Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01

kitchen floor, crossed one another at
| right angles, running far up the hills
There were many tHo-story buildings,
| and shops With all kinds OF goods I
| rode severa! miles through business
streets of one kind and another, passed
several schools and a5bIg city building,
and finally stopped at a thre's-story
structure which proved to be a COM
lnercial museum. containing every va
riety of goods, both Japanese and ko-
rean. There were samples of Korean
cotton and Korean silk, and many sug-
gestions to the natives rs to how they
might develop their country.
AT Taiku, a city of 10000, a iundral
miles further north, there is another
large japanese settlement, and japan
csc cities have sprung up at PyengyanS
and Gensan. Pyengyang is the biggest
town between Seoul and the Yalu.F Pre-
v1ous to the Japan-China war it con-.
tanned $4,000 people, and 1t is now the
third largest city in the empire. IT
lies on the right bank OF the Taidong
river some distance inland from the
sea, and It's situation Is such that som
think 1t will eventually be the biggest
town in Korea. 1t has already IN the
sneighborhood of 10000 japanese settlers
and a section devoted to them has been
laid out near the station and is fast
erected The Dai-Ichi Ginko has erect
ed a new bank building close to the
gate and the settlement has a city hall,
n clubhouse. a theater and a govern
ment hospital Schools for both Japan
ese and Koreans are going up and the
dry bones OF the natives are beginning
TO shake at the changes.
There are now between 1000 and TO-
900 japanese at Ciensan on the vest
mr.
at Seoul with another large settlement
at Chemulpe, on the Yellow sea. rs
miles away. More than 10000 imHi-E&
grants came in last year and the pro-
sIects are for a steady increase from
now on. This Is especially so from the
fact that a big colonization company,
backed by the government, has; bean
formed in Japan. This has capital
OF $4,000 900, and 1t will exploit the
of under certain conditions by the jan
anesc after the abdication of the old
emperor now almost two years ago.
A LOOK AT KOREA.
But first let me give you a birds-eye
view OF Korea. The peninsula, is of
about the same shape as Florida. and
its area. all told, is about that Of
Kansas. 1t is as long from north &c
south as from New York to Cleveland
and in some places as wide as fran
Washington to Philadelphia. The coun-
try lies just opposite oul. eastern state
on the other side of the globe. If I
could bore, a hole fight through the
earth from where i know am and had
the right sort of glass | might see he
American SUN within a short distance
of New York City. The latitude is
just about the same as that of Boston,
New York, Philadelphia and Washing
ton. and the climate is better than ours.
For the greater part of the year the
skies are as blue as those of Colorado.
and then it rains for two or three
months off and on, giving a plentiful
supply OF water for crops. If the moan
tains had not been skinned Of their
timber the rainfall is such that they
might be cultivated clear to theifgtoas.
and by reforestation such farming viii
probably be done.
A LAND or MOUNTAINS.