Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-24
MEXICO REACHING
OUT FOR BUSINESS.
Much Expected from Opening Of
The Isthmus OF Tehuante-
pee Railway.
ENTER INTO TRADE TREATIES.
Italians Are Making American Shoes
And Selling Them In
Germany,

Washington, u. c., March Especial
Agent Pepper, OF the department g
commerce and labor has made report
to the bureau of manufactures, on the
Mexican railroad across the isthmus Of
Tehuantepec and It's relation to the
Panama canal. This inter-ocesn line
with its termini and harbor works at
Coatmacoalcos on the Atlantic side and
at Salina Cruz on the Pacific has been
opened to international trade after an
expenditure Of sS5,00O,0O0
limitations are given that Mexico
will now enter upon series of trade
treaties with Pacific countries of South
America TO secure their International
traffic and also TO extend Mexican COM
merce. Through the harbor works at
salina Cruz have not been fully COM
pleted, the trans-shlpment Of cargoes
Is announced to begin there in June,
1908, though Mr.. Pepper believes It can
not be inaugurated until September.
The American Hawaiian Steamship
company Is TO operate nine S,50O-ton
steamers on triangular service touch
ing at San Francisco, Salina Cruz and
Honolulu. On the Atlantic side week
ly steamer service is to be maintained
between Coatzacoalcos and New York
and Coatzacoalcos and New Orleans,
Consul Cunning OF Milan reports TO
the bureau OF manufacturers ON the
methods of Italian manufacturers In
building up their trade In the Philip
pines. Lombardy shipped $3.50 in goods
In 1903; $4,000 in 1904; and for the sy
months ending December, 1905, the
shipments from Milan to the Philippines
amounted to over $4,000 Every arti-
Gle sent by the Italians, The report says,
is being made In the United States and
includes hats, papers eottons, umbrel-
las, boots, silks, Macaroni, paint, hemp,
lamps, medicines, preserves, linen, soap,
pottery and wearing materials. Many
OF the Manila hats coveted by trav-
elers and collectors, the consul adds,
are made In Milan and shipped into the
east by the gross.
american shoes" are also made In
Italy, Vice Consul Schlemmer writes
from Mannheim. Germany, that he has
visited n number of shoe stores In that
city, which advertised American shoes
Some OF the merchants admitted that
their stocks were from Milan. One OF
the shoe store managers was an italian
who said he saw no reason why Ameri-
can shoes should not be made In Italy
lust as we'll as in Massachusetts,,
Special Agent Hutchinson writes to
the bureau Of manufacturers from
Antofagosta describing the shipping IA.
cllities between the United States and
Chile and Argentine, The recent at
tempt to break the combinations
rates from New York to the river
Plata brought the freights on general
merchandise as low as five cents pei
cubic foot, or less than half this rate
from Liverpool. The war" resulted
In the defeat of the competing line anc
the rates from New York TO Bueno'
Ayres have jumped to 10 and 16 cent?
per cubic foot. In Chile 1t is com
mon statement that freight rates from
New York average one-third higher
than from Europe, notwithstanding
that the published rates would indi
cate lust the reverse. The report says
special concessions TO Europeans oper
ate against American shipping an'
predict that with equal ocean trans
portation facilities the foreign trad'
of the United States would forge aheat
more rapidly.
A valuable rubber concession ma
been granted by Nicaragua, report
Consul Ryder Of San Del Norte, nN
which the concessionalres will prVl
$50. 900 gold per year for ten years
while the government Will receive ohi!
$500 In full for the ten years