The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-05-18
HORSES FOR MEXICO.
Increased Demand for Animals from
the United States.
There HaA Been Quite q Change In
This Item of Trade Between the
Two Coun triep-Othsr Bx-
pOrtAtiOns.

of cattle were reared in Mexico for the
United States, and Is years ago in
northern Mexico alone, on an area of
5000 square miles, there were l,5O0,-
600 cattle, 2,500.000 coats. 1900 GO
horses and 100000 sheep. Ii IL, ye.sI
1890 there were imported into the
United States. many OF hem '-,xr. Mr<
leo. 3S ,24S horses, on which there o
duty of $50 each and the aggregate
value of which was nearly S2,000,000.
In the same year the number of horses
exported from the United States. chief
~ 10 Europe. was 1901, valued a $780,
010, "A difference in the balance of trade
of S1.300.000. 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 100000. In the
fiscal year ending January l. 1898. 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 5l,150,
the importation of horses representing
100000 in value and the expectation of
horses representing total in excess of
s.. O0O, 900.
There has been of recent years n
steady increase in this item of Ameri-
can foreign commerce, and it seems GER
tain 10 increase still further in view of
the fact that there is throughout the
West Indies and in many South Ameri
can countries a Gearth of horses at a
time when the home demand for Amer
lean horses has visibly decreased. Di-
rect communication with Mexico j.
easier than with any other country %
which N,->-s are sent by the United
States, and aye need be no SUNRISE
therefore, dealers in hor~.s say, il there
snnuld be an increase in This item of
American commerce hereafter.
OF $1,000 horses exported from the
United States last year, % 900 were sent
to Great Britain, nearly 5000 to Ger
many, 1900 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. 1000 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. 600,
to Germany. 81 100000. to other Euro
pean countries $77O00a to British
North America $SS3,OOO. to the West
Indies and Bermuda 1892 900, and to
Mexico and Central America 100000.
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
as many to Asiatc countries. For
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 /. 1887. nearly 5000 Anne rican
horses were shipped to these islands,
and the decline i'll 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
# the island. Temporarily. too.
number of horses were withdrawn from
agricultural pursuits for the require
ments of the Cuban cavalry. and some,
too, were purchased for the needs of thc
Spanish cavalry. and since the restOra-
ton of peace in Cuba this demand Will
have to be made up by importations
from the United States. But to Mexico
rs permanent and charging market
for American horses dealers in this
country look chiefly, and by the agricul
tural census of last year il was shown
that there are now more horses in Tex
rs than in any other American state,
the total number being 100000. Hi
nois and Iowa follow Texas in the Or
Ter named.--N. y. Sun.