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FILES IN SPANISH AMERICA. 



iiiform the consul about the prices, qualities, kinds, discounts, etc., of 

 the manufactures he may desire to introduce. 



(1) There is no demand for American files. In the three principal 

 hardware stores in the city not an American file could be found. 



(2) The only prospect for creating a demand is to have American manu- 

 facturers deliver as good a quality, and perhaps it would be necessary 

 now to deliver a better quality of the articles at the same or at a less 

 price to the dealers than they pay in England, where the most of that 

 class of articles is now purchased. When the Bahia purchaser is per- 

 fectly satisfied with the manufacturers from whom he purchases, as one 

 of the parties said to me, better inducements must be offered from other 

 manufacturers in order to cause him to change. Files are imported 

 into this district principally from Sheffield. All kinds that are manu- 

 factured, are imported. 



(3) Piles are not manufactured in this district. 



(4) I give herewith as taken from the bill forwarded from Shef- 

 field to one of the purchasers in this city the following prices of files 

 and rasps corresponding to some mentioned in the price-list of the 

 Troy manufacturers : 



