The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-09
GREAT FUTURE
FOR ST. PAUL,
Trade of the Orient
Destined to Pass
Through the City.

I Canadian Pacific and the Southern poci.
nc ROADS. There is a line of three fine
| Sleanfers known as the Togo Kisen
| halsna that run between Japan and
| american ports and that are owned by
| some Japanese capitalists 1t is by rms
| line of steamships that the Great North
tLn railroad SHIPS all goods for the Orient
that pass over its lines, and the road also
| receives goods from these vessels bound
TOT cities IN the United States The yes
| sels OF the Togo Kisen Kaisha are very
Inc IN every way, but as they are only
ogUV-ton boats their cargo space is nat
ufaIly small. The other vessels engaged
III the Eastern trade are not much larger
SO tnat all told the carrying capacity of
the boats upon the Pacific is not great
compared with the remarkable amount
| OF trade now opening up. Indeed nearly
one-na!t OF the entire population of the
world Is waiting upon the other side of
the Pacific ocean to receive our goods
and in return to send some of the pro-
ducts of their workshops and farms. Just
at present the ships needed to carry these
goods back and forward do not exist.
However, great ships to supply the want
are fast being built and they will be fol-
lowed by still others until the Pacific
ocean Will be covered by a class and num-
Der of vessels such as the world has
never seen before.
1t is of the utmost Importance to those
interested in Oriental trade that thcv
should understand the situation in re-
gard to vessels plying between Amer
lean ports and the ports of the Orient
In regard to the amount Of trade with
the Orient Mr.. J. J. Hill in a recent adj
dress said: IF there was a supply Of
cheap ocean transportation this amount
could, in my judgment, be very much in
creased In order to show the faith
that is in him Mr.. Hill is now building
two ships whose size the world has never
seen before. They are twice as large as
any vessel af1oat upon the Pacific ocean
today.
These two huge ships are being fast
completed at the shipyards at Groton
near New London, Conn. When they are
afGat they will be able to carry thous-
a an 1s, o. passengers and millions Of pounds
OF freight. 1t will be remembered that
the ships of the Togo Kiser Kaisha are
60O0 tons in size Each one of the Great
Northerns new boats is $4,000 tons in
size one OF these new boats will be able
to carry each trip $50 first-cIass, 10) sec1nd
class, $50 third class and LOCO storage pas-
ser gers; 100000 bushels of wheat or 200
GO0 barrels of flour And each vessel will
ne apie to bring back in one trip cargo
OF oriental goods that will fill $500 ordi-
nary railway freight cars. 1t does not
need extended comment to show the vast
changes the addition of these two vessels
VIII make to Oriental trade. If each of
tnese huge boats can take 100000 bushels
OF wheat to Japan and China in one trim
d tney can also bring back to America
100000 bushels of rice This will mean
that about 1900 car loads of rice wouId
arrive in st. Paul each month of the
year counting the other boats that are
IN the rice carrying trade and that ship
their cargoeS over the three north trans
continental roads. Most of this rice would
be IN what is known as the rough
RMS means unnilled. The import duty
on rice IS cents per bushel for milled
Winnie 1t costs 8712 cents per 100 pounds
TO bring the rice to St. Paul from japan.
Most OF this rice will come from japan
Tor the simple reason that rice coming
from China costs 81 cents more in
freight rates; $1.25 per 100 pounds being
the cost of bringing rice from China to
81 Paul. These rates are all made on the
other side OF the water by the steam
hauling rice already found in this coun-
try are 80 cents per 100 pounds from the
coast to ST. Paul. When the Great North-
ems new ships are afloat the rates viii
De much smaller
There are other causes that enter into
Inc Feductlon Of the rate on rice besides
tLose 60 encourage trade. Although as
mas been seer, there is more flour and
0tf6r goods waiting to be carried to thTa
orient that there are ships to carry
them, the boats always do not have a
heaVy cargo to carry back to this coun-
Try. The only product that will, at least.
1or several Years, arrive In great bulk is
rice SILK is about the only manufac-
tored product that is secured from the
Orient, While we send over hundreds of
different manufactured articles, During
the months Of September, October and
November the Great Northern railroad
Shipped $4,000 bales of cotton to the
orient. The amount could have beer.
more than doubled had there been ships
to carry it across the Pacific. There
WGS no trouble in finding plenty of shin
room to put all the silk that was sent
from the Orient. Consequently when the
great new ships of the Great Northern
company go into commission they must
depend upon rice to furnish them their
return cargoeS. This will mean more
rice coming to America than was ever
dreamed Of before
The silk that comes to our country all
goes through to New York. This is be-
in the East. The silk train on the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific railroads
is famous to everyone living along the line
OF those roads. The silk is taken from
the. ship as soon as it arrives In the
harbor and is placed in baggage cars
These baggage cars are then coupled
onto regular passenger train and start
ed across the continent. They are rushed
over the road as fast as possible, and
everything must get out of their way
When they arrive at st. Paul they are
coupled onto a train bound to the East,
and as soon as the cars reach New York
the SILK is at once removed and the re-
sponsibilty of the railroad comes to an
end. We cannot expect, at least for
great many years, that this silk will ever
stop in st. Paul. In the first place, it is
raw silk, and the mills for which it is
board
That this city is destined to become the
great distributing center for tea and
straw mating cannot be doubted. The
trafnc manager of a great railroad saws
that not only will the tea that already
stops here be stored here, but that if
there was storehouse to hold it ALL
great amounts that go to other cities
will be stored and distributed from ST
Paul. for the reason that it would be a
great saving in freight rates. He says
further that he has known carloads of
tea to stand upon the track for days,
waiting to be stored, and then sent on
to Chicago or some other city where there
was room for it in a bonded warehouse
Tea and mating Importers prefer to use
ST. Paul as a distributing point as it
is more centrally located, and goods can
be distributed from here with more con-
Venience to both the importer the trade
and the railroads. In regard to this
manager of the Great Northern, said
If responsible bonded warehouse were
here, some of these importers of tea. and
straw mating have assured US that they
would so arrange their business that
this city would be the central point of
distribution"
On account of being the headquarters
of two Of the largest railroads in the
world, the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific, each with line of
steamships that reach the ports of China
and Japan, st. Paul must ever be in
close touch with that wonderful country
now opening to our trade-the vast gold
en- Orient. Because of the many rail-
roads entering the city from every sec
ton of our continent and then leading
away again to the regions from which
they come this city must always be a
great distributing center for all sorts of