The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07

and the bulk of this money went over to Europe. Here are few of the items.
 Let us first take the railroads. The cap- ital invested in them amounts to more than $1,00o, ,0o00o0. The passengers num- Der about S000O,000 year, and the freight carried is close to 40,00O 600 tons. In 1913 the importations included 5000 new cars. and other railway material amounting to millions. At the same time the country bought 2O,000 carriages 5000 automobiles and 5000 bicycles.
 I have referred to the 5000 600 acres of land in cultivation. The implements for planting and harvesting them all come from foreign countries. In 1913 Argentina bought 70000 blows, 15OOO drills and more than 1000 threshing machines. It bought $50 mowers, 170O harrows and 10000 reap CTS and binders Among the smaller items were 11,0o0 rakes. 500 tons of pitchforks and 2o0o tons of spades and shovels, picks and hoes
 The Argentine republic is not a manu- featuring country. The land is general ly flat, and the streams are sluggish. Hence there is but little water power. The most of the coal comes from England, which is 5000 or 5000 miles away, or from Australia, which is farther. Hence, most manufactured articles are imported. In 1913 the country spent tens of millions for manufactures of steel. It bought 7,O00 baththubs. 11,00o pounds of sewing ma chine needles, more than 100000 pocket knives and 21000 iron wheelbarrows It bought 120 tons of augers and bifa 546 tons of axes, 490 tons of files and 23O tons of wrenches. It's new typewrters were over 60O0; revolvers, 2i000. and razors S56,O00. It bought 104,000 sewing machines more than 5000 windmils 3l tons of sheep shears and no tons of saws
 The Argentinos are d musical people, and they are fond of amusements. They buy about 50,000 photographs and grapho- phones every year. 12,00O pairs of opera glasses and $30000 or $40,000 worth of guitar and banjo strings. In 1913 they brought in over FLOOD timepieces of gold. During the same year they purchased about 2,000,00O fans, 3000,oo0 mirrors. 300 wagon loads of buttons, 4200O0 eyeglasses and 5S0,0e0 dozen watch crystals. They bought + tons of combs, 12,00O pounds of hat feathers and toys to the amount of almost $1,C00,000.
 The above shows something of the va riety of goods that Argentina tstsires She wants everything under the sun, and so far she has been getting her goods from all parts of the world, although the bulk has beet coming from Europe. In 1912 she bought five times as much from that continent as from us, and still she is our chief South American customer.
 The countries now at war have fur nished the greatest proportion of the goods sent from Europe, and they have also been taking the most of the Argen- tine exports. Great Britain consumes every year something like $1O0000,O0O worth of Argentine products Germany about @o,0090O0 worth and Belgium sS5.- coO00O worth or more. As to the goods now coming into country, those from Great I&.tan are of their usual volume, but those of France and Belgium have greatly decreased, and the imports from Germany have practically stopped.
 In order to show the openings which come from the Germans, I give you some of the articles that Germany sent here in the year of 1912. They include 1900 type writers, 2o00 bicycles and 19,o90 sewing ma chimes. They embrace manufactures of iron and steel from bars, sheets and rails