The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-28
about 10 cents pair. understand
there is a demand for flannel kangas.,

about 10 cents a pair. / understand
there is a demand for flannel kangasf
printed In colors There undoubtedly
would be a large sale for American
kangas II the patterns were right.
American. Goods sold by Foreigners,
Tho bulk OF the American goods
brought into this part OF the worldSis
through Europeans. There arc soma
American firms. but the most OF tile
profits of our trade go to outsiders.
There is man Of Marseilles named
Klein. who Is doing an enormous busi-
ness in American cbttons throughout
Eastern Africa. He has a branch
house here, and one at Mombasa. and
his agents are travelling through Abyss
sinia. Somaliland. British East Africa,
Uganda and German East Africa. He
has his cotton made togorder iii Ameri-
ca In pieces Of forty-two yards each.
and he brings q shlpload OF about a 900
tons across the ocean every year.
met ono oftIiletn's agents on Lake
Victoria. This was Eurasian, who
had just como from Bismarckburg on
,Sthe southern end of Lake Tansanyikas
and was then on his way to Mombasa.
He had gone to Lake ,Tanganyika,t to
Investigate the confiscation of $4,000
\
Klein trades a great8deal of fAnlerf-
ran. cotton for ivory Tile elephants
lgtusks are carried on the heads OF
| pcrters d own TO the coast. or they8aro
drought to Lake Tanganyika and sent
to Mombasa by the Uganda railway.
The ivory in question lad been bought
| in German East aAfrica and the $porters
|5were taking a short cut through the
Congo territory to get 1t to tile coast.
1,.o
and the Belgian officials claimed y the
Iiyory on the gound that the porters
l8wcre ssmuEglers. Txlein's agent Ssuc- I
cecdcd In getting tho ivory BAG and
I.it88ist9nows coming here to Ianalb bar. 4
across country on the heads Of porters.
lit will be transferred to boat at,,tha
seacoast and brought here for ship.
n,ent. .ss33
How Ivory u bought. Isl y
4 asked this young man asst thas
selling price OF ivory. He tells me
that the ordinary price in the erlor /
4 for $tusk OF $50 pounds is 3about8.1208
| rupees, org "a 0. Il IA Il Mombnsa tho same
tusk would be worth $500 sor33 s SOC. The
ivory varies in price, ccord nj 81 to los
Scality, and that which is worth = 6scents
a. pound &on Lake Tangnnyika 5i,vil sell
i buyln ivory Of the natives tlleacur,
rent money is American cotton sheet
ling. which Isl turned In at tho rate of
is cents a yard. The Same cloth sells
4 Lin Europe for about cents a yard.
THE European and Indian cloths are
icheaper, and tho traders, n try & to put
IgthemS IN ins tead OF TIM America il. Many
1 of these cloths me from Bombay.
4 They are 4 so thin that one can soc
through Them. The German cloths are
little better. TAI llas g$
ourgood $ are known as AmericanisalI
over East Africa and it hey ares tile !
4 only kind that reallY sell hellselyo 4
Il This man III elm Keeps a big stoGls8sp
Americani at number Of inteTior
l trading stations, He has sa bran of-S
Y flee at ia bora Which lies about mid
4 way between here and Lake Tnnga}t-
yika.4where he has now someth hing Ike
4 $4O,O0OgsyY orth Of Alnericani q on hand.
Il This gives one.an n d ga @ the eX tent OF
4 the trade. indeed, hssdemand Is such
5Ethat I q not hesitate to "a vlse q irs
American n cotton factors to study B the
lSlnarlxet and to send 81 their agents 4 to-
\ Africa to illVestl rate tho pos lbil itys o.
5Ebuilding up al bill n business n n oolored
ttons and tprin q goods III ys 8as
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