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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-14
SLAUGHTER:

~ SLaCGt1
(The beneficiary in q trust deed from
". R. Robbins to Edmund Waddil Jr.:
Trustee, dated August 1st, 1891. and OF
record in the clerks office of Henrico
County Court. .: 3. 1ao A.. page 23S:)
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that
tract of land described as titty-nine 500
acres, situated near the Long Bridge
cate, Bakers and others. located in Va
rina Magisterial District. Henrico county,
Va, sold on the = day Of - for the
de!icuent taxes, levies. interests and cost
due thereon. for the year 1854. TO the Com
monwealth OF Virginia.; an application
ior the purchase thereof has been fled in
this office, and it appearing from the
records OF this office that You are inter
ssted in said land. you are further nosI-
fed to appear here in four months from
the date OF this notice. and do what may
be necessary to protect your interest
Given under my hand this 2sth day OF
November, 1902
Clerk OF the County Court OF Henrico
county. Va.
sAMUEL P. WADDILL. Clerk
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-14

NEW YORK. Dec. 13-FLoUR-Firm.
Rye Flour-steady; Buckwheat Flour
Firm. Cornmeal;-DulI; yellow western.
Wheat-spot firm; No. 2 red, s2Sc. Op-
tons ruled firm to-day. The chief buy
ing motives were unexpectedly higher
cables. further reports Of rain in Argen-
tina, small Western receipts and general
ly reacted on a poor export trade. al
though last prices Were hQkc. net higher
May closed at s1asc.; July. 7s7sc.: Deem
Der. s3Ac-
market was firmer- but quiet, driving It's
strength from unfavorabe weather, small
contract advices. cables and the wheat
advance. The market finally eased off
higher. May closed at Acc; December,
oats-snot firm and unchanged OPP
tons quiet. but firm.
Firm refined. steady. Pork-steady.
Butter-Steady: extra creamery Soc:
State dairy, a0I2Sc. Cheese-Steady and
unchanged. Eggs-Steady and IN
changed.
Tallow-Dull. Rosin-Firm. Turpentine-
Firm. Rice-Firm. Sugar-Raw. firm;
refined. firm.
coifee-The market. for coffee futures
points lower. For a time the indications
pointed to a repetition Of Yesterdays flat
market. Prices sagged steadily lower In
the last half hour with final figures net
5G1o points down and the tone easy. Sales,
2e. $50 naes. Spot Rio. quiet.
Potatoes-Ste$v; Jerseys. Sl-'oM2 %:
State and Western. per $50 mounds. $1.501
2: Long Island, 5000; South Jersey
sweets. s2.5063. Peanuts-Quiet; fancy
handpicked. 4146A&c.; other domestic, SO
4&c. Cabbares-Stea6y; domestic, per 100
white s1.5oG3; red. s151d3.60. Cotton
By steamer to Liverpool. 12c.
CHICAGO. ILL, Dec. 1s-Bullisi1 for
eigu news caused flrrness in wheat to-
day, although the close was at about
steady prices with May &c higher. May
corn was AGasc. lower. and oats off Ac
January provisions closed unchanged to
21:c. higher.
Tho leading futures ranged follows:
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MARKET ACTIVE,
BUT VERY WEAK
Bank Statement Proved Disap-
ponsment TO Spectators.
IT ADVANCES AND DECLINES
impression Got Abroad that an Increase
in Surplus Reserve Nigh Be
D,sclosed-Bonds Sold
Quite Well.
(By Associated Press. !

NEW YORK, Dec. i3.-The small de-
crease in tho loan item Of the banks.
disclosed by the weekly statement to-
day. proved disappointment TO specuIa-
Tors and stocks were sold freely after. its
publication. The market closed in con-
sequence active and weak
Earlier IN the day the movement was
nervous and uncertain on .: rather active
market There were several alternate
advances and declines before the final
active selling movement The volume OF
The week liquidation ip stocks and the
losses entailed were felt to promise
more extensive loan contraction than that
reported. which was s.. 6t5, SEQ.
IN yesterdays late drive against the
bears the impression got abroad that an
increase in surplus reserves might De
disclosed to-day by reason Of a heavy
loan contraction and some speclai move
11cnts of cash from nearby points. ne
spectators were the more asa lpolnteo
for this reason over the ectua! showing.
II is possible that the actual loan con-
tracted is un6erstatcd, as the heaviest
liquidation was in the latter part OF the
week, and thus figured Tor only part o. the
week in the statement OF the aTerases.
but there IS also the possibility that the
loans called from the stock market veTa
put out again to syadicatcs and other
wise
a feature of the days news was a
number Of additional calls for INSTALL
,nents of syndicate subscriptions. inc!ud-
inS the SS0I3tV1 instailnent on the New
! OTk Central bOl2u uIltti ttt4lS,, WHICH
was reported to have caused some sur
prise to subscribers yesterday. AT this
time there is no relief in sight from the
sub-Treasurys drain upon the money
market and time loans for ell periods
are az per cent. and for shorter periods
as high SIS s per cent
Bonds have been quite freely sold with
stocks United States IS declined L per
cent. as compared with the closing Of
last week.
The total sales Of stocks Tor the day
were .e5.7o0 shares.
MONEY AND ENCHANGE-CLNSE
Money on call nominal: no loans to-day;
time mo2cv firm: sixty and ninety days
ioans made under special arrangements;
six months. G per cent: prime mercantile
PAPER 6 per cent Sterling exchange
nominal with actual business in bankers
bills at S4.T for demand and at S4.S3,3Q4
50 s. for sixty DAYS bills: posted rates,
s. $50 and S. IS; commercial bills. S+.Ss4 q
!. SSi3; bar silver. IS Mexican dollars.
37il Government bonds steady; railroad
bonds irregular.
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COZ ION MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The cotton mar
ket opened quiet and unchanged to 3
points lower. and then became steadier
on covering in view Of light receipts.
Following the first call the market soon
rallied 2@4 points, chiefly on covering,
the bears finding very little cotton for
sale, with receipts little more than half
what they We're year ago to-day. A lead
ing feature in the movement of cotton was
the small estimate for Mondays receipts
at Houston. this being 5000 to 5000 against
1893 last year. Current estimates point
ed TO port receipts OF only 10000 bales,
which would make the insight move
nlent next Friday very small. Savannah
receipts were but 5,497 bales. on which
estimates for the days receipts were re-
duced to about 1900 bales. The weather
in much Of the cotton belt wa S poor, and
not only checked the movement. but in
terfered with outside orders Selling was
further checked by an impression that
a certain important interest. If not more
than one stood heavily short of March
and May contracts, and this led to the
expectation Of a covering movement on
g large scale The market, however, was
not a broad one. Local sentiment, hav-
ing been beaIish most of the week, led
20 the accumulation OF a consiGera bic
short interest for room accounts; this
while prices took q higher level soon
after the opening call. The volume OF
business was small throughout the list.
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TO JAMES H BARTON:
go Z. Ell FL ERT NlTLEIE.D thai q

TO JAMES H. BARTON:
YOU Ar THEREBY NOTIFIED that
lot OF land described as follows: Lot No.
z Square Cor Blocl.) No. II. Barton
Tieights. in the Slagsterial District OF
Rrookland. Henrico county. Va. sold on
tl1a day Of - for the deliouent
faxes. levies. interest and cost due there
on. for the year 1892. to tn. Common
wco1th Of virginia: an application for
the purchase ,ehreof ilas been filed in
this office. and it apneacinS from the
records of this office that you are inter-
ested in said land. you are further nou-
God to aprear here in four months from
date of this notice and do what may be
NECESSARY to protect your interest.
Given under my hand this s9th day OF
November. 1862.
Clerk of the County Court of Henrico
county. Va.
SAMUEL P. wADDILL. Clerk.
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NAEAI. STORES.

WILMINGTON. n. c.. Dec. 13.-SPIR-
ITS TURPFNTINF-Firm at 51c.: re-
CENTS. 50 casks. Rosin-Firm at 1890
81 s.: receipts sss barrels. Crude Turnen-
t'ne-Firn at s1.75@3: receints. s. bar
rals Tar-Firrn at s1.6O: receipts. ~ BAR
SAVANNAH. GA, Dec. 1s.-TTRPEN-
TINE-F'rm at Sic: receipts. Ga CASKS;
sales :T5 casks: EXPORTS 364 caSAs'
ON barrels: e~norts. GAO barrels.
CHARLESTON. S. G.. Dec 13-TUR-
PFNTINE AND ROSIN-Unchange
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Thomas Branch 4 CO.
Established 1881
MEMBERS New York Stock E1e''"r
New York Cotton EXCHANGE
Private Wires TO
Principal Markets.
Investment Securities
A SPECIALITY

Northern Pacific 4.s........... 1881
Northern Pacific IS .............. 1l34
Norfolk and Western con. is........ 100
Reading General As ......-.......... 95x
ST. l.. and Iron Mountain con. as. 113
St Louis and San Francisco fs...... 81
St Louis southwestern 1sts........ 81
ST. Louis Southwestern 2d's......... 81
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass As IS
Southern Pac. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S91s
Southern Railway 5s............. 1lSss
Texas and Pacific 1st's........... III
Toledo, St. L. and Western. Is
Union Pacific As ........ 1G4B
Union Pacific conv. 4's......... 1888.
Wabash lists ll515
Wabash 100
Wabash Deb. BIS .-.................... -
West Shore IS Observation-Disclosures. III
Wheeling and Lake Erie 4s........-. 81
Wisconsin Central is ............... 81
Continental Tobacco 4's............ 61la
~ and Q. collateral trust 4s.....-.. 80
Central Of Georgia Cd Inc. .1.--.-...... %
Na.-Carolina Chemical Co. conn.,. o.
Va.-Caro!ina Chemical Co. pfd....... 20
Standard Oil Observation-Disclosures. b5e
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NEW YORK. Dec. 13.-The week in dry
goods was a quiet market throughout: no
Change in quotation for either staple or
fancy cotton goods prices. Print cloths
Quiet and unchanged. Cotton yarns steady
with a moderate demand Worsted yarns
scarce and firm. Woollen yarns STEADY,
demand fair; linen jute yarns firm.
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LEGAL NOTICES.

y THE CHANCERY COURT OF
/ THE CITY OF RICHMOND:
l.. T Christian, who sues, &c,
Mary r. Perry's Admir- & ais.
NOTICE--Au persons having claims
against the estate of Mary F. Perry. de
ceased, are hereby notified that | have
fixed upon MONDAY, January L, 1893. at
10 o'clock y. NJ, as the time. and my
office. Room y, Building No. 1l03 E. Main
Street Richmond, Va, as the place. for
taxing IAN account OF the debts and de-
maTlds due by the estate OF Mary f.
Perry, deceased, TO whom due and owing
and their priority, if any" as directed by
decree of December 70. 1902. in the above
cause. Said decree makes publication of
this notice equivalent 70 personal service
on all persons interested.
Given under my hand December IS. 1862.
OVERTON HOWARD,
Commissioner in Chancery.
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BALTIMORE. MD, Dec. 13.-FLOUR-
DUH and unchanged. Wheat-Very dull;
spot. 75Ts676c.: December. 7oIs6761sc.; Jam
uary. Uis@TII2sc.; May. S012c. asked;
Southern By sample. 6l976c. Corn
Steady; spot, Old 6G55i4c. new, 5.!.ac. /;
year. 4AM5411c.: January, SIX CSC; Feb
ruary. 500, d51c: March. 5o15c.; May. +Sc.
Southern white corn (new). 4Si305il2c.
Oats-Firm: No. white. Csc. Rye-Firm;
No 2. 554 0s5Iac. Butter-Firm and I'M
changed. Eggs-F'irrn and unchanged
CHEESE and sugar-Firm and unchanged
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with prices unchanged on the basis of
SIS for r1iddlins ur'!ands and $50 for mid
ding gulf. Sales, 80 bales.
Cotton. quiet; middling; SIS; net re-
l bales: STOCK o s is52s b bale 0 Sa'SS'
Total to-day at all seaports-Net re-
ceipts. 45.6 s1bales; export to Great
Britain. 22.4so bales: to the Continent.
100 bales; stock. LOSSES bales.
ceipts, 45:69l bales: export to Great
Britain. % 400 bales; to the Continent,
Total since September list at all esa-
ports-Net receipts. 42S 2ss bales; export
TO Great Britain, 6.29i.729 bales; 10 France:
bales.
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 1s-COTToN-
The spot cotton market was decidedly
Quiet to-day; quotations unchanged. IN
tha future market operations We're con-
Grod mainly TO the months Of January.
Siarcb and May. The decline in Liver
nnol affected the trade on this side ac-
yersely. as the opening was iqS points
below last evenings prices. But the $40"
o. bad weather throughout the cotton
he'll seriously retarding picking opera
,tons somewhat. Offset the effect OF Law
er-pool' weakness. and IN consequences
shortly after the cal there was an az,
vance Of 4@5 points. This was followed
ty short selling by the bears. and prices
fell off 7as points after which mild fiuct-
ua,ions ensude that brought the market
at the close TO a range OF point above 10
points below yesterdays level
sos: January, S12mS.1 3: February. S.l6D
SIS: March. s.22ds.23: April. s261s;9 ~
May. S3o@s 81: Jane s.s59s.36: July. s.37G
SIS; August, s.17 bid.
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OIL MARKET.

6r,n Prime crude here nominal; prime
crude, +. o. b. mills. 29@soc.: prime sum
me- yellow. 37Tssc.: off summer yellow.
ssGs7c.; prime white. 40d41c.: prime winter
yellow, 4l@42c.: prime meal, s2Iq2I.oo.
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BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.
BALTIMORE. ND, Dec. 13-Seaboard
Air Line common, 2iiIG0241a: do. preferred,
- asked. Seaboard As S2S:QS3.
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CATTLE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-BEEVES-Re-
ceipts, 2S5 head; no sales reported. Dress
ed beef steady; city dressed native sides
71zQu12c per pound. Gables last received
quoted American steers at l21241S12c..
dressed weight; refrigerator beef, l0t:9
lie. per pound. Calves-Receipts, s head;
Is on sale. A car Of western calves, S5.l-4a
per 100 pounds; few grassers unsold.
City dressed veals, general sales, 1012g
l3lEc. per pound. Sheep and lanlbs-Re-
ceipts, sos head; good sheep and lambs
steady, market otherwise weak. about 3
cars Of stock unsold. Sheep sold at s2.509
AS per 100 pounds; lambs, s4.621sg5. Is;
cuIIs. So 70. Dressed mutton. 6a7c.; dress
ed lamos, 71z@1Oc. Hog@Receipts. part
ly estimated. $3.50 head: about deck on
sale, about steady. State and Pennsyl-
vania hogs sold at s6.2o per 1c0 pounds.
CHICAGO, ILL, Dec. 1S.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts. 800 head, nominal. Good to prime
steers S56O16. 60; por to medium. $500
SO; stockers and feeders. S294.oo; cows,
$3.50; Gamers. sl.25Q2.35: bulls. s2Q4.90;
calves, s3@7; Texas-fed steers, S3ooG4.Io.
Eoes-Receipts to-day. 5000 head: Mon
day. $500 head: left over, $3.50 head
strong to lOc. higher Mixed and butch
e,s, s5.7o16.15; good to choice heavy. S6.1o1
G. 20: rough heavy, s5.SoG615; light. s3.5G3
SIS; bulk of sales, s5.9Va6.l5. S.heep-Re-
ceipts. 1850 head; rheep and lambs dull:
good to choice wethers. s3.50I4.2.; ialr
to choice mixed, S251lS.5o; native lambs,
S3.7595.oo
tice at si75as.25. Cattle-steady at SEQ
3. Sheep-Stroug at S2.47@Sl5 Lambs
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c.. e. kI0 Cd,
Stock Broker,
& South 18Th ST., Ric m md. Va
Va-Car. Chemical, 5 Points
Margin. q Per Cent Interest.
Old Phone, 76l, New $50.
SCHOOLS.

SCHOOLS
ART SCHOOL OF RICHMOND. VA.
Corner Madison and Grace Streets.
MISS ANNE II!3, e; t Ne E Instructor:
Teacher OF Design
CLASSES:
Monday, 1912. Drawing; Tuesday, 1o-o.
Painting: Wednesday. 10-1. Painting:
Wednesday. %. Modelling: Thursday. sS5'
Design: Thursday. s-ij. Drawing: Friday.
$40. Drawing: Saturday. 10-1. Children's
Drawing and Modelling Glasses; Saturday.
%. Teachers Class; Saturday. 3-5. Design.
Glasses are now being organized in
Drawing. Mode ling and Painting in Water
Colors and Oil. Thorough instructions
given in these various Studies. n.
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF RICHMOND. DEC. 13, 1902.
ARRIVED
Steamer Berkeley. Catherine Norfolk
merchandise and passengers, Old Domin.
ION line
Steamer Pocahontas. Graves. Norfolk
and James River landings. merchandise
M ma seer~ers VIRGINIA Ma vieotin-, ca
Steamer Saginaw, Tunnel. Phi1adelohia
Pa, merchandise and passengers. Cldya
line.
SAILED
Steamer Berkeley. Catherine Norfolk
merchandise and passengers. Old Domin.
ION line.
Sailed Dec 18th.
Steamer Saginaw. Tunnel Philadelnhia.
Pa, merchandise and passengers. Clyde
line.
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CINCINNATI. O.. Dec. 1s.-HOGs-Ac-
tIce at s475G625. Cattle-Steady at SEQ
). sheep-stroug at s2.47@5.75. Lambs-
Quoted at s4I5.50.
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RICHMOND STOCK MARKET.
SALES.
Richmond. Va Dec. Is. /!

North Carolina $3.50 at 1863
Virginia Carolina Chemical commonly
shares at 5.94; 20 shares at 5IS.; 10 shares
at s.
Virginia Centuries-s3N5 at ISIS; $500
at aS&4.
Virginia Carolina Chemical preferred
10 shares at .l22; I shares at 10.
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PEANIIT MARKETS

NORFOLK. VA, Dec. 13.-PEANUTS-
Quiet. Vire;nians-Art!ve at 34c. for hes,
stock. F,ncy. 3la3hc.: strictly prime. 3oc:
rr,r,a 2iEc
PETERSBURG VA. Dec 13-PEA-
EIlTS-Spanish new. active at zoe. Vir-
einia's, new, 2iAG2skc-
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futures ranged as follows:
Open. High. Low. Close.

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
quiet and steady. No. 2 spring wheat
75145a76c.; No. 5. 6ea73c.; No. red, 100
7ol4c. No. corn. o6Kc.: No. yellow,
56i4c. No. oats. 317sc.; No. 8 white. 500
SOC. No. 2 rye. 49lsc. Good feeding barley.
39G4nc.: fair to choice mailing. 45G56c.
No. faxseed. Sis; No. ! northwestern
1924; prime Timothy seed, $3.50. Mess
pork. per barrel. SIT; lard, per 100 pounds.
sl0271LG1o30: dry sailed shoulders (hox-
ed. sS.25@S.50; short clear sides (boxed),
sS.7503 Whskev. basis of wines. sl32
Butter market was steady: creameries,
1SG2SAc.: diaries. 1920. Eggs steady;
loss off cases returned, 2sc.
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TOBACCO MARKETS.
RICHMOND TOSACCO MARKET.
Richmond. Va. Dec. Is. 1902
Quotations of the Richmond tobacco
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Cotton futures opened quiet; closed
barely steady. with prices 20 points low
Or eNcnrt Sent n-1lter uhich was narni-
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The spot cotton market closed quiet
with prices unchanged on the basis of
SIS for rni6dling un.ands and $50 for mid
ding gulf. Sales, 81 bales.
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quotations OF t1IH N1C1ImUHu t0DaCC
SIN CURED TOBACCOS.
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The total sales of stocks Tor the Gay
were so5.7G0 shares.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-31
THE TELEPHONE QUESTION.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.]


More than one Iowa city Is puzzling
itself how to get the benefit of the
enormous telephone service that has
been built up within the past two or
three years in the country districts of
the state.
Practically all of the city exchanges
in the state are controlled by what are
known as the Bell corporations, while
most Of the new county toll lines are
companies. A state of acute hostility
exists between the Bell and the inde-
pendent companies, and the latter are
absolutely smut out of connection with
the large Bell exchanges, and Iowa
cities as a rule are deprived of the use
Of the independent lines which reach
great stretches of territory not occu-
pied by the Bell companies.
Council Bluffs has a problem OF this
sort on dts hands, and so has Sioux
City. Forty or fifty independent lines
are operated in southwestern Iowa.
and yet Council Bluffs business men are
unable to make use of any one of them
because the local exchange has refused
to establish toll connections with any
save its own lines. Consequently Coun-
Gil Bluffs merchants are cut off from
telephone communication with a large
Fart of their trade territory which the
Council Bluffs exchange does not reach.
The independent companies of south
western Iowa have organized to ask a
franchise for the establishment of an
exchange of their own in Council Bluffs.
Should they succeed, Council Bluffs will
get connection with the independent
toll lines in this section of the state but
there will be also the annoyance of
duplicate exchange and duplicate SER
vice in the city. Two exchanges can
not be maintained here as cheaply as
one, and the patrons will have to pay
the additional toll.
One exchange would answer the pur-
pose, and what is needed now in the
way of telephone regulation is some
means of securing the convenience of
the public without undue annoyance
and expense. It is difficult to under
stand why an existing exchange should
not furnish the necessary connection
with all lines tributary to Council
Bluffs.
Municipal ownership of exchanges
has been suggested as a means of solv-
ing the problem, but this has it's draw
backs also. Nevertheless, telephones
are more or less public institutions, and
they should be conducted more for the
best interests and welfare of the gem
eral public than they have been in the
past.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-31
GR,1wTH OF PACIFIC COMMERCE.

One on the signs of progress in the
closing year is exhibited in the growth
OF Pacific coast commerce. Since the
close of the Spanish war and since we
have acquired possessions in the IA
efiie there has been d gradual increase
IL silinping In San Francisco this year
OF 1909 has been one of the most re-
nafirkahle in the history of both Cantor
MIA and San Francisco. Never before
has trade Increased so rapidly or
rrowth been SO ma rked in single
twelvemonth. Tho Ii, is only four years
since AnairaI Dewey took Manila and
brought California into intimate trade
relations with the orient, the Pacific
i commerce has increased beyond the
most sanguine expectations. the most
remarkable growth has been in trade.
with China, and this increase is attrib-
uted largely to the policy of Secretary
Hay IN treating the Chinese as he would
any other power. In the last three years
the gain in fareign tonnage of this
pcrt was 36S.o00, and in this time more
than hundred new steamships have
been added to the Pacific ocean fleet.
Among them are two 1880 ton steam
's1 Sims for the Pacific Mail Company, one
OF which, the Korea. has already cur
down the voyage from Yokohama to
San Francisco to ten days. The cable
to China, which will be In operation by
July next should greatly stimulate
trade. The total foreign exports from
San Francisco during the year ended
Nov. 80 last amounted to s40,434,S70, an
4 Increase of more than s3.000,o0o in the
year. The, exports 20 China amounted
/. te nearly ss.00o,ooo and to Japan S.
100000. Nest OF the oriental trade is IN
-four. and this demand for California
flour promises soon 10 absorb all the
surplus wheat grown in the state and
draw uron others.
Pacific coast commerce is yet in Its
infancy and the building Of the 18TH
milan canal win greatly stimulate It, as
will also the further development of the
western states thru irrigation and
larger Industrial efforts.