Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-11

r. INGApoRE-New oil ilelds nave
boen recently opened up In
Dnteh Borneo and a large
u member Of the English capi-
4 talIsts Of the far east are In
,erested in them Many are
~ Investing in the different plan
tatlons In British North Bor-
and others are sending out pros
aoc,ors to look up gold, coal, Iron and
Inmond mines In different parts Of
ho, great island It Will not be long
so,ors America viii be doing the same.
Same of the shrcwdogt Of our imam.
e,ors are watching the lower parts OF
Wv pblilppIne Islands. Prospecting Is
ooI,e on in Mlndanao and In the Is
gsond NJ palawan, and the value Of the
noarl 0shlerles and other possessions
~ The Sultan Of Jolo are being care
fully weighed,
RoRNEo OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGH
BOR
From our military station on Bongao,
IN The sulu archipelago, II Is but a step
10 Borneo, and you can there almost
hear the guns which are fired at SAN
dakan the capital of British North
Rnrneo The distance IL only forty
miles and the sound carries easily over
the water our soldiers In fact, are
within forty miles Of BOrneo, and there
Are regular ships from Jolo TO san
dakan. Such steamer was In port
while was In JOlO, and less than a
davis ride upon II would have landed
me there. a part Of Borneo belongs TO
the Sultan Of SUN and as the sultan
Is now an American citizen his pos
sessions there may be called American
although they In reality are the prop
erty Of the British, having been leased
BY the sultan to the North Borneo
company
This company pays somewhere be-
tween 5000 and $4,000 year for them
on perpetual lease, II gets other
lands through a concession from the
sultan Of Brunei, the ruler Of the native
state adjoining It's possessions In North
Borneo, and II has IN both leases a
pnncpalitle here which might have |
belonged either to the Germans or the |
United States had we sooner awakened |
to greed for foreign territory.
While / was In Jolo ] met n young |
German named Shuck who has big |
estate not far from that town. He Is |
The only foreigner outside Uncle Sam |
who owns any property on the Island
OF I0l0, and his estate was granted TO |
Al. 10 10 a.. Ada.
shuck was q German trader. who inn
ported all sorts Of things for the old
sultan, the father Of the man now on
the throne The old sultan gave Shuck
O commission to sell his North Borneo
property for him, and Shuck offered 1t
10 Prince Bismarck, The Germans were
not then anxious after foreign territory,
J believe they had their hands full with
The French war and other European
questions, AZ any rate Bismarck wrote
shuck that Germany did not want the
property shuck reported this TO the
sultan, and the sultan angrily told him
that he had not managed the business
as well as he should. Shuck grew an
cry in turn and told him he could tako
II back and handle Il himself and the
result was that the sultan year or so
later leased the territory 10 the British
North Borneo company for $4,000 a
year The company gives a similar
tribute TO the sultan of Brunei, but
lts total payments Of this kind are on
" little over $4,000 per year.
BRITISH NORTH BoRNEo.
For this bagatelle the North Borneo
company has secured one OF the finest
pieces Of property In the far east 1t
mas territory about as large as South
Carolina or bigger that the Island OF
Ceylon II owns the tip end of North
Borneo, and 1t had coast line Of about
w miles II has a number OF excellent
arbors aud especially Sandakan, Ia
,ne. OF the best along Che Pacific The
larhor Is fifteen feet deep and 1--WE miles
vide with thirteen rivers running into
I II is surrounded by hills and upon
hese hills sandakan IL built. l met a
lumber Of mon in the Sulu Islands who
lad been over there and | have lot
u Information as TO how the town
oooY today and what the British
worth Borneo company Is doing
sandakan has about 1000 people, OF
Vhom half are Chinese. There are only
Few hundred Europeans, but they
AVE all the institutions Of an Asiatic
olonial port They have club, a mu-
cum, scientific society and racing
association. There Is a fairly good ho-
e. newspaper and a large number
= stores. Most Of the Europeans are
ncers and business men. In 1883 the
efritory was made a British protecto-
ATE but the British North Borneo
ompany still manages 1t.
AN ENGLISH LAND TRUST.