The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-23
Ing TO two or three billions per annnm
Uncle SnnI, Exporter.

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Uncle snm, Exporter.
What our patriarchiai relative Ia do
ing TO sell our crops and manufacturers
abroad worth noting In tho past
Two Or three years he has organized 4.
new system for tho DEVELOPMENT of
our foreign commerce and he now has
MS national trade drummers aud gov
eminent agents in almost every coun-
Try He has inspectors who 20 from
iand TO land studying tho pushing OF
special crops. and he is also working
INC army of American consuls. Our
foreign commerce now amounts Ia
about three billion dollars a year. nd
our exports alone are over 10000 mil
lions. This business is just at i,s
beginning, and nevertheless it is thu
greatest commerce OF any nation.
Our big Lumber Trade.
II Is live question as to what Uncle
sam Will do with the forests of the
Union. and whether they should not he
given ovcr.to the people. liz had SIN
about 400 billion board feet OF s,ano
ing timber. and in many OF the ma tional
forests he Is cutting the trees and saw
ing them into lumber. Tho forestry
bureau claims that our wood will bo
gone within twenty years, and with IT
VIII 80 our lumber Industry. which now
brings In "A billion dollars a year. and
pays one hundred millions in wages.
ROW 10 prevent the loss of this. how
TO plant new forests, and how TO take
care of those now standing. are among
tho special projects which the govern
m"nt Is studying. 'I5 X,
New Itnnds and How Ia Make Them.
Another big thing concerns the roads
OF the United States The govern
'nent is teaching the people how to ria-
prove their highways, This Is !nte.-
rsung 10 the farmer. 10 the au.orno-
bllcr. and to every man who goes i.Ysr
the road Tw>nty-two op:s3t i,srsa
roads have already been buit.. az. 5-.f
900 miles OF new roadwaya 81. "a
course OF construction. This also !. :. l.,,
tho rural mall carriers. who trava: ay
carriage more than a million ,i!as
every day. and serve more than t-yonty
millions of people.
Uncle snm and Iiis Flying Machines
The government is interested in
aviation. and Is testing ali sorts Of
balloons and flying machines for the
army and navy. Some secret expert
inents. 1.-THE dIrigihle balloon" Will
we ever carry mails through the air?
These are some OF the subjects of the
study.
Connected with this are the new
discoveries which have been made as
TO the upper air by means OF box Kites.
mis- work Is going on at Mount Weath-
er In the Blue Ridge. where kites are
flown daily and aerial flights OF vari-
Gus kinds made. Uncle Sam is now
spending a million and half dollars
per annum liz forecasting the weather.
and DR. Willis Moore claims that he is
saving the farmer. manufacturer and
exporter s5o.ooo.oo0 year.
M The United Stntcs.
But might fill several columns with
the mere mention of the great enter
prises which our natriarchai uncle has
under way or in contemplation They
mean the reorganization and develop
ment of the whole countryside crea-
ton, in fact, OF a new United Statep.
They mean more money. more busi-
ness and better conditions for every
one of Uncle SANS children. and the
knowledge OF them Will. i believe, make
us all better patriots. The most inn
portant schemes Will be taken up in
their turn. and with pen and camera
their live features described. The
materials for the articles Will be gotten
from the fountain head at Washington.
and from various places over the coun-
try where certain work is going on.
Copyright 1911. by Frank G. Carnen-
ter.)