Arizona republican., 1906-07-30

and flour for Korea and Japan the United States is rapidly developing it's sales. The success of American cot tons in north China is largely due to the fact that it has a temperate cli- mate similar to that of the United States, and therefore the class of heavy cottons made for our own population IS acceptable there: south China, how ever. relies almost exclusively upon Eu- rope for the light cottons required in it's subtropical climate since these can not be had in the United States. but can be readily obtained where manu- facturers are willing to make goods Tor eXportation in form to suit the markets in which they are to be sold. In mineral Oils comparatively uniform from whatever part of the world the United States finds good and steadily growing market in all parts of the orient, except those spots in which the oils of Russia and Sumatra have marked advantages by reason of prox- imity. The United States the worlds largest producer of copper, is finding ready market in China for that ar ticle by reason of the special demand in manufacturing the new class of coins being largely turned out by the hints of the various provinces. In Japan the building and operation of railroads and factories has opened a market for machinery, railway appIi- ances and other manufactures of iron and steel, and as the United States is nearer, geograp phically, to her prin- cipal markets than are the manufac- turers of Europe these supplies are drawn largely from the United States. A growing taste in Japan for flour Rn TTalE q rr-tfh -1a1 cent years, has led to a small but in creasing importation of flour from the nearest and most natural market-the Pacific coast of the United States.
 The total oriental market for mer- chandise of class which may be read fly produced in the United States is more than one billion dollars annually. and of this we now supply about 12S millions. Of this annual market of one billion dollars. about 250 millions is cotton goods, for which the United States supplies most of the raw ma terial; another 100 millions. iron and steel, of which the United States is the worlds largest producer; 40 millions. provisions in various forms, in the pro ductiOn of which the United States also exceeds any other country; about 40 millions. mineral oil: 9 millions. medi-
 
 flour. and 20 millions. coal, in addition to a large number of other articles of a miscellaneous character. almost ex- however, manufactures. While the United States supplies about 20 per cent of the imports of China, Japan and the Philippines. and is steadily increasing it's total, it supplies but practically 1 per cent of the inn ports of the tropical and subtropical orient and is making little, if any, in crease Europe supplies 66 per cent of the importations into the tropical orient and maintains her almost ex- elusive control of that market by man. goods to suit the local mar kets sending salesmen and merchants to every part of them, packing goods in such manner as to insure safe and proper delivery, and selling them upon such terms of long credit as are re- which the Europeans are able to give through the presence of their representatives and of banking established by their own people.