The record-union., 1899-09-26

list of other manufactures which come
under the head of muck and truck
and whatever portion of tnis California
can get will be for it's material advan-
tage.
OUTLET FOR FLOUR
With regard to the exportation to
China of flour, have studied old con-
sular reports written from Hongkong
and Shanghai twenty years ago, in
which it was stated that the people OF
China, or even the people Of Asia did
rot want flour, would :.ot eat ii and
hence would not buy it. AMI that money
spent by the Pacific Coast millers and
exporters in an attempt to build up
demand in the Orient was money
wasted They indulged in all kinds of
arguments as to why there was no op-
portunity for the flour trade, and yet
we are now selling between S3,0OO.0O0
and $6,O00.OOO worth of flour in the
Orient, and in the opinion of us who
have lived there, there is no reason
why within the comparatively near fu-
ture this trade should not reach any
where from $25, 100000 to $40,0OO,0O0.
l believe that the time is coming
when 500,000,000 of people across the
lands, will consume every surplus
bCshel of wheat or bag of flour that
this coast can produce, and we will be
entirely Independent of the Liverpool
market l hold that the time is com
ing when the farmers of the Saera-
nento and San Joaquin River Valleys
will find permanent, stable demand in
China, Japan, Siam, Siberia and the
T.l-s
What this means for the prosperity OF
your city and State you can easily COM
prehend. When added to the great
agricultural prosperity we shall de-
velop a coordinate manufacturing
prosperity, our coast will begin TO real
ize the magnificent destiny an all-wise
being has planned for it.
A man who studies the conditions in
China as L have done soon sees that
only a very small portion of it's peo-
pie and those of the other countries
have begun to really know what Amer
lean flour is You have only to jour
ney a short way into the interior, or
to go to what they call unopened ports,
and you will find that there is almost
absolute ignorance in regard to this
commodity
But the Chinese like it and all Asia
likes it, and if we continue selling it at
such a price as they can buy it, we
shall find the market. Some critics
pointing to the fact that there is now
an oversupply of flour in Asia and
Asiatic ports, and that the price has
gone down, strangely point to this as
the conclusion that there is not a de-
market can be glutted by competition,
and that the development of the de-
mand for the flour of the Orient must
be gradual. You cannot stuff it down
the throats of the Asiatics. They will
buy it and eat it as they are taught
to do so, as they are hungry or as they
have the money. In Siam, in Corea
and in the Philippines it is remarkable
how fond the natives are of any classes
of food made of our wheat flour.
I will not go into the possibilities Of
shipping lumber, but any one who has
Travelled extensively in the principal
Asiatic countries realizes what a great
opportunity there is along this line.
China is practically without timber;
Siberia is little better off; Japan is
using up the best she has, and there
must be an inevitable demand for all
that the Pacific Coast can spare. The
timbered countries of the south, like
Borneo and the Philippines will not
probably supply more than the demand
which viii develop in the immediate
section.
KEEP THE PHILIPPINES.
The Philippines are the most interest
ing section of the Orient of which