Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-05-07
ODDITIES OF EXPORTING.
What We Send Abroad and Some of
the Things We Get

what We Send Abroad and Some of
the Things We Get.
We send Dakota seed to Russia,
from which she raises wheat to com
pete with our own product in the mar
kets of the world. To plant, cultivate.
reap and harvest her own crops we
send to Russia nearly one-half our to-
tai exports of agricultural machinery.
In 1903 we shipped some $4,000 tons Of |
these implements to the land of the |
Gar. In former years all this passed |
through the ports Of New York and |
Philadelphia, but fractional increase
in freight rates between the lakes and
the East has diverted the trade to
Southern ports, while experiments are
being made in direct shipments from
Chicago by way of the lakes, the st.
Lawrence River and the Atlantic
Ocean.
The cotton plant first came to Amer
lea from Asia; now the greater part of
the Central Asian crop Is grown from
American cottonseed. American cul-
tivators till the soil which is watered
by an American irrigation system
Yankee gins clean the fiber, American
compounds press the cotton into bales
wrapped with American bands, and
finally the cotton finds it's way to Mos
cow over railroad built with American
capital, and is turned into cloth by sec
ond-hand machinery from an American
cotton factory, to compete abroad with
American prints.
Another regular article of export to
Central Asia Is the Ohio grapevine cut
ting. The vineyards of Central Asia
are all offshoots from American vines,
and the fruit IS priced above all others
in Russia proper for its delicacy and
flavor. Twenty to thirty tons Of Amer
lean grapes to the acre Is common
yield in Central Asia, and as the Amer
lean vine is free from parasites, 1t Is
being introduced everywhere the world
over, from South Africa to northern
China and Japan. We will export to-
bacco plants to Russian Asia, SO that
the Russian tobacco, grape, cotton and
wheat crops are all American, once re-
moved.
No oriental fable is stranger than the
accomplishments of the up-to-date
Yankee drummer. In Bagdad, the
home Of Aladdin, he offers the new
American lamps that burn either Rus
sian or Ohio oil, for the old bronze tai
low burners of the Bagdad housewife
= and as these time-worn oriental lamps
find a ready sale in New York, the en-
ter-prising drummer who introduced The
= American lamp to Bagdad was well re
3, paid for his trouble. Now, however
} American lamps are becoming drug
e in the Bagdad market, and the supply
Z of old lamps is rapidly giving out al
: our lamp trade with Turkey increases
A Connecticut firm manufacture
D sacred scarabei for the Egyptian tour
+ list trade The little charms are carve'
I and even Clipped by machinery, color
ed In bulk to stimulate age and shippet
4 In casks to the MOslem dealers in Cairo
: The Arabian guides are the chief buy
ers, many of them being adopts a
y, sailing the sands at the base of tn
= pyramids, or about the sacred temples
where they artfully discover thes
;, scarabei before the very eyes Of tn
Yankee tourist and sell him for a
- American dollar an article manufat
tured at q cost of less than cent PEE
haps within a stones throw of his ow
- home. For enterprise 1t beats woode
nutmegs. Weekly.