Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-07

/ part the building Of the Dakota and the
! Minnesota. His work az once began 10
show. In 1901 he was carrying 10 Puget
! sound 1900 bales OF cotton piece goods
! aud 1900 900 pounds OF raw cotton. one
year later he had Increased the piece
! goods almost 500 per cent and the raw
| cotton fully 800 per cent. while al the
same time he was building up good
| business with the orient In hardware,
machinery and nails.
These big ships were a necessity IN
order to bring down ocean freights. for
HIN has 20 compete not only aiih the
other transpacifc roads and such ports
as San Francisco. but also With the
big steamers from France. Germany
ana England. whose goods are not
loaded with = long rail- haul across the
Rocky mountains. The general ireighis
have been so cut that ton can now be
sent from Chicago 90 Manila by way
Of Seattle for s.. The distance rs about
5000 miles. 80 that freight is toted
thousand miles for dollar or a hum
dred miles for "a dime. Mr.. Hill says
that the rate will eventually be REDUCED
To s. per ton.
OUR TRANSPACIFiC TRADE.
In the meantime our trade across the
Pacific Is increasing all along the coast
The ships of other ports have been
greatly enlarged and san Francisco has
steamers which compare favorabIy with
the leylathans Of the Great Northern
The Pacific Mail added the Siberia ana
the Korea 90 rs ships In 1901. and the
Mongolia and Manchurla in 1908. These
ply between San Francisco and AOka-
hama. Shanghai and Hongkong. The
Boston steamship company has I'VE
steamers running between Seattle and
Tacoma and the oriental ports and a
German steamship line known as the
Portland and Asiatic has monthly YES
sells from Portland to the orient The
Nippon Yuseu Kaisha, which might be
called the japanese steamship trust,
run regular steamers between Seattle
aud Yokohama. and the Nippon Kis-
hin Kaisha has three vessels which are
running regularly from Yokohama TO
saR Francisco. There Is also the Occl-
dental and Oriental company plying
between san Francisco and China and
Japan under the British fiag, and a
large number Of tramp steamers which \
call irregularly at the various ports.
The Spreckles line connects the United
States with Hawaii. Samoa. New Zea-
land and Australia. and also with the
Society Islands. so that now almost ey-
cry part Of the Pacific has direct con-
nection with us. In addition 10 this Is
the great Alaska trade. aud the coastal
vessels which are doing business OF
mammoth proportions.
OUR ASIATIC TRADE.
The people here think our Asiauc
trade Is Just al It's beginning II should
be so. for there are 50O0OO,O00 people lly-
ing on the other side Of this great wa
ter way reached by cheap transporta-
ton. As II is now. most OF our foreign
business is with Europe. We lead the
world In exports. but il is the English
and Germans who are our chief Gus
toners We sell something Ike a bill
lion and a half dollars worth OF goods
to foreign countries every year, and
for the year ending June %, 1905, only
a httle more than one-hfth that amount
went 10 Asia and Oceanica. This was
an increase Of about 200 per cent over
our trade With those countries ten
years ago but Il is a bagatelle In COM
parison with the possibilities.