Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-08-02

AMERICAN
BUSINESS

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BUSINESS.
Gold dust of the value of $1,5oo,ooo,
representing only part of the winter
cleanup at Tanana, Alaska, was sent this
month to the assay office. Prospectors,
miners and supplies american goods)
are pouring into the territory. Settlers
are also homesteading. All these will
both produce and want
The port of San Pedro, Los Angeles,
is shipping American goods to the ORR
ent, and receiving Oriental goods for use
in this country. The steamship Bessie
Dollar, 10000, left Moi, Japan, on May
% for San Pedro, with passengers and
$500 tons of cargo. On the same day
the steamship Hazel Dollar left San
Francisco heavily laden for the Orient,
and on arrival will load cargo for
San Pedro. These ships belong to the
Dollar Steamship Company, and these
sailings begin new service The ship
ping freight agent says: "'The rail facili-
ties of Los Angeles are superior to those
of other coast cities, and the harbor of
San Pedro. Los Angeles, is not ex-
celled.' The port will probably also be
the southern terminus of the steamships
Buchanan and Watson. 1t is already do
| ing a Pacific Mexican business.
Ten years ago the United States was
selling British Australasia 100000 a
year, and buying 100000 year. Now
the figures are $26,oooooo and $I2,ooo,-
900 respectively. We sell the antipodes
iron and steel manufactures, oil, to-
bacco (mostly plrg), paper manufac-
lures, boots and shoes, farming imple-
ments chiefly. We buy just what we
need-namely, raw wool, gums, hides,
furs, block tin, and other crude material.
| The Alaska Club of Seattle, good
authority, says that the gold receipts
from the territory in 1906 will reach
$24,ooo,ooo, an excess of $S,ooo,ooo over
1905. Considering that we paid only
| $7,2oo,ooo for the territory, and that 1t
has paid its way since, that gold return
| in single year of nearly three and one
half times the original cost is remark
ably profitable American business, to say
nothing of the many millions we have
received in former years in gold, fish and
furs. The probable profits for the future
are beyond estimation.
Week ended May 26, flour shipments
by rail from Chicago increased 1880
barrels over the same week OF last year );
~ u sh iasasuts Increased $4,000 bush 81:
els, and provisions increased 1920 tons.
| The same week lake shipments OF
grain were I,372,ooo bushels, an increase
of $4,000 bushels over the prior week
and $1,000 bushels more than the same
week of last year. The flour increase
over last year was oI6 barrels of total
shipment of 1881 barrels.
| American commerce on the Great
Lakes makes new record for the four
months ended April 80 last, as well as
for the single month of April. For the
month it amounted to 5,4I8,4SI net tons,
a gain over April, 1905, of I,275,o42 net
TONS according to the Bureau of Sta
| tistics. For the four months the gain
was I,5o2,65o net tons. The classification
of the four months shipments, with the
increases over the same months of 1905,
| is as follows:
1906. Four Months. Increase
Net-Tons. Net Tons.
Coal .I,7o3,o16 75o,415
| Ore and other min
erals .1,o15,oso !, 4oo,o3r
Grain and Aaxseed. $4,000 2547sr
Lumber ........... 36o,164 77,o5S
Flour ............ 14o,o75 4o,2oS
Unclassi6ed freight oI7,742 63,7oS
| A very few years ago the increases
alone would have been considered a re-
markedly good four months work. Re
cords of the traffic through the Sault
Ste. Marie Canal show two-thirds go
ing east and one third going west. Do
nestle freight to the extent of 3,4o572o
, tons passed through the Detroit river in
Z April. About fifty per cent of the Great