The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-05
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TO all corners OF the globe. American
grain today IS flghting to supplant rice
among the AsiaticS and has already
partly displaced rye as the food staple
OF the peasantry of Europe, Within a
few years. at the rate our crop is in
creasing, and with the extremely low
rates the railroads give on grain for eX-
port, American loaves will be, indeed,
the staff of life in every country Of
Europe
a comparison Of the amount OF grain
received during eleven months of 1905
at few Of the primary markets with
the amount received for the whole year
of 1904 brings out clearly the remark
able Increase in grain traffic. Chicago,
the greatest primary grain market re-
ceiyed 220, 759, 2l5 bushels in 1904. Dur
ing the first eleven months of 1906 the
receipts were 239. 1873. 362 bushels. Louis
ville'S record for 1904 was 23.555, ,6lS
bushels, while up to December 1. 1905,
49, 80 bushels had been received
The receipts at Kansas City for 1904
were 5S.S39,900 bushels, for the eleven
months of 1905 they were 60l2l, 700
bushels.
On the Pacific coast, where fifty years
ago few gold-mad prospectors, acting
as an advance guard for Eastern civil-
zation' carried on a desultory warfare
with Indians there are today thriving,
huStling towns and thickly settled
FARMING communities. One OF the most
important factors in this prosperity Is
the huge lumber traffic that originates
in the vast forests OF northern Califor-
mia, Oregon and Washington Annu-
ally for the last three years more than
a billion feet of redwood pine and fir
have been taken from these almost in
eXhaustible timber tracts and shipped
to California coast points. During the
year just passed the arrivals at these
same points averaged more than 100
100000 feet month, a record that no
former year can surpass In 1904 lun-
Der shipments from Washington to
Oregon reached a total of SOC, 000, COO
feet. 196,SOO 600 feet of which went to
foreign markets, The completed figures
for the lumber trade of 1906 from these
two States have not been issued as vet.
but as more than 100000 900 feet passed
into domestic and foreign trade from
Tacoma alone. II is taken for granted
that In this industry, as In all others,
there has been the same astounding
gain,
Not only does the United States con-
tribute more than It's share Of food
stuff to the world. but 1t furnishes a
large percentage of the coal to cook IL
With, Americas coal resources, anthra-
cite and bltuminouS, are among her
greatest assets, and have contributed
more than any other single product TO
make the United States the leading in
dustrial nation OF the world 1t needed
81. 600, 900 tons Of anthracite to keep the
wheels OF American commerce spinning
In 1905, while only $500 900 tons were
needed in 1904.
For many years raw cotton has
played leading part In American in
dustrial affairs Indeed the interest
in this important crop is Worldwide
and on II depends the welfare of the
cotton manufacturers OF England and
Germany, Formerly the commercial
distribution OF this staple was along
fixed lines. from the cotton fields I'm the
South. north 10 the Atlantic coast.
Within comparatively few years, how
ever. the Southern business men have
awakened to the fact that cotton can
be manufactured In the South as prof
ltably as 1t can be grown, with the re- |
suit that cotton mills have sprung up
all over the South, especially in the |
Carolinas. These Southern mills have |