The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-25
TRADE OF MANCHURIA.

The new American minister to China,
SIr. Calhoun, is on the job. Now we
shall doubtless begin to look after
trade in the Orient with greater vigor,
for this country invented the open
door and will never allow ii TO be closed.
A study Of the situation in Manchuria
will be among the first duties of Mr..
Calhoun, for in this favored portion of
the Celestial empire the Japanese and
Russians have entrenched themselves
and claim rights of possession. Our
great rivals in the markets of the
world, Germany and Great Britain, are
also on the ground with their wares, so
it is time the United States began to
develop its commerce across the Pa
cific in real earnest. Our future mar
kets lie in that direction.
1t is the understanding that Mr.. Cal
houn is TO give notice to all parties
that our commerce must not be re-
stricted, and if he has been instructed
to inform the other powers that the
partition of China will not be permit
ted, if the United States can prevent
if, no one need be surprised.
The trade of Manchuria has been one
of the bones Of contention in the Far
East, and, according to Frank G. Car
penter. the well known correspondent,
America is tagging behind the other
countries in the development of that
| trade. Mr.. Carpenter writes from
Mukden:
THE time has come when the United
States should push its trade in Man
churia. The people are just beginning
to know foreign goods and buy them,
and from now on there will be a great
increase in the native consumption.
All sorts of farming implements viii
be needed for the development Of this
great agricultural empire. and our
plows should be in great demand. The
Germans are already selling cheap imi-
tations of American tools around Har-
bin. They get s25 for a pillow which
could be easily landed on the ground
and sold at profit at $40 to s12
LAS the wheat lands are developed
reapers will be needed, and for the
large government farms thrashers and
steam engines. A British firm recently
sold four large Howard steam plows,
shipping them north from Newchwang;
the board OF agriculture at Mukden has
on its experimental farm American
reapers, harrows, harvesters and plows.
A large part of the flour milling ma
chinery already in use is of American
make, and the rolling stock OF most of
the railways is American. When the
South Manchurian railroad was recon-
structed the Japanese gave US one or
der which amounted TO about so, 900 tons
1t was for steel rails and bridging ma
teriaL At the same time over 1000 of
our freight cars, 200 locomotives and
something like 200 others cars were i'm
ported.
''The new Pullmans, which are being
used on the southern end of the Trans
Siberian railroad, are by far the finest
sleeping cars in all Asia, and there will
be a demand for similar material on
the new roads which win soon be con-
structed. One of these will be the line
to Kirin. and other the rebuilding of
the military road which now goes from
Mukden to the Yalu river and connects
with the Korean system at Antung.
To-day our chief exports to Manchu-
ria. outside of railway materials, are
cotton, kerosene and tobacco. The