The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-13
San Francisco Yields tie Palm
70 Puget Sound.
FLOUR CARGO FOR THE ORIENT,
All That II Vow Needed In Adequate
Shipping Capacity washfnxton
Mills Have All the Orders They
Can FIJI for Russian Porfs-Every
Outbound steamer Has Every
Ten she CaH Possibly Carry

San Francisco Is fas. losing her grip CT
Several years ago the California metropolis
shipped ten tens 10 Puget sls1ra's cEe. Now
Puget sound - shipping more than San
Francisco and Il Is predicted 1y men wei.
posted that within five years shs ra..3 VIII
% TIE reverse OF wna. IL Wac tea years
ago. II Eve years II - confidently ex-
,ec.ed .nat there Will BE Sufficient bottoms
running dirsct from Puget sound &c Siberian
port. 20 supply the enormous market that
aas been opened vp with that portion q
the cars domain As i. Is nov Washing
ton nails have al tie orders they can III
for Vlal5svostck and Nicoisfsx. ami they
could furnish twice as much had they the
capacity. Every steamer leaving Seattle
has aboard Al the -four she can take and
leaves large quantities Oh The dock for
want OF room The b4g Canadian Pacific
railroad liners, which clear frcm Van
coITer. 3. g. take large coSs gnusents OF
Washington -four each TIP and IN fact any
steamer leaving for the Orient is Offered
any amount .: -four. The Northern Pacific
steamers. sailing trym Tacoma. do TO. take
Any flour from this CITY. the company
claiming to nave al they can handle az
their own port.
The Nippon Yusen Ka.sha line has taken
every pound Of -four possible. but even then
it sas been compelled 10 refuse coas!ga-
nent5 every trip. owing 70 the large amour.
OF other freight contracted for.
Now that the cotton shipping season il
about 10 begin there Is some fear .1at the
line VIII not be able to carry as much
as during the spring ard summer. as this
49, =
A. ~. Cray, resident manager OF TIE line
is now East and hs has promised Seattle
-four manufacturers that he viii uss every
eIdeavor 10 secure az much space for them
as they now enjoy. PreEden. Hill, on his
recent trip 20 Seattle. said re would DO all
possible 20 secure an increased service be-
tween the two countries. and there Is rea-
sou 70 believe that he will make good
his PROMISE as the line Is encouraged by
an enormously increasing trade II -four
and other commodities
A gentleman recently returned from San
Francisco says the manufacturers and
dealers IL -four in that city are greatly
discouraged at the manner IN which trade
IS being diverted TO Seattle. More than
one OF them Is thinking Of operating from
this city, as they realize that the coa4i-
tons are all in favor % Seattle, the most
important Of which is that Seattle manu-
facturers can underseil them a. least 50
cents q barrel Another thing that has
saintated against San Francisco is that rh.
quality OF -four shipped 10 the Orient is
inferior 10 that shipped from Washington.
This was ali right wasn the consumers
over there did not know the difference he
tween good and bad -four. bat they have
become educated ard are now able 20 DIS
Gnguish between the two. and naturally
prefer the Washington product. Especial
~ Is this SO as regards the Siberian trade,
which Is assuming immense proportions
Since the pert Of VIaIivoStok was opened
thousands CT barrels OF -four have been
shipped II there. bu. through Yokohama,