Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-05-09

mines, TO Sell the product at cost to
the people, who seem to like this kind
OF ''populism." The governments
purchases are enormous. Mr.. Car
penter says:
The government buys hardware,
galvanized roofing, elevators pumps
for irrigation and all sorts Of ma
! chinery and engineering. Such pur-
chases are SO important both here and
in Australia that it would pay to put
more money into the consular service
OF these countries, even at the expense
OF cutting of such places as the Falk-
| land islands and score OF others
where we have salaried men who can
not possibly earn their salt.
A SHOT AT JOHNNY BRAY.
We should send our best business
| men as our consular representatives to
| this part OF the world. We should
| have men who are alive to the push
! ing OF American trade and who will
| report upon the enormous field which
is now wide open to us. Some of our
consuls, 1T seems to me, do not appre-
clate their positions. Take, for in
stance, remark made to me by the
consul general to Australia, a very
nice young man, who acquired much
OF his business experience as postmas-
ter OF the thriving town Of Grand
Forks, N. d., from where he came to
Melbourne, a city almost as big as St.
Louis, to take charge Of Uncle Sans
business interests in the continent Of
Australia. had asked him why he
did not keep the state department
posted on the openings for American
l froHn hn L,,c
ments which are,g going on everywhere.
He replied that he reported upon all
| things that the department. directly
asked for, but that he did not consider
it best to show up the great trade ad-
yantages of Australia, for fear it
might call them to the attention of
the Germans and other nations.
Such policy is mistaken one.
The English and Germans are study
ing the AuStralasian markets, and are
doing everything to push their goods
into them. They have ten cOntiden-
tlal agents to our one in the way OF
business firms, and our consuls should
not only report fully, but should also
hustle for government contracts.
Invercargill, the town furtherest
south in New Zealand, has 10000 peo-
pie, is well built, has good schools, pub
lie library, banks, water works, etc.
In the business section were found
many samples Of American goods, but
British and Canadian firms are the
chief sellers as they give longer time
and better prices. Most Of the cotton
goods come from England but our
prints would sell. One firm in Well
ington gave trial order for $4,000
worth of American prints and found
! they were selling we'll.
! One of the great Industries of New
Zealand is gold mining. There are
$4,000 gold mines there and great
deal Of mining machinery is being
shipped from the United States. A
gold dredge from Chicago costs $40, 900
to $4,000 The mining is washing
from alluvial soils. The sands Of the
plain in the middle island contains
flour gold. The mountains back of
them contain quartz and other gold
bearing rock. Carpenter says:
For ages the streams have been
carrying this flour gold worn from the
rocks down into the water, and the
tides and storms have thrown it back
upon the land. In the meantime the
sea has been slowly receeding, leaving
a chocolate cOlored sand or conglOmer-
ate mixed with gold.
These plains have been taken up by
miners in tracts of from fifty to one
h,,v,1ra6 fThny ho
and flow it over amalgam plates or
tables covered with mating or plush.
As the waiter containing the sand
runs over the plush the gold falls and
is caught in the nap. while the sand,
being lighter flows off. From time to
time the plush is taken off and wash
ed In some places the sand is dredg-
ed out by machinery, the flowing
tables being connected with the
dredgeS.
This is by far the most profitable
methodist of mining, and there are
today many dredging companies in
different parts OF New Zealand, nearly
all of which are making money. The
miners claim that if they can get one
grain of gold to cubic yard OF earth
they can work at Il profit. and in some
cases the results al ten times this.
The gold product of New Zealand is
s., 0O0 900 a year and over two hundred
million dollars worth of gold have
, been mined there.
There are millions of tons OF iron
miXcdIwith the sand on the sea shore.
An invention is wanted to gather it
for smelling to seperate the pure EAR
ticleS of iron from sand. Iron is
brought in ballast by steamers that
return with wood and frozen mutton.
PoPULIsT POLICIES SUCCESSFUL.
Mr.. Carpenter says our agricultural
department could learn lessons from
New Zealand. He adds:
The government here watches the
interests Of the farmers very closely
and aids them in many ways. This is
especially so as TO the dairy Industry.
The government loans money to but-
termakers, making each advance up
to $4,000 under certain conditions.
The interest paid is ) per cent and
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