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Show HILL'S SHIPS AND ORIENTAL TRADE.. Jim Hill's other big ship, the Dakota, has reached San Francisco on her way to Seattle, and takes up a large space in San Francisco bay. The ship is as long as one of our Salt Lake blocks, and nearly as wide as a Salt Lake street. Her carrying capacity is about 30,000 tons. It will require re-quire such ships as the Minnesota and Dakota to compete with Japan when, with her indemnity from Russia, she builds some new merchant fleets P B and starts to do the carrying trade of the seas. i I ll . ' KmB But a still tougher competition will come when fi ll! i d jwKjB she completes her factories and with Chinese raw 1 f T a figjfB material to work Up, she will put out her imitation j; jj' fflH goods to sell. By imitation goods we mean such ; ' L nfiHj as the generous nations produce, which Japan j I aMpUl will imitate even to their labels, for Japan is des- ' I j ffK&H titute of that commercial honor which governs j ' WHWB honest nations in trade. Pi L Iml |