Daily camera., 1899-06-09
HORSES FOR MEXICO.
Increased Demand for Animals from
the United States
There HaA Been Quite q ChaAGs in
Tht~ Item of Trade Between the
Two COun ntrAs.-OtASr Bx-
pOrtAtiORA,

It used to be said that large numbers
of cattle were reared in Mexico for the
United States, and Is years ago in
northern Mexico alone, on an area of
100000 square miles, there were 1.5O0,
900 cattle, 2,500,OOO goats, 1000 900
horses and 100000 sheep. In the year
1890 there We're imported into the
United States, many of them from Mex
leo, 3S,24S horses, on which there was a
duty of $50 each and the aggregate
value of which was nearly S2,0O0,0O0.
In the same year the number of horses
exported from the United States. chief
ly to Europe, was 3,501, valued at $780,.
900, difference in the balance of trade
of 100000. Since then, especially
with Mexico, the balance of trade in
horses has changed radically, and now
the average annual sales of American
horses in Mexico reach 500 600 In the
fiscal year ending January l, 1895, the
number of horses imported into the
United States had fallen to 2,SS6 and
the number of horses exported from
the United States had risen to 51.15O.
the importation of horses representing
100000 in value and the expectation of
horses representing total in excess of
Sc. 900, 900.
There has been of recent years
steady increase in this item of Ameri-
can foreign commerce, and it seems GER
tain TO increase still further in view of
the fact that there is throughout the
West Indies and in many South Ameri
can countries a dearth of horses at
time when the home demand for Amer
lean horses has visibly decreased. Di-
rect communication with Mexico is
easier than with any other country 20
which horses are sent by the United
States, and there need be no surprise,
therefore. dealers in horses say, if there
should be an increase in this item of
American commerce hereafter.
OF $1,000 horses exported from the
United States lastyear % 900 were sent
to Great Britain, nearly 5000 to Ger
many, $500 to other European coun-
tries, France excepted (there is prac-
tically no expectation of American
horses to France. $500 to Canada,
British North America and the Klon-
dixie, 1900 to the West India islands
and Bermuda. and 1000 to Mexico and
Central America. The value of the
horses sent to England was $4,000, 900,
to Germany, 81, 200, 900, to other Euro
pean countries s77O.OO1 to British
North America $685. 900, to the West
Indies and Bermuda $132,OOO, and to
Mexico and Central America $1O2, 900.
The trade in American horses with
South America can be said only to have
begun, amounting last year to only 81
horses, while five times as many were
sent TO Africa and more than ten times
American horses there would appear to
be an assured market in the West In
dies since the restoration of peace in
Cuba. for during the fiscal year ending
July 1, 1897. nearly 5000 American
horses were shipped ~ these islands.
and the decline in the year succeeding
is ascribed generally to the unsettled
condition of affairs in Cuba and to the
practically enforced abandonment of
agricultural operations on many parts
of the island. Temporarily, too, a
number of horses were withdrawn from
agricultural purs,''s fer the require
ments of the Cuban cavalry. and some,
too. were purchased for the needs of the
Spanish cavalry. and since the restora-
tion of peace in Cuba this demand will
have TO be made up by importations
from the United States. But to Mexico
as permanent and enlarging market
for American horses dealers, in this
country look chiefly, and by the agricul-
tural census of last year it was shown
that there are now more horses in Tex
as than in any other American state,
the total number being 100000. Hi
nois and Iowa follow Texas in the Or
der named.-N. Y. Sun.