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Show JAPANESE GOING AHEAD. When ihe pioneprs entered ihe Great Salt Lake valley, the Japanese were . j juM emerging from complete isolation. Since then the progress Uiejr have Blade in world commerce is almost beyond be-yond belief. Twenty years ago the Japanese had Tittle or no cotton manufacturing. To-d.iy To-d.iy tbej are exporters. Here is an Jirm from a Tokio paper of late which discloses the advancement being made in trade: - "Increased shipments of matches, glassware porcelain and other articles from Japan to India and shipments of Indian cotton on the return voyage have caused the Nippon Yusen Kaisha to put fhe extra vessels on the run Miring October and November." 8 Last month one of the Yokohama fteamship companies purchased a warehouse m Seattle at a cost of $3, 3)0,000 to be used as the terminal of K one of the largest steamship lines. Another Japanese company Is planning ? regular line from Nagasaki to Los Angeles, and a third company is to establish es-tablish an ocean service through the Tanama canal to New Orleans and New York. There is more enterprise in Japanese Jap-anese shipping circles than is shown by American steamship companies. |