Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-28


Within the last company's possessions
lies kultala. which was built in 1871
by the Finnish government for washing
gold. Dundee Advertiser
JAPANESE NOTES.
Hokkaido island is full of sand. iron
and coal.
Japan,s company promotion boom is
over and many of the new companies are
suffering dissolution.
This year 1t will take S90o00.o0o 20
finance the silk crop OF Japan. an in-
crease OF S20,0O0,000 over 1906.
Another government university is TO
be established at Sendal, Japan. absorb
ing the Sappro Agricultural college.
On the Gina. the Broadway of Toxic.
were seen several drayloads of printing
paper marked J. II. Booth, Ottawa,
Canada.
Tsurga, . port with excellent harbor.
ION the west coast OF Japan, has sprang
into prominence upon the probabilities of
Tie siberian trade.
Formosa offers prize of $4,000 for
the best plan for building the offices OF
the governor general of Formosa Plans
wanted next November.
Copper mining and smelling is val
liable industry in Japan. The yearly
output amounts in quantity to 10000
tons, OF about Sl0000,000 value.
Iannfl'S eottnn sninnfncr ,otf,na ,,;n,, .,,.g,
having an uaprecedentedly satisfactory
run this year SO far Dividends are
figuring at froil 30 to 100 per cent per
annum.
Two English firms, Armstrong & Co..
and Vickers, Sons a Maxim, in com
pany with the Tanko Steamship COM
pany, with S5,000.G00 capital, are taking
over the Muroran steel foundry for en-
Iargement.
The I&paneSe government has instruct
ca the Bank of Japan TO accept the
shares of three of the Mathematical rail-
ways as security for loans and To in
crease the value loaned against the
shares of three others.
In 1912 an international conference Of
the worlds inventors will be held at
Toxic, promoted by the Japan Associa-
ton for the Protection of Industrial
Rights, III connection with the grand ey
hibit;on to be held in Toxic in 1872
Japans exports are chiefly rice, sea
weeds. cuttlefish, tea refined sugar
sake, beer, cigarettes, coal, wood, waste
silk. raw silk, camphor, fsh oil, cotton
yarns, copper, pigs and slab and straw
plaits. In May her exports increased
Sl.5O0,000 and imports S5,50O.000.
japan is buying Canadian butter,
cheese. wheat Hour, sailed salmon and
trout. whisky, canned goods, stoves, firts-
place fittings, lead, printing paper, fer
filters, pulp (sulphlte), boards, lumber,
timber, bicycles and soap. Canada is
buying Japanese silk tissues, silk hand
kcrchiefs. MATS and mating, porcelain
and earthenware, lacquered ware, tea,
rice, straw plaits and camphor.
The recent failure OF the Oguri bank
was followed by several cases Of bank
failure in Nagoya. the capital of the
Aichi prefecture, and its vicinity. A
union of three leading banks in Nagoya,
assisted by the Bank of Japan. has
rescued that part of Iapan from fur
Their financial disturbance" says the Sun
Trade journal. Similar disturbances.
though on much smaller scale have oc-
CURED in other parts of the country,
The cargo carried by the Nippon Yu-
sen kaisha between October l, 1906, and
March 81, 1907, was the largest ever
carried by that company in similar
period. Passenger traffic was also heavy.
The eompany's revenue was about
ST.000.O00. Higher prices of coal in
creased the working expenses. Another
shipping company. the OSAKA Shosen
kaisla. had 4 bad six months the last
half of 1906 The usual dividend was
foregone