El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-25

miles. The depth alongside the quays
is Is feet and at the docks edge 80
Ieet; and IN addition the new port will
have a further length of a mile along
the existing shore line. Back of the
qlkays fifteen great warehouses are to
be built and the improvements alto
gether viii cost over $4,000, 600.
Similar improvements are going on
All along the coast. Many Of the ports
have already been improved, and that
not only along the coast. but up the
rivers Manaos has been building quay
walls floating piers and warehouses
and there are something like 1900
steamers year that now call there
Para has harbor improvements put in
Dy a company chartered in Maine. and
this company has an authorized capital
Of over $32,O00,000. It has been con-
structing quays and warehouses and
also floating docks, dry docks and re-
pair shops.
Great Natural Harbor.
Pernambuco, or rather Recife. the
nearest port to Europe, has plans for
recOnstructing the great natural har-
Dor made by a long reef that runs
parallel with the coast, forming a safe
waterway pierced by two channels.
The estimate for the work there is
about S16,0O0,000. and the time for its
completion is five or six years Vic
Iorla has new port works Rio de
Janiero has spent millions upon its
warehouses, quays and landing ar
ranSements, and it plans to spend mil
lions more At the port Of Rio Grande
do Sui the Farquhar syndicate has
plans for the expenditure Of millions
and the work is there going on. This
includes port opposite the town of
Rio Grande, the plans having been
made by E. L Cortheu the well known
American engineer.
Foreign Commerce Growing Rapidly.
The foreign commerce of Brazil is
steadily growing. In 1880 II was only
about $1,000, GOO, 000. In 1900 il had
risen 10 $500. 100000 and it is now more
in 1909 that il first passed the half
billion mark This commerce amounts
to $50 per head, or about $50 per
family. The total is only a little less
than the foreign trade of China, but
China has twenty times as many people
and its foreign trade is less than 81 a
head In other words, as a foreign
customer one Brazilian is worth fifteen
times as much as one Chinaman.
United States Brazil's Chief Customer.
As II is ROW. we should already be
Tar ahead of all other nations in the
foreign trade Of Brazil We are and
shall always be her chief customer.
We need her support and we are the
worlds greatest coffee consumer. We
are buying twice as much of the goods
OF Brazil as any other foreign nation
In 1913 our purchases amounted to
more than 100000. 600, while those of
the United Kingdom and Germany
combined were only a little more than
$S0,O0O,000. In 1912 we took 80 per
cent Of all her exports, ~ per cent Of
her coffee and so per cent of her
rubber. That year we bought 5000, 900
bags Of Brazilian coffee, and the total
export was only 100000 bags. Our
Brazilian coffee that year cost US $685.
600, 900, while what Germany bought
cost less than $4,000, 600, and the pur-
chsses of Great Britain were only a
little more than three millions.
Nevertheless. in 1912 we sold less
goods to Brazil than either Germany
or the United Kingdom, and the British
outsold US by more than so per cent
The present situation in Europe is
such that a great part of the European
exports must be cut off. Germany has
been annually selling Brazil something
IKE S99,OOO,eo worth OF her products,
Hungary more than SIS, O00, 900. and Bel
GUM goods to the amount of some
thing like 5000. 00O. Great Britain has
1913 having been almost $4,000, 600.