Salt Lake Herald | 1900-01-02 | Page 6 | Hemp from the Philippines

HEMP FROM FRO 11 BE PHILIPPINES I Exports For Tor One Year Will Approximate mate nuite Tons Wa n Jan Jn L Assistant Secretary of ot War in a a letter to 5 Uvo long of Kansas mm regarding the i opening of the tile hemp ports In tn the Philip Philippine Philippine pine Islands says I The e tim ted sports exports of hemp from front the lne islands for tOI one year yeu of American occupation will wUl approximate MOH tons of which amount 38 X tons tone should bould be credited 1 tic the die United States StAte This the e exi exports orts to the United States for tile the year of f Amer Ameri i Jean Iran oce n at about tor Os 1045 s less Ieee I than the exports of 1297 ThIs 1 ie account accounted I ed d for by tile the fart that there have bet been opened for Cor shipment only three ports of the Philippine Islands island Every effort has been made by the 1 war de department In tb the past nd and will be beIn beIn In the future ture oo 00 compi with requests to open sib all the hemp p ports rt of the I i Wends