Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-20
EFFECT OF THE WAR.
On South African Commerce
of The United STATES.
Next TO England the Uaifed States
was The Most Important Trader
With the Subject of
The Bureau OF Statistics.

| feet of the TransvaaI war upon the
commerce of the United States with
South Africa is found in the facts pre-
sented by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics in its monograph entitled Com
mercial Africa in 1899" This shows
that the imports of the Transvaal in
1897 were, according to the best esti-
mates over 100000 600. of which about
SS5,0O0,0O0 We're from Great Britain,
S13.5OO,O0O from the United States,
! $5,000,000 from Germany and the re-
/ mainder from Belgium, Holland and
France All of these importations
! reach the republic, which has no sea-
/ ports, through the ports of Cape Town,
! Port Elizabeth, Port Alfred and East
London in Cape Colony; Durham in
Natal and Lorenzo Marquee in
Portuguese East Africa. The direct
importations into the TransvaaI
| through Cape Colony in 1897 were s2O,-
363,572, and through the other ports of
Cape Colony, probably an equally
large amount; those through Durham
and other ports in Natal 81, ,339, ,042, ana
! those through Lourenzo Marquee in
Portuguese territory, s12, ,936, ,2S7. In
addition to this. large quantities of
goods imported into Cape Colony, Ma
tai and Portuguese East Africa for.
consumption in those colonies were
afterwards sold for consumption in
the Transvaal thus making up the
grand total of over 500, 600, 900. It
will he Obca~1-ad fro--, this .+o+o,,,.,.+
that up to the present time the i'm
portation of goods into the Trans
vaal has largely passed through the
British ports of Cape Colony and Natal
which will now be closed against com
nerce for that state, thus temporar~
lily changing the course of the sup
plies which the large population there
located must continue to have. The
closing of these ports will compel the
Beers either to obtain their supplies
- imports through Portuguese terri
TORY or else live upon what they can
obtain from their own territory and
that OF the colonies which they may
invade, since both the South African !
republic and the Orange Free State |
are surrounded by British territory or /
every side except at the east where /
Portuguese East Africa intervenes be |
tween the Boer states and the Indian |
ocean. The total value of goods III !
transit for the South African repub- |
lie and the Orange Free State pass
ing through Portuguese East Africa in
1897 was in round terms $140OOO 900,
and the exports from the United
States to Portuguese East Africa
amounted in 1897 to $1,S0O 600, and in
1898 to 81, ,S97, 900. OF this expectation
from the United States. very
large proportion was breadstuffs,
to 1,227, 600; manufactures
of cotton, $13,S11; manufactures of
iron and steel; $151.54S; Illuminating
oil, 416,620 gallons; breadstuffs, $103,-
S13; manufactures of wood, $142,1S9,
and manufactures of tobacco. $f.5S2.
AS a very large proportion of the
goods reaching the ports of Portu-
guese East Africa last year was trans
shipped to the Transvaal it may be
assumed that practically all OF the :
goods above named were for that ter
tory.
AS already indicated however. the
FransvaaI has up to this time taken {
| large share of its imports from and
through the British colonies of Cape
Colony and Natal Imports into the
cape of Good Hope from the United
states in 1897 amounted to over $1O,- t
700, 900 out of a total of $50, 100000, and e
# this probably one-half was intend h
d for consumption in the TransvaaL h
The imports into Natal from the :,
Jnited States in 1897 amounted to 4
{. 200, 900, out of a total of $50. 0GG 600
nd it is probable that a considerable
hare of this was destined coi the
'ransvaal. since the rail distance from
he chief port OF Natal to the Trans
aal is much less than that through
he ports of Cape Colony.
What the general effect of the war 'e
ill be upon the commerce of the VI
nited States with the South African u
epublic. which has become by reason u
f its mining industries and popula- n
on so large a consumer, will natu- A
ally be a subject of some specuIa- Ell
on. AS already indicated fully re
,ur-fifths of the imports into the he
in 1897 came from Great
ritain. the total importation from
reat Britain in that year being estt-
ated at e17O12OOO. or $50. SOC 600.
hile the next largest source of i'm ~
)rtations was the United States, ~
ON which the importations are estt- pa
ated at 600, or $13. .S23, 900. af
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