Show THE LIMITLESS EAST President HIM of the Great Northern railway was recently speaking of the rapid settling up of the country along the hue of his road m because of the cheapness and fertility of I land good conditions for homes etc But ho does not limit his vision to the possibilities that exist along the line of that road In the same conversation he said that I while the wheatconsuming nations used per capita about 22 pecks or SA bushels of wheat annually if the 100 000000 people In the Chinese empire could be got to use a peck per capita it would Increase our exports 100000000 bushels annually The Orientals are learning to use wheat and the quantity quan-tity they consume is increasing annually annu-ally This as yet applies much more to the Japanese than to the Chinese but with the opening of the Chinese empire and the building there by Americans and Europeans of great works the use of wheat will Increase because It has been found by experience thut men can do very much more work on uneaten bread than on the Immemorial rice food of the Orient Again the Financial News calls at tenton to the advantages of this coun try for sra Ing cotton for a market there nnd if In the future cotton cloth Ing can bo substituted for the paper clothing of the Celestials it will make likewise an almost unlimited market for cotton The status is already fiXed for 1 American steel machinery tools hardware hard-ware of all kinds and perhaps by and by structural iron and steel All ihc in dications point to a greater trade on the Pacific than has over been carried on over the Atlantic and unless ours is a very stupid people our Nation and our ships will dominate that trade I |