Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-13
NEW LANES FOR COMMERCE.

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NEW LANES FOR COMMERCE.
Finding their way through the tor
tuous channels In the waters of the
Philippines, group of hardy men from
the coast and geodetic survey are find
Ing new lanes for commerce. Waters
hitherto uncharted and Il mystery to
the mariner VIII be easy of navigation.
Another group Is working its way up
the rocky coast of Alaska.
On the northern edge OF the United
States Il band of explorers has cut its
way through the forests to the peak OF
the Rocky mountains, marking the
boundary line of tho United States
with Canada The old monuments,
placed years ago and hopeless buried
in the tangic OF mountain underground.
have been recovered and now ones set
in their places. Wherever the line runs
through wooded sections. lane of
clearing has been chopped up one side
of the mountain and down the other.
Along the Yukon river the civil en-
gincers with transIts and plumb bobs
have been locating the 141st meridian
of longitude. The basis for all future
land surveys In the valley of one of the
greatest rivers in the world. IS being
laid there now.
Each aspect of this work comes under
some one of the 16 bureaus of the de-
partmcnt They cover everything. In
the bureau of corporations, the proper
control of the great industrial and
financial forces of the country is the
absorbing problem. A system of stat
utory publicity by which corporations
Will be required to report the essential
facts of their organization and condi-
tion is suggested. This must be done
by the federal government. Secy. Nagei
believes, and his report says any at
tempt to solve the problem through
state action will be futile, because. no
number of states can ever agree on es-
tablishing and maintaining one system.
The bureau of immigration shows in
cold figures that the longer the strang-
er stays in the United States, the more
unlikely he is to go away. There has
been during the year an increase In the
Immigrant population of the United
States of more than SOC, 1000. More than
a quarter of n million immigrants went
back home and 100000 of them had
been here less than five years. There
were only 1000 departures of those
who have been here 20 vars. The sta
tistics show 1t Is the unskilled immi
grant who Is the bird of passage and
that the mechanic and the artisan stay
in their new homes.
The effectiveness of the immigration
limitations agreed upon between the
government and Japan is demonstrated
In the reports which show that of 1854
Japanese who applied for admission to
the country 2.S42 had the proper pass
ports from their home government and
only 212 were barred.
In the division OF naturalization, it is
shown that 1922 aliens applied for
citizenship papers. which was moro
than 5000 over the number of appli-
cants during the fiscal year preceding.
FOREIGN COMMERCE.
The magnitude of the foreign COM
merce was more than $1,000. 900.
During the year more than 100000
lures carried the news of business op-
portunties from the corners of the
earth to American capital and labor.
The bureau of navigation shows that
We build fewer steel ships for foreign
trade than we did 10 years ago. be-
cause our shipbuilding is confined to
the needs of coastwise and domestic
transportation. During the fiscal year
1909 our shipyards built only .247 mer-
chant vessels with tonnage of 2SS,oOO
the smallest product since 1898.
The protecting waves of the wireless
telegraph have spread themselves over
the sea and formed life-net. OF 2S2
steamships that carry steerage passen-
gers to and from the United States.
half have been equipped with wireless.
and the proportion unequipped is a
small figure. The mainland of Alaska.
the United States. Hawaii. Porto Rico
and the Panama canal zone has been
equipped with wireless land stations
and a vessel at sea within 300 miles of
shore can communicate.
Tho 1Qr,o r hos 40
of mucilage, steel rails. soap for use on
the Panama canal. silk and many other
things. 1t has established a bureau of
standards for honest weights with
which some of the states are cooper
atlng. And when the department has
cared for everything else in its juris-
diction, Secy. Nagels report calls at
tention to the fact that 1t has accom-
plished the work with appropriations
which have increased only little more
than per cent in the last four years