New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-23
MANCHURIAN OPEN DOOR.
Russia E7M Make 1t UnattrGctiue to
Rest of World.
[FRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.I

Washington Aug 22-Russian enterprise
promises to make the Manchurian open door an
unattractive portal to the commerce of the
rest of the world and particularly to the United
States, which has been so instrumental in pre-
venting the closing of that vast market to Amer
lean products Almost simultaneously with the
announcement that Russia will withdraw from
political control of Manchuria on October s
comes The official information that by that date
the Cars merchants will have acquired COM
nercial control ef its most profitable trade. The
State Department has just received a report
from the American Consul at Niuchwang, Henry
D. Miller, calling attention to the fact that the
principal trade OF the United States and Man
churia las consisted of cotton goods, Kerosene
lumber and -four. these items making up nine
teen-twentieths of all our exports 10 that mar
ket. He says:
Russia is actively engaged in an effort to Sc
sure :; tne tFade IN each one OF these hnes. ohe
IS sending cotton goods from Moscow, kerosene
from southern Russia, lumber from Siberia and
the Yalu, and flour from Hardin The Russian
steamer Veliky KinaZ Alexander NTichailoVitch
with 2,C00 tons OF lumber for the Chinese East
ern Railway. arrived at Niuchwang a few days
ago. This is the first of new Russian line Of
steamers entering into the coasting trade OF ST.
IBERIA. Japan, Corea and China. The name of
the company is the Pacific Steamship Company
Enersia, with head Office at Vladivostock. The
company was organized in 1892 under the pa
tronage OF the Grand Duke Alexander Michaio-
witch, Minister of Commercial Navigation of
Russia. This steamer is to be be followed by
several others very soon.
Many ether lines of Russian. steamers are now
actively engaged III the Pacific traffic. and pas
sengers who travel between Dalny and Japan
ana Dalny and Shanghai say the steamers Man
churia and Mongolia of the Chinese Eastern
Railway, are we'll furnished, as comfortable
ana as well provided in every way as any
steamers now on the Pacific Ocean. not except
ing the new steamers of the Pacific Mail the
Siberia and the Korea
another feature to be noted in connection With
the cargo of this new steamer from Vladivostok
is the fact that it consisted of lumber from
Siberia This is the first lot of a large amount
that is to be brought here for the Chinese East
tent of the mills and forests of Siberia, and am
not prepared to say to what extent this new
timber supply will cut into the Chinese market
Tor American lumber, but have been informed
IN general way that the possibilities OF de-
Velopment of the lumber industry in Siberia ad
Jacent to the Pacific and on the island of Sakha-
IN are considerable. In large contract for
lumber for Dalny that was let recently the
American nrrns were beaten by Russian firms
supplying the lumber from Siberia.
The Yalu Timber, Mining and Development
Company is entering very extensively into the
timber business on the Yalu. and is preparing to
construct a sawmill on the Corean side OF the
by the Japanese Consul who has recently
visited that section, that the amount of timber
being RATED down the Yalu by this company
this year will be enormous. am therefore of
the opinion that Russian timber enterprises will
bring severe competition, especially in North
China, with lumber from the United States.
have also to report that the Russo-Baltic
Steamship Company. of Riga, is sending it's
steamer Sigrid to this port, to arrive in July,
with 10000 cases of kerosene.