Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-07

The ships OF other ports have been greatly
enlarged and San Francisco has steamers
which compare favorably with the levia-
thans OF the Great Northern. The Pacific
Mail added the Siberia and the Korea
to its ships In 1901. and the Mongolia
and Manchuria in 1904 These ply be-
Shanghai and Hongkong The Boston
Steamship Company has five steamers run
ming between Seattle and Tacoma and the
oriental ports and a German steamship
monthly vessels from Portland to the
orient. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, which
| might be called the Japanese steamship
trust. run regular steamers between Seat
tie and Yokohama, and the Nippon Kishin
kaisha has three vessels which run
ming regularly from Yokohama to San
Francisco. There is also the Occidental
and Oriental companies plying between
San Francisco and China and Japan under
the British flag, and large number OF
tramp steamers which call rregularly at
the various ports. The Spreckles line con-
meets the United States with Hawaii, Sa-
moa. New Zealand and Australia and also
with the Society Islands, so that now al
most every part of the Pacific has direct
connection wfth-As. In addition to this
is the great Alaska trade. and the coastal
vessels which are doing a business of man.
moth proportions.
Our Asiatic Trade.
The people here think our Asiatic trade
10 JUST at It's beginning 1t should be so,
for there are 50o.0o0000 people living on
the other side Of this great waterway
reached by cheap transportation. As IL is
now most or our foreign business Is win
Europe. We lead the world in exports but
1t IS the English and Germans who are
our chief customers. We sell something
ike a billion and half dollars worth OF
goods to foreign countries every year. ana
Ior the year ending June 80 1905, only a
to Asia and Oceanca. This was an m
crease OF about 200 per cent over our trade
with those countries ten years ago. but
II Is bagateile in comparison with the
possibilities.
Take Japan. That country has now Az
WoOoo people and is becoming one OF the
Dis customers Of the world. Its total trade
with us amounts to 100000 coo a wear
Wnlch is four times as much as It was
when 1t began its new era as a world pow
err The japanese are rapidly increasing
their consumption of foreign goods and
they will eventually use many times what
they do now.
The Chinese-Japanese war and the war
between Russia and Japan have done won
ders IN breaking down the wall between
China and the outside world. Our trade
with that country, including Hong Kong.
is now S92,00O.O00. which is three times IS
much as II was a decade ago. The Chinese
VIII increase their demands for foreign
goods just as the Japanese have done and
with the opening up of the country TO rail-
roads and modern industries. the consump-
ton may be ten times what 1t Is now
The Chinese boycott Is temporary. They
are among the shrewdest traders and best
business men of the world, and they will
not allow sentiment to affect their trade
a long time. In 1903 our exports to Japan
were more than 81 for every man. woman
and child in the country. When they be-
come that for China we will be sending
$500 100000 worth OF American goods there
every year.
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Philippines with their population Of 5000
600. of Australia with 5,oOO.0oO Korea with
12,000o00. Aslatic Russia with 22.Oo0 900,
Siam with 100000 and the British East In
lions upon millions of the Dutch East Indies
of the French East Indies and OF the Islands
of the seas, making up a total for Asia and
Oceanica of almost 900, 900. 900 souls 1t
will be a long time before these people
will all be using American products. but
the possibility of our Pacific trade running
over .e0o,000o00 a year is easily con-
ceivabie.
Manufacturing on the Pacific.
This means an immense growth of manu-
featuring on the Pacific coast l predict
that San Francisco will within a few years
be greater Industrial center than ever
The mere rebuilding OF the city viii cause
the establishment of many manufacturing
plants. and its trade with the orient VIII
re-esta blish all the old industries and bring
in new ones. Here at Seattle there are al
most 1000 manufacturing establishments. |
small and large. Ten million dollars are
invested In them and they make product |
of S26.6o0.000 year. This is according to |
the census of 1900. and it shows an increase |
of about 500 per cent over the manufac- |
lures of ten years before. This Puget sound !
region has vast quantities of coal which |
are easily accessible There are rich de- |
posts of iron, copper and other minerals |
within a short railroad haul and the tim /
Der resources are among the greatest on |
earth Seattle now has rolling mills. |
cordage works. sawmilis and shipyards, /
and II viii eventually have sugar refineries |
and other Industries. There are terra Gotta
the making of sash. doors. blinds, barrels, |
boots shoes clothing. wooden goods and I
number of other things. As the trade with
the far east grows. Industries viii rise UP
to supply It, the work being done here in /
order TO save the heavy freight haul across /
has now 1,50o mills. which are making |
5 600. oo0 600 feet and T.08e, 100000 shingles /
a year.
The Water Powers of the West.
A great factor in the manufacturing OF
the Pacific slope is to be its water powers.
have already written OF the enormous
falls of the Spokane river. which viii make
possible manufacturing industry for nine
~ miles along Its course. and which alto
gether. 1t is said. can furnish as many
horsepower as Niagara. The story seems
big. but that is what the Spokane men are
and there Is no doubt they have
n very great force In their city Itself Seat
tie has one company which has developed
10000 horsepower from the Snoquairnie