The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-26
NEW F1ELDF0R TRADE
Great Opening for Washington
Products i'm Australia.
HER RECOVERY FROM THE PANIC.
Australian Steamship Agent Tells
How Puget sound Fruit ana sal
mon Find Foreign Markets.

Frank Logan. Of Sydney. Australia,
REPRESENTATIVE OF the hrm OF Burns. Phil
10 & Co. Limited. Australian agents Tor
I the Canadian Australian Steamship Com
pany, accompanied BY William Brown,
OF Vancouver r. .. assistant genera
freight agent OF the Canadian Pacific
COMPANY Is In the city. a guest al the
Rainler-Grand ard viii remain for few
days. Mr.. Logan has been sent out 10
Vancouver. where ne will make head
quarters for few months, with view
10 increasing the traffic for the line or
steamers from this side Of the great
waters. Mr.. Logan said yesterday re-
gardiug his company aud the steamship
line:
This is my first visit OF the United
States and / confess / am surprised at
the extent OF the country in this part
Of the globe. I had no idea that there
were so many industries so well develop
cd. Mr. Brown and myself have just
been IN Portland and there my eyes were
opened TO the large amount OF fruits,
dried and fresh which Is handled both
in Oregon and In this state. Prunes
and apples and ~ '-f~7- Of the harder
fruits are largely handled for export.
Oar people in Australia believe that ne
should he able TO get a good deal of trai-
fic from this part OF the country. Here
tofore nearly all the traffic has been by
way Of San Francisco. produce and grains
being shipped from Washington and ore
gon TO San Francisco and thence south
by sea. We see no reason why this ex
ira railroad haul should not be abolished.
for II VIII largely reduce the price or
stufrs. and proportionately benefit our
people and the country here as well. And
that Is what I am here for.
our company Is a very important con-
Germ Ia the colonies. and has branch
stores and places of business all over
Australia. We have seven places Ia
Queensland. three IN British New Guinea
and two in Western Australia-one at
/ Geraldton and another at Esperance bay.
| From the latter place the gold fields Of
/ Coolgs rdie are reached.
We have been having hard times down
| there just as you people have. but our
| people believe that times are beginning
| 20 pick up and they look forward 20 a
general and steady revival Of business
] from now on. We think that the worst
Il over. We felt the depression keeny.
aud IN Melbourne the financial suffering
was greater than a. any other place in
/ the colonies. IN sydney some OF the
| smaller hanks failed and Of course others
/ suffered a result. bat then the larger
! banking concerns kept their heads above
water and came ont all right. but during
| the hardest times collections were not
| hard and everything among the larger
| business houses went right along. They
I all seemed 20 have little Ga reserve al
/ ways But in sydney We did not DO as
! have heard your people ga Seattle did.
! The hanks al not stand together. while
| here ! understand they pooled and the
/ better institutions tided the smaller ones
/ over. The leading banks did not care a
| continental whether the smaller ones
! lived or not. IN fact. they thought that
| little wedding ont would do the bank
J ing business good The Bank Of Austria
/ mi h. "Hnasa - 80
| Germs. the city Bank Of Sydney. a local
| concern, and the Bank OF New South
| Wales government institution. hraYed
| the storm and came out none the worse
| Tor the experience. But the City Bank
! or sydney was the only local bank that
was saved I'm the general collapse"
Mr.. Logan Is a native Of Australia and
| has lived In that country all his life ex-
/ copt six years spent in London at study.
/ lie says that the Australian peopIe are
doing a good deal OF protesting against
| the continued action Of the French I'm
sending their conyicts 10 New Caledonia.
! which Is only three DAYS sail I'm north
| easteriy direction. The island belongs 10
the French and the criminals are sent
| there 10 serve out sentences in the same
| manner that In the olden times the En-
! giish were wont % use the colonies of
| Australia "a a criminal settlement Mr.
/ Logan says that the most vicious classes
|
| Caledonia. and criminals are continually
| escaping and going TO Australia. where
| they plumber rob and murder Every ef-
| fort Is being made TO have the French
| desist from this policy.
| Mr. Logan SAYS that the cable which
| was hulit from sydney 10 New Caledonia
| year ago is In good working order and
| Is a source OF much satisfaction 20 the
| residents OF both commemorative He
! thinks that IL viii not he long before
/ satisfactory arrangements viii be made
! and work commenced on the proposed
cable from Australia TO the Samoan ISL
| ands. thence 10 Honolulu ana thence 70
J Vancouver
! Speaking further concerning his mis-
| sion Mr.. Logan said that no expected tn
| handle "a good many hons this year ana
| also lumber IN large shipments A great
| deal Of lumber Is shipped 10 Australia
| from this side Of the Pacific rooS+ 80 !,
! going from the mills on Burrard inlet
| hat he thinks that during the r.-ese,,,
| year more American lumber VIII no
| handled than heretofore he saws tha+
, While the price ~ lumber has been ,cr,.
! low here. it IS hard 20 got auvthfr~ ~
| Il tn Australia, aTi they must have lun,-
/ her There. TOO. he thinks uri~os r.,u
! p'rN up ans that the American az uyau as
/ th" british Columbia lmber,nan VIII
! o"hthf accordingly. lie saws sAat ~
/ F'h" q products r. Australia has shruolr
/ - an alarming eEgre sheen. wool hu+trr
Z .'S.. ana othff articles shipped - Eng
ifhd having rone down n almost roth-
! iuE but shipments are now fra.- ~.
/ prices he'te- and stcadler than f,r ro,o,hs
( mutton ne SeiF. - ''"~'H
= have been cola THAT y7u rals9 a qo~.,
Z n"nN sheep here ard that the hfffs ,ra
covered WIN them. hpt We snip q good
t"}t of frozen mutton f~or, ,St4re,. .,