Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-12
A VISIT
TO THE
ORIENT
Hamilton Wright Returns TO
San Francisco After Six
Months Trip

Th1gugh the instrumentality- OF
Hamilton Wright who recently re
trrnM from an eight months triT
Etbroueh the Orient. the Pacific Com
marciaf museum is to be enriched by
large exhibit of Philippine products
This exhibit was ready for shipment
month ago, and as the museum Off
cials cabled to Professor Dean c,
Worces+ er, secretary of the interior of
the Philippines, Immediately upon
| lea ming that he was awaiting I'M
strutons as to its disposal, it is prob
ably already on the way.
The members of the forestry bureau
and department of the interior, agri-
cultural department, mining bureau,
and other governmental departments
of the Philippines have been busy coll
lecting this exhibit for some months
and it is expectd it will be the largest
and most representative exhibit of its
kind that has been sent here from the
Philippines
Professor Worcester, who took a
leading part in the preparation of the
Philippine exhibit at the st. Louis
fair, arranged i, and induced large
number of we'll known merchants of
Manila to contribute. 1t will not only
show the products of the Philippines
but will show what goods from other
countries are sold in the Philippines
that could come from the United
States
Hamilton Wright says that much
sympathy was expressed in the Orient
for San Francisco, and he anticipates
that all the exporters and importers
over there will be glad to stand by
this city.
He says that there is a wonderful |
opportunity for Americans in the
Philippine islands The Manila Elec-
tric Railroad and Lighting Company
in which a little over 100000 was
actually expended, is paying interest
on $5,000000 worth of stock, and
s. ,000,OO worth of bonds. He believes
that there are no great problems in
the Philippines that will not rapidly |
be settled with the development Of |
the country, and that with the coming |
of the railroads, the islands will devel. |
op strenuous demand for American |
products. Forty engineers and sub |
contractors arrived in Manila last |
April, and the frs dirt on the rail.
roads has already been thrown. Suga-.
tobacco humber and hemp offer un-
usual rewards to American capital,
with mOdem management and modern |
machinery. Concerns now engaged in
these industries are making huge
profits through methods that to the |
American appear most dila'ory and ex.
Densive
The Chinese boycott is rapidly dying
'ut he says Even during the bov.
'ott there Were great quantities of
American goods sold secretly by men,
'ers of the Chinese guilde. The boy.
'ott would not affect any firms who
ave representatives in the East, be-
ause business with the Chinese mer.
hants is largely influenced by per.
onal friendships with representatives,
n China of American concerns
Americans are seriously hampered in
elling goods in the Orient by the
netho s in which the goods are packed
or shipment and the damaged condi.
ION OF the goods on arrival. Another
hing which the American should study
putting the goods in attractive
'aokages, However. there is already
reat demand for many American
'o'ds Ia the Orient, They are general.
preferred TO the cheaper and more
howy' but less lasting German and
hineSe goods.