Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-28

demand for nitrate in the United States tho
bulk of Chilian exports will continue to go
| to Europe. At present Chilli sends about
| three-fourths of her exports to Great Britain,
but a large part of this is nitrate, which
| finally gets to Germany, and is used there in
| the raising Of the sugar beet. We buy
some nitrate and iodine and little wool and
hides. About half of the Chilian imports
come from Great Britain, the amount
| brought from that country in 1894 costing
| more than 500, 900, 900. Germany stands next
| and, as l have said the German imports
have been steadily gaining. OF late, how
ever, the German merchants here have been
detected in number of attempts at fraud
| on the customs, and their methods Of trade
| are carefully watched.
Passing of Spanish South America.
South American is fast passing out of the
| hands of the Spanish-American natives.
! mean as far as the valuable properties and
business of all kinds are concerned. From
the coast OF Lower California to Valparaiso
there has been Of recent years great Ger
man commercial invasion, which has been
crowding out the English who had come
before. The strongest foreign element in
Central America today Is the German. The
Germans own the best of the coffee planta-
tions of Guatemala. and you find their i'm
porting houses in every Central American
city The most Of the business of the 18TH
mus of Panama Is done by the English,
French and Germans There Is at Panama
,, an American banking establishment that OF
Felix Ehrmall G. Co., and the Panama rail
road, while owned by the French Is still
managed by Americans In Eucador found
large colony Of Germans, Italians and
English. The chief business establishments
of Guayaquil are in their hands. The native
Peruvians have long since sold their best
properties out to the foreigners, and among
others the Chinese own millions OF dollars
worth of Peruvian estates. The sugar plan
tations are chiefly In the hands of the Eng
| lish The oil fields are owned by English
and Italians. The railroads and the guano
beds, as we'll as millions of acres OF coffee
lands in the interior Of Peru, belong to the
English syndicate, called the Peruvian Cor
poration and the silver and gold mines OF
that country are owned to a large extent by
foreigners. The native Peruvian is either
ashamed OF trade or he does not know how
to go about IT, and the stores OF Lima are
managed almost altogether by German, Eng
lish, Italian, French and Chinese mer-
chants In Arequipa I found that the Ger
mans did the most of the trade, although
there were several English and American
mining companies which made this their
headquarters. 1t was the same in La Paz,
whore there were about thirty American
miners. The English have a number of
/ the best mining properties OF Bolivia. They
I practically control Antofagasta. and lquique
! is more English than Spanish, have al
ready told you that more than 500, 900 900 OF
/ English capital is invested in the Chiliah
nitrate fields, and other millions from the
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Southern Chilli has a large colony Of Ger
mans and there are English and German
sheep farms in Patagonia. Both Santiago
and Valparaiso are full OF German firms
Many of the large estates here which are
owned by natives are managed by foreigners,
and this is so with nearly all OF the mines
and other large properties of the different
countries The railroads Of Chill and Peru
were built by English and American engi-
neers, and the most OF them are managed
by Anglo Saxons today. In short, the real
work OF South America as far as big things
are concerned is now in the hands OF for
eigners, and even here in Chilli the natives
who are wealthy are chiefly so from the vast
estates which they have inherited from theiI
ancestors. They own also valuable mines
but only the fewest Of them are rich as
result of their individual efforts.
The Yankees of south America.
| And still the Chlians are by far the
most progressive people in South America.