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(2) Compagnie de Construction Haitienne, Messrs. J. C. Marsh
and F. H. Berlin, contractors.
Previous to the commencement of the streets and sidewalks concrete
 work the entire drainage was surface, and consequently the
streets in the lower part of the city, from the accumulated stagnant
water, were insanitary, and much malaria existed. When the company
 commenced the work of concreting the streets and the sidewalks
 they constructed large concrete sewers in each street that is
now finished, and consequently the cleanness of the streets has been
much improved. The work, which has proved to be very durable
and solid, is still being continued, and the company is now using
about 8,000 bags of cement a month, all of which is imported from
the United States. The company is well equipped with all necessary
 machinery, as well as carts, wagons, tools, etc., all imported
from the United States.
(8) The National Railroad Co. of Haiti. The constructing work
of this company has almost ceased. The branch from Port au
Prince to St. Marc is fairly completed, and trains are run between
these two cities twice a ay but there is very little traffic, certainly
not sufficient to defray the running expenses.
(4) There are two or three small plants for making brown granulated
 sugar. But from the scarcity of sugar cane, caused by the
severe drought that has prevailed for the past four or five years,
these establishments have not been able to supply sufficient sugar
for the home consumption. Consequently a considerable quantity
of granulated and cut white sugar is imported from the United
tates.
The vast sugarcane land lying idle in this country shows the
great necessity of peace for the development and improvement in
the means of cultivation of the soil and general progress of the
country.
The different enterprises enumerated above comprise all at present
on the island. It is to be hoped a change for the better in fhe improven
 of agriculture is pear at hand, and that the country will
e placed on a high scale of progress, such as is enjoyed by the neighboring
 islands.

SOUTH AMERICA.
BRAZIL.

Special report of Consul George H. Pickerell, Pars, Brazil, December 12, 1913.

There are no trusts existing at present in this district, and I doubt
very much whether such an organization could be profitably operated
 in this market. The firms of Zarges, Berringer &amp; Co, and
Zarges, Ohliger &amp; Co. were the representatives of Heilbert, Symons
% Co., of London and Liverpool, England, and as such and because
of their ability tn secure credits they were enabled to buy rubber at
times when others less favorably situated were forced to Teep out of
the market, but at no time were they able to control the situation.
Since the beginning of the war in Europe it has become necessary
for Messrs. Heilbert, Symons &amp; Co. to separate from the two firms
named in order to comply with the demands of the British Government.
 They have therefore named as their buying agents Messrs.