Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17

Rat Portage, where saw mills saw up
enough Minnesota lumber from the Lake
of the Woods to supply all Manitoba. 1t
is not generally known that there is no
Canadian lumber between Sudbury and
the Rocky Mountains. 1t is all rocks,
roaring streams and dwarfed birch trees
Winnipeg is still the metropolis Of the
Manitoba country, and always will be-
Her only rivals are Duluth and Mime
apolia
Land Worth Nothing an Acre.
From Winnipeg west to the Rocky
M ountains are the Manitoba wheat plains
700 miles long and 400 miles wide.
"What's this land worth?" I asked at
Brandon.
80 s., So, s., and millions of acres for
nothing"
"Raise anything besides wheat?"
'Yes, barley, oats, potatoes but corn is
doubtful. Coal do you say? Oceans of it
at Battleford and Edmonton and south to-
ward Mcleod and over at Banff. Anthra-
cite, sparkling anthracite and mountains of
itp'
Over at Whitewood Baron Brabant and
French colony are raising 1000 acres of
chicory.
will not speak of the picturesque In
| dians that crowded around the depots SELL
ing polished buffalo horns, nor of beautiful
Banff where you can pick Strawberries
while looking on everlasting glaciers, nor
Of the dashing, foaming Fraser with its
salmon, rocks, mountain peaks and glaciers,
but hurry on to the beautiful Empress of
fn tonH in IAN
Yokohama Her staterooms are twice the
size of the Atlantic steamers and $50 pas
sengers make a load. In the hold were so
returning Chinese and 5000 barrels of -four
1000 bales of white cotton cloth for China
and a cargo of cotton for the Japanese cot
ton mills. Speaking of this cotton Mr..
Marsh, our Atlanta cotton broker, said:
Low Price of Cotton a BLESSING.
'The low price of cotton in the South is
knocking out India and China. They can
raise cent cotton in India They will
have to stop, and America will have the
| field. Low cotton in the South is bless
| ing in disguise Mark what 1 savp'
The Empress Of India brought more
| American cotton to Japan. 1t came bv
! Suez, so American cotton and cotton cloth
| encircles the world-east and west.
AS we passed the Aleutian Islands the
cold winds came down from the Bering Sea.
| There are plenty Of spouting whales but
never an iceberg. They always float out
| the other way into the Atlantic. Farther
| south we see Yezzo, where lived the Amos,
| the aboriginal Japanese. The Amos came
from Asia. They look exactly like the Es-
| uuimaux and our Aluska Indians A jan
| anese Junk could sail from Yezzo through
| the Aleutian Islands to Alaska and see
| land almost all the way There is volcano
| OH Yezzo and 20 more in active operation or
| smoking in Japan. They make Japan
hideous and Leautiful. Sailing up Yeddo
bay to Yokohama we see on our right Vries
Island, smoking volcano, and on our lett
the famous Fujivama with its snow covered
peak. 1t is ice and ire-nature's antIth-
eses, and so we find everything in Japan.
Climate Like That of San Francisco.
"John," said to our Chinese cabin boy,
as we saw the snowy peak of sacred FIi
through the volcanic smoke of Vries, show
is the weather in Yokohama"
'eYok ohama no muchee hot, no muchee
cold-aile same Flancisco, juste lite," said
John.
"How do you like the Japanese?''
"Me nalikee. He ale same Chinaman
lonce, New Japee he half Flenchman-fo
goodee.
AS we aDcuOT u HULL uiilc lTON IOhONama
(there are no docks in Yokohama, Shanghai
or Hougkong) the Empress is surrounded
by Japanese junks and swarm of sampans.
The sampan is clumsy little cedar boat
manned by half naked man and boy 1t is
q water cab that carries a passenger any
where for 10 cents. The half naked Japs on
the sampans throw their rope ladders up to
the steerage passengers. who tasten them
on the edge of the ship, then climb down
them into the sampan. The Japanese scull
these boats with an oar which wags In the
water like fsh's tail.
The Naked Laborers Of Japan.
We were somewhat shocked and
astonished at first at the nakedness OF the
Japanese kago carriers and Jinriksha
runners Many of my kodak pictures
taken the first day Of arrival, show men
and bows with no clothing but breech
cloth, and women working in the tea houses
stripped to their waists As the poor
things worked for to cents for day of
Is hours 1 could understand how they
could not spend much money for unneces-
sarv clothea The bows who row the