The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
In Ordering Goods PIensc Mention THE AGE-uERALD

1912 worth nearly $5.3S0.000 about r per cent in value being from the United States Automobile accessories were worth s1,300000, of which little over & per cent came from the United States. Of railway cars, valued at $73S7, 900, 50 per cent came from Belgium, 25 per cent from the United States and 13 per cent from the United Kingdom.
 Now, what does Chile buy? Accord ing to values the five leading classifica- tions for 1913 were: Textiles dncuding cotton, wool, other flores and slk) over $2S, 5000 000 mineral products dncluding iron and steel manufactures, earth and stones precious metals and jewelry) $22. 275, GOO; coal, oils, etc, nearly $2O. .00O,- GOO; machinery $15,0O0,00o; vegetable prod ucts Including food products. fruits and grains woods and manufactures, etc) nearly $14,0000O0 and animal products nearly $S,000000.
 Under the above classification, in the line of textiles, the United States made a very poor showing. The United King dom sold the Chileans over $11 ,76S, coo worth; Germany nearly $6,SS2,000; France 2.500, 900; Belgium. over S1 GOO .000 and the United States only $Sll,000 worth. With the European expressing the attention of the four countries enumerated and with the Panama canal doing business, surely the manufacturers of cotton and wool tthlutS III lut tlilitu ptdttS VIII SCe busy and make a better showing hence- forth.
 Under mineral products are found such manufactures of steel and iron as wire, granite cooking utensils, pipe, tub ing and connections, nails, railway wheels. structural steel etc. and of the total Germany sold $S 10000 worth the United Kingdom $6.14s,O0O worth, United States. $4.42S.0O0; Belgium, s250o,00o.
 Distribution of Trade
 'The United States controls nearly three-tenths of all Latin American trade. This is from one-third to one-half more than that controlled by its nearest con- petitor, the United Kingdom. and double that of Germany. In 1912 the share of the United States in Latin American trade was 29.7 per cent of the total, the United Kingdoms was 22.02, Germany s 14.o4 and Frances only sos per cent. Tn 1913 the percentage were about the same. In that year, however, the United States, for the first time in history, sold more goods to all Latin America than did the United Kingdom. We have been gaining consistently during the last four or five years. If we did this before the break ing out of the European war and before the opening of the Panama canal, surely we ought to do even better under future conditions.
 ''Now as to what the countries of Latin America produce and export.
 Argentina, for instance, is the great food producing country. During the year 1913 Argentina sold over $300000, 900 worth of agricultural products. consist ing principally of corn, $112, ,000O O00 wheat, $1O3, ,O00, GOO; linseed oil, $50,0O0. .O00: oats, s2O, O,0o0. 900; rye, s567.0oO. and fruits. hay. potatoes, etc.. in smaller quantities. Of live animals and meat products she sold s166,00O,00O worth Cattle hides, wool quebracho logs and Quebracho extract (for tanning purposes) were among the other large exports.
 To enumerate the products of all the countries would take too much time. All of you perhaps know the chief products of these countries. Of the metals you know that Mexico is the chief source of silver; that Chile. Peru and Bolivia are the principal producers of copper. that platinum. vanadium and like metals arc found all through the Andes, from Co., lombia to Chile. and that Bolivia is the great source of tin and bismuth. Rubber. as you know. is forest product export ed from Brazil, Bolivia, Peru. Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, the Central Amer ican republics and Mexico. Coffee comes from Brazil and all of the countries bor-