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Show Si PROSPERS FDLL0WHG WAR 1A. G. Ferf, on Way to The Hague, Says Opportunity Calls Americans. ' Almost every make of American auto- inobilo is bein used iu the Dutch col-; col-; ony of Java, according to A. G. Ferf, 1 who, with X. E. Pels, a fellow super-j super-j visor of tin mininp; on the island of J Billoton, near Java, is in Salt Lake, on j his way to his home at The Hague, liol-! liol-! land. Mr. i'orf says that during the i war it was impossible to obtain Euro-: Euro-: pcan makes of automobiles in the far-off I colonies, owing to lack of shipping facil-i facil-i ities, so American makes of cars were ! purchased. These have met with so much favor that the heavy trade continues. con-tinues. Most Kuro.t'ans in the colonics colo-nics use the American makes, as they j are becoming prosperous and can af-I af-I ford automobiles rather than the ancient modes of travel there, j Mr. Ferf calls Java and the surrounding surround-ing islands the land of opportunity. He says America is taking advantage of the land, as a large United States plantation plan-tation of tobacco, tea and rubber has been started at Sumatra. An American Ameri-can tire company, he says, also has started large rubber plantations. Mr. Ferf declares the future of Java is bright, and all that is needed is further development and capital, lie says the Hawaiian islands arc so much advertised adver-tised that Java is not given a thought, but in his opinion, Java, v-hich is also a tropical country, far surpasses Hawaii in scenic beauty. Mr. Ferf says tin mining in Java is reaching great volume, and tin is being exported in large quantities. The government gov-ernment owns the tin mines on the island of Banka, but private owners conduct the mining on the island of Billoton. ''A living in Java is very cheap, for when you realize a woman in- the sugar industry receives 10 cents a day. you can imagine the Javanese live cheaply," cheap-ly," he said. "Th?re are no labor troubles. The sugar industry, like the tin industry, is growing in Java. The high price of sugar in America has aided Java's sugar industry. Four native na-tive languages are spoken in Java Mala-, Javanese, Madoerese and Sun-danese." Sun-danese." Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barkley, also of Java, are in Salt Lake, on their way to Holland. Mr. Barkley says he had great difficulty booking passage to America. At last, he says, he secured ' passage on an American line. He declares de-clares Java is prospering in world trade moro than ever before, for from about $4,000,000 in trade before the war, he savs, trade has" increased to about $80,000,000. |