Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19

bacco. cacao, hides, skins and other agri-
cultural products increased in d CORE
spending ratio.
The total exports for 1906, according 70
the best estimates, will be S2G0,OO0.G0, as
against 500, Goa, 900 for the year 1893, while
the imports Will be $lJ5 100000, as against
S145,0OO,c00 in 1905.
In 1904 the exports were $197 $4,000
The revenues of the custom houses OF
Brazil for the first nine months of 1906
show a very large increase in the value of
imported goods, which, however, is due
very largely to the purchase of materials
and machinery abroad for the public works
and improvements that are now going on
at Rio de Janefro and other cities.
Coffee and Rubber Output.
The worlds production of coffee in 1905
was 19,I17,0U0 bags. The yearly average ex-
ported from Brazil is about L., 900 bags.
The returns up to November . indicate
that the exports for the current year will
be much larger than the average and will
amount to considerably more than I3CO0.000
bags. Up to November % there had al
ready been an increase of 1,S23,S61 bags
over the same period of the previous year,
with an increased value of S11.JOo, Is. The
total value of the coffee exported up to
November % was $74,99S.2 05. OF this $.o
943, 4';i was shipped to the United States.
We buy more coffee from Brazil than any
other nation.
The rubber crop for the season of 1906
amounts to $3.50 tons thus far, as against
500 for 1893 and 1,110 tons for 1904. The
value OF the crop tor 1906 will be about
Sit,otJNO. OF this 81 ,S;1,JS6 has already
been shipped to the United States and prob
ably our imports of the 1905 crop will be
about 5000, oG0 worth.
The territory Of Acre, over which there
was controversy between Brazil ana Be-
livia. is one of the richest rubber fields in
the world, and since the question of owner
snip was settled has been rapidly develop
ed The dispute reached an acute stage i'll
1901 owing to the tact that the government
or BoliVla granted to an Anglo American
syndicate extraordinary rights, powers and
privileges in the whole of the disputed ter
rltory. After an animated correspondence
the controversy came to a climax in 1893.
The syndicate referred to renowned all of
ITS rights and claims for a consideration of
SJIOGC0 and Bolivia signed a treaty
November II, 1908, relinquishing all her
claims to an area of $1,000 square miles
upon the River Madeira and other branches
OF the Amazon, comprising the territories
OF Upper Acre, Upper Purus and Upper
Jurua to Brazil for consideration of S1O-
oVo00o and certain valuable commercial
privileges. This treaty was promptly rati-
fled by the Brazilian congress and the con-
gress of Bolivia.
Friendly to Arbitration.
Several other boundary disputes between
Brazil and French Guiana, British Guiana
and Peru have been submitted to arbtra-
ton. In these matters the republic of Bra
I'll has exercised a beneficent example for
its neighbors in South America. 1t has not
only stood for arbitration a.; principle,
but as practice, and has consistently Of
fered to submit all diplomatic controversies
to the arbitration of her neighbors to pro-
mote peace and goodwill among the Amer
lean nations.
Brazil has been the strongest supporter
of the Monroe doctrine among all the Amer
lean republics and on every occasion has in
dorsed the attitude of the United States
concerning that proposition.
While the rubber fore IS acquired from
Bolivia in the Acre territory are the most
extensive and productive in the world the
government of Brazil has granted equal
rights to foreigners and natives, although it
has refused to give concessions of large
areas to powerful corporations of any coun-
try. 1t is considered better policy to en-
courage individuals and small companies
Each applicant is varded a certain area
of the rubber 70. and is allowed to tap
the trees and re. he sap under reguIa-
tons enforced by official inspectors. The
government receives 70 per cent of the re-
turns rental.
The city of Manaos, the metropolis of the
Amazon. is the headquarters of the rubber
trade and is rapidly growing. 1t will soon
become one of the most important cities in
South America. Para, 1.-The rubber port" a
the mouth of the Amazon, is also developing
very rapidly and when It's new docks are
completed it will have one of the best ports
in South America.
To Reorganize Army and Navy.
One of the most important features of the
policy of the present administration will be
the reorganization of the army and the
navy. Brazil now has two armCrcd cruisers
of 900 tons and five smaller vessels all of
them old and obsolete, the most recent hav-
ing been built in 1898. 1t is proposed to
create a modern fleet of three f.-t-cass
battleshipS, three armored cruisers, three
fast protected cruisers for scouting pur-
poses, and number Of transports, DESTROY