The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-27
First Shipment of Local Product
Goes on Iroquois.
SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND.
Cargo of building Materials 10 BE
Used In Construction OF street
Railways in HonoIulu-seattie
Won in Competition With San
Frnneisco-LocaI sugar Refinery
would secure All Trade of Island.

The frst consignment OF Seattle brick
10 Honolulu goes az part OF the cargo OF
the American ship Iroquois, now LOADING
at this port.
Seven hundred thousand brick of local
manufacture. are being taken by the iro-
quoia 10 be used in the construction OF
power house for a street railway com
pany at Honolulu. The placing OF the
order for brick in Seattle recently pro-
voked the Building Review. OF San Fran
cisco, to remark:
1--WE fail TO see why orders should be
sent thousand miles north of this city
TO furnish brick for tho Sandwich islands
our facilities for making brick in the near
neighborhood are such that capitalists
should embrace the opportunity and re-
solve that this section shall and must con-
troll az far an possible, every particle OF
trade connected with the Hawaiian and
Philippine Islands. IT seems that goodly
portion OF the trade that naturally be-
longs 70 this port is being absorbed by
tho more enterprising merchants down In
the southern part OF our own state, and
those I'm the two grand states Immediate
ly north Of California"
Referring to the order and TO the COM
ment therenpon. Secretary r.. a. Strout.
OF the Seattle Brick Exchange. yesterday
said:
This win be tho first shipment OF brick
from Seattle to Honolulu. but 1t IL certain
are such as to warrant the statement that
regular shipments will be made from now
on. This FIRST order was placed In Seattle
after interested parties had made care
full examination OF the brick manufac-
turcd here and had become satisfied both
az 10 the quality and the price. Cali
fornia yards tried hard to secure tho or
der and considerable credit IL due the
Seattle Brick Exchange for Its success
fu EFFORT to meet the southern competi-
ton. The brick were sold at the regular
price charged at the kilns here's per
thousand-which is about the same the
price fixed in San Francisco
"Seattes superior facilities for load
ing turned the scale In our favor. In
addition 10 the brick. the Iroquois IL taxi
and machinery, mostly OF local produce
ton, for use In street railway construc-
ton In Honolulu.
THE brick yards Of Seattle. embraced
In the exchange. arc now making over
three millions OF brick every month The
Increased Mt any time so that we are
IN position TO nil all orders OF any size
for local and export trade,
THE one thing that would give Seattle
absolute control of the Hawaiian trade"
added Mr.. Strout, is the location here OF
= sugar refinery. The chief present draw
back IL tho fact that we offer no local
market for tho principal product of the
islands. Hence. while we can send from
here vessels laden with everything they
need there Ia seldom chance for "a return
cargo We are sending TO Honolulu coal.
lime. lumber. brick and other OF our ma
tive products and with our railroad ad.
vantages. could handle the whole export
trade 20 the Islands. but We cannot at
present receive their sugar which is sent
az once assure seattle's supremacy In the
island trade"