Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-27

, seivcs 10 .ho importation and lntr1duc.
| zion ~ American goods. ono 'a that
| M grace ~ CO.. which has an EnrIIah
i,rtrch aa well MS IT, New York hlu40.
| and another 10 the old firm 0f Ucoahe
| 4 Co.. which has lately saH.d with
neoche & co. handle nothing but
American goods. They have their
agents and travelling salcamtn no over
chile. and are anxious tn push tho sale
VI American mauufnetufnf. Both the
grscea and Becche q go. do a biz
hua.n,as. ana the general Increase In
nnr trade hOrc lE largely duc Zoo ihair
efforts I doubt. however VIII cher thn
United statoa can ever equal Germ any
pr ENGLAND In this market We buy
elannarutivoiy little " Chiie. and With
ont the Increase In the beet sugar ln.
duairy creates q demand for nitrate Zoo
tho United states the hrlk ~ chilean
exports Will continue o. ~ 90 Europe.
Al present chile sends about three
fouriha of her exports 10 Grant Britain.
hut large part * this u nitrate.
which finally gets 10 Germany and
IL used there In the raising ~ the SUGAR
bast We buy aumc nitrate and iodine
aud little wool and hides. About
half VI the chilean Imports como from
Great britain. the amoun' brought
from that country In 1895 costing more
than 100000 goo. Germany stands next.
and aa I have said. the German Inn
rnria have been steadily gaining or
late. however. the German merchants
here have been detected 10 q number
W attempts az fraud on tho custnmr
and their methods " trade are care
fully watched.
THE PASSING AWAY or SPANISH
SOUTH AMERICA
South America Il ias passing out or
the hands ~ the Gnanlah-Amerlcln
natives. I mean az FAR a. the valuable
properties and buslncsH ~ all kinds
are concerned. From the coast az
Lower California O. Valparaiso there
has been o. recent ycara q scat urT.
man commercial Invasion, which has
bcrn cr1wdlng oul the EnEllrh who
had como fore. Tho HirluFrHs fIr-
elgn element In Central America today
il the Oefmln. Tho Germans own the
best OF The coffee piiutatunr % Guatc-
mali. AMI you Ind their Importing
houses In every Central American city.
The mrt ~ the business 90 the
isthmus ~ Panama IL done by she
English. French anu Germans There
IL at Panama an American banking
eaiihllahment, that " Felix Ehrman
a Co, and the Panama railroad. while
owned by the French. II gilll manag,d
by Americans. In Ecuador I found q
English. The chief business establish
ments " Guaynauil ara In their hands.
The native psruvlanH have long since
sold thClr best properties out 70 the
forigners, AMI among others the Chi.
ncHe own millions VI dollars worth of
Peruvian estates, The sugar pinnta-
tons are chl'sy In the hands 81 mo
EnFliah. The OIL fields are owned hy
English and Italians. The riiirnais
and the guano beds. ~ well as millions
% acres ~ coffco lands IN the Interior
of Peru, belong % the English syndi-
cate, called the Peruvian Corporation.
and the Allyor ana gold mines Of that
COUNTRY aro owned a. a large extent by
fofelEncft The native Peruvian In
.ilhcr ashamed ~ trade or he docs not
KNOW how % so about IL. AMI fhe
H,ofrs OF Lima are managed aimn-
altogg thor 10y Germans. English. itai.
Ian, French ana Chinese merchnnta
N Afcqulpa ! found that the Germans |
ga the most n the trade, although |
There were several English ana Amcrl. |
can mining companlea which made thls |
tne,r hradqurierh II was the aino
" Ia iva. whore there were about /
ihlFy American mincrs. Tho English |
nave a number ~ The hoU mining |
properties o. Bolivia. They pracilchliy |
c'hirnl AntofngaHta, and Iqulaue = |
more English than Spanish. have al |
ialiy told you that more than tiO0 900 |
~ on English capiial Il Invested in
,h, chilean nitrate noldr. and other
nlllona from the same source are /
working some pf the mines. Southern |
Vhlo has large colony 81 Gormans
Ani thrra a0 English and German |
.ntoii nrms IN Patagonia. Roth san- |
lAHp ana valparaiso nre full OF Ger /
man hrma, Many ~ che large ontatcs |
IVY, ,g,. Mnieh AZ. owned by natives are
.i,ltAEed by iorclgnoru, ana this h 40 /
WIN nenrly all of the mines and otber
arge properties of TIM dilforsnt cam.
.fles. Tho railroads Of Chile ana Perm
were bullt by English and American
hElnefrs, and the mast Of them af,'
managed by AnElo-Sixnna today. In
mort che real work OF south America
90 Tar ~ blg things are concerned ID
now IN the hands OF rirolgnara, and
Ven mere IN chile the natives Win are
N.A!Viy ara chiefly 10 from the vist
states which they have Inherited from
.heir ancestors. They own aia0 vaiu-
'nle mlnca. but only tho few6at Of them
W "! tlch 80 a insult of their Individual
THE YANKEES OF SOUTH
AMERICA.
Ana Htlll the Chlleans are by far the
most progressive people In south
Nno rioa, This H. In fact, the only i've
puntry that l have 30 far visited In
ny travels On this continent. Column
'h ~ slice out OF the middle ages.
'uhdor has the same customs that IL
.'h when the Spaniards owned il. IA
I priest ridden ana ita people are 400
ears behind the times. The peruylans
W. further advanced. but they have
l'ue snap In thcm, ana as 10 the Ho-
l'lanh, they are waiting Tor some other
',nple 10 come Ia ana gobblo M them.
ives and their country You notice
no difference the moment you stem ON
'hllean soil l was delighted with An
oiHgnsta, although IL IN "a town large.
built Of corrugated iron ana drift.
'ood' II had an air Of business nbout
!, ana the spirit II get.up-Rnd.got WAS
broad everywhere. when I asked ono
I me citizens whether I could most
ny letters without danger OF tho postni
metals destroying them In order 10
teal the stamps, az ] have been toid
.nH sometimes done by the clerks az
he poatofcea OF Bolivia. he rcpllrd
Certainly YOU can, This ~ chill. =
10 was right. chile ~ a land OF ts
wn kind, and Tor South Amoricn n
very much up 90 date. IL has H.
teleFraphs and toleplon.g
nd it, people have aa much patrlotier,,
= we have, The Chileana, na az,
ll themselves, number about q OD1 AK
hey are like the other peoples of I'M.
'cat coast. ~ spanish descent ana ~
he product OF the union OF tho So,
'rds and the Indiansi but the snsr
lrds who came 10 chile were lor.,i,,
rom the B0sque provinces OF gu,t, p