El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-01
PAN-A1LERICAN TRADE FACTS.
Countries which Will BE Represented
- at ST. Louis. }.

Countries which VIII BE Represente,
at st. Louis.
Chile, Peru aud Ecuador comprise
the western group of South American
republics. They have a total popula-
ton of 1900 900 and embrace an area
of 800 200 square miles. 1t is one of the
oddities Of modern commerce that our
trade relations with these three remote
! countries are on u much better basis
! than with the South American repub-
| lies bordering the Atlantic and which
are naturally more accessible to our
markets. The balance of trade be-
tween the United States and the three
countries named is largely in our favor,
whereas statistics show that we buy a
great deal more from all the other
Latin American nations, including
even Mexico and the Central American
group, thar we sell them. The lines of
transportation and other means of COM
| munlcatlon with the far distant west
ern republics of the southern contin-
ent are neither so numerous nor so
short or well equipped as enlightened
enterprise could make them with the
other sections of the southern half of
the new world, and yet our wares find
reader and more profita BILE market
In Chill, Peru and Ecuador than amorg
our nearer neighbors to the south.
EXper;s who have made efforts to de-
termlne the causes of this anomalous
condition have been unable to do so,
and content themselves in their re-
ports on the subject by merely reciting
the facts
y curious feature of the matter is
that the trade of these three repuhli. 5
WI h the United States is not controls
ed by merchants and manufacturers of
our racine coast, as would seem natu~-
al, but by business interests on he Op-
poslte side of the country. The bulk
OF the t1'ade is conducted from our At
lautlc seaboard, entailing upon the |
shlpmentS voyage of one month by |
Panama route, which Is the shortest, |
and from two to three months by way |
OF Cape Horn. The narrow gap in the |
trausaudine railroad of less than 80 |
miles will be closed at no distant day.
or whenever Argentina or Chilli COM
pose their differences over it. and then
these remote western countries of south |
America viii be brought in closer
touch with us. When the established
trade relations which already exist be-
tween Us and them are contemplated
In ccnnec ion with the
closing of the ransaudine railroad gap,
encouragement is lent to the hope that
we shall then be complete masters of
the commerce which appears to be
more profitable to US than the trade
with other countries nearer home.
OF three countries under cOnsidera-
ton Chilli is by far the most important
from the standpoint of the profits al
ready being made there by our mer
chants and manufacturers aud the
iaVorao1s prospects Oh na'Ionat ueVelop-
llp ne Gniiiah co Ju o-atc 10 no"
o. .iio itss ~ ~ LII Tit7
sen.er5 OF the "orlu "hers Cnlseo
- 1T. 49, Srhro''lrb I'll
80 Vi wy - - - u W
Ii VIi,'H ! o. 't9 "a IL
ei u ShIlL pop"lat4oh 10 nllIloh
greater anu IFS colliin -rce corf POM
MY IarE Ell -,
~ to-oo',O an" an; VIZ: -
M; ?ta' - 'ho 80.
hefGe OF nm ~ IS dour'li, anu ~ io.o
,llo % 900 zoo tTbil i 4ha beaG+bieSt
nj. v-.s n1slra in ol,r deaIinrS y,irb
~" III ~ 80 "iuH
my c0uL try on Ihto s19e Vi me t'7n-
io IL. ~ 'iiT nF ,7iIior
of Joi1ars and in he st,na vsar tn v
-, 49,, ~ tbraa 80 baIf vii
49,, - IS no,,1,,ndi+ia. LII ono of tho
49, T.In- bIa rt,oS1ctS If the 1.onntrv
ONES tn ms from Chill in large 0uantf-
les and last wear we spent over SID
l0O for TIE single article o. borated
inc in C,hil; Nearly ali the iodine
,vnortad h,, Tho connirr COMES 70 us
.ne on ,han ymiiliaS 6ai1srs n' wbiIo
Ireat Britain's transacti'ns in the
.arne line axceedad 81 600 COO Ger
manv,s we're more than S3. 600. 900. All
The bark from which is extracted
- usej in washing wool comes tn nc
80 Ghi1i O-00 {
| .
- tf,,o,,, ,,s az. ,o;nllra1 LII
Cn.iian az 49, Ius - 49, 80 No. 20
par Ga a aIs So S1',,5bn7. iron con p LEAD
rarriaees. wheel barrows, nails. COO.
ners' slaves. tlannels. sackines. lumber,
md railway materials and sunplies'
oct ear thev nurchased from ne s500-
MO worth Of cotton manufactures. 500
~ wv 800 90 |