The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-11
SOUTHERN PEOPLE
!. LEARN OWN NEEDS
TRADE DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH
AMERICA is TREMENDOUS
Rio de Jenerio. Brazil, July l-tCor-
respondence of the Associated Press)

Rio de Jenerio, Brazil, July 1-tCor
respondence of the Associated Press
How the war has given a tremend
GUS impetus to South American indus
tries is shown in the curtailment OF
many articles formerly imported to
South America from countries now at
war. Attention of many South Ameri
cans is turning to manufacturing pos
sibilities in their own countries utiliz'
ng as far as possible the raw materials
available in South America
Word has just been received here
OF the establishment of the first iron
foundry in Brazil The foundry has
Just been completed at Rio de Janiero
and has daily capacity of between
10000 and 10000 tons. 1t is operating
on native iron smelted from ore mined
In the country According to accounts
reaching here it is intended to further
develop the mining industry and
crease the capacity of the plant as
soon as possible. Also in Rio has been
established the first chemical plant
in Brazil. At this plant are manufac.
tured. nitrate of potassium, caustic So
da, nitrate of silver and oxalic acid.
At Punta Areas, the southernmost
main land town In the world, a group
of business men has undertaken the
manufactures of pianos, Last year six
pianos were made as experiment and
we're shipped to Valparaiso where
they were sold. Although Punta
Areas is in Chile there is duty
imposed upon articles manufactured
there and shipped to other parts of
khe same country for sale. This duty
on pianos was $50 pesos each, approx.
mately $50, and in spite of this handi-
cap the pianos were sold at prices so
satisfactory that this year the sponsor
for the experiment have begun the
manufacture in earnest. Chilean woods
are used almost exclusively for
the cases and the other parts of the
instruments are of Chilean origin.
Ten thousand tons of manganese
ore, in great demand by the warning
coutries of Europe, are ready for
shipment in the state of Minas, Brazil.
ing This ore cannot be move because
of shortage of coal 1t is reported that
there are plenty of cars for trans
porting the ore, but the coal, much
of which was formerly shipped from
the United States, is not available
Brazil has taken over her quinne
industry and established a government
monopoly in the handling of it.
The business men of Brazil are
are holding a big exposition of fabrics
principally cotton goods, of Brazilian
government announces that it will
manufacture, in Buenos Aires, in the
effort to attract Argentine trade.
One hundred and thirty factories are
represented at the exposition.
THE Congess of Peru has authorized
President Pardo to negotiate a loan
of about $1,5OO,OOO the proceeds of
which are to be used in building
railroad from Huancayo to Jatunhuasi,
penetrating the Peruvian coal belt,
and to Huacravilca in the pricipal iron
zone of the country. The immediate
reason for the enterprise is the in
ability of Peru to get $1,000 tons of
ron piping, needed for city water
works in several municipalities of
the country, which was ordered in the
United States but which is being held
up because of the war.
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