The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-22
FO.R!EIGN MARKETS.
Progress American Manufactures
Have Made IN them.
DEPORTATION OF WIRE NAILS
And Barbed Wire into Mexico and
other Countries--American Goods
Popular In France The Superiority
OF our Workmanship Splendid
Showing Mado with Other coun-
tries In Europc.

Special Dispatch to the intelligence.
wAsHlNGToN, Dec. s1.-In ex-
empllhcaticn OF the progress made in
foreign markets by American manutac-
lures and other products extracts from
consular reports on file at the state de-
partment are sub1oined:
referring 20 the nall trade In Mexico.
Consul General Barlow says:
wire nails are chiefly used In this
republic. The reason OF this, in my
opinion, being that there are more wire
than cut nails In q kIlogran (e2ol6
pounds. and the duty Is tile same. Al
most all the nails are imported, chiefly
from the. United States.
II know OF but two nail manufactures
IN this republic. The material Is no
doubt imported from the United States.
The NAH trade is handled through Job
Eers."
The consul general also says barbed
wire Is now extensively used In Mexico
the demand being on the increase.
Consul Mills, OF Chihuahua, writes:
''B6th cut and wire nails are used IN
this district. but cut nails principally.
Only cut nails are made here.
Consul KIndrick writes from Culdad
juarez:
leo There are several factories, but
none in this district. These do not,
however, supply the demand. as there
are inportatiOns OF wire nails from the
Unfted States Barbed wire fencing 10
used in the state OF Chihuahua, princl-
paIiy on the cattle ranches
Other consuls in the republic OF Mex
leo make similar reports OF conditions,
Vice Consul Vlosca saying that IN La
PaS hafbed wire Is extensively used.
ne estimates the lmportations OF nails
to that district to be 1900 TO 1000
pounds yearly.
Consul Snyder says in his district
Culdad Porfiro Diaz, cut nPilS are most
IL used, and the prices are higher than
Ia the United States. The importauons
last year were: Nails, 5Se,2SS pounds:
wire, 1889 pounds; wire ROD 1891
pounds. o..
The nails used in Sonora are chiefly
cut, and all are imported from the
used in Saltillo district are imported
from the United States.
American wlre nails are used In Scot
land, except on the east coast, being
Imported By Glasgow Arms Undoubt-
ediy. says Consul Rufus Fleming. the
dealers there, both wholesale and re-
tail, would prefer American wire natls
to any others Of foreign make, II the
prices were lower.
Consul Covert, OF Lyons, says Ameri-
can goods are popular in France Mer-
chants say theY are packed better than
those received from other countries.
California oranges, peaches apples:
pIums. and perhaps melons. would una
hosts OF buyers, Fruits are carried IN
cool chambers.
Shocks for silk boxes and stave WOOD
for wine and liquor barrels would tlnd
a ready market in Lyons. Manufac-
fufers tell me, saws the consul, that
they would buy sawed ana planeo
. boards from America. 1t is not worth
while. he adds, to send boards cut
readv 20 be made into boxes. They
should be about three-fourths OF On
inch thick: length and breadth immR-
terial.
ia "At the recent agricultural fair held
IN Lyons" the consul says, THE Ameri-
can visitor felt quite at home. Almost
every Indictment bore an American
name, They were generally manutnc-
tured In France, after an American pat
tern, but were roticeabiy less neat ana
artistic than the American make
Consul Covert concludes by saying;
People over here prefer articles
made in the United States, American
inventive skill Is well known ana IS
sTnecfed to maintain Its reputation by
Keeping some new and useful contrl-
vance before the world. Our manutac-
lures are known to be so superior 10
finish. in smooth and easy working
that Europeans willingly accord them
the palm OF superiority.
e can OpticIan who passed some years
IN the United States, says the AmeFi-
can mounting for spectacles ana eve.
glasses Is the best in the world, and
that he possessed q quasi monopoly IN
certain lines OF goods because he
bought the franklin glass with It's
frame IN the United States"
Consul Tourgee. OF Bordeaux. says:
''MoSt OF the trade In hard wood lum-
her products there ls done IN England.
OF course the products originally come
from American Hltis
1.-THE increase in the IuportatIons rs
strong testimony to the superiority
OF American work." he says.
In the annual report OF Consul Gen
erai Lincoln. OF Antwerp. Is found ms
tribute 20 American Goods;
1.-THE quantity OF starch and non.
edible farinaceOus substances exported
from our country into Belgium during
the FIRST six months OF 1898 was 5,2O6.
$50 pounds, as against 2,GOS.4G2 pounds
in the first SIX months OF 1897, and 1853. +.
s5S pounds in the first SIX months oil
1896.
"The imports OF oak and walnut
boards from the United Statesl Tor the
iiFst six months OF 1898 were 1880 cubic
feet, as against a6l feet In 1887. The
increase in the importation OF saved
oak and walnut for the same period
was also notabie-beinE III 1893 1906
cubic feet, as against 66,ioO cubic feet
in $780,
The Increase In the imports Of grain
from the United States to Belgium Is
shown by the following figures: Wheat,
292. 900 pounds, first six months 81
1903. os against 143.5@.57O pounds fol
corresponding period In 1887; rec. same
perIods s6.l9s,570 pounds. as aSainsI
25,56s.797 pounds. and i6,s6S,4sG pounds
In 1896. Indian corn. 3lI,G55.60O pounds