Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-21
(specinl CORRESPONDENCE
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-. Gle sam an open door to Man
snurlas
3 j have asked this question of
mr. American consuls at every city dur
ing my trip through the country. and
me answers arc that he has. The
& IN panese have tried to push their trade
Tin every possible way, and they are
doing some things contrary to the best
business ethics Nevertheless there is
no discrimination as to the admission
IF goods The Chinese are allowed TO
b,,y and sell us they please, and III there
ara railroad rebates for Japanese goods
they have been SO far kept secret. I
understand that the Japanese cotton
exporters have recently adopted "
4 lottery scheme for the sale of their
OF goods they are putting notes for
small sums of money which will be
cashcd on demand, with a view to in-3
= ducings8the Mancllurian merchants to
\ buy the goods on the strength of these
PRICES This has also been done in
Shanghai. 1t is being denounced by the
chambers Of commerce r.
Another questionable transaction is
thu shipping in of American flour under
lt.Ehl stitI
ages made In Japan. The ho,M. is
brought across the Pacific to Yokoha-s
ma; 1T is there repaciled and shipped to
1.-THE north and sold as Japanese The
trade marks are the same as those to
aEbe adopted by a new Touring mill
which the Japanese are constructing
n on the railroad north of Mukden; s. our
4 flour is thus being used to build up a.
A trade for that mill. The Manchus and
ily,.; -,,s tnI5 fo,f ~,
trade marks II they find an article
i ell right they will stick to 1t. and the
Grade mark does much to sell the goods
81 For this reason there are old store
signs in China, which bring a hundred
and sometimes a thousand dollars
piece. (.
4 AMERICAN FLOUR IN MANCHuRIA.
u American -four is popular here, but 1t
will be long before d great market can
be created There are about 16. O00,O 900
people in Manchuria. but the majority
of the men are too poor to eat wheat Or
rice. They live upon sorghum seed and
!other varieties of millet, and wheat is
mot one Of the regular grains sold III
the market. Prof. T.. G. Parker. one Of
lour agricultural experts, who has Just
been travelling over northern Man
churia. tells me that the farmers raise
wheat here and there, but only enough
for their own consumption. If they
have surplus they will load a half
ton upon a Chinese cart and carry j!
TO the mill. 1T usually takes them
several days to getato the nearest one
and the whoa barely pays the freight
K At present some wheat is raised about
Hardin, but the business of the mills
there is falling off. and it cannot go on
iprofitably with their present capitalize-
3E1ion. Prof Parker says that the flour
business OF Harbinis in a bad way. It
had a mushroom growth through the
war, when the mills were running day
and night to supply the Russian army,
and got big prices for all they could
grind. They We're backed by the gov
eminent and were operated at enor-
nous cost. There We're u OF them, all
equipped with the finest of modern ma
ichinery, much5of which came from
America. They then ground something
like 10000 barrels per day and had no
trouble in disposlng OF their products.
Asa result3the stock went sky high and
the Siberian Jews who owned the mills
sold out at a big profit. Since then the
demand for flourillas declined. seven Of
the mills have stopped working, and
The five now In operation are producing