Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-10
,eeial CORRESPONDENCE Of The Drr Nescs BY Frank G. Cateey

4 largely with Japan, and I expect to sec
a steady increase IN that trade. The
japanese are largely rice eaters. but
| We are now sending them wheat, and
| they VIII IN time be wheat eaters and
meat eaters. II II this feature OF their
development which interests us, for we
expect to supply a large part Of those
! products"
"Iiow about the tourist travel to ia
| pan? lis it increasingly"
| Yes, we are having heavy passen-
| ger traffic between Vancouver and Yo-
| kohama. We have a shorterroute than
any of the steamers from the United
! states. as We are higher up on the
! globe than YOU are, We are making a
| speciality of our passenger service, and
we expect to put on faster steamers
( and better steamers even than those
| we now have. We shah carry some
| freight, but ours viii be more OF an
express than Il heavyweight business.
! Our freight al present consists largely
| II silks, curios and tea rather than OF
| tho heavier articles
| "Is Canada sending much wheat TO
! Japan" I asked
! mot as yet. We are having some
| shipments from the province OF Alber-
o. which lies Just east OF the Rockies.
/
| winter wheat II produced something
Ike 100000 bushels this year, and It's
possibilities are very great. The wheat
is the Turlycysred variety. which comes
from seed imported from Kansas. II
IL superior to the Kansas wheat and
viii make more pounds of bread to the
barrel. with the growth OF this pro-
duct we shall probably have a large
shipment to Japan, not only on account
or the quality. but because Of the low
freight rate which we can make from
there to the Pacific and 20 the orient"
THE. SIBERIAN WHEAT FIELDS.
DO you expect much competition
from siberia m your wheat raising?"
/ asked.
Yes replied the vice president. ISL
beria outside of Canada, Is about the
only country which promises TO form
new element in the wheat markets
of the world. For a few years before
the war Siberia was producing about
30 600 900 bushels of wheat That was
It's average during the years between
1898 and 1902. In 1903 the crop amount
ed to 60. 900 900 bushels. and II will prob
ably exceed that now that the war In
closed. There Is vast tract OF land
adapted to wheat raising between the
Ussiri and Amoor rivers extending
from the Pacific westward. That re-
gion is being settled by Russians. They
come across from Europe on the trans
Siberian railroad or by sea from Odessa
on emigrant steamers subsidized by the
government That region can produce
millions OF bushels of wheat. IL will
probably furnish large part OF the
supply OF Japan and China. There
are also wheat lands In Manchuria and
farther west In Siberia. Indeed, IL IL
hard to estimate just what northern
Asia win do In the wheat markets Of
the future"
UNCLE SAM AND CANADA AS
WHEAT FARMERS.
The conversation here turned TO Can
ada az our chief competitor IN the for
eign markets. Mr.. Whyte said:
Your people do not appreciate our
possibilities. Your wheat lands are
well defined You had something like
As. 900, 900 acres under crop last year,
and your average was about 10 bushels
per acre. Canada has 100000 900 acres
upon which wheat can be grown. II
has five times as much wheat land as
is now cultivated In the United States,
and even II you deduct 100,000,000 acres
on the account Of swamp, muskeg and