The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-09-05
WHY SAGAALIEN
WAS WANTED
RICHNESS OF THE ISLAND OVER WHICH THE RUSSIAN
AND JAPANESE PEACE ENJOYS HELD DISCUSSION
AT Observation-Disclosures COAL DEPOSITS OIL
AND FISHERIES WORTH Sr5ooooo A YEAR.


As big as Belgium and Holland put together nearly big
Japan few weeks ago will add about $4,000 miles of territory
the mkados empire 1t is island nowhere wider
Nantucket says the Evening Transcript But
bone island lying northwest of Japan stretches along the
rules SaEhan has river miles long and mountains 5000 feet
high It's by pocket country.
Japanese enterprise then will have plenty knock about
Ill., as 81 b T an Tm Mne s., Gu r can o i ,ne
oried and be cold currents aoin from, the OiosL sea een tie
ouueu' anu e tu @ !eI oS iIt e sea Keep .n
the from the Amur clogs up the space between the
Sakhaln The climate resembles that of Siberia and
AeXandrofsky is colder in winter than Archangel.
Another thing equally dscouragng goes you can't farm
advantage Sakhan Only here and there the soil all fer
tile and then you yourself with raising market
truck and expect malaria while wedding garden Such at
experience Russian penal coon who have tried
living Moreover country looks every
whit as nhopabe experiment has proved to be- They say that
when Russian exes get their first glimpse Of that rocky and
those grim, Handicapped mountains they often burst into for
oonists they almost certain
leave Sakhaln and settle Siberia They call the country OF their
Cold untabe but bgis that the whole story it then
Portsmouth haggng the question OF who to own Saan
But that isn't by the whole story The Isle OF the Lost Is
also the Isle OF Potential Wealth it had other claim impor
lance its dense forests would be enough to make worth owning
Practically untouched they stretch from end OF Salhan to the
other The Japanese will know what to do with them.
Besides there is coanot easily mined but abundant AT Duey
toughest worked their barrow and
Mastering their discharge Sakan has long supplied ships
Perhaps Japanese will develop the coal mines the
full their possibilities but all events that they
will develop the oil fields.
According c. S Paono the oil regions OF Sakhan richer
than those OF America Suberanean akesome OF them with an
square ee close the surface that natural gus
easily established The oil lend themselves readily
exploitation for the only from twenty-five
miles away and there has provided abors that boats drawing
twenty For months of the
be those habors iceocked but the ice can be broken by
specially constructed known "edoEo The war prom
Uses do wonders for the oil business.
As couldn't be England Japan
Admiral Rumginwy the Do9ger Bank fishermen S call hnQ
auspices the Russian Saan Oil Company game suddenly INTO
existence glorious monopoly that proposed to employ cheap Nu
sian Chinese and hore3 labor turn OUT from 100000 10 IpGo
oil and drive Mr. Rockefeller out OF business IN the lar east
Meanwhile another OF will fall to the apaneSen the
menagere large composed OF bear foxes sable ante
lOpe and reindeer the south an occasional uSer on the coast
rnuneave proson seal lions and dophns not to mention
species plebean whale little PRICED by bubbe hunters
Bt the chief source the Sakhan OF today the fish
The rivers teen with salmon along the with
herring In single Sakan yielded S5ooOoo worth OF fish
and this spite the dsouagng conditions The Russians
wouldn't give the laps free hand nor would they themselves develop
the full possibilities OF the fisheries.
AS LONG as OF Siberian back yard into
which exles constantly be thrown it was bad policy to en-
courage fleets OF fishing boats come proving along the Shore
thin the population But when once the penal COO
are and Japan takes control the Sahaen fisheries
will have chance normal progress Some day unless all travellers
are liars they may rival those OF Newfoundland.
you began talk about fish the japanese PRICK up
their ears fish rice rice no laps Every year SaEham
sends million dollars of fish fertilizer to the Japanese rice
fields fertilizer herring indispensable to rice growing
that when the war cut japanese fishermen from the Sakan
Japanese HokadO and Oa petoned the mkado
troops seize the island that could not be done 10 per
indignant fit out an expedition OF their own
general OF prisons asked permission to organize an
army of Japanese iabds Satan Such overures as
with governmental Encouragement but the seizure OF SaN
naln by trained uops was undertaken as soon as
Japan fail peceve that Sahaln the grip OF oregn power
would standing Japanese agriculture was
the of Korea again only with herring substituted lot gram
as the vital pont-Washngton Star