The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-18


work no ground except thai witch will
pay profit A portion % Their method %
mining could Dc adopted with advantage
in the Yakoc region. TIE moss IS stripped
OF az tAs ground 70 D. worked after fresZ-
Jig commences i The fall. and rae follow
ing summer the SIN ihaws the exposed
surface Of the ground and !. IS removed.
exposing 4 fresh surface 10 be n ;Grn
:aawed ogt by the sun IN tbs way they
VII excavats pits as much SIS 3 rnlie lang.
frc-, 10 10 fSs feet wide ard zen - twenty
fest deep IL single season. The total cost
% this work in Siberia ; about % cents
: cubic yard. OF course this method %
work involves the Use CO CO pisal and wait
ing Two ar three years for returns, but
when they DO clean Up. they make a prod.
One riae that know - there produced
90 IN 4 single season after three
years work Then & was sold hut tie
next year the product fell 20 saGean
Il received information in private le-ter
that one nugget weighing 81 pounds was
found II k-zi- creek II the Ainnsinsk dis
tfiet OF Siberia. Il was found by two
workHe1 in a prospect shaft IS feet deem.
That nIgge. vas worth rearly si7,an On
he hass.s % sis an ounce. which, IS the az
erags value q Siberian geld So you see
Trey find h.s nuggets there as well as On
t.e Yukon.
- noticed particularly The industrial and
commercial conditions while was IN ST.
IBERIA ard Eastern Asia I spent some tine
il Fladivostok. and think that CITY Will
eventually Be the great commercial and in
dGstr.aI city OF Eastern Asia. While the
people o. Eastern Asia ara poor, Judged By
our standards. their numbers are SO en-.
80.
for almost a.. cur products. It would
really oe harder 10 ind Things which hey
would not consume, II properly Introduced.
than 70 End things which they would con-
sumo. II the trade with Siberia / consider
Il great advantage y shippers would pat
Russian Labels. as we3 as English On the
goods sent there. The great h.rarance 70
q rapid introduction Of our commodities
comes from the inability Of the people TO
know VIVA; they are asked % buy. AS
matter OF fact. all kinds Of canned fish
and sruit. fruits in glass particularly, and
-four and blankets Will sci. readily. What
sells four IS the label tor when they once
get used 20 a certain label they ask for il.
The trade Of that country has heretofore
been in the hands Of German house but
the Russo CHINESE bank is fagoring Amer
leans. The most progressive people over
there, and those WHO are making must
money. are the few Americans. That
and We shall always be exporters OF wheat
and -four 20 a large extent. Practically
no wheat can be raised In Siberia east Of
the Yenlsei river. nor In Northern China
At the same time those people are taking
4 great fancy 20 wheat -four.
Dewey Smashed the Slate.
THE holding Of the Philippines by the
United States will be very much 10 the adj
vantage OF the Pacific coast. / regard the
capture OF Manila by Admiral Dewey as
making mere history than any battle in
the history OF the world. / was In Vladi-
vostok on the day the Russians took Port
Arthur, and It was openly talked that Rus
sia, Germany and France were TO pagti-
ton China and leave England cut In the
cold entirely. The preliminary moves in
this great game had been going on for
some time. The battle OF Manila smashed
the slate by bringing America CONNER
cially SO close 10 China that she became
natural ally Of England / consider that
America, with the Philippines as a base,
viii IN few years not simply divide the
foreign trade OF China with England, but
VIII very nearly nonopolize 1t.
ASIDE from the Importance Of the Ftil-
ippnes as a commercial base for trade with
Eastern Asia. they contain natural re-
sources that will be enormously productive,
developed by American capital and indus
trial organization. The Japanese coal fields
are pretty well exhausted. The coal con-
sumption of Eastern Asia, which IS al
ready very large. with the opening OF Chi
na, will enormously increase. Russia and
China both have enormous coal re-dss but
the commercial conditions are such that
the coal of the Philippine islands, devel-
oped by American capital. vii control the
market. They have also in the Philippines
deposits Of iron, copper and gold, the lat
ter, according 10 my information. under
exceedingly favorable conditions Tor ex-
pio.tacon. III the hands OF the SparardS
the Philippines cut no figure commercial
ly. industrially or politically. but in our
hands they can be made 10 dominate East
ern Asia
THE transsiberian railroad IS not in
nearly as forward a state as Is generally
supposed. For the transmanchurian line
from N,adivosstok TO kEacta. In Northern
Mongolia, south OF Lake Baikai, the Rus
SLAMS have accumulated large stores of
material at Vladivostok, but have not
commenced actual construction, nor have
they even finished the preliminary survey
The main line east from Moscow must
now be at Lake Raikal and a very large
amour, OF the grading between that point
and StretinsSk. al the head OF navigation
on the Schilka river, a branch Of the
Amoor. has been done. The distance be-
tween these points is about 500 miles From
the Pacific end the road is complete for
SO miles northward fran Vladivostok 10
Havarovka. on the Amoor river. About
20 miles of construction has also been
done from Stre;insk westward towards
Lake Bakal. The Pacific and Eastern d.
visions Of the road VIII be connected by
about 1900 miles OF navigation en- the
Amo0r RIVER"