The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-02-25
SOME TRADE FACTS.
Proportion of South American Com
merce Held by United States.
While Trade with Countries on Car
ibbeRn Sen la Fairly Satisfactory
That with Countries Farther
south In Very Poor indeed. :

D0h Ah NGEy AOOE AhuGGus
The recent departure from Wash
ington of the special train carrying
the United States and numerous
other delegates to the approaching
Pan-American conference to be helC
at the City of Mexico lends especia
interest to some figures on the com
merce of the United States with tn,
territory at the south, which tn,
treasury bureau of statistics has com
piled for the convenience of the
United States members of that con
gress. The Importance of develop
ment of our commerce in this partic
ular direction is pointed out by this
publication, which shows that oul
exports have shown less growth t.
the countries of Central and Soutl
America than to any other parts O.
the world.
THE commerce of the United
States with the American countrie,
lying south of her borders," say
the opening page of this discussion
has long been an object of solicitudt
to her statesmen, economists anC
business men. With the English.
speaking people of American terri
tory lying upon the north her com
mercial relations have rapidly grown
and proven mutually satisfactory
With those of another language, oc.
cupying the contiguous territory al
the south, the growth has been slow.
er and less satisfactory, and as the
distance increases the growth de.
eases To British North America
the United States supplies so per cent
of the total imports for consumption;
to Mexico, equally adjacent, bu,
speaking another language than our
own, 40 per cent; to the Contra.
American states, next removed by
distance, though readily reached BY
water and now being tapped by rail.
ways, 35 per cent; to Colombia, Q
trifle father removed, but equally ac.
cessible by direct water communica.
ton, 80 per cent; to Venezuela
equally accessible, 81 per cent; tc
the West Indies, which lie in close
proximity, but which have been uI
to the present time controlled by
commercial nations whose policy il
many cases has been to retain theiI
commerce for their own people, 2(
per cent; to the Guianas, also readi
ly reached by water, 25 per cent. o:
the imports of British Guiana, L;
per cent. of those of Dutch Guiana
and hnt lass than e Dar o,- -
of French Guiana.
up to this point the study of the
growth of commerce between the
United States and other American
countries is fairly satisfactory. Be.
ginning with SO per cent. of the i'm.
port trade of Canada, 40 per cent
of that of Mexico, and ranging down
along the Gulf of Mexico anc
Caribbean sea, a fairly satisfactory
share of the commerce of those coun.
tries is enjoyed by the people of the
United States; though it will be con
ceded that her people have a RICH,
to expect a larger share of the com.
merce of the countries lying so neal
at hand, especially in view of the fac,
that our purchases from them are
larger than our sales to them
Even this somewhat unsatisfactory
of trade with the countrie.
bordering upon the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean sea is, however
gratifying when compared with the
traffic relations of the United States
with the countries of South America
upon the Atlantic and Pa.
citic oceans. OF the total imports OF
South America, 81 per cent. is
taken by the countries bordering
upon the two oceans, and but 10 pei
by those upon the Caribbean
the eastern coast of South Amer.
lea we find Brazil importing in 1896
goods to the value of over sos, oOO,O 0
of which the United States supplied
about 10 per cent; Uruguay and Par
$26,000,0 900, of which u share
was less than Z per cent; and Ar.
gentine, S112, 900 1000, of which about
per cent. was from the United
States; while a tour of the Pacific
coast shows imports into Chill of S3s..
100000, Peru $780, 900, Bolivia S11..
and Ecuador $1,000, 900; the
proportion from the United States
averaging about 10 per cent. Thus
the northern coast of South America.
fronting on the Caribbean sea, i'm.
ports goods to the value of $4,000.
OoO' Of which we supply an average OF
70 per cent; the eastern coast, front.
ing upon the Atlantic, 1878, OOo, 900
and the Pacific coast, $50, 900, 900; OF
which our proportion is in each case
about 10 per cent.
Corporations in England.