El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-23
CCOpyright, 1911, y Frank G. CarpeHssr.)

vvou1d have $50 worth, and the share
Of each family would be sou OF uiOle e
Again, look at the money lnLesteu n
our manufa curing BUSINESS me Capl-
tai is about equal to the product ana
the cost Of the materials annually USED
is somewhere between nine and ten
billion dollars. The industries mere
taken into account are only those con-
fined to the factories, and the men en-
plOyed in them are five or six nun
bred thousand. The census divides our
great industries into IA groups, and OF
them five are each making pEOuuCIs
of more than $1,000, 100000 a year.
Moreover, the amounts are steadily
increasing and we need more foreign
trade to keep the hands busy. Our
foreign sales already foot up over
s76R 0OO. 600 and had we the markets
we could easily make il billion Iney
now amount to about 40 percent or
our exports. which is 10 percent more
than they were in 1900 and over double
the amount Of our exports OF manu-
features in the year 1880 Indeed, we
are rapidly climbing to the TOP among
the nations which are selling the most
goods made by machine and BY hand.
We now rank third, being only eX-
ceeded by Great Britain and Ger
many.
Uncle Sans Export Bureau.
All this IS preliminary TO talk
which I have just had with Mr. A H.
Baldwin. the chief Of the bureau OF
manufactures OF the department Of
:
OF how Uncle sam is trying TO push
foreign trade. This bureau was estab-
lished to collect information as TO the
openings for American goods and as to
where and how the goods should be
shipped. It is operated In conjunction
I with the consular service, and gathers
all sorts Of information Tor our manu-
facturers who would do business
abroad 1t publishes daily paper
made up Of the reports OF consuls as
[ they come IN and has on hand vast
amount Of confidential Information
which it forwards to those factories
which can supply needs.
This daily is about the only paper
( published by the United States govern
meut. The copy issued this mOrniI 8
now lies before. 1t contains 20 pages
and. has reports from Japan, China
/ Germany, England, Australia and Can
I ada. Several pages are devoted to for
eigu trade opportunities, including the
I openings for American shoes in Ger
many, for apples in England and for
lard. flour and cOttOnseed oil at Medit-
/ erranean ports. Another page suggests
how our vacuum cleaners might be
sold in certain European cities, and
others report business firms. in q num-
( Der Of countries which want certain
things. which the factories making
them I'm the United states If they write
I to the bureau can arrange to supply.
/ The paper has also an article on in
dustrial activity In Japan, one on an
I American bank for China and one Oh
I the status of business at the head Of
/ the Yukon in Alaska. It describes the
I openings for our firearms in Asia. the
7 recent discovery Of diamonds IN Cana
] da and some new features Of the street
( traffic Of London. Tt treats Of the
! solar eclipse which may be best seen
] at OpOrto in Portugal, and Of how
winter apples are selling at Windsor,
I Ontario. It tells how public buildings
I are about TO be erected in the new capt.
tai OF Australia and urges our archi-
/ tects to send on designs for the houses
/ lures.
In addition TO these there are other
/ articles IN this days copy Of the pa
per. The government issues a journal
like this every morning The publ