The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-22
OUR TRADE WITH THE o4RGEN7ZkE REPUBLN
Fresh Facts About American Goods
and oAnerican Mercbants
South Of the Equator.

wfndnils man continued the commercial
fraveler. "a nsAn whose orders were aoous
80 windy a. fss mills.
"you knsw what nssd there IS "a the
Argentine for virsnstss. The demand Is
Increasing sEstoDgf4s0t the slEt1@rn parts
es South AHerasz- ard fas windmill buzz
ness Il worfs csitzva;irx. / saw this aaE
called gpon sAs men who are a. The head
oz csse Of osar osSxess wlfxsza4A establish
u1enfs. They aeabfs6 my statements, hsst
said they woesa9 b. gssS 70 have ne sell
oE csnssnsSsoc. / asked sEasm faw . MODEL
OF tfae It'll 10 carry with ne, bsst they re-
p.sea thai they eossia net bother 10 make
one, sad fAal Il could not eel them froEa
TIE pictures and catalogues neess nor ssy
81. ~ FIRST Il saoagns could not accspE
s.s4r offer. but finally took the CATALOGUES.
Al BusFsox Ayfss. through my aeQua.Est-
anea there ] persuaded ons Of tire chief
importers OF agricultural machinery 10
take tas agency for the milf. HE ordered
one and sold II before IL arrived. he or
Gers1 two others At once. and within two
years sod abost thirty mills THIS wAs
during the days Of the recent business de-
preston when the Argentine farmers had
very little money. II Was. ] thought, very
geGd Wei. al I rece.yed for those thirty
sEsi.-s vas ms commission ca tne first mil.
which amounted to less than SIS.
Letter on / made contract with the
HgsIos Ayres ssTm 70 take loo mills a year,
eBd xas told that ! nalghE order twenty
mills 10 be shipped at once. windmiix.
you know. run INTO lot OF money and
the Baenos Ayres people wsn.sd slxfy
eayS credit, so that they should not have
to pay FOR the gos<.s before they got taaEa.
The American windmill man objected TO
that and telsg-aphed that they must have
the money In New York before the mills
were snlpped-
THE BBenos Ayres firm, which was one
- g.
finally teiegraphsd that they would pay
The cash. To This no answer came for
fourteen days. ard a. that time b cable
was received stating thar the windmill
men could not ca BILE. bat would write ex-
plantations. ] waited SIX weeks for that
ritter, ard with IL came a formal contract
fer 80 mills year dated four months back
and not a mill yet shipped. By this time
the season for selling wtndmils mad almost
passed and few more mills c9u.d be sold
that year.
When I showed the Argentine Arm
the letter and contract they threw the
thing zip at once, saying they could not
trade with people who did business that
way That firm Was composed Of Eng
Eshmen and IL was backed Up By some
OF the biggest factories of England. The
windmill people had already sold it 81
nil.s ard had received their money. The
order was for more than $4,000 worth
Of stuff year. with the prospect CT a
great increase"
American PIews.
What kinds o. agricultural machin-
cry are sold in South America l asked.
Chiefly p.ows and tEreshing machines.
was the reply.
This most ef the piows are Of a cheap
make. such that the American farmer
would not give them room I'm his fence
corner. Silt enc firm In Buenos Ayres
sells 100 p.ows a year and many are
sold In Chile and Peru.
Then there is a big sale OF our steel
tined hay forks, shoYels aud axes. and
q little American hardware. The Afneri-
can hardware IL generally considered the
beSt. but England and Germany set the
trade because they know bow to work
the field Our American factors should
canvass this territory just as they Go the
United States. but they will have 20
learn many things before they can make
much Roadway. They mus; recognize
the fact that business honor ard bust
ness brains are not bounded by geo.
graphical Tines and that they exist south
OF the equator as well north OF IL.
They mast sell on credit Other nations