New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-27
FRESH TRADE DEVELOPMENTS.

The American Minister at Constantinople writes
as follows: II have every reason TO believe that X
enterprising American houses would study this
market and establish agencies under American rep
resentatives they would in the course of a short
time do a profitable. and In many products and
articles OF manufacture large, business But In
order to extend such trade It would be advisable TO
send in the first instance agents with American
energy and reliability. knowledge or the French
or German language, or both. would be OF great
advantage.
Some weeks ago Marshal Halstead. American
Consul at Birmingham. reported that American
broom handles were In demand In England. lie
was surprised that such need could be left I'M
satisfied long. 1t now appears from several sources
OF information. however. that the English buyer
wants a longer and stouter stick than the Ameri-
cans. and insists on having spruce, whereas the
American broom-maker will take birch or bass
wood stick The goTIg aber OF ro nrot on
broomstcks Of that material. II sent across the
Atlantic
The United States Consul General at Montreal. In
an elaborate report the Canadian lumber output,
says that Ontario has o211s square miles of wood
land Quebec 1854 British Columbia 2s5.554 the
Northwest Territories $685.. and the remainder OF
Canada enough to make total Of l2is.79S square
miles The quantity Of white pine In ontario Is
estimated at 49, 4oi 900 board feet. In Quebec at
Is 5000 and in other provinces at 2'z2VsyVO
Brunswick British Columbia contains the largest
compact timber In the world IL lnclunes
Douglass pine cedar, spruce and Alaska pine, right
in the railway belt, worth s25,OooWo.
A storyIiss current in Boston that the Cunard
company =. plaIfning to put two fine passenger
steamships Into service from that port In the near
future The vessels said to be on the stocks
at present Boston claims that she can get freight
from the West at a lower cost than New-York ana
as the distance to Liverpool and Queenstown Is
shorter than1 from the metropolis, Boston allows
herself to- dreayrof robbng this city OF It's ascen-
dancy In HE transatlantic traffic. She hopes 10
capture the business of other steamship lines ana
also cherishes beautiful visions OF industrial growth
in consequence Of cheap fuel gas. which the WHIT
ney interest is about give her. There is tax OF
dra wing In shoe factories from Lynn, HaVerhlll
and other places, because power can pc nad NOR
cheaply from gas than steam AND for tne SAM SAM
reason II Is thought that the future cotton ihIls
OF New England will take Boston for site lnstedu
Of going TO Fall River.
There Is a movement among the importers or raw
silk in this country 10 have all silk subjected 10
test known as conditioning" to determine the
amount OF moisture which 1t contains. There Is
already conditioning house, but 1t Is deemed oe-
sirable TO strengthen its powers and make IL more
independent. The Silk Association OF America mas
suggested that after May all raw SILK lhiPoatte
INTO the United States be conditioned. the trnng
expense involved being divided between Duyer anu
seller.