Show l AMERICAN FLOUR IN N MANCHURIA S f i ii i A report from Consul ul General V. D. D Straight of or ro says that It ItIs l Is stated that Russian flour from th tho 1 v-Harbin v lint bin mills milis will t shortly be he placed on S f ho tho South Manchurian market to compete corn com f p pete tp wIth aIth the American article com I J Of which durm during 1901 r S valued t M at about aboul gold gol were I 4 imported through with wit S an even larger amount through gh D Dalny ln Mi Mt Straight continues u Russian flout flour is to be purchased b byet by et- et Ibcal l c. dealers through the RUH Chi Russo-Chi- O-Cht- O 1 lias 6 bank and will be lie sold ol t rt t l 1 i at about 2 i 30 small colt 1 or or approximately I 10 United Stoles States i j er hag bag nine forty pounds i r American flout fluur j Is now HOW ow selling t galo onlo at nt about 1 sm small U coin per hag bag but hul owing tt to tI lh the rise on the ki American market this price can hold hole 4 r S only while stocks ordered prior to that rise are ure obtainable In lew leot than six Mx V. V VY there has been an an inci or 7 1 14 J 80 eo 0 gol gold cents cent p per r barrel in the c c. c i. i f. f I t 4 c j at al and Kobe r ally all ally the same rate holding for fOI Dalny 4 I An American ican stil sales s would seem S. S f to j to be seriously menaced by probable 7 J 3 t The ability a of or S the millers to lo undersell th the deal dealers in oU our flour will be he Increased P. P sF- sF b by the he- Improvement shortly to tJ be lc effected ef cr ct- ct bI- bI v ll of facilities for tran trans shipment S. S from front the n. n Russian to Ih the Japanese 1 railway oy system I 1 should be H. H 1 cre Jit iii connection onn flon with this 19 desire desire- S tuf if t th lh ilan interests eFt to enter this field that the Harbin mills were S' S i c considerably enlarged e during the late Int Jj war to t he n armIes j O Owing to o th the large largo withdrawal awal of or the I. 4 I troops however they tiley are ue now d to 10 seek seck their theli markets elsewhere Tho lh I Russo Chinee bank bani is t reported ti to to have ha ad advanced considerable sum ennus to I the mill mm o owners 11 Ld It ii JM largely ly to tu protect their theft own Int interests that the ha hankers s ax tU ure Interesting esti ng themselves 8 I In extending ln the flour flom business 88 In southern Manchuria American millers r may nn be Interested to learn that l tho no Chinese prefer l thou thou- h native flour ground by hy hand or 1 by horse or 01 mule power lower to the foreign product on account of the greater reater pro pro- portion portion-of of gluten contained In hi the for tor- mer mr Th They Thoy Y state tate that the native ar- ar which may bu hI m to th tho American J graham in or 01 whole wheat t flour possesses more II 11 or strength It seliM for UI about G. G O small coin per atties atU or about I K r. r cents sliver silver or Cl a pound forty bag hag higher than I American n flour UI An attempt lo to put lint graham flour lour on nit the In Lii Manchuria Man Man- churia might he attended with excellent excellent excel excl lent nt results t and millers r interested In making a II trial uial shipment should comI communicate com corn I with firms trading in itt their thell region tog one on of or which during the TI past Jt year ar d large l 4 fie if I American flour I |