The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-30
COMMERCIAL SOUTH AMERICA

Aroantine imports in the f1rst nine
,,o,ths of 1916 show slight increase
dasnite the fact that exports LOT the
same period are about $7o.O0CNOo peiow
ias Msrchandize from the United
s+ates formed &c per cent. OF the I'M
norts of Argentine in the 1rst nine
months of 1916 against 13 per cent. III
1914 and an average OF about Il per
cent. in years Immediately preceding
the war. .o,e
Argentina exports will show for 1916
reduction of about 500, 0O0, 600, ex-
. noxts for the first nine months having
been but 367 ,776,O00 pesos against 44o'r
: S27.ONrD in the same month OF last year.
This decrease is due to heavy Iail
! IN exports Of wheat and hnseeo
! though offset in some degree by an IN
creased expectation of meats.
/, An analysis of the official census VI
tArgentina taken in June, 1914, SHOWS
! that Of the 7,S85,000 population, 5,S21 .ooo
/ were Argentines, $4,000 'ltahans' SOW ~
| 900 Spanish, $4,000 Russians, 7S,OOo
t creeks. $4,000 French, $4,000 Turks,
% 900 Austro- Hungarians. $4,000 BRIT
i fsh $4,000 Germans, and $500 from the
/ United States. 49,.
/, Chilean government has sent TO us
/ Congress a bill authorizing expendl-
| ture OF about. $750,000 to apply upon
| the purchase Of six submarines re-
/ cetnly purchased In the United states
for the Chilean navy.
I Bids are to be opened at Valparaiso,
I Chile, Yin the early part Of February
4 for construction Of two floating docks,
one of which is to be completed within
40 months from the date of acceptance
/ Of bids.
Z Latest reports from Chile indicate
I that the harvest for the coming crop
year promises to be, an exceptionally
good one. \ -~---7.----
A concession by the Brazilian gov
eminent for the construction OF 600
miles of railway to c~nect Cuyaba, the
i capital of the interior State Of Matte
Crosse with Rio de Janeiro and San
tos. has been signed. and construction
/ Of road is to begin during the current
year.
Reports from Ecuador indicate that
! the insurrectionary movements of the
/ past three years have been ended
through the acceptance by the insur-
rectos Of the terms of the new gov
eminent, and the delivery of their
arms, and it Is announced that the
government - Ecuador will, in jan
uary, resume the remittances of the
customs receipts pledged for the SER
vice of certain railway bonds. which
had been suspended for z considerable
period. y
Trade Of the United States with
South America\in 1916 far exceeds
that of any earlier year. Imports
from South America show gain Of
about 800, 600, 900 over the largest pre-
nj no RI
that continent show a gain Of about
$40, 900 900 over the former high rec
ord. The total imports from South
America in 1915 were in round terms
+ $425 ,O00, 600 against 1922, 100000 In 1915,
and $198.00O, 900 in 1913, the year pre-
ceding the war. Exports to South
America were about $215, 900. 900 against
3t44, 00O, 900 in 1915, and ti46 900, 900 in
1913, the former high record year in
exports to that country
+ Increase of 500. Oc0. 900 in imports to
the United States from South America
1 III 1915 occurs chiefly in wool, hides,
!, copper, and cocoa, though thersis also
a slight increase in India rubber and
! coffee.
Copper importations into the United
States from South A---a-ica in 1916 are
double in value those Of preceding
year. From Chile alone they are
about So. 900 against $11,ooo 900 in
preceding year, and from Peru, about
1900 900 against ~, SOC, 900 in the pre-
ceding year.
Cotton cloths exported from the
United States to South America in
1916 are about 100000 600 yards against
approximately s0,o00.0OO in 1915, and