Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-28
CONSULAR NOTES.

The government of Brazil proposes
coonizing the Indians on public lands
and furnishing them with farm mple-
ments.
In the Punjab, India. especially in the
canal districts, where the holdings are
large and the c1Gt!vators prosperous.
there appears to be good future for
agricultural implements and machinery.
Uruguay had foreign trade last year
Of $50, 100000. made up OF $SIo,no i'm
ports and 81. 10000 exports. The increase
was IS. o0o, coo over 1905 and slo,Co0Go over
1sG.
Switzerland has I4.1l7 miles Of tele-
graph and telephone lines In 1915 tho
2.25 telegraph offices handled 4.9l2oOO
kilograms producing revenue % $685., 80.
The country has 6o4a4 telephone sub
scribers. The Joint service employees +54i
people, who are paid $1,000 year.
The coal and iron mines and the salt
works owned and operated by the King
dom OF Prussia employed last year 50 90
men and turned out products worth SIS
in 1903 Coal formed .53. 81 eco Of the out
put.
The largest jute mill in Brazil, which
duct for coffee sacks, operating in the
city Of Sac Paulo, is adding 500 spindes
and BY June I. It will have 1000 spindes
| in regular operation. making 1t one or
the largest in the world.
Germany offers a good field for the sale
OF American vacuum cleaners. German
makes are comparatively crude and
bulky
The proposed international exhibition
| at Bilboa, Spain, in 1872 Is now practical
| ly a certainty It Is to cost ST. 2So,cm.
Large Russian houses in the Warsaw
| district desire to deal direct with Am
| erican manufacturers instead OF through
| foreign commission houses.
| Canada's public debt on February Is,
| 1910 was SOS $3.50 net, an increase Of
500, COO On in twelve months. The increase
Is small compared with the great rail-
| way work Canada Is doing or aiding TO
| be done.
| Canada IS substituting monthly steam
| ship service to Australasia 10y way Of
| South Africa to the extent or 5000 a
month, sailing from Montreal in summer
and from Halifax and st. John, n. b.,
| in winter. This will divert transit by
way of New York.
| Additional steamships are 10 be put on
for the Liverpool Buenos Ayres trade by
| the Pacific Steam Navigation company Of
| Liverpool.
| In Jerusalem the opportunity for selling
floor tiles pipes, steps and perhaps cor
nices OF concrete Is quite large. but not
| for concrete building blocks.
Cannda's foreign trade in 1893 calendar
| year amounted to s6i3, CU,O", an Increase
| of S.. go 900 over 1903, Imports were 1852
oo.Vo increase sGOoo,0oO) and exports
s.9l ,O,o.c0 increase .l.oooorO. The Uni
ted States led In imports with S2o' 60
increase $32, $3.50
| President Gomez Of cuba proposes to
| increase the import duties especially on
shoes, paper. veimceli, soap essences.
crackers, chocolate, bottles, u'es and
| laceS.
| The japanese government proposes TO
increase the import duties OIL wheat,
nour, condensed milk, sole leather, hand
and other sewing machines and locomo-
,ives. No change Is proposed for petro-
| leum, lubricating OIL structural iron or
paper making machinery. the ou'S on
steel rails Is reduced one-hfth, ana also
on the large electrical machines
Exports of Hungarian beans To the
| United States IN 1870 were of the Vaiuo
OF $4,000
We took 8, 1877 600 worth of Turkish car
pets from constantinople in 1874
Riga sent us 3S,0al 90 worth Of RUSSIAN
hides and skins in 1919
American typewriters control the TRACE
In London.