The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-08
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valley The test has iron, coal and
wood, gin addition to these mighty water y
powers and there Is no reason Why II
Should not furnish such exports. ga
iissl As IL rs now, 1t Il competing with the.
East al profit: and al 70 many things
the heavy railroad freights act Ike o.
fprotectye tarift III, It's favor. The freight
5upon iron ana steel from the millsio the
East 70 the Pat ifc Coast II III per TOT.
ana more and At Is said that the freight
paid goii tho iron and steel Used on this
side 81 tho Rockies amounts to more than
u, ooo, 900 d year. .3
Shipbuilding on Puget Sound.
There ia d probability that the North
west will some day be building It's own
ships for the Oriental trade. here arc
q number Of plants already esta bl il
at tiifrerent places along the sound. Some
ore at Seattle. Tacoma, Ballard. Everett,
NVinelow, Belt inghnnl. Olympia /. o Nd ~ W {
Qunrtermnster hnrhor. The most Of these
build small ships and boats, but In the
yards Of the Moran Bros. here the No.
braska was constructed at a cost Of
over 800, 900 That battleshlp s one o,,
OF the largest In the United States navy.
n has o. displacement Of fifteen tho1-
sand tons, O. horse power OF nineteen thou
sand and Its speed Is moro than went "
ono miles per hour There are n w about
three. thousand mon employed IN the Pll-3
get Sound shipyards. The timber OF OF
Washington ! ID admirably adapted 70 ship
construction. These mighty hrs are ns
strong as oaks and much. easier to work
They are exported TO all pnrts OF the
world for Hhipbuilding.
Millions in Fish,
ono OF the biggest exports from this
~ Ia 0u
million cases OF salmon are sent from
these waters to Eng land every year fou Z
orr I'VE hundred thousand cases golng 70 70
Londot, BY sen from San francisco. \.
a China, ia pm and India take bout three
hundred thousand cases and fifty thou y. 4.
sand arc sent to Australia. While q llkc
number goes to Africa and South amer Am
ca Some Of tho biggest Il salmon q ca M
neries OF the world are situated on Puget
Sound There is one at BE- bingham which
puts up h half million cans ~ day, ana
which has atstimes as many as Ten NIL
lion cans in It's lofts. The Alaska can an.
neries are lnrgely managed with san
Tranclsco capital, WI although Semitic mas
interest is there This Gis so also OF whaling
and other fisheries. Indeed =. Ai las ~
tue velophlE as q Fishing posi- blu " 4 al
most as rapidly as % gold possibili We
Originally paid about s7.2oO.00o for that
territory, and we have already taken out
something like $1,000, 900 worth, OF nsh,
having received IN one yea from the
salmon alone almost ns much 4 as the
price paid for the territory The FIRST
scannery In Alaska was built bout TWEEN '''n-
fty-eight years ago. There are noYs q
large number, employing thp!lsa n ds g
hands 5and packing tens ofsgmili ons 81
ash annually. n5addition to this a great
deal OF money IS going into catching COZ
there. 6$4;sSgt 5S i 5 s III
Ne The United States nsh conlmission has
been looking into the banks OF Bering
sea, and. according to the Governolr3a9!of
Alaska, SIT here are. about $4,000 square
miles OF cod fishing connected vi III Y our
coast, one Of the authorities claims that
there are q thousand such fish IN these
waters for every one on the banks OF
and 1t may bs that the the
cod OF the world will eventually tt'l come
from Ala ska via Seattle.
During my trip over the CANADIAN Il r; Pa.
clfic Rairoad q learned that hallaut
was carried BY the ca rload from the
coasts OF British Columbia and Wash:n3-
ton TO New York and Boston. Something
like ten million pounds OF that fls't, 81
carried from tho Pacific to Bosto n every |
wear and there are other kinds OF sea |
food which arc now regula r,y xported
across the r. ckies to the cities OF the
Atlantic coast II Indeed. a the possbllilie
OF this part $of the world are 30 many
and so varied THAT It is 'impnssb bic TO con'-
.',''5511s.S FRANK q. CARPENTER.