New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1917, Page 11

Second Section NEW BRITAIN HERALD. ! e~ Pages 11 to 18 { o~ NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917, 50, ANERIGAN TRADE WITH U. S, DOUBLED Aggregates $800,000,000 in Gom- parison With $400,000,000 Trade of the United States with South America in the fiscal year just ended will aggregate nearly $800,- | 000,000 against less than $400,000,000 in any year prior to the war. The to- tal trade with that continent in ord is now at hand, is $632,000,000, * and for the latest month (April) of that period $79,000,000. Should the two remaining months of the fiscal year, for which figures are not vet availlable, make respectively as high a rbcord as did the month of April, the total for the fiscal year would agsre- gate $790,000,000 as against $364,- 000,000 in 1913, the highest pre-war record of our-trade with South Amer- ica. In 1916, the first year of the war, our total trade with that continent was $360,000,000, in 1916 $571,000,- 000 and in 1917 seems likely to be as above indicated, nearly or quite $800,- | 960,000. This very rapid galn in the trade | with South America occurs in both {mports and exports, though the gain | in fmports is much more strongly | marked than in exports. Imports from South America in 1913 (her banner pre-war trade year) were $218,000,000 and in 1917 promise to | be.about $540,000,000, an Increase of | approximately 150 per cent. Exports to that continent in 1913 were $146,- 000,000, and in 1917 promise to be about $250,000,000, an increase of ap- proximately 75 per cent. This more rapid growth in our pur- chases from South American than in her own purchases from us is due to natural conditions. This importing .power of that continent was greatly reduced by the depression which fol- Jowed the war, while our own import- ing power was greatly increased by the stimulation of commerce and of industries which followed the war. South American imports show a very great fall in 1914 (the first year of the war) and have made but extremely .slow recovery, the total imports of that continent having been in 1913 a little over $1,000,000,000, and in 1914 but about $650,000,000, 1915 approx- imately the same as in 1914, and in 1916 approximately $750,000,000. In our own case imports and our import- ing power have steadily advanced, the total value of imports in 1917 being the | ten months, for which a complete rec- | BULGARIA LEADING AS OPIUM GROWER Becomes Serious Rival of Turkey in Asia Minor (Correspondence)—Since the occupa- Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 30.— tion of the Bulgarian provinces of Macedonia, Bulgaria has become one of the principal opium-growing coun- | tries, writes the Balkan correspond- ent of the Nieuwe Rotterdam Courant. Before the Balkan wars Turkey was | the leading opium country in the Le- vant, and Smyrna the principal mar- ket for that article. But Bulgaria has now become a formidable competitor of Asia Minor, both as regards quali- ty and quantity. The opium grown in the environs of Usku and in.the | Tikvesh, along the Vardar river is | richer in alkaloids than the best qual- ities from Anatolia. In ordinary times the opium from the Levant is exported to the Far Itast largely via Holland and Britain. Further, Germany chiefly draws on industry requires for the preparation of morphine, codeine, etc., and Bul- garian opium thus is distributed over the entire world by Germany’s agen- cy. As the prices obtained for opi- um, particularly for that exported to the Far East, were comparatively high and very remunerative, the cul- tivation of the poppy proved in every way profitable and was continually extending in the regions along the Vardar suitable for its growth, espe- cially in the Strumnitza and Melnik districts. About 242,000 pounds of opium was harvested last year in the provinces under Bulgarian administration, but this quantity can easily be doubled. Now that the war, and the Allies’ blockade, has made export oversea to the Far East impossible, and there is consequently for the moment a much smaller demand, a part of the fields destined for poppy cultivation this year s being used for the cultivation of the much-needed grain and peas and beans. Much more land stili is devoted to the poppy than the ex- pected opium demand requires, how- ever, this being on account of the pop- py seed. Under present circum- stances the oil to be won from this seed has made it of great importance such oil being extremely useful not only for industrial purposes but also for human food. Last year 500 rail- road freight car loads of poppy-seed were exported to the Central Euro- pean countries. In Bulgaria itself the winning of the nearly 50 per cent. greater than ?n 4918, while the marked advance in prices of certain of the materials ‘brought from South America, notably copper, wool, hides and tanning ma- terial, has greatly increased the total value of the merchandise imported from that continent. Increase Is General. This increase occurs in the trade \with practically all the South Amerl- can countries. The imports from Argentina, in the ten months ending with April 1917 are $123,000,000 against $61,000,000 in the same months of 1916; Brazil $125,000,000 against $84,000,000 two years earlier; Chile $80,000,000 against $21,000,000; Colombia $28,000,000 against $16,- 1000,000; FEcuador $9,000,000 against $4,000,000; Peru $29,000,000 against $9,000,000 and Uruguay $22,000,000 against $9,000,000. Phe exports to Argentina in the ten months ending with April 1917 are $66,000,000 against $22,000,000 in the same months two years ago; Brazil $45,000000 against $20,000,000; Thile $34,000,000 against $9,000,0005 Colombia $12,000,000 against $5,- 00,000; Ecuador $5,000.000 against $2,000,000; Peru $16,000,000 against $4.000,000; Uruguay $11,000,000 against $4,000,000 and Venezuela $10,000,000 against $4,000,000 for the corresponding months two years earlier. All of these are, of course, *in very round terms. The principal articles in which the increase in exports are as follows: ‘Automobiles for the ten months end- ing with April 1917 over $5,000,000 against less than $1,000,000 in the rame period two years ago; coal to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay nearly $6,000,000 against a little over $2.- 000,000 in the same months two years - earlier; cotton”cloths to all South America over $13,000,000 against about $2,000,000 in the same months of 1915; agricultural implements ap- proximately $3,000,000 against $l.- 500,000; tinplate about $4,000,000 agalnst about a quarter of a million two "years earliel and structural jron and steel over $1,600,000 against a lttie over $500,000 in the cor- 3 responding months two years earlier. In imports, coppers, nitrate of soda and hides show remarkable increa,ses.‘l Copper importations from Peru and Chile alone in the ten months ending in -April 1917 amount to $49,000,000 against less than $12,000,000 in the same months of 1915; nitrate of soda .$34,000,000 against $12,000,000 in the corresponding months of two years ago: cattle hides $50,000,000 against about $ months of 1915, and Wool approxi mately $70,000,000 against less than $20,000,000 in the same mouths two years earlier. SMOKE - OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT be CIGLE 5,000,000 in the corresponding | oil is still done in a very clumsy man- ner, whereby a great part of the oil is lost. Plans have not been set on foot by Germans for the erection on the spot of crushing mills equipped on the most modern lines LONGING FOR A CHILD Young Wife Almost in De- spair. Now has Beautiful Baby Girl. 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