San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-07
.JAPS PLAN To
REBUILD WITH
!. j. s. MATERIAL
To Erect Temporary Wood
en- Structures With Gal
vanized Roofs.
NEED LOTS OF STEEL
American Tea Trade Unaf-
fected and Jap Rice
Market Firm.
NEED LOTS OF STEEL
Ry !. G. ROYLE.

Copyright. by The San Antonio Lisht.
New York. Sept. '.--Buildings de-
stroyed by the earthquake and fl'9
: will be supplanted. at least temper
: arily in the stricken cities of ToS.o
: and Yokohama by wooden structures
covered with galvanized IRON sheets.
: This fact is confirmed by the heav,
-orders which poured into Amcricar
firms today by cable.
Practically every bit OF galvanize
: sheet iron in the San Francisco dis
: trict has been snapped up by cahln
and other Pacific coast cities are be
: ing combed for supplies which can be
: shipped Immediately.
Japan has already bought sheets IN
: enormous quantities in London ami
: the steel mills 81 the East and Midd;s
/. West are preparing for additional orb
: ers which cablel Inquiries assure aIt
coming.
Ii Is estimated that Japan viii
: spend in tie neiSlborbool of 4 qua
: ter OF hillioa dollars for lumnf.
alone 70 relieve the immediate neel
for shelter.
Enough lumber and sheet iron L.
fill several large ships already has
been bought on the Pacific coast AM
will be loaded with the utmost diS-
: patch.
Need Lots Of Steel.
S Japan has never been able 70 pro-
duce more than about - per cent al
her steel requirements and with the
DISCRIMINATION now prevailing she viii
be even more dependent on the outsid.
world for these products.
Copper and zinc also are needed and
. inquiries for over 1000 tons have been
received so far this week.
1t is assumed that this demand rep
resents requirements for repairing
electric light and power plants.
The zinc demand is accounted for IN
part by the probability that consider
able Of this metal will be used by
Japan plants in turning black sheets
into galvanized roofing.
Production of lumber in the West
ern Washington and Western Oregon
mills has been spPedPl mp until it is
about % per cent above normal ca
pacity and stocks are piling up at the
mills in anticipation Of the added re-
quirements.
japanese interests have cabled ur-
gent requests for prices and times
of delivery on foodstuffS TO Portland
and other coast ports and considerable
=hnsiness has been booked in the last
~ hours at Portland.
Very little export flour can be con
firmed for early delivery from that
section as Oregon millers have soll
practically their entire output for d
period of three months.
The bulk OF these purchases was
made by China.
Advances of 10 to II cents a bar
rel has been made in the prices Of ex-
port flour by millers who have some
still unsold for the next few months
Latest sales by club straight flour
for delivery three months hence has
been Mt SHE and SAT-. net. a barrel.
at Portland. which is 10 cents above
recent levels.
Tea Trade Unaffected.
No effect of the japanese disaster
has been felt in the American ted
market.
For nearly ten years Kobe and
SchiZouka have superseded Toxic and
Yokohama as tea shipping centers
and while there was unquestiOnabl :
some destruction of stocks at the lat
ter places. Irwin Harrison & Com
-pany of Chicago. tea importers. have
received cables stating that the de-
struction Of warehouse stocks in gel-
eral was small.
Furthermore, the third japanese to-.
crop is now being harvested and
-cured.
There should be no notable price
increase for supplies of the first two
crops in this country are sufficient
for some time to come.
Small adjustments upward. how
ever, might follow a reQuistioning OF |
-teas by the japanese government fer
..home consumption.
The Louisiana rice market is very |
firm, but this is due rather to expect |
ED domestic demand than to the earth.
quake and fire.
Some of the growers have advanced |
their prices about one-eighth of a !
cent, but many of the better informed
SAY that it is illogical TO ship rice
from New Orleans when adequate