The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-19
THE MlssoULAN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1913.

1t amounts to a double charge when
calculating the space they occupy as
a part of the net tonnage Of the ship
carrying them.
The vast increase in the amount of
traffic that is indicated to take place
from decade to decade will be made
up in two ways-through the natural
expansion of business on existing
routes and through the diversion OF
much traffic from other routes. 1t is
through this diversion that a major
portion of the early expansion will
take place. e
The first and biggest change will
come when the Observation-Disclosures
Steamship company sends it's big fleet
of ships through the canal instead Of
operating them in connection with the
Tehauntepoc railroad. The Mexican
government is a stakeholder in the
American Hawaiian Steamship COM
pany, but, not having a controlling in
%terest, it will see perhaps nine-tenths
of it's traffic wiped out at a single
sweep. 1t will probably in the end
make up the loss by the expansion of
business n the securing of shipping
that will not go through the canal in
uIlDIOkeH cdTSoeS out at 1lTSt II VIII
be a stunning blow.
The great Gillian nitrate port of
1quique will be brought 5000 miles
nearer New York than it is today, and
the nitrate will almost certainly elect
to take the Panama route instead of
going through the Straits of Magellan.
The nitrate business will be the heav-
lest single item of commerce passing
through the canal. Most Of Europe's
nitrate will go the same way.
The distances from Sydney, Austria
liza, and Y~okohoma, Japan, are a little
greater to Liverpool via Panama than
via Suez. But it is expected that a
large bulk of the trade of these two
regions will prefer the Panama route
over the Suez route. 1t will enable
vessels engaged in the trade between
the Orient and Occident to avoid the
excessive heat of the Red sea and the
Gulf of Alden. and the tempestuous
storms OF the Indian ocean. 1t will
allow a ship, by going 500 miles off the
direct route, to call at New York, the
second largest port in the world. where
outbound cargoes are practically al
ways obtainable. All tonnage statistics
indicate that there will be a great and
growing demand for ships passing
from the Orient to western Europe and
vic versa, to bend their course toward
the traffic producing centers among
the two coasts of the two Americas.
Hundreds of ships that now sail
through the Straits of Magellan or
around the Horn will go through the
canal. Ships which on every outbound
and Irhn,,pI y~,-~
the southermost point of Africa to
escape the tolls of Suez, will know that
route no more, because the business
getting advantages of the American
ports in both continents and on both
coasts will offset the toll charges. Suez
VIII feel the competition in a dozen
different directions. New routes
promise to spring up. Lines that now
ply between Europe and our Atlantic
will extend their s%ailines to
the Pacific coast.
Then there will come the tremendous
expansion of business. South Americ,
is but beginning it's career as a shin
ping producing continent, and in the
years to come it will produce tons
where now it produces hundred
weights. North America has done we'll.
but there inevitably will be vast in
creases in its foreign business. Austria
liza n Africa will yield shiploads of
trafflc where they now yield train
loads. And to all the ships that carry
this traffic the Panama canal forever
VIII say, The more business you give
me the lower my tolls. and the lower
my tolls the more reason why Won
should bring me your business"
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