Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-29
WE BUY THREE -FOURTAs
 OF MEXICO'S EXPORTS.
While Less Than Half Of That Repub-
 lies Wants Are Filled Here.
Special to The BuIletinl


 Washington, July 2S.-"Any inter- ruDtion of friendly relations between the united States and Mexico Vitally affects the trade of the southern re- public" says today's war geography bulletin of the National GeOsrapllic Society, for the larger nation buys JhFee-fourths of all the farm and for est products, minerals and manufac- lures while the smaller country offers for sale to the outside world.
 "On the other hand, Mexico reCipro- cates by purch2sing less than half her total Imports from us, and if we lost all the custom of our neighbOr it would represent less than one and a quarter Der cent Of the goods which We sell annually to the world at large
 The first industry to feel the effect or any interruption of trade relations between the two countries will be the SISaI grass plantations and mills. for the United States buys from Mexico nearly g. per cent. of all this vegetable fibre used in America for cOrdage, bags and hammockS. Last year We bought nearly four hundred million pounds of this product from Mexico, at a cost Of more than $19,E0O, ,COO.
 Coffee also is an important item in our trade with Mexico, our purchases O fthis commodity increasing from twenty six million pounds in 1913 to tWlce that amount in 1915. There are no figures from Mexico to determine what percentage of her coffee crop our bflT-tWo million pound purchase rep resented last year, but if the same amount was exported last year as in 1919 the United States bought all ex- ceDt two million pounds. And yet this enormous quantity of aromatic beans was less than One-tWentieth of the amount needed to fill the American coffee cup for twelve months
 Our imports of Mexican India rub I1Elr quarters of million dollars while our purchase of gulyulc gum, used largely for the same purposes, tOtaled nearly a million and a half. Seventeen per cent Of our mahogany, more than 7,- GOO, 900 feet. came from Mexican for ests in 1915. Thirteen per cent. of all the cattle hides brought into this coun- try last year, 43,O00,000 pounds, came from Mexican ranches, also more than i've per cent. of the goat skins, B. 900, ,O0Q pounds
 Tn 1914 Mexico spent most of her shopping money with the following nations; in the order of their sales: the. United States, Germany, Great Britain France, Belgium and Spain
 The three farm products for which Mexico spent the largest sums in the united States last year were corn, wheat and lard, the amounts in that order being, $1,388, 900: $380, 900, and $365,O Twenty million pounds of cotton were also bought from us, for although Mexico raises a large crop of this staple in the famous Laguna dis triCt, it is not sufficient to keep her textile miIle going, so she takes of one per cent of that which we have for sale to foreign countries. The 31.- OG0 900 feet of lumber which the south ern republic bought from us last year, about three per cent. of our total ex- ports was only one-fourth as much as was bought two years before. Fire arms, textiles, explosives, chemicals. machinery and carriages are important items on the Mexican nations market list when she has money to spend with us"