The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12

While at the station I saw white, rat tailed lamb awaiting shipment. It was tied to the platform, and card fastened to one horn bore the name of the com mission merchant in Smyrna to whom 1t was consigned.
 Running past the hotel are seven high columns which once supported the aque- duct which supplied Ephesus with water. Each of these has now a storks nest on it's top, and the great birds may be seen any day standing there. Each stork supports itself on one leg. I am told that they come here only for the winter, and that they leave every spring for Holland, or, perhaps, for some other far-away part of the world, each transporting a baby.
 In Syria
 I spent day in Smyrna before coming to Ephesus, and I shall return there to go on to Constantinope and Greece. smyrna Is the largest city in Asia Minor and it has about the same position here now that Ephesus held. It is the chief rort of this part of the Levant, and does
 
 grapes olives and figs It has foreign trade of about s5O,OOOOOO a year, and steamers from all parts of the Mediter ranean come to its docks.
 The city lies at one end of the great Gulf of Smyrna, which is 34 miles long and surrounded by silver-gray mountains, some of which are a mile high. Its har- bor is excellent. The town begins on the shore, with the slopes of Pagus in the rear. It is largely composed of modern buildings, and among it's people there are more Greeks than Turks. They are shrewd traders and just now are alive to the possibilities of doing business under the new Turkish government. which promises to be far more liberal in mat ters of trade than that of the past.
 Smyrna is much interested in the rail- road projects for the development of Tur- key, and the Germans are alive to the se- curing of mineral and other concessions. The various roads planned to reach Per sia will open up Asia Minor and there will be considerable demand for American goods The same conditions prevail in Syria, and the United States should wake up lO the pOSSlDlilttS WHICH ildy COlllc with the reorganization of this empire. A great part of Turkey is practically un- developed, and if an honest government is to take the place of the corrupt rule of the past the population will rapidly in crease in numbers and wealth, and there will be demand for foreign goods of all kinds.
 American Opportunities in Syria
 While travelling in Syria I saw many openings for American goods. The farm ing there is after the methods of cen- turies ago, and our blows, reapers and other agricultural machines might be sold. I understand that the more pro gressive of the native landlords are ready to buy. One man, who owns more than thousand acres of rich grain land on the high plateau between the two ranges of the Lebanon mountains. has offered to lease it to any American company who will cultivate it for two or threo years at 75 per cent of the profits. and will bring in American machinery for the purpose. The landlord also agrees 70 pay for the machinery at the regular price upon the termination of the con tract.
 Some of the Syrian farmers are now using American threshers and reapers, and some are bringing in American blows. The first thresher imported was upon the advice of MT. c. Bic Rayndal, our con- sul general at Constantinople. MT. Rayn- dal is a Dakota man, who understands the farming conditions in the northwest. He tells me that the possibilities of grain raising in this part of the world are remarkable, and that dry farming might be practiced in many localities