The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-03
MADE
GOODS IN FRANCE
Maeh Farm Machinery is Pur-
chased in This Country.
TRADE on THE INCREASE
REAPERs, MOWERS AND Hay
RAKEs IN GREAT DEMAND.

washington, june 2--In further
series Of extracts from the forthcoming
volume two Of commercial relations.
dealing with United States t-ade in
france Consul Britain Of Nantes notes
the dsVei opment of the trade in Amer
lcan machinery in western France.
Dlfing me past season, he saSs. about
SUI reapers. mowers and horse hay
rakss arrived a that port. American
mowers give good satisfaction. and the
increased prices asked Cor farm labor
VIII stimulate the sale of such ma
chinery IN the future The American
1--WE tll94ei; vas q common sight in the hay
ne us iasL- summer q Ees-ard to the
advantage gained sJr exhibiting ma
chimes, the consul s SSH
LAST month a re9tesent tive of a
New england factory made an exhibit
ton of meat choppers in one of the
Nantes stores. and. tfiurfnsr tho after
noon about twenty of various sizes
were sold. The Nantes horse has since
sold more than 200 Of these machines.
- some company were TO make an ex--
nlbit or 'Friugers and show their wcg.lz
1nS, au satisfied it would be found a
profitable enterprise. There are no
Nrlngers sold or offered for sale mere
with the exception of a few heavy Eng
lish machines
Consul Covert 9f Lyons says The
houses of this district, which some
years ago furnished fine French hard
ware TO toe United States, have almost
entirety lost that trade withil the last
Two decades, ana hey are enabled 10
mold their OWL here 3nly on a protective
lar1m- American stoves. base sbt1rDeFs
and smaller heatig stoves have IA
steady market here the French make
De-h8 unable to replace them4
Best in the World.
American saws and other wood
cutting instruments are pronounced the
best ia the world, because Americans
are the greatest wood-using people
Agricultural implerasnts of American
pattern and bearing an American name
are met within every County fair. and
are higi1ly priced. They are often made
y -france' on account of the high taCiff
1uty- Farmers tell me that they prefer
TO buy TIE Ohio or Illinois harvesting
and having machines Notwithstanding
the Increased cost"
Consul Tourges of Bordeaux says:
The fdStest time made by any railway
it IS said is on the road between this
city and Bav0nne, where a run OF I23
miles lis made every day in 128 min
uteS. ~ is quite to- the credit of Amer
lean mechanics thai the honor of max
locomotives
The consul notes, as a curious fact.
that one of the chief exports from BOr-
deaux to the United States consists Of
preserved forms of pr0ducts which are
groa n in the greatest abundance in the
United states. and are often much su-
pertor in quality. Prominent among
these - canned or bottled peas and
string Deans There is not a particle
OF diference between them and the
products of American gardens. except
that the French beans and peas are OF
the smaller variety and are put up
while they are but haH matured and
very soft; also they are packed with
ion ffsa
cans are not filled. by ma ehfnery. and
the vegetables are not handled with a
scoop shovel, everytking being done By
hand, and the wages OF the girls who
appearance Of the bottles as on the
number filled.