Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-31

ton. and then by sending men train
Ell IN the company's service to coop
crate in the development of each mar
Iket as soon as IT, was demonstrated
that business could be done. The fut-
ure OF this export trade as a whole
cannot yet be determined, but in any
event the company Is now in posses
sion of important knowledge as TO the
fabrics required and also as to the
best method If conducting the bust
ness This new trade is being sedu-
! lousy followed and every effort will
be made to retain rs much of it as pos
sible after the war has ended"
The United States Rubber company,
which is a typical example of the
American corporation making an in
telligent campaign for permanent for
eign trade says;
las stated in the report of last year.
our export business has been largely
consolidated under one organization
and is being satisfactorily expanded
under the, management of an able man
in charge thereof Our export bust
esSn the past year has been approx
mateIy five per cent of our entire bust
ness. CNet sales of So, 1851 ,015.9S were
reported, making the foreign business
approximately $4,643, 000.-Ed)"
The report of the international Har~
vester company, whose activities IN
foreign commerce are important on
both the export and the import sides,
gives the stakeholder a bit of the real
atmosphere of business outside the
| sheltering pale of this country'S anti
trust laws:
THE difficulties incidental to export
trade have materially curtailed the
| volume of foreign shipments, and the
| consequent reduction in output made
| II necessary to. operate the plants with
smaller forces and on shorter time
During the early part of 1915 con-
fsiderable difficulty was encountered in
| securing a supply of sisa1 for the man
ufacture Of binder Irvine, on account
1 of revolutionary disturbances in the
state of Yucatan. In September and
/ October last, the Commission Regula-
/ dora del MarCado de Henequent treg-
ulating committees of the sisal mar
ket) an official body Of the state of
| Ylcatan, with offices in the cities of
| New York and New Orleans, having
/ secured the complete control of the
| open market for sisal that had before
exiE ed in Yucatan and the United
/ States. This monopoly has since eX-
acted higher prices for sisal, and
/ thereby caused the cost of binder Irvine
/ to the American FARMER 10 De CORES
| pondingly raised"
| The International Paper company
has for some years done an extensive
| foreign business. 1t says of last years
experiences:
Throughout the year, there has
been serious interference with our
! foreign business, and the extension of
business to new foreign markets has
been prevented by the shortage OF
| ships, the exceedingly high rates OF
| freight, and the impossibility OF secur-
ling space at any price
| In the report of the Lackawanna
| Steel company the stockholders get a
| glimpse of the well-considered policy
| for which big business is going into
| foreign trade increas ingly; that OF US
/ ing the foreign market as a means or
| steadying the demand for its pro-
ducts:
| 1.-The volume Of domestic business
| gradually increased during the first
half of the year, with moderate in
| crease in prices; and the last half
/ showed a gain in volume of orders
and prices for both domestic and ex-
/ port business that enables your works,
| especially during the last quarter, to
run at maximum capacity and large
profits, the year closing with the
| creates volume of orders on hand and
at the highest prices in your com
pany'S history"