New-York tribune., 1905-11-27
TRADE WITH CANADA.
EmierQtion Failing Of-Best Mar
kets IN Northeast.

washington. Nov 2s-The United States sold
Canada last year exports to the value Oh slo7oooo
This amount constituted moro than oz per cent Oh
the whole Canadian imports but was only II per
cent OF the foreign exports of the United States
This statement is contained in report of Charles
NJ Pepper. special agent OF the department. OF
Commerce and Labor.
Beside. selling goods to Canada, Mr.. Pepper says
that q 600 settlers went from the United States 10
its northern neighbor between January and OCTOBER
this year. and that the value OF their effects was
s10ooo.oco This number OF emigrants is less than
for the two preceding years The new wheat neios
are the attraction and IL is TO them. the report
says, that the United States should look for the
development Of existing and the creation OF new
markets of trade The food, clothing and farm i'm
plements to which these settlers have been accus-
toned in the United States the products which
may be sold them most easily.
The report contends that manufacturers of the
United States give the constant and detailed
attention to this trade they should, and suggests
that they could with profit make study OF the
needs of European immigrants to Canada
Discussing the relation OF wheat production to
population the report estimates the yield in Canada
this season at upward of S00o00o0 bushels, or ap"
proximately equal to that of the State Of Kansas
production of 100000 bushels by 1910 is fore
shadowed provided crop conditions continue FAVOR
able and harvest hands can be obtained
Railroad construction IN the Northwest Is given
as another source Of population and conse-
uuently of widened markets. After describing the
new transcontinental project, known as the Grand
Trunk Pacific, and the plans for railways TO auo-
sons Bay, the statement is made that prooaoly
before an outlet afforded for wheat by either OF
these routes traffic will be diverted south and east
over railroads In the United States one agency
being the United States settlers. Mr.. Pepper fixes
the total consumption OF iron and steel and their
products for the current year at 100000 tons He
says that for the last three years the fmporta-
tons have been s42oo0.ooo annually and that the
~ fhasa
is stated that the steel rail mills at Sydney, Nova
Scotia and at Sault Ste. Marie. Ontario, are now
turning out several hundred tons daily
In textiles the report says that the Dominion Is
making advances. yet the time is distant when the
importation of foreign goods will cease the
Canadian competition IN woollens is with Great
Britain in the cheaper grades. The United States
successfully supplies felt cloth, ordinary under
wear, hats and caps and readymade goods. The
market for readymade goods is an especially good
factured in the United States suit the Canadian
This country supplies the raw cotton for the the
an @ but ab4es Il aso m has we 0Ga op pe
and dyed fabrics and for cotton clothing The at.
States
Canada for manufacturing boots and shoes and
the Teport states tha this is still one of the best
markets for American manufacturers to cultivate:
manufactures az = of wood from the United states At
te1to1 is called to the moyement Of OF the S BTTsh dsh
lumber equivalent to that laid by the United states
Not a factory of any kind is built in the Do
minion but that the installation of the plant is is
case with -four mills and lumber mills in the North
ad the ae aa tn bT The eubc m Can
ada the policy known as fiscal imperialism is re
posed revision Of the Canadian tariff they may ex
goods from Great Britain