Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-16
BUSY LITTLE FOLK.
JAPANESE ARE PREPARING TO
BUILD UP OCEAN TRADE.
Pacific Coast Ports of America to Be
the Points Of Operations
Progress IN Manu-
features.

United States consular reports are
filled with facts concerning the won.
derful progress being made in Japan.
Consul Sharp, writing from Kobe
quotes from japanese paper printed
in English, which deals with the de-.
termination Of the Japs to have o
large harbor which will rival Snang.
hal, Hongkong, or even large western
cities.
A leading citizen Of Osaka, Mr.. Ia.
kugara, points to the work Of Euro.
peans and Americans in building up
trade on the Atlantic, and contends
that the same thing is possible on the
Pacifc-America, China, Japan, India
and Australia being the countries Wis.
IDLY interested in the era opening in
the orient and on the Pacific. He says
the countries favorably situated fol
trade are sure to be benefited by every
step forward. Japan, he points out
Is already doing business with the
principal countries on the Pacific, and
Is eagerly looking forward to the time
when 1t will be able to extend its trade
into all parts of the world.
Mr.. Nakahashi, another writer in the
paper, thinks Panama will be the lead.
ing port on the eastern coast of the
Pacific, followed in Importance by San
Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and
Portland
Discussing the relative advantages
OF the principal commercial ports OF
the east, he says that Manila will moi
develop into first-class tradal port
because, apart from the torrid climate
1t has neither factories nor large in.
land trade of Importance. while as an
intermediate port for China, Japan OF
Korea, the distance is too great and
fuel too dear.
He also believes that Dalny will re.
main second-class port.
1t is therefore only Hongkong,
Shanghai and Osaka which will de.
velOD into important commercial en-
poriums In eastern Asia, and of these
he believes Osaka gives the creates
promise
Another consul reports that In order
to get capital to enter her gates Japan
has just broken with one of her Oldest
traditions by allowing foreigners ia
buy land and her own people to mort.
gage their real estate holdings, Tho
latter will make 1t possible for the
Japanese to put %15T. 900. 900 into their
pockets. Mortgages can also be placed
ON mills, mines, railroads, ETC., 20 tina,
with the capital, mines may be opened,
soil reclaimed and factories built and
equipped.
Japan, he says, Is growing less and
less dependent upon foreign factories.
and is now manufacturing and export.
ing large quantities of goods similar
to those that hitherto she has import.
ed from others.
Consul General Bray, of Melbourne.
who recently had an interview with
DR.. F. Otake, a Japanese manufactur.
or, is led by 1t to look upon Japan as q
future buyer and manufacturer OF
large quantities Of Australian, South
African woods, commodity which
Japan will probably not produce itself,
because of the failure of previous ex.
periments.
One Of the newspapers quoted by
consuls declares that Japan is bound
to be on hand when the Panama canal
is cut, and that 1t Is bound to develop
trade with Brazil, as it is already try.
ing to do with Peru and other coun.
tries OF South America.
One Of Japan's steamship compan.
les has contracted for two vessels OF |
1900 tons each, to make monthly |
trips between Japanese ports and Callac
and other South American ports. The
steamers are to be ready early In
1906, and agencies have already been
opened for them In Rio Janeiro and
Santos.
Brazilians have sent many agents
to Japan to study the sunrise kingdom
people at home, and have offered such |
inducements for common and skilled
labo 'ers that a tide of immigration
has AIT In which bids fair to go far
toward solving the problem of the