The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-07-24
THEY WANT HAWAIIAN TRADE.
EVIDENT COMPETITIONS BETWEEN
SEATTLE AND SAN FRANCISCO
ssveH Hundred ThoaSaaa Brick comins
BY Ship I-pasats sor R4Ysd
Transit Co

he estimation II Hhich the trade Of
the Territory Of Hawaii Is held along
the Pacific Coast Is very clearly shosn
hy the following. Published in the
Seattle Post-Intelligeneer Of june 18th:
The first consignment Of Seattle
brick IN Honolulu goes a part of the
cargo Of the American ship Iroquois,
now loading at this port.
-SeTen hundred thousand brick of
local manufacture. are being taken by
the Eoquois 10 be used in the con
structiou Of a power house for street
railway company at Honolulu The
placing of the order for brick IN Seattle
recently provoked the Building Review.
of San Francisco, 10 remark:
1--WE fail TO see why orders should
be sent thousand miles north OF this
city TO furnish brick for the Sandwich
Islands. Our facilities for making
brick ia the near neighborhood are
such that capitalists should embrace
the opportunity and resolve that this
section shall and must control. as far
as possible, every particle of trade con-
nected with the Hawaiian and Philip
pine Islands II seems that a goodly
portion of the trade that naturally be-
longs TO this port is being absorbed by
the more enterprisiDg merchants down
in the southern part of our own state,
and those in the two grand states i'm
mediately north of California
'Referring 10 the order and TO the
comment thereupon. Secretary Z. 4.
Strout. OF the Seattle Brick Exchange
yesterday said:
'.This viii be the first shipment of
brick from Seattle to Honolulu, but it
is certain not to be the last In fact,
the prospects are such as to warrant
the statement that regular shipments
will be made from now on. The first
order was placed in Seattle after inter
ested parties had made careful exami-
nation of the brick manufactured here
and had become satisfied both as to the
quality and the price. California yards
tried hard to secure the order and con-
siderable credit is due the Seattle Brick
Exchange for its successful effort TO
meet the southern competition. The
brick were sold at the regular price
charged at the kilns here's per thou
sandwich is about the same as the
price fixed in San Francisco.
"'Seattle's superior facilities for
loading turned the scale in our favor.
In addition to the brick. the Iroquois
is taking general cargo of building
material and machinery, mostly of local
production, for use in street railway
construction in Honolulu.
1.-THE brick yards of Seattle, en-
braced in the exchange, are now max
ing over three million of brick every
month. The facilities are such that
the output can be increased at any time
so that we are in a position to fill all
orders of any size for local and export
trade.
1.-The one thing that would give
Seattle absolute control of the Ha-
waiian trade added Mr. Strout, is the
location here of a sugar refinery. The
chief present drawback is the fact that
we offer no local market for the prin-
ciIal product of the islands. Hence,
wide we can send from here vessels
laden with everything they need, there
is seldom a chance for return cargo
We are sending to Honolulu coal, lime,
lumber. brick and other of our native
products and with our railway advan-
tages, could handle the whole export
trade to the islands; but we cannot at
present receive their sugar. which is
sent to California ports. i local re-
finery would at once assure Seattle's
supremacy in the island trade"