The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-26
Syndicate to Establish Oriental
Commission Houses Here.
AGENTS TELL OF THEIR PLANS.
Business VIII BE Done Through Sc
attle-Agency of Centennial Mills
and Puget Sound Lumber and
Shingles VIII he Established
i'm Shanghai - Hardwood and
Oriental Goods VIII he Sent Hack.

The first step toward establishing COM
mission houses in the business centers Of
the Orient for the purpose of handling
the product of about forty of the DIVERSE
fled industries of the United States has
been taken by a company Of Eastern cap
italists, whose representatives arrived in
Seattle yesterday and will sail for the
East today.
Among the houses to be represented
are the Centennial mills of Seattle and
panies on Puget sound. Houses will be
established at Yokohama. Shanghai,
Hongkong. Manila and other places to be
determined upon as soon as the repre-
sentatives arrive and look over the field.
Seattle is to be the port of export, cho-
sen, so the representatives say, on &C
count of it's being better adapted to the
needs of the business and because of the
assistance to be given by the Great
Northern railway.
The men who are to represent the syn
dicate in Siberia, Japan. China and the
benv ppt Capitalist f and +. T. Mead. for
mission and financial business in Denver.
At the Butler last night both talked of
their enterprise.
Establish Commission Houses.
1.-THE new field for the American man.
ufacturer," said Mr.. Emerson, sis in the
Orient and Siberia. Our syndicate has be-
hind it ample capital to carry on the
establish commission houses In every city
in the far East that will require our at
tention. We shall build warehouses and
carry small stock Of each of our lines
and locomotives, Westinghouse Electric
and General Electric Companies, cotton
MANUFACTURED goods required in the East
Eat Shanghai we shall establish an
agency of the Centennial mills, of Seattle,
and of several lumber and shingle mills
WASHINGTON. Drfncinal
fees will be at Yokohama, Shanghai
Hongkong and Manila.
IAN our business will be done through
this port, for the reason that it is better
adapted to our needs. Orders that are
booked from different mills and manu-
factories in the East will be shipped here
by rail and transferred to vessels.
ut Is our purpose to use the present
tonnage When our trade has reached
such a point that it demands it we shall
find additional tonnage, either by putting
n line on ourselves or engaging some of
the vessels of the Orient.
From our various houses we intend TO
send statesmen throughout the territory and
deal with the people face to face, which
has been demonstrated is the only way to
develop the trade in that quarter of the
globe.
VIII Also Import.
at is not our intention to engage In ex-
port business alone. In the Philippines we
expect as soon as the conditions will per-
init to establish a lumber trade with the
United States. We shall ship hardwood
logs of the choicest kind for interior finish
ing to Seattle, where we have made ar
engagements to have the lumber sawed and
distributed From the Orient and Siberia
we shall ship here all articles used In
trade.
while our head Office will be in New
York city, Seattle will be the distributing
point for all our imports. We shall estab-
fish an agency here for that purpose as
soon as we are organized in the East
Just how long before We arc IL post
tioa 10 do business depends upon how
quickly we get settled in the far Eastern
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