Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-18

purposes II IL 20 hard that IL will turn
the edge OF a steel AK This IL very
sound wood. not prone 90 crack and %
great strength. n IL ~ Rrcenish yol-
low color. and some varieties 81 II have
a curl In II like the birds eye maple.
II brings good prices. f.epacho wouli
make very good furniture wood. and go
would many OF the other hard woods of
| Paraguay.
The black and red palms. for IN
stance. would he valuable for veneer
| INK, FOR they take high polish and are
Wonderfully durable Thcy WI last for
years underground ana In the water.
ana are exceedingly hard
should think that an American fur
| nitirc factory established In Paraguay
would pny we'll. The country now I'm
ports It's furniture from Germany. Aus
tria ana the United States. Both uru-
| quay and Paraguay get the most OF
their furniture from the same sources,
| and the prices Of all such things are re-
| markahly high. I Jaw American school
desks being landed from shin mt one
OF the towns ~ lower Paraguay Amer
| lean desks and chairs are In demand
| all over South America, hut owing To
their high prices are not generally
used.
Paraguay has very good cedar.
/ much like that ~ our clgnr boxes,
which could be used for the making Of
furniture. a similar wood IL the tlmbo.
foInd In South Paraguay. ~ has a
grain much like the cedar and grows
| 10 great height. II " very Hight, the
Indians using II for troughs and
canoes.
AMERICAN TRADE.
Speaking of our trade with Paraguay.
/ II IN comparatively very small. There
nrc many things In which II might he
Increased. and this matter of furniture
| N one. Cheap furniture II needed II
should be- sent knocked down 20 that IL
| could be put together upon landing.
We should also sell Paraguay cotton
and wooden goods At present 80 per
| cent of such articles ARE furnished by
England ana Germany. There II no
cloth ~ any kind made In Paraguay.
The black wooden rhawlH worn by the
| women come from Germany and Hell
GUM. and the cottonH are chiefly from
England. There IL no reason why they
! should not come from our mills
n II the same with hardware. Tho
| most now sold IN German. although u
~ made after American patterns. and
certain classea ~ articles are sold un-
der American trademarks, The impress
| sion obtains everywhere that the
American hardware IL the best. For
this reason the Germans Initiate n. II
| IN the same with sewing machines, the
German limitations ~ the American
makes being actively pushed. ! mud
the Germans here. NJ everywhere, the
most active commercial element. They
have several large stores In Asuncion.
and they send their travellers 60 the
towns Of the Interior.
The most ~ our business with Para.
| quay ~ done through Huonoa Ayrps,
We have no direct connection with the
merchant. of A-uncion. and have To
pay the Argentincs a toll On all our
| trade. N there was an American bnni,
ut HuenoH Ayrcr with branch here II
would materially help matters and the
bank branch would pay. one Para
Kuaynn importer tells me that he II
selling n gtcht deal % American goods.
lie says that credits are not nj all bad.
and cites ~ an Instance that In buHi-
ness ~ 100000 gold last year he has
lost only $500. and much 81 this he cx-
poets 10 collect.
CONCESSIONS AND STOCK COM.
PANIER.
don't know that much money could
| be made by stock companies In Para
quay. 4 gas plant and an electric
street car plant or an electric lisht
plant nigh, pay In Aauncion. The city
has thirty thousand people. and stiil
uses coal oil. a concession might be-
gotten for electricity, and the street car
lines which are doing fair business
with mules would pay with electric
ears. Coal. however. IL hiFh, aud thu
cost ~ generating the electricity would
be great. Notwithstanding the large
forests, the IRE wood of Asuncion IL
sold in'llttle bundles at the markets. a
| bundle costs nNe cents and the average
houHekcopcr buys her wood from day
10 day ana carries II home along with
her vegetables ana meat.
Paraguay has. am told. good tobac-
co and cotton lands, and plantations
for raising these articles might DO es-
tahliHhcd were II not that there II no
labor 10 work them, The Paragua vans
do not care To work They are poor
enough. but they deHplac ovcr-cserriHe.
They receive very fair wages FOR this
continent. The PnrnRunynn dollar IL
only worth fifteen cents. II often falls
below that, ana II rises and falls every
week. As Ia wages. bricklnycrr get i've
| Of these dollars "A day carpenters the
same, and common workmcn about
three Tracklaycrs on the railroad are
| paid about 81. 90. engineers receive $500
month and conductors are paid $50,
The apparently high wages of tho en-
glnoera come from the fact that they
are usually foreigners. and have Ia
manage the machinery. Collecting
tickets II not skilled labor. and hence
the conductors are Parnguaynns. As
receive from s. to - a month In gold
and board.
AMERICANS IN PARAGUAY.
7 doubt whether there are twenty
Americans all told In Paraguay. have
| already spoken Of our consul, lie II
Mr. John ituiiln from Memphis Tenn,
| He n "a well educated man ana appears
To have made himself popular with the
| government. lie N very proud. among
other things. OF having established thu
consulate In a two story house. of
which there are not a great number In
AHuncion. and II was through his kind
ness that I have photograph OF the
building, The vice consul II Mr., VIII
liam Harrison, white man, who II
also the agent NJ one Of our largest life
Insurance companies In this part Of
| South America, He lives In the city Of
villa Rica, but has also offices In Asun-
clon, lie II married To a Parnguayan
| indy. and has several bright huif-