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Show NEW TRADE ROUTE IS SOUGHT BY RUSSIANS SAN FRAffs'CISCO. Sept. 13. Dr, I. M". Goldstein of Russia has arrived here on a tour of Investigation relative to the possibility pos-sibility of Increasing trade between his country and tho United States by send-In send-In the Russian volunteer fleet, a subsidized sub-sidized commercial lino, to San Francisco and Vancouver with the opening of the Panama canal. Ho bears letters from the Russia prime minister and from Secretary Secre-tary of Stato W. J- Bryan. "I am merely making a ourvey of the field and will report to the primo minister," minis-ter," said Dr. Goldstein today. "At pres- ent the steamers of the volunteer fleet Tjtjjj run from Odessa to Vladivostok, and It mmm may bo they will come across the Pa- tlH cine and through the canal. II1 "It seems to mu that it would be profit- Wm able to send the ships from Vladivostok fuj to Vancouver, thence to San Francisco mmi and through the canal to Odessa and. TfjMH, porhaps make another run In the oppo- fnE site direction Agricultural machinery, IB boots and shoes, canned fruits and many ,lflR kinds of manufactured articles might tinU SHI a ready market In Russia and I believe IM that leather, wool, furs and skins and fjHK othor raw materials could be sent to the jjHffli "United States to advantage of both na- NMfli tlons." II H |