El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-28

products QuE1n6 ttAO -N-0N
year reached $1,000. 100000 in value for
the first time
These goods, of course, were distrib-
uted to all parts of the world, not ex-
cepting its most remote and out-ot-the-
way corners. But respecting such coI-
ners it is interesting to learn What
some of them contributed to supply our
own wants. in return for what We sent
them through the channels OF trade.
For example, the bare fact that dur
ing the last year (as disclosed py tne
government statisticiansl neaItSs 1,o IS.Ls
600 pounds of human hair was letcheo
to this country from the interior prov
inces of China, for our women 10 wear
most of it being discarded plgtal4s
-excites panied surprise
Trade in BOrneO.
Recently the government sent one of
its commercial explorers TO take look
over Borneo, and find out ABOUT It's
trade possibilities from a YANKEE
standpoint His report, just received,
is briefly. TO the effect that inasmuch
as there are no roads and few paths on
the great island, prospects for the sale
of automobiles there are sllShL me
natives do not wear SHOES OF use coOA
stoves: and the only thing they buy OF
us is Americana e, cotton clotn-
which they purchase in considerable
quantities.
On the other hand, We get from Bor-
nea Cby way of Singapore) much rattan
"a material which, in the crude state,
is the enormously long and plant stem
Of a great tropical vine
There seems. indeed, to be no part OF
the globe so remote as not TO Iurnlsh
something to supply the manifold wants
of the people of the United States.
Take, for example, the Bahrien lslands'
in the Persian gulf How many read
ers of this newspaper nave ever hearu
of them? Mighty few. it is safe to say
4 OF
most productive of the worlds pearl
fisheries, more than half of the output
of which we take Pearls, one shouio
realize. are more valuable today than
diamonds. and we are the biggest buy
ers of them. In return, We sell annual
" to the natives Of the Bahr1en lslanus
some hundreds of thousands or dolIars
worth of Americana" which has be-
come an equivalent Of money almost
everywhere in Asia, Africa and the
Cnn,eI,s Hair From Tibet.
Even Tibet which allows no white
man 10 enter its borders, SENDS US, by
vvav of Chinese ports, quantities OF
camel's hair FUSED for making artists
brushes, etc.), and exquisite rugs woven
of the same material From Korea We
get some gold. shipped by enterprlslng
Americans who have undertaken min
ing operations in that part of the world
But. from trade standpoint that coun-
try is of Importance to US chiefly ne
cause it is our biggest competitor IN
the production of ginseng for the
From ZanZibar. on the east coast of
Africa we received asst year Z,oOO,OVO
mounds of cloves That island and a
neiehborinsr one called Pemba, produce
nine-tenths of the worlds output OF
This spice. which consists of the flow
er buds of a tree of the myrtle FAMILY
Madagascar sends US great quantities
Of "raffia" fiber, which our farmers
use to tie up their asparagus ana rhu-
barb for market Much of II nowadays
ie collected and sold for women to
weave. for amusement. It is derived
from a species of palm
Another kind Of palm, which grows
in Algeria, yields the vegetable halr,
which we import Tor stuIll4s 4! LuI ~ 49, -
and other such purposes. It IS low
growing shrubby tree, and clings 50
fenaciousIy to the soil as to have proved
2 serious obstacle to early colonization
in that part of the world. since then,
however X has become a source OF
wealth to the Arabs. Because or Its
power TO repel vermin, it is much used
for beds in hospitals and barracks; and
on the transatlantic liners all the mat
fresses used by immi grants are stu1Ieo
with it-the stuffing being thrown
away and replaced at the end or each
Flowers For Perfumery.
From Reunion. an island near NADIA
comes most VI OuL supply VI
the precious attau Of ylang-ylang. 50
largely used in perfumery. It IS derived
bv distillation from the big, greenisn-
yellow flowers Of a tree OF the custaro-
apple family. The flowers themselves
are of a delicious fragrance, and II Is
said that their production yields more
money to the acre than any other
It is interesting in this connection to
learn that during the last fiscal year
I E0N mn worth of cos
metics and perfumery-three times the
quantity we purchased abroad 10 years
ago. Nearly all of this stuff comes
from France, and the enormous growth
of the demand illustrates the strength
OF the grip of the new cult of pulehri-
tude. which, largely built up by the
newspapers demands of every woman
nowadays that she shall be beautiful.
To supplement- the imports we manufac-
ture in this country S15,OOO,OOO worth
of such toilet articles per annum.
From SOcotro island, in the Indian
ocean, we get some dragons blood.
though the bulk Of this product comes
from the east coast of Sumatra- The
island. directly on the route from Alden
to Colombo (Ceylon), is one of the least
known of inhabited parts Of the world,
mainly for the reason that 1t has no
detected harborS. Vessels larger than
native dhOws are obliged to anchor
miles off shore. The inhabitants are
of Arab stock. Money is not used there.
The flora includes some of the strang-
est plants on earth, and the trees have
immense swollen limbs, as if suffering
from a vegetable elephantiasis An
GENTLY. the island was famous for Its
production of frankincense and myrrh
gum resins which were burned in re-
ligious rites
During the last year we imported
over 200, 900 pounds of dragons blood.
One should not imagine, however, that
the substance in question is actually
the vital fluid of any reptile, mythical
or otherwise. 1t is a resinous exuda-
ton, deep red in color. from kind of
tree native to the orient, and is used