Show The National Association o Manufacturers Manu-facturers arc or wore In ncssion In Boston last week Tho Financial News after commending the meeting and stating subjects that could be profilubly discussed refers to a lesser mailer which is I of very great Importance I says saThe The most 1 Important thing to b ° thIs eu sod In the acquisition anti distribution of knuwKdRoi IJ to Just what goods are wanted In forolcn markets wllh what 4vor color Illicit design or packing IH necp snry to rnalto thorn sittactlvo nnel to permit of their convenient handling I makos a great difference on to this latter point as to who HUT goods can roach a market by htoanur or railway or whether they must be packed over mountain vrullB or through jimngles on the backs of mules or hung VCr poles carried on the shoulders shoul-ders of men This la 1 especially true of goods to ho sent to Central or South America They I il lo not bcliove In vehicles down there Tho method of transporting everything frornAWomon and pianos up or down to I quartz mills lE by tIme never falling mo tire power nf the mule VVe suspect the same thing would be true of goods designed for tIme Interior trade of Asia The mule is not In much repute there but the canal Is the dIfference being that the camel can take twice as big or at least I twice as heavy a cargo as the I mule The same we suspect will be required re-quired In the interior of Alaska 1C thai l country Is ever very much explored I But the packtrain Is the especial feature fea-ture of Spanish America For three I hundred years it has boon the freight and passenger train oC the mountains of the New World |