Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-05-01 | Page 5 | Figures About Oriental Commerce

OME FIGURES AB ABOUT UT I ORIENTAL COMMERCE he following Information ion concerning rh merchandise traffic between the orland orl- orl hand S and America is furnished by Vice Vice- suI eul General E. E G. G Babbitt of ot Yoko- Yoko na a he shipping chipping traffic on the Pacific is increasing on account of ot th the thc de- de of trade with Japan and China turns urns Issued from trustworthy C according to the Yokohama Dally Daily ekl eki show that In recent years goods sported from British India to America the Pacific amounted to tons from Japan to America f from Crom China to over tons from tho the Philippines about 1 1100 00 tons from all other countries in east aeS enough over t tOo tho to Oo make Pacific jn the h total 8 Jo annual Jt tons the other hand only tons are ped to America via Suez IH h f is further stated that the goods goodsn n 1 America to the far east amounts to ut tons per annum I ring the year 1 IMS 8 two twenty-two steams steam- steam s cleared from Yokohama for tor the I ted States via Suez These vessels se see g ri f a rule do not t carry pIs passengers ege Of pe e two twenty-two steamers twenty wore were i ot of a gross and net tonn tonnage ge of ot Ot and an and two were G Ger- Ger rot r- r In ft of ot a gross nos and net tonnage of ot 10 Band and The Tho official report of ot the tho I anese mercantile marine for tor 1908 lien cia cb accompanied the foregoing statis- statis M l j. j Is III on file In th the bureau or ot manur menu manu f ures res r r S J 5