El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-05

causei delay of six weeks and the
cost of another set of tools, as they
could not be bad here. This has oc-
Cured In five instances.
Consul Pitcairn writes that the i'm
ports of American petroleum at Ham
burg have jumped in a single year
from S3 ,OOO 900 to So, 900,0 900. At Not
tinghsm. Consul Mcfarland was talk
ing with a local manufacturer who
ships goods on great'scale to China.
SPY the way" asked this Englishman,
'.are you Americans not making great
efforts in China?' The consul ammo
tates thus:
This question voices the apprehen-
sion felt, especially toward American
competition, viewed in the light of q
decrease of British exports, mainly of
wooden and cotton, in 1897. of SO, 500,
600 to Brazil, $40, 600, 900 to Argentine,
IS 500, 900 to China and S15, 900, 900 to
British India as compared with enor-
NOUS American increases.
Writing from Chemnitz, Consul Mon
Afghan reports that very many of the
smaller cities of Germany, not yet
equipped with light and power plants.
are about to establish this service, and
he says this will furnish fine opening
for American enterprise, if the oppor
tunity be taken. AS to some other
matters he remarks:
1t is a source of wonder that the Ger
mans, in many ways as practical as any
people on earth, have not adopted
American locks. House after house,
factory after factory, have gone up.
equipped with locks little less cum ber-
some than those of the middle ages.
Keys weighing from an ounce upwards
have to be lugged around by anyone
wanting to enter his house without
calling q servant. We should be able
to sell a great many ornamental woods
for finishing and decorating purposes.
Our tools, too, so much simpler and
better than the ungainly and clumsy
ones used here, ought to make their
way among people willing to adopt
new, If it promises to
pay.
Consul Fleming reports an interest
ing talk at Edin burgh with the chief
engineer of a large Lanarkshire fac
tory This engineer, machinist OF
twenty-five years experience, was at
one time employed in the New York
Central's locomotive works. He told
the American consul that an American
machinist in those days turned out
twice as much work in a given time as
the British machinist of today. He
Mean time, and especially during the
pact two years, the proprietors of en-
CINE and machine works in this coun-
try have been, by foreign competition,
awakened to the necessity of discard
inc some of their British machinery
in favor of American labor-saving ap-
psratus. The result is that few well
works in the United King
dom are now without a considerable
of such apparatus, and the
is constantly increasing. |
That it should thus increase is only ma
tural. for this American machinery re- |
,ommepds itself at once. My present |
employer were induced to try Amer |
can machinery only about year ago.
They now have five machines in use, |
while another of the same kind is at
present on it's way over from New
can machinery used by them will
1t least double within the next twelve |
months.
Ell Paso needs manufactures. The
is on the Threshold of great pos
Utilities and those cities that are in
position to establish foreign connec-
ions will reap the harvest. The citi-
ems of Ell Paso should exert all of the
energies that they possess so to
trengthen the chamber of commerce.
hat it can secure the location of
plants within our bor-
ers.