Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-24

commercial travellers. our drummers
who go to Spain should be able to speak
the language They should carry full
line of samples and should expect to
do their business by talking rather than
by letters and catalogues. The Span
lard reads little, but ne likes 10 talk
and is always ready TO look at goods
Theoretically the commercial traveller Is
expected to pay tax In Spain, but he
seldom does So
There is also good opening in Portp-
gal but the drummer who goes there
must call on the governor Of the first
port at which he stops and get a resi-
dence permit This Will cost him 81,
and II he establishes himself for gen.
eral business he will have to pay tax
Of from $3.50 to $3.50 per annum.
OUR INVASION OF ITALY.
The American drummer viii have lit
tie trouble In Italy If he speaks French
or Italian, or oven Spanish. He viii
find a wide-awake country and one that
Is doing an enormous amount Of farm
ing. mining and manufacturing, Italy
IL three times as big as Indiana and its
population Is more than one-third that
Of the United States. II is country
OF wealth. Notwithstanding the many
statements that IL Is poor. It's foreign
trade amounts TO more than half bill
lien dollars year, and It buys almost
$500 900 600 worth NJ goods annually one
tenth of its purchases being from the
United States. We send Italy farm ma
chinery farm tools. food products and
raw materials In the shape of cotton
and other things. The country has two
million spindles In its cotton mills, and
they turn out a product Of 100000, 600 a
year. There are $4,000 hands employed
In these cotton factories and 10000
hands In the wooden mills A large
business Is done IN iron and steel and
also in silk and -four.
At present the branches Of our trade
which are selling most are those dealing
In heavy farm machinery. Italy has
something like fifty million acres of
farms. and although parts OF the coun-
try, like the plains Of Lombardy. are
well cut UP by mulberry plantations and
irrgating bitches. our hay rakes and
reapers and mowers can be used. The
McCormicks. the Deerlnes and mum
Der of other harvester companies have
their agents on the ground. and they
tell me their trade ia increasing. There
Is considerable business done In cleo
trical machinery by the General Elec-
trio company and the Westinghouse
company, Many OF the towns already
have electric railroads and electric
lights. and telephones are being put in
almost everywhere.
There is an American I'm Florence who
Is making carbide for acetylene gas and
there are American importers in Milan
and Genoa.
| am told that II would pay we'll TO
omen American warehouses ir
Genoa and Milan, Genoa has direct
connection with the United States and
II is to large extent the comm arcial
center OF italy. II has one of the
best harbors OF the Mediterranean sea.
having spent something like $40 900, 600
during the present generation on harbor
improvements. This Is to be still far
ther increased by a breakwater which
VIII cost about $6,0000O0. | understand
That American contractors have offered
to undertake the job and to accept
bonds In payment therefor.
Milan has something like 500 900 peo-
PIE IT Is the center of trade for the
Lombardy plains and Is n splendid
place for the sale Of farming tools and
farm machinery II has many factories
and its wholesale houses have connec-
ton with every part OF Italy. A ware
mousse here could show its goods to peo-
pie from all parts OF the country, and