Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-14
GOODS r o THE EAST.
Ships Bring Great Quantities of d
Products from Orient.

Ships Bring Great Quantities of Odd
Products from Orient.
A walk along South street seldom
fails to repay the careful observer, for
while he will not see there ships OF
remarkable size, the things which come
out Of their holds often include many
commodities which he has never before
seen, and not %infrequently some of
which he has not heard.
Nearly all of the China ships. So
called, now dock at the new piers re-
Gently put up by the city ut the foot
of Market and Rutgers street. One of
these. the steamer Lowther Castle, lay
alongside of the Market street pier I'LL
of last week. Chests of tea, stacked up
to the height of fifteen or twenty feet,
and large bundles of bamboo showed
clearly enough from what quarter of
the globe she had come. Out of her
forward hold the dcrricks were hoist.
ing pigs of Il white metal that look.
ed almost like the bars of silver bull.
ion which one sometimes sees being
taken out of the ~subtreasury.
What is thaty' ventured a curious
bystander.
''Tin-pure block tin'-replied the
custom house inspector, who was busy
counting the pigs" experimenting the
weighing of them and making IL curl.
Gus looking hieroglyph on each one to
denote that it had passed through his
hands.
".All of this tin has come from Straits
settlements" he added in response to
another question. Zach one of these
bars weighs from 100 to 14O pounds
and is worth from SOB to $25. The tin
which you see piled up here within ten
or fifteen feet of You is worth $4,000
or $4,000. and it is lie unusual thing
fe. one Of these ships to bring in as
part of it's cargo $15O,O0O of the white
metal"
A little further out on the pier was
Il huge pile of peculiar bags made. of
course, of fiber, containing Il substance
of Il dark-brown color and of soft, gum
my consistency, so that it had ooZed
out through cracks in the bags and
made n very uninviting looking mess.
Here. too, was u of Uncle Sans
agents. with blue coat and brass but
tons, officiating at a large scales upon
which four or five of the big sticky
bundles were placed at once.
Crude rubber?" ventured the inquis.
tive lOoker-on.
No. replied the official. Poor
guesser. That's gambler. Never hear
Of that stuff? Well, gambler contains
Il great deal of tannin and is used for
tanning leather. 1t is obtained from a
vine that grows OIL the Malay PENN.
sula. and the ship took all of this
aboard at Singapore. It's worth from
5 to z cents a pound, and one of these
bags contains about 200 pounds. Very
little of it stays in this city. much of
1t being reloaded on lighters right here
mt this pier, taken around to Jersey
City, and shipped by rail to various
tanneries throughout the country.
..That stuff over there in the funny
looking boxes? That's gum arabic, not
from Arabia but from Borneo and some
of the n%eighboring islands. That goes
into various sorts of sticking prepare.
lions and into some kinds of varnish.
Great lot o. things zones in the
China ships" he added. as the inquisi.
tive man turned to walk away. says the
New York Times. "Come around when
the next one comes in and you can
have some more surprises"
Farm Animals OF the United States
Tl( total value Of oil farm animal.
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