Show yitti MANCHURIA miller located at new ci tWang of alic wheat growing t manchuria the province of china drw the nations arc quarreling ia eventually will control 1 with complete mastery united states newspapers says consul stiller state that the northwestern part 0 our country cin produce wheat and flour and them 1600 miles to siberia at a profit if excellent native wheat can bo in large quantities at harbin for 30 cents gold per bushel with ancient methods and machinery what can bo done by these people when improved machinery ii introduced as I 1 have no doubt it soon will bet to my mind this great territory offers a better field for agricultural and flour mill machinery than it docs for flour within a very few years Manc huru from a consumer will become a most strenuous competitor for our flour trade in the asiatic markets and modern flour mills arc being established in other parts of china tharo are noy three large mills at shanghai and more arc in contemplation one is in course of construction at the depreciation in the value of silver has stimulated the flour mill industry the local price of wheat remaining the same in silver while the selling price of flour has enormously advanced one of the shanghai mills reports for 1002 a profit of 20 per cent on its capital stock flour from these mills sells in this market at from five to ten cents gold less per sack of fifty pounds than american flour largo shipments in the past of ogden flour have been sent to new chwang but this trade has been falling off until of late but little flour has left this section for alio orient the trade that tho United States will be able to capture in manchuria ia in the supplying of machinery and cotton goods |