Show fIRST STEAMER IS I IDUE DUE FROM ORIENT Salt Lake Route Inaugurates Steamship Service Between San Pedro and Far East BIG TRADE IS ANTICIPATED TONOPAH BRANCH WILL REACH JOHNNY SIDING WEDNESDAY The Salt Lake Route Reute will op erat lt S San n Pedro and the Ori Or ont mt during the coming coining week The first ste steamer mer to arrive under the Orient service service ice Is scheduled to put In an appearance in the San Pedro harbor next Monday This will be t the Hercules carrying a cargo or of vegetable silk floes fireworks goatskins and Chinese and Japanese rt goods The Hercules will come direct from Japan Other ships wIll arrive at frequent Intervals from the Orient Jan Janing land tag ing and unloading in San Pedro harbor The Hercules wilt return to the Orient with American products W W 1 King general passenger agent of the Great Northern Steamship corn com company pany at Seattle who has been vIsiting in Salt Lake says the Orient will prove a great shipping center for American goods Both Japan and China are finding American goods and exports adaptable to use in the lands of the drowsy sun sunhe sunhe he says American made machinery en is in great demand in Japan and China tIr Mr King attributes the growth of pas pan passenger traffic with the Orient to an in interest terest terent created In those countrIes by the war Tourists who for formerly formerly merly journe Journeyed ed to Europe are now turn turnIng turnIng Ing toward t tie E Orient Alt All steamship lines operating bOats to the Orient have been adding equipment to accommodate the In Increasing increasing creasing business In speaking of the Orient service with with the Salt Lake Route at San Pedro Mr Ir King says The scheme Is very fe feasible sible There is plenty of business boniness for another line With water and rail connections the new ser service service vice wilt meet with ith instant success The Orient afford America an Important market for her ber products The Japanese and Chinese have hae learned tile the value of battleships guns and im implements of all kInds Miles Finished By the middle of next week the Salt Lake Routs Routes Las branch will have reached Johnny Siding seventy three miles out or of Las Vegas Passengers from the east or west will be able to reach Bullfrog or Beatty on the afternoon of the day followIng their arrival in Las Vegas The stage ride from Johnny Sid Siding lug ing Into the Bullfrog district will have haye been reduced to miles General Manager P H E Wells who su superintended superintended the repairs on the tracks through the Meadow Valley wash terri tern territory tory in Nevada Is convinced that the re repairs repairs pairs put in will withstand any future floods Now that the tracks have haye been placed in firm shape regular service and sch schedule dule time are maintained In all train movements |