The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-22
Business With American Countries
South of United States Has
Steadily Improved.
TRANSPORTATION is BETTER.
Construction of Railway Lines Con
Meeting Mexico With United
States Has Accomplished
Much for Commerce.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Washington. July 2l.-EXports from the
United States to all American countries and
Islands south of our boundaries snow
marked increase in the fiscal year just END
ed and exceed those Of any other year III
the history of our commerce. This state
ment, Just announced by the Treasury Bu-
reau of Statistics, is especially interesting
in view of the various efforts being made
for closer business commercial and trans
portation relations between the Un1teo
States and her neighbors in the South.
New Lines of Steamers.
New lines of steamers have been put on
between the Pacific Coast OF the united
States and the western coast of Mexico.
Central and South America; q recently pub
lished statement indicates that great hnan-
cial interests of the United States have OBJ
tanned control of the nearly completed
transcontnental line connecting. Argentina
with Chile: the establishment of additional
direct steamship service between the East
ern coast of the United States and South
American ports is under discussion and the
opening of an isthmian canal would give a
straight line of water communication from
the Eastern coast of the United States to
| the Western coast of South America.
All of these movements in the direction
of closer relations between the United
States and her neighbors add interest to the
statement that our exports to those countries
| in 1901. are larger than those of any pre-
ceding year. and to some figures just pre-
sented by the Bureau of Statistics showing
| the imports of each of the South American
| countries at the latest date and the exports
| from the United States to each of those
| countries in 1901.
The growth of exports from the United
! States to Central South America has not
! kept pace in the past with the growth In
, other directions. The total exports to South
l America in 1900 for instance, were no more
| than those OF $780, being in each of those
years In round numbers 3S0OO,O0O. while the
| to Central America, the total exports from
| the United States to the Central American
States being. in 1880 and $780, in each case
| about $5,0O0000.
Large Exports to Mexico.
| 1t Is to Mexico and the West Indies thai
| our exports in the decade from 1880 to 19Ot
| show the greatest increase. being: To ths
West Indies in 1890. $s3,00o,00o: in 1900. sg7,
100000. and to Mexico, in 1880, 1900, 600; anc
in 1900 s34.OC0.0O0.
The fiscal years 1900 and 1901 show much
| greater Increase in our sales to our neigh
| bors at the South than in any preceding
years. The total exports to Mexico, Cen
trail and South America, and the West Indie,
in 1899 were 1903 900 900; in 1900. sl27 oO0, 600
1901 are 35.CO0,00O greater than in 1899. Will,
greater than in 1893.
The Importance of satisfactory transports
| ton facilities Is illustrated by a study o
the growth Of our export trade with thu
countries of South America. Prior to tn
construction of railway lines connecting
Mexico with the United States, our export
| to Mexico seldom reached $10.000.000. By 1s9
they were s2O.0O0,OO0: by 1899. s25 OO0, 900; II
1900 s34.Ooo.0O0. and in 1901. s37, 10000
/ Where transportation IL Good.
To the West Indies the transportation
system Is much more satisfactory than t
the South American countries and to thos,
islands our exports have grown from $34,
900 coo in 1891 to $4,000 600 in 1901. To Contra
and South America. with which steamship
communication has not been satisfactory
the growth has been less, the figures beinI
in 1860 practically the same as in 1890. Will
the figures for 1900 and 1901 show in eacl
case a considerable increase. This increas
is especially notable in the exports to tn
countries ON the Western Coast of Soutl
America reached by the recently establishe
lines connecting the western. coast of tn
| United States with that of South and Cen
trail America, and which were put into op
Grafton about the beginning of the presen
year.
The figures of our exports to South Amer
lea show an increase of nearly 100 per cen
to Peru in eleven months ending with May
1901. as compared with the same period Q
the fiscal year 1900. and nearly 100 per cen
to Chile in the same time. OF the increas
|, | of Sc, 100000 in exports to South America 1
1901 as compared with 1900. more than two
thirds is to the countries on the wester
| coast.