The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
Items From Foreign
Countries

mier fish industry of British Co
Iumbia. In 1905 the output was
1.1s7 .4so cases. valued at $3.50
600 over 100000 salmon were re-
quired to fill the 50000.000 cans, and
1t is estimated that an equal distribu-
ton among the entire population would
have supplied goo cans for every man,
woman and child in the province.
Six hundred families OF weavers Of
BEAR. Spain. are reported to be seek
ing aid to emigrate to American coun-
tries.
The Canadian wheat crop for this
season is estimated at 100000 bush
els by a Montreal writer. The 1908
crop amounted to $4,000, 600 bushels
The mineral product Of British CO.
lumbia for 1908 was valued at s22,-
461,325. an increase of sS,4s3,s66 over
1904. The value of the output Of gold
was s5,so2.4o
A report from vice Consul Charles
Karminski of Seville states that the
prospects of the coming Spanish olive
crop are quite bright, and that IT will
tity and quality.
A new commercial treaty between
Spain and Switzerland gives the latter
the minimum rates in Spain. while
Spanish products will be entitled to
the conventional tariff in Switzerland
In addition Spanish malaga, malvoisie
and sherry wines will be admitted into
Switzerland at 20 cents per pound net.
Consul Ledoux says that there are EOS
sugar factories in Austria and Bohemia
They produced 913,749 tons of sugar In
1903. Bohemia has 136 of the 20S, and
produced 6o6,s5a tons of the s1s.74s in
the year indicated Both countries had
53s,25s acres of land under beetroot
cultivation-s4o,Ss4 Of them in Bohe-
mia Most of the sugar produced goes
to Great Britain, Canada and the Le-
want.
Consul Louis Kaiser OF Mazatlan
writes: II have learned from reliable
sources that the Southern Pacific
Company is prospecting on a large
scale for oil and coal along its pro-
jected line In the states OF Sinaloa
and Sonora 1t is the general opinion
that large oil and coal fields will be
developed. as it is asserted that good
quantities Of coal lands have been To-
Gated and the prospects for oil fields are
said to be encouraging
Australia. In addition to her protect
i've tariff and her law which places ii
in the power of an executive officer
practically to exclude foreign goods.
also proposes to pay bounties on the
production of cocoa, coffee and ch1cory.
cotton. various fbers, condensed milk.
several kinds of oil. rice. ETC.
A correspondent of the Glasgow Her
aid, writing from Mexico City. deplores
the lamentable fact that commerce and
trade between Mexico and Great Brit
ain continues to show a falling on, both
in quantity and value, compared with
the United States He declares that the
geographical advantages possessed by
the United States are Offset by the SUI
perior sea transportation which Great
Britain can offer, it being possible to
ship freight from Liverpool to Vera
Cruz cheaper than goods can be sent
American centers to either Tampico
or Vera Cruz, or by rail alone to Mex
leo City. The correspondent says that
to all intents and purposes the British
have now Withdrawn from Mexico just
at time when the seed. which they so
plentifully had sown, was about to
/ fructify.
A new British steamship line is to
institute a service between Hamburg
and East Asia about November 1, in
which they will employ a fleet of 1f-
teen steamers. each with a capacity Of
about 1000 tons. The Hamburg Amer
lean line will enter upon the struggle
with the British line by establishing
in competition with it service between
Hamburg and Gottenborg- A new ship
ping enterprise is about to be estab-
lished under the title of Russian
Lloyd" to carry cargoes between the
Russian Baltic or Black Sea ports and
other European ports The intention is
also to convey naphtha and its products
and to carry pilgrims to and from
Arabia, India and Persia The Ham
burg american line intends to conclude
an agreement with Russian companies
to carry emigrants to America. and has
applied to the Russian Government for
permission to open offices in Russia
The cellulose mills now building and
enlarging In Norway will increase the
output OF celluIose in that country by
$4,000 tons per year The Norwegian
and Swedish cellulose production has
grown in the last seven years from
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