The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-09
MEXICAN TRADE
VITALITY AFFECTED
BY interruption of Friendly Re-
iations between That Coun-
Try and United States.
WASHINGTON, July 8.-"Any inter

| WASHINGTON, July S.-"Any inter
.,.untion of friendly relations between
The United States and Mexico vitality
afIects the trade of the southern re-
nlIbiic," ssys today's war geography
5niletin of the National Geographic
soo;etv "for the larger nation buys
tSrae.iourths Of all the farm and lot
cot products, minerals and manuIac-
tures which the smaller country onefS
Tor sale to the outside world
stOn the other hand, Mexico recipro-
ra4ss by purchasing less than half hef
I LS imports from US, and If we lost
III the custom Of our neighbor 1t woulo
,.o1resent less than one and a quarter
mar cent Of the goods which We sen
snnnally to the world at large
Mills Affected.
ssrhe first industry to feel the etIect
~ any interruption Of trade relations
Ss+Tssn the two countries will be the
Sssai grass plantations and mills, IoE
the United States buys from mexico i,
nasrIv ninety-fve per cent OF all TINS
-,sSafsbie Abre used in America for
ooTdape. bags and hammocks. Last
U I,ssr Ga bought nearly four hundred
n,J1i,on pounds Of this product from
Mexico, at cost Of more tnan FA''-
100000. ,...u.o,. ,ts,,, IN
mr. trade With Mexico, our purchases
~ mis- commodity increasing from
tygentv-sIx million pounds IN 1913 70
t,vice that amount in 1915. There are
No figures from Mexico to determine
what percentage Of her cofiee crop our
sftv-two million pound purchase re-
n ~ last year, but If the same
p-SSrnt was exported last year as IN
T61S tbe United states bought all ex-
rent two million pounds. And YET tnls
ENORMOUS quantity Of aromatic Oeans
qas less than one-twentieth OF tne
nr1ouHt needed to fill the American
nnfiea Gun for twelve months.
Our Imports
.nr,r 'nports OF Mexican india rub
her amounted to more than tnree
CHARTERS Of a million dollars WINE our
S,,rcSase Of guagule gum, used large
fo- the same purposes, totaled near
- nSiIIon and half. Seventeen per
Ss7,t If our mahogany, more than =
mn mo feet came from Mexican Tor.
ests in 1915. Thirteen per cent OF al !
the cattle hides brought into TINS coun -
NV NV lat year, 100000 pounds came
f-or, MEXICAN ranches, also more tnsn
I'm ~ csnf of the goat skins, 1850
pounds. .o,+ ., her
sbonping money with the Ioiiowins
nstions in the order Of their sales;
the United states, Germany, Great Bill
-tsfn France, Belgium and Spain.
what Mexico Buys.
r .~rbe three farm products for which
Mexico spent the largest sums IN the
United States last year were corn'
,vbsat and lard, the amounts IN that
nrdsr being S1,3SS,O00; '$3SO,oOO and
SS6S 600. Twenty million pounds OIL
cotton were also bought from u.s. for
although Mexico raises large crop OF
Iris staple in the famous Lagrina as
trict it is not sufficient to keep her
textiie mills going, so she takes one
half al ono per cent Of that which We
have FOR sale to foreign countries.
THE 31,OO0,000 feet Of lumber which
the southern republic bought from us
lGst year, about three per cent OF our
total exports, was only one fourth as
much as was bought two years before
Lsro arms. textiles, explosives, cheIni-
Gals, machinery and carriages are I'M
nortant items on the Mexican nations
market list when she has money to
spend with us"