The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-30

 push if 1t wants to hold It's Manohurian trade. That country Is growing fast in population and imports. It's business has doubled in the last five years and at times within the last ten it has increased from 100 to 800 per cent. At present a large part of the trade Is American. and our trade grows notwithstanding Rus sia's advances.
 On something's. however. we are losing our Manchurian trade. We lost about 2oO,00O pieces in our exports of American drills in 1902 over those of 1901. They were displaced by Russian cottons and by Chinese cloth made on hand looms. The Russian cotton goods arc excellent, but so far they are not so we'll known as the American cottons. The same is true of flour, but local mills are now being es- tablished along the Trans-Siberian road, and its Chinese eastern connection and Siberian wheat will compete with Amer ican wheat. The Russians will make very low freight rates for such things and sooner or later the czar will give a bounty to such goods as need 1t, and in this way will give his people the monop- oly of the trade. After competition has been crowded out the bounty will be withdrawn and the prices raised. This has been the Russian policy in other Asi- atic countries and 1t will probably be so in Manchuria and also later on in China. The Russian exporter and manufacturer has in fact, the czar as his business part ner. The whole empire is controlled by one man. and that man. , le czar. is for Russia and the Russians against the world. 1t Is indeed big combination to buck up against.
 Made Million in Siberia.
 Speaking of our trade with Russia. 1 met a Yankee in Moscow who has made million dollars by selling American goods in Siberia. This man Is Enoch Emery. and he comes from Cape God. His parents lived in Yarmouth, Mass. and Enoch began life by going to Siberia as a clerk for Freeman. Smith & Co. of San Francisco. who had a branch estab- lishment at the mouth of the Amoor river and shipped goods there for sale.
 This was thirty or forty years ago. Mir Emery saw that there was money in the importation of American goods He in creased the trade, and was soon given charge of the business. Later on he saved enough so that he was able to buy out the American owners. He then es- tabllshed branches all along the river and in different parts of Siberia, and gradually became the largest merchant of that country He has today more bus mess than any European in Siberia, and carries on an immense trade in all sorts of wares. He sells vast quantities of American machinery and hardware, han dles cottons and dry goods and does a big business in groceries and drugs. He trades with the government as well as with the farmers. and during the Chi- nese war he sold his river steamers to the czar at good, round profit. He armed his own men then with American Winchesters and supplied the troops with American hatchets and axes. He has, all told, brought sixty ship loads of Ameri- AnAo hA f3p fr rin has been around the world sixteen times | during his trading experiences there. go. | ing over Asia on horseback and in | sledges. until he knows it better per haps than any American now living. Our Goods in Siberia.
 Mir Emery told me that there is a big demand for American machinery in Si- beria. The people like our farm tools and will readily pay good prices for them. He said that he had himself introduced enough American machinery to equal the labor of 100000 men. and that the country was just beginning to be. He says the Russians are establishing settlements everywhere along the line of the rail road. They are building towns and vil- lages and growing rich.
 The eastern part of the country is es- pecially adapted for the American mar ket. and the trade between it and our
 
 Emery says that our exporters should send their agents to Siberia and supply them with large stocks of goods. as the people wish to see what they are buying when they buy It. They do not like cata- logues and want to handle the goods.
 asked Mfr Emery about Manchuria, He said:
 There is no doubt but that Russia in- | tends to keep 1t. She has sent l5Oe00 soldiers into the country and many of these have their families with them. She is sending thousands of immigrants every year to Siberia and Manchuria. The emi- grants are given land and tools on long time payments. They hold the land as villages and not as individuals although they can buy land as Individuals if they wish. They are more free in Siberia than In Russia. and 1t may be in time that the empire will split and Siberia will have an independent government of it's own"
 The Trans-Siberian Road.
 The conversation turned to the Trans Siberian railroad and Mir. Emery said:
 The success of the road is extraordin- ary. It was prophesied that 1t would have no business and on the supposition that the traffic would be light only light weight rails were used. The traffic is enormously heavy and the result is that the rails are bending under the trains. It is indeed only matter of time when the whole road will have to be re-laid at the cost of something like s26. 100000 or more. Tho old rails will be used for switches and short branch roads. and the newones. almost twice as heavy. will take their places"
 Mir. Emery tells mo that Russia is hav- ing hard times and just at present there is no prospect of better ones. The Chi nese war cost the country about $40o. .000.- 900 and the great public Improvements which are now under way have been heavy drains. Stocks have been falling for some time and many of the banks