The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-06

Special TO Inc tribune.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-"I am
surprised to find so little interest mani
Tested in the impending completion Of
the Panama canal said Colonel D,
C. Collier, who called at the White
House recently. ''Here and elsewhere
throughout the east there seems no
realizatio or the fact that the com
mercial relations of the United States
with many other nations must under
go a mighty transformation within five
wears and that all Europe, to say moth
ing Of the orient. is abustle with prep
arations for developing new avenues OF
trade to be opened when the last lock
is fitted into place on the isthmus.
Colonel Collier. who resides at San
Diego, Cal, is director general of the
Panama. California exposition, n pro-
quarter of the country is making evi.
dent its realization OF new conditions
that must arise with perfected means
of communication between the Pacific
coast and all the rest of the world.
Fresh from conferences with repre-.
sentatives of the great steamship com
panies at New York, he gained the
earnest attention Of government Off
cials, who. for various reasons, are in
terestcd in western development. AS
the representative of city Of 10000
people, who have raised nucleus of
100000 for an exposition in 1915,
Colonel Collier speaks of the undertak-
ing with commendable pride.
In common with al the rest Of
"San Diego is deriving population
from those portions of the east where
abandoned farms are increasing in mum.
ber. Before long we shall require per.
fected means of communication in or
der to feed and clothe our hundreds of
thousands, and for this reason the canal
is to the business men of the Pacific
coast a living possibility that becomes
of more Importance with every ton of
earth that is excavated.
''It is because San Diego is the first
American port of call on the Pacific
side that the people of the extreme
southwest are preparing to expend mil.
lions to celebrate the canal opening.
From the managers of steamship lines
and the advice Of government officials,
we have sought to gain a conception of
the sweeping changes tnat must ensue
when the paths of ocean commerce are
recharted, and we are satisfied that
we are investing wisely and we'll We
do not propose to hold n world S fair.
There has been enough and to spare
of this form of entertainment-all very
llluCH HIKE. VIC 40 Uol lUItnu 1ndl
the public shall be invited to trudge
wearily past leagues of show cases and
endless alsles of machinery halls and
trade exhibits This is TO be the show
that is different. We mean to have
an exhibition of natural resources. com
mercial and industrial opportunities
and living. breathing people that viii
it's close connection with his own af-
fairs, and which will reward the sight,
seer because of its unusual character.
Villages of Indians from every part
of the two Americas. arts and crafts
and manufactures from those strange
countries with which we must soon do
business on larger scale and demon
and cultivation that viii explain how
the desert is made TO blossom like the
rose.
Show Will Last Year.
"The show Will easily surpass in
magnitude and cost the recent eXposi
tlons at Seattle and Portland both of
which served to bring the northwest
before the world in a fresh and more
important aspect. 1t will remain open
there is no climatic reason why it
should close at any season and will
afford means and methods Of education
that the government itself might be
proud TO promulgate.
Long before the canal is opened
the product Of millions of acres OF irri
gated land will be poured into San
Diego as the only available seaport
IN that corner of the world. Where
now there is one vessel engaged in
coast trade three years hence will be
hundred. Not for long will the Jap.
anese steamship companies be permit
ted to enjoy monopoly Of trans. Pa.
cifc trade, for the steamship lines both
on the eastern coast and In Europe are
planning competitive systems that will
fight desperately for every ton of
freight consigned by or to an Ameri-
can port on the Pacific. In addition to
this, at least three great shipbuilding
plants will be in operation on the Pa,
ciic coast before the canal is com.
pleted.
AS | have said before, the average
business man of New York or Boston
neither knows nor cares about the ca
nal or its possible opportunities for
himself. On the other hand, we have
figured down to the smallest fraction
the amount Of territory we shall be
enabled 10 annex by reason of recon.
structcd freight rates, and the result
VIII be more startling to some of your