Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — Our Trade With Colombia. [ARTICLE]

Our Trade With Colombia.

Hon) Ricardo Beooera, In Harper 1 * Magazine for November. Of the $30,000,000 to which the foreign commerce of Colombia annually I amounts, a third at least is the product of her trade with the United States. Her imports from this country may be estimated at $5,000,000, and consist chiefly of flour, lard, and other articles of food, for which a market is ! found in the interior, wherever steam-. boat communication extends; hardj ware; machinery, industrial and agriI cultural; rails and rolling stock; oil? lamps and cotton fabrics. Colombia hsends here in exchange, coffee, hides, cocoa, fruits, medicinal balsams such as the balsam of Tolu, caoutchouc, and some other articles in quantities too small to deserve mention. Mineral products begin to be exported from the mines worked in Choco, Antioquia and the upper Magdalena by American capitalists, and it is to be hoped that within a few years, when American labor and capital shall have still further developed this industry, New York will become, in common with London and Paris, a market for Columbian gold and silver. Sanitarians, chemists and physicians of eminence have given much attention to the subject of food adulterations. As a result of careful investigation they proclaim most vehemently against the use of Ammonia, Alum, and other harsh chemicals in food articles. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder is free from all drugs. It must be an ill wind that has blown through a sick man’s whiskers.