Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-06
Chief Of Department Of Agrlcul-
ture and Commerce Of Japan
At Knutsford.
IN SEARCH OF MODERN IDEAS
No Expense Being Spared In Educat-
ing Young Orientais to sup
plant White Experts.

intellectually, commercially, Japan IL
extending It's tentacles to the turthest
,ecesses of the earth in search of ideas
modern IDEAS. those which have enabled
other nations 20 become pre-eminently
ersat and powerful. According to l.
NJ. sugimoto. chief engineer of the
department Of agriculture and COM
merce In Japan, who Is stopping at the
ISnutsfor,l, no expense Is being spared
ny either the japanese government or
ioryc japanese corporations to gamer
On the worlds best store Of knowledge
,,, use In the development of the little
monarchy.
with Mr. Sugimoto, who has Just re-
TUNED from an Inspection OF large
mines in Germany, Is kennosuke isu-
tinioto. mining engineer representing
ihe $1,000, COO Fugita Mining company
of Osaka, Japan. MIR Tsu)imoto AT
rived i'm san francisco on Aug o. anu
amor inspecting the Balaklava ana
Wsn,r,oth mines OF Shasta county. Cal,
rame directly to this city where an
exhaustive inspection Of mining nleth--
MS al Bingham canyon VIII pc VIC
compBshed with Nil. Sugimoto, before
the two leave for Arizona on a sihliiaI
mission. 81
Those who are accustomed TO regarh
rapan as a mere Asiat,c power Win
out much more progression than char
..terizes China, would be surprised 10
bear of the developments there pelhs
,nada The Kosaka mine alone, Which
rroduces one-fifth OF the copper OF tn ae
monarchy. has a yearly output OF o,VV
IONS of copper, 10000 ounces or goid'
i1g7 600 ounces OF silver and 4Vo TONS
81 ioad Mining works as large as those
- In the enyiruns OF Salt Lake CITY
sre in operation in Japan with Amerl-
CON IDEAS European ideas, in fact the
rieaning of the worlds best IDEAS IN
mn utility one Of the most lupor-
can't changes of recent years IN the
iittle kingdom IS the making OF mining
machinery and machinery ioL ~
,nercial use in other lines, by Japs' VINO
have assimilated the most modern
methods in this direction.
SALARIES IN JAPAN.
Mr. Tsuiimoto says that the average
salary of an expert mining engineer IN
lanqn is 400 ven or $500 "A month; ana
that GRADUATES from the Tokyo uni-
NersitV receive $50 a month the
moment they leave schOi. The entrance
requirements are very stringent In the
University OF Tokyo. each applicant
Tor matriculntion being required 10
know two Of the three languages.
English, French and German. Most u.
Inc Students choose English as one or
the two. As a result OF these high edu-
cational requirements the mining en-
glneers of Japan are now on such a
plane that they can perpetuate them
selves without further assistance from
foreign teachers. A few years ago
there were many English, French and
German professors at the University
of Tokyo; but now the list had been
reduced down 10 one. a German.
An average OF four mining engineers
visit America yearly according 20 Mr.
Tsuiimoto In order 10 assimilate the
best Ideas here in vogue
Mr. Tsu1imoto says that the world
at large Is very much deceived con-
cerning the progress being made In
china. for the same tactics that Japan
has employed so successfully are there
used Mammoth steel bridges and great
buildings are now being constructed
by Chinese workmen and by Chinese
engineers.