The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-19
GERMANS SEND CHEAP WARES
 INTO MEXICO
Orders for American Goods Cancelled as Teutons Cut
 Prices to Bone.
/ By LOUIS P. KIRBY International News Service Staff
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COFreSpOnQGnG Mexico City, Oct. 1.-The fact that financial conditions in Mexico are bad is giving German manufacturers, par | ticularly of hardware. an advantage in the competition for trade because of | the low prices of German goods. It ! is said that German hardware is being l offered to Mexican merchants at 50 | to 60 per cent. lower than the prices
 causing the cance1ling of numerous
 orders placed in the United States. While the German goods are inferior
 in some eases to the articles made 1 low prices have been a deciding fac tor. especially as German manufactur- 1 CTS have adopted the system of ship ! ping their products here and holding them in warehouses. so that quick
 delivery can be made when orders are received.
 1 According to Excelsior. the Mexican | government is negotiating with the Krupps for 25,00O tons of steel rails for the National Railways. These 1egotat1ons. Excelsior says. were con 1 ducted by one of the representatives | in Mexico of Hugo Shines.
 Stinnes Backs Move Stfnnes is reported to be back of the 1 movement to introduce German man which, it seems, American manufac- turers cannot meet because of the higher wages paid in the United States and for other reasons.
 A business man here said that it semed certain that German interests would take possession of some fields of trade, as prices quoted are at pres ent far below anything that American manufacturers could offer.
 Japan Is also gaining a stronger commercial foothold with cheap goods. Electrical material offered by Japanese houses is much cheaper than the same kind of articles placed in the market here by American makers. American lumber interests are re- ported to be acquiring large tracts of timber land with the intention of erecting pulp mills and paper mills. Much Of Mextco,s paper, including news print. is imported at consider and paper mill projects see opportun- ity for substa ntfa1 profits.
 Cows In Demand
 It Is reported that there is a profita- ble field here for the sale of American dairy cows and high class cattle. O. ". Gavin, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Columbus Junction, Iowa, who is here in con- cattle at the International Commer- cial Exposition. says that all of the stock brought to Mexico for exhibition has been sold and that he could have found a dozen buyers for each COW. The Mexican government has on foot plan to buy great numbers of high grade cattle in the United States and distribute the stock throughout Mexico. The cattle will be placed aboard special trains, which will stop at all towns. where farmers and others can buy as many head as they desire. Even though only one COW is to be purchased the train will stop to make this sale. The idea is to put cattle of the best sort in every, part of the country, in the expectation that it will result in lasting improvement to the live stock of Mexico.
 The plan Is in line with the gov ernment's system Of selling farming y1N- la, yzk Ak A. who have recently acquired land and are making 0 start in agriculture. This sale of implements has been car ried out on a large scale and is said to have been successful in getting the right sort of machinery and tools into the hands of the poor and struggling who, without this government help, probably might never be able to be- come properly equipped.
 The Mennonites of Canada have completed the purchase of large tracts Of land in the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Tamaulipas and will es- tablish three great farming colonies Agents are still in the field for land and it is probable, according to state ments here, that the Mennonites will make other purchases of land and start other colonies.
 Want Italians
 Interests in New York are nego- for Italian immigration on a large scale. Representatives of these inter ests are on their way here. According to plans, thousands of industrious Italians will be placed upon land in Mexico. This project has been dis cussed for nearly a year, or since the visit here of General Giuseppe Cara baldi. Ample financing, it is said, has been found for the great Italian move ment.
 It is admitted that money is Mexi- l co.'s present great and pressing need. Business men everywhere are report | nrfn Ivy Gf,n zs-I sure, many being troubled with nu- merous accounts which they cannot | collect, although the debtors are men of highest honor in whom there is no distrust.
 The governments most important l present source of income is from the ofl-productng interests. There are im- l mediate uses for this money as fast as it is received, it Is said, and the sit uation is sometimes enbarra ssing be- cause of necessary delays in dfsburse-