Wheat 60,128.51 28,362.68 Railroad supplies 328,426.37 free Wine 48,697.40 52,165.24 ------------- ------------- $3,281,698.46 $2,674,583.85 IMPORTED IN 1884 FROM England $1,735,954.87 France 450,365.75 CALIFORNIA =391,782.50= Germany 170,824.35 NEW ORLEANS =103,548.24= NEW YORK =98,296.18= Switzerland 75,173.61 Spain 69,387.49 Italy 51,632.60 China 48,594.32 Belgium 29,781.25 Belize (British Honduras) 28,937.48 Central America 14,569.77 United Slates of Columbia 10,314.05 Chile 2,536.00 ------------ $3,281,698.46 California furnishes most of the flour and wheat, but New Orleans most of the timber for building, while New York contributes printed books, canned goods, clocks, firearms, and patent medicines. From the three ports of the United States which are in direct steam communication with the ports of Guatemala goods valued at $593,626.92 were imported,—less than came from France and Germany, and not a third part of what England sends. Yankee traders are certainly left entirely behind in Guatemaltecan commerce. Without going deeply into the causes which drive the United States from a natural market, I will state several facts which an intelligent reader may interpret for himself.