Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-29
Especial Correspondence Of The Depra Ne BY Frank G. Carpe)

up IN western Siberia, and tons OF but
tor are shipped across European Russia
to the Baltic and thence sent TO Lon
don. II will be the same with cheese
and poultry so that Siberia may some
day be the chicken and dairy farm
for the capitals Of Europe,
As 10 timber Asiatlc Russia has not
been prospccted. although about $751;
100000 acres have been reported up
on Northern Siberia has some Of the
finest trees OF the world, and along
the Yenesel river there are vast areas
Of magnificent forest The car Is now
annually getting about S25,00O0Q0 out
Of his timber lands, and this Is just the
beginning.
In mines Asla,Ic Russia has every
kind from gold TO iron, copper and lead,
II has coal m the north and south, and
It's Asla'ic oil fields are now cOmpet-
Ing with ours in the Chinese and In
dian markets The Russians are push
ing their oil trade In M0nchuria TO such
an extent that our exports have drop
ped mofe than 100000 gallons during the
ppst year This has been displaced by
Russian Kerosene.
AMERICAN TRADE IN AsIATGC
RUSSIA.
Indeed. the United States will have
to push II It wants to hold It's Man
churlar trade That country Is grow
Ing fast in population and imports Its
business has doubled IN the last FIVE
years and at times within the last 10
II has increased from 100 TO 800 per
cent At present Il large part of the
trade Is American, and our trade grows,
Notwithstanding Russlns advances.
On some things, however. we are los
Ing our Manchurian trade. We lost
about 100000 pieces IN our exports Of
American drills In 1907 over those OF
1901 They were displaced by Russian
cottons ana by Chinese cloth made on
hand looms The Russian cotton goods
are excellent but so far they are not
so well known as the American cottons.
The same is true Of -four. but local
mills are now being established along
The Trans-Siberlon road, and It's Chi
nese eastern connection and Siberian
wheat Will compete with American
wheat The Russians VIII make very
low freight rates for such things and
sooner or later the car will give a
bounty TO such goods as need 1t, and
IN this way viii give his people the mo-
nopoly OF the trade. After competition
has been crowded out the bounty will
he Withdrawn ana the prices raised
This has been the Russian policy in
other Asiat!c countries and II will pro-
badly be so in ManchuIa aud also later
on In China. The Russian exporter and
manufacturer has In fact the czar as
HE hfQinANu untisaFt la ,tfk olx
pire Is controlled by one man and
that man. the ozar, is for Russia and
The Russians against the world II Is
indeed a big combination TO buck up
against.
MADE A MILLION IN SIBERIA.
Speaking of our trade with Russia,
met q Yankee In Moscow who has made
$1,000 coo by selling American goods in
Siberia. This man is Enoch Emery,
and he comes from Cape Cod. His par
ents lived in Yarmouth, Mass, and
Epoch began life by going to Siberia
az n clerk for Freeman. Smith & Co..
of San Francisco, who had branch
establishment at the mouth Of the
Amoor river and shipped goods there
FOR sale.
This was 80 or 40 years ago. Mr..
Emery saw that there was money In the
importation Of American goods. He
increased the trade, and was coon given
charge Of the business Later on he
saved enough So that he was able TO
buy out the American owners. He then
established branches all along the river
and In different parts OF Siberia, and
gradually became the largest merchant
OF that country. He has today more
business than any European In Siberia.
ana carries on an immense trade In all
sorts Of wares. He sells vast quantities
OF American machinery and hardware,
handles Cottons and dry goods and does
q big business IN groceries and drugs,
He trades with the government as
well rs with the farmers, and during
the Chinese war he sold his river steam
ers To the car at good round profit.
He armed MS own men then with Amer
lean Wlnchesters and supplied the
troops with American hatchets and
axes. He has. all told, brought GO ship
loads Of American goods across the Pa
clfc to Siberia, has been around the
world 10 times during his trading ex-
porienoes there, going over Asia on
horseback and IN sledges, until he
knows II better perhaps than any
American now living.
OUR GOODS IN SIBERIA.
Mr. Emery told me that there is
big demand for American machinery In
Siberia. The people like our farm
tools and will readily pay good prices
for them. He said that he had him
self introduced enough American ma
chlnery TO equal the labor OF 100000
men, and that the country was just
beginning 10 be- he says the Russians
are establishing settlements everywhere
along the line Of the railroad. They