Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-18
OF INTEREST TO AMERICANS.
Material Matters Well Worthy Our
Attention.

1t will be interesting to American
corn growers to know that for the first
three months of 1899 there was i'm
ported from foreign countries and
coast ports monthly average of 144,-
529 piculs Q9,270,577 pounds) of rice
to supply the demand for cheap bread
stuff for Annoy, China, and adjacent
cities The average price was above
Az cents Mexican (2A cents gold) a
pound. Corn meal, grits and hominy
could be laid down there at price
which would undersell rice during
more than half the year. 1t is only
necessary to introduce the corn pro-
ducts in an intelligent way so as to get
the people to understand their use. A
good demand and an ever increasing
outlet for the surplus corn of our
western states would be created It
would require only a few hundred dol
lars to do this, yet no mill has been
found willing to bear any portion of
the expense. One of the largest con-
Germs in the west, when the PROPOSE
ton was before it. said it had nothing
to give away. and If the Chinese want
ed the meal they could have 1t by pay
ing cash" Wheat flower was intro
duced into China by samples in the
numberless restaurants and now the
consumption is enormous-11,2 7S, 652
pounds in the six months ending
June 80, 1899, an increase of $500, 900
pounds over the same period of 1898.
The first consignment of 10000 head
of Mexican cattle left New Orleans for
Havana this week. Cox & Kayser OF
El Paso, Texas, are reported to have
closed a deal with Ex-Governor Ter
razas of Chihauhau, Mexico, for 5000
head of stock cattle for various Cuban
ranches This deal together with the
above mentioned, will make $4,000
head of Mexican cattle that will pass
through New Orleans during the next
three months for Cuba. 1t Is stated
that there are yet Cuban cattle buyers
in Venezuela. A large number of cat
tie is said to be needed in the provinces
of Puerto Principi Santa Clara and
Havana.
A German export journal published
ut Frankfort gives its readers some
advice by which American merchants
might profit. Both in this country and
IN Germany manufacturers have been
accused of having refused to adapt
goods to the peculiarities of foreign
customers. How important it is that
this should be done appears from the
fact that Germany has captured much
British trade in Russia simply by
catering to the popular taste for red in
wearing. apparel. English sewing
needles have also been ousted in Brazil
because they were wrapped in the old
fashioned black paper. The manufac-
turers of SaXony went in for pink, and
hold the market A French exporter
of high-class leather goods has just
discovered the heather Chinee's anti
pathy for green by the nonsale of his
elegant articles made up in that color
Moral, Leave color fsncies for the
drawing-room. and make money from
the rainbow II the market requires il.
The two representatives of Richard
Won Schaeler & Co. OF Vienna. a lead
ing firm in ,de manufacture Of various
steel and iron goods. who have been
in this country for some six or eigh;
weeks, have returned home, taking
with them data and trade literature
which they collected during their in
spection of iron and steel work in
company with f. A. Gottlieb OF 1888
Liberty street New York. Il is eX-
pected that the result of their visit will
be felt early in the year, as the
/ Austrian firm is to make extensive
improvements in its various shops.
The Electric Street Railway COM
pany of Santiago, Chilli. is to begin
the construction OF an underground
system early next year. The road is