR.
YANKEE MERCHANTS PLAN TO CAP
 TURF SOUTH AMERICA.


 | Aim Is to Secure Trade Which Is Now Diverted to European Countries.
 Representatives of the merchants and manufacturers of the United States will go on 6 two months trade searching ex- petition to the various South American countries, leaving New York July 1.
 This expedition will be known as a commercial tour. It was projected at the recent annual meeting ill Chicago of the National Association of Manufac- turers of the United States, the head quarters of which is now in Philadel- phia, and of which President Search, the hat manufacturer, is now the head.
 Any representative of an American commercial or manufacturing industry can go along by agreeing to pay his own expenses which will average about $1, 200, and the arrangements have pro- gressed sufficiently to make it certain that the leading manufacturing and commercial houses of the United States will be represented.
 Among the countries to be explored for business are Argentina, Brazil, Bo- livia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and the United States of Colombia.
 The idea of such q tour originated with the United States legation at Buenos Ayres. The governments of Ar gentina, Uruguay and Brazil heartily seconded the project and extended form al invitations to the committee in charge. Banquets are scheduled for the visitors in many leading cities.
 Between the United States and Cape Horn there are 46, 900, 900 people They annually import S475, GOO, 900 worth of merchandise-more than $10 worth for every human being Of the total amount this country sells $70, GOO, 900 and buys $185, 000, 900. In the Review of the Worlds Commerce, ' just published by the department of state at Washington the fact is stated that "of the manufac- lures consumed in South America British French and German-there is scarcely a single article wherein the United States cannot compete i'll price and in quality, and when our exporters put into operation the necessary apph- ances for the enlargement of their trade they can win their full share of the business ill the Latin-American coun- tries /"
 Pan American republics prefer to trade with this country rather than with Great Britain That kingdom annually buys only SIG, 900, 900 and sells them S92, 900, GOO worth of goods, taking tho balance in gold.
 President Search of the National As sociation of Manufacturers of the United States is a prominent business man of i Philadelphia. He is treasurer of a large hat manufacturing establishment Ha says During the past year several travelling salesmen from the United l States went down to Buenos Ayres to look over the field, to see if the mar ket was worth working for They found that American manufactured i goods could be put down there at the same prices as German and English goods, if not at lower figures "
 The party will sail from New York for Southampton on July l, at 10 q. na., by the American line steamship St. Paul There will be two days of sight seeing in London before the Americans 1 depart for South America
 On July I the party will sail for South America on the royal mail steam ship Danube. They will cross the bay of Biseay, touch at Yigo, i'll Spain, and then at Lisbon. From Lisbon they will lay straight course to the Cape Verde islands The Danube will touch at Ten erife, the highest of the Canary islands, whose snow capped peak rises thousands of feet sheer out of the tropical ocean.
 A short stopwill be made at Pernam- buco, after which the voyage will be i continued down the Brazilian coast to Bahia, thence to Rio Janeiro. The party will not land at Rio on the trip south, having accepted the invitation of the i Brazilian government for an entertain ment on the return voyage.
 The tourists will be received at Buenos Ayres by United States Minister W. J. Buchanan who has co-operated with the Argentine government for the entertainment of the visitors, for whom rooms have been reserved in the Hotel Royal, ill the Calle Corrienties, known as the best hotel in South America.
 Ten days will be spent ill and around Buenos Ayres, which is a great Latin American city of TOO, 900 population As m example of the enterprise of the people, it may be said that the fort works of the city cost over $100, 900, 900 in English gold Great courtesy will be shown the visitors throughout the Argentine Republic.
 On the return northward the men of commerce will be officially received at Rio Janeiro by the Brazilian govern ment After Rio has been inspected, as well as the mountain town of Petropo- lis, where all the foreign legations are located, the party will be conveyed by Q government spec ial train through the great coffee plantation district of San Paulo. New York Journal.