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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORTLAND. SUNDAY HORNING, DECEMBER 11. KID. EAT COMMERCIAL AWAKENING FOR WEST COAST OF MEXICO rtial view of Mazatlan, town on Mexican promise. BV G..W. Burton. .since I first learnedvsomethingr about history of man on. this- earth and development of its resources It has en a ravorlte thought of mlnw to mea gre the progress attained tf ,th com fn e done and that by the means of an importation. I am about to present . the readers of The Journal a aeries f letters on Mexico and propose to Pet e ball rolling- by some reference to the I'aclfio ocean, Its commerce, preaent ,nd prospective. This is timely as re nrds botht Mexico and" the Pacific - The S aiiama canal is the greatest undertake a in material things yet set down to he credit of the human race, ; Its com 'otion will mark man's . greatest i thlovement to our time, and this will irain mark the beginning of an epoch . which the Pacific ocean and the peo Ips cn its chores will Uke the first :ace in the commerce and Industrial Jm-elopment of the century we have just entered upon. , , It la conceded that "Europe has no . iviUzation purely its own. The germs f literature, art. agriculture and rea son came to Europe from Asia, and v. hotever of the original remains Is overlaid deeply with the exotie. The cradle of early civilization lay on the 1 auks of two great rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates. : Pnder the ; sands of 5 Tpt lies burled a civilisation not lees than 10,000 years old. No one has set fi great an age specifically for that of ti e Euphrates. Nor are there any data 1 i prove that Egypt owed its art or :her progress to countries farther east. The history of the early people on the ."ile appears as indigenous as that of those in ancient Mexico, of which I Hhall have something to say at a future time, Along: the fertile banks of these two rr-eut streams men at a very early i i rind developed the arts of agriculture in a rapid march, and from this gie t r naturally a small, commerce between e people along the stream. This whs hjne in boats propelled by .oars. In due time the letters invented by the Copts of Egypt and other arts from ihe. center of Asia found their way to t he cast coast of the Mediterranean 8ca, find thence to Greece, then to Italy, so ocr all western Europe. As one pen insula after another received this 1m- fi ins, cummerce grew up between the -'"fforent peoples. Th Phoenicians ;,iod as far west as the British Isles. . ,rt and North Africa became the pntris oC Rome whence the people or the mistress Of the world at that lime drew her daily ration, . Breamec and , Es:plorerv An Italian born in Genoa and bred to the sea 1500 years -fitter Rome had prnetrated to the Danube and the Volga on one side and to Britain on, the other had gone to Spain, and there, looking out on the '' great unknown ocean, I reamed of lands beyond. Its mysterious t-horcs. So Columbus In three ' small open boats In due time landed on one of the Bahamas, and a new world was :,fd to the old. One adventuror fol lowed another, end one day one of ihefe crossed the par row neok of land where we are now cutting the jreat r.inal and gazed on the expanse of the i reit ocean, so still, so peaceful, that is man of Bpaln, Balboa,' called it the 1'ncific. ' - ' - Co back witb me in spirit 10,000 v,,;irs and think . of the small commerce rf the early Copts in Egypt, of the i'v-arcely larger on the banks of the Kuphrates.- Skip 8000 years in one leap and think of the Romans In boats pro-f-oiw-d bv oars which carried the grain f ivynt and North Africa to the banks t f the Tiber. It was a great step for w:ird whon these early merchants of i-orne constructed means of bringing ip. ehlps across the isthmus of or'nlh. svold'ng the long, dangerous - if-sage across the Inland sea. This An orranixstlon of Fort George Q'tl-y.'-ns and : business men will give au thentic Information free regarding oneii irigK for business and investment in what v. ill bo one : of '-the largest Canadian cities. " : , ' The registered legal townslte of Fort George adjoins the Indian reservation on the west and faces on the Nechaco river. There Is no other logical loca lion for city in the' vicinity; and ev try railroad chartered to build through Central British Columbia will run through, our town because they - cau't lidp themselves. . . v We will have all railroads. Other townsites starting in the vicinity will have none at all because of ythe topog lephy of the country. ' , Fort George la the geographical and slratcgle, commercial center of British Columbia and has now 1000 miles of' navigable waterways and will ft have 1 000 miles. V. -r ' ' ..' i -r. Fort George Is growing rapidly, and ty t o' time the first railroad reaches the j-ihu-e in 11I will have 6000 population, and in five "year 20.000, , It ns send you first hand facts ft-out Fort George. ... Ituau gAt auickxeply by ddreslng; Tort Crjs Publicity Bnreaa, Soon r.3, E-U CrsnvCls St, Tnooavtr, P. a Or if rovi prefer, address Secretary t,h, i C.uJj, iort George. U. 1 :-m GE0QGE COMMERCIAL ' CLUB : i i 1. ..I k; A J west coast, that gives much was the first step toward the Panama canal. . '". Now skip 1500 years from the time Of those Roman merchants' to thedays when Spain and England saw what the commerce of the Atlantic must be In time and the Armada was sent out from Cadis to crush the Small merchant ma rine of the rising Island rival. The storms of the English channel and the North sea destroyed the navy of Bpaln, and England was left the ymlstress of the broad seas destined to, become the highway of the world's great tcotnmeree.' Now we get " the - perspective of my thought. Lay side by side the boats that oiled along th streams In Central Asia and the rough three, fiv and six banks of oars. Then by them place the three sail-propelled boats of Columbus, and now we are ready to present for comparison an Atlantlo steamer, freighter of 12,000 or 15,ooo tons that steams 15 knots a day. or a Uner of 20, 000 tons that makes the transit of the Atlantic in less than a week, with Sun day for a day of rest on Bhora. The commerce of our two original rWers lll .be to that of the Mediterranean sea as the width of the Nile is to that of the sea. The commerce of Rome In Caesar time will be to that of London now as the distance from Algiers to the mouth of the Tiber la to that from London to New York. London will do more business In an hour than Babylon or Thebes In a year, and more In a day than Koine In 365. of them. - Its Commerce Hat Arrived And the Pacific? It is not a matter of speculation. The 'commerce of the great ocean has not to be waited for. It has arrived. It is an tnfnnt, but Its model. for type Is the Infant Hercules In his cradle- strangling boaconstrictors. with his little fingers. It Is not easv to oome by recent statistics of the world. 8ome years ego Honorable Lorln A. Thurston. In an arlicle calling attention to the Importance of the Hawaiian Islands, gave tele statistics of1 commerce done at nearly a score of the principal cities. Th in-and-out " tonnage at London about 20 years ago was 7,470,000 tons. New York 5,100,000, Hamburg- 4,410,000, Antwerp 3.J60.O00,; Hongkong 2,330,000, Bj-dnev 2,880.000, Melbourne) I,1S4,000. Ean Francisco 1,050,000. Chile 2.000.000 japan 1,380,000. In this time New York has Increased her business by SO per cent, and has ' passed London In the combined ln-and-out movement . The Increase in San Francisco has been even larger, - and there is no comparison in that of Japan. . Taking 1908, In value, the cosh nterce done at Liverpool was put at 11.(74,491,000 Hamburg 11.380, 704,853, Antwerp 875,557,962,'New York $1,336,548,425, San Francisco $81,67.. 4X1, Puget sound liJ.748,366 (20 years before this was so small as to escape notice), Chile - $91,000,000, Shanghai $195,664,999, Japan $300,000,000, Sydney and i Melbourne $305,000,000. v ' There Is thus far only an adumbra tion of the commerce of the Pacific. The -ocean Is twice as large as the At lantlo in -sroa. The Steamers that are now engnged In ltd commerce are al ready taking their, measure by Its wa ters and are generally about twice the size of those on Its little but powerful rival. The rivalry Is powerful now, but will not prevail long. The years sre few when the business done at Pacific ports will outtneasur. that of the At lantic by two to one, WhyT Becsuso commerce Is roughly measured by pop ulation, and there are more human be ings on the shores of the Paclflo thanH on those of the 'Atlantic. Business and population are measured by the area of fertile noil In the back country to the sea ports. Here again the Pacific ports outmeasure those of the Atlantic by two to one. Tho American continent Ptretr-hes from the froxen oceans near the North Pole almost to that around the South Pole. The continent of Asia on Its east border' reaches ' front the some frosen ocean on the north down Into the tropics, beyond the equator. The growth of population along the west coast of America will be more rapid in the century we have Just en tered opon than In cny other part of the world. It will be a population living upon a higher plane than any other, and will spend dollars where the others do dimes. . On the shores of Asia that face the Pacific are now 00,000,000 human beings, or more than in all the back country of all the seaports on the Atlantic: . The uplift and development of these Asiatic peoples have been be gun and will go on at a pneo nev?r seen before among men. v See for proof what has taken place In J span, - - - we Dave not touched at nil on Aus tralianot n island, but tT continent almost as large as all Eurdpo, half as large as North or South America, and with i the lowest ratio of population to area of eny fertile region of the earth. Europe has a population of 380,000,000, Australia of 6,000,000. The new conti nent has a capacity to support as many as the old, and when the population has arrived the business of this part ef the Pacific will match that of all Europe, on and off Of the Atlantic. So we shall have an epoch when the business of the Pacific will' be to that of the Atlantic not as two o one, but as four or five to one. . ' ',.! The algms of this day are In sight, and are manifold. ' One has been men tioned, the else of the steamers, that carry the trade now existing. A second sign has been glanced at, though some readers may not have seen It. Two years ago London just led New York in In-and-out commerce. In the year Just past we. believe the figures were slight ly in favpr of the American metropolis. At any rate, the outgoing commerce of New York outran that of Xondon. Im ports mean expense, exports revenue. Does not the significance of the en croachment of New York on London ap pear? It means that financial domi nance In the industrial and commercial world whirh in long gone ages passed from -t BaTJylon to Corinth, thence to Rome..IronvthcncaJto Paris, and JIadriJj: ana iinauy eeiuea down on me Dsnxs of the Thames, is about to make another move and make Its home In the world unknown until the Genoese sailor made bis way t tue . great continent that fronts both the great oceans of the world.. The United States Is first among the nations in the value of Its annual crcp production,' $9,000,000,000, and second In gold production, first In copper. In coal and In iron. , Where the annual incre ment of wealth is largest the stock of money and the circulation cannot lag behind. With New York leading Lon don in its commerce, the financial pulse must beat stronger at no distant day. But the total population of the United States west of the Rocky mountains is not above 8,000,000 if it is as much as that . That of the eastern coast is six times greater. How long will this last? Not many years as we count time In such matters, , With the trade of the Pacific oulmeasuring that of the At lantic there must come a shifting of the financial center to keep pace with the buslnosa progress of the world. Early in the present century there will come a new adjustment as there have been many such in the past The movement has been all the time westward. It will continue to follow the sun until It can go no farther.- On the shores of west ern America there will be a city that will In all respects outrank all on the globe In its time and all that have gone bofore It . These Jhings are .as sure as the fate that has led the star of empire, westward from the NUe and'the Euphrates . to , where Its conquering eagles perch today. Where will the city be? a Between Puget sound and 8an Diego bay. Let each harbor on this long stretch treasure the hope that' fate has fixed upon that as the future finan cial and commercial center of the world and let each do all In Its power to make that aspiration a fact. ,'" -,' if ' But while there will be one city of supreme importance there will be many of great Importance, Between the Bay of Fundy , and the mouth of the Rio Grande how many great cities are there? What will be the final achievement of each of these centers of population, wealth and activity? Why shall there not be on the western coast of America as many great centers? If there are not so many, then those that will exist will be in all respects greater than tnose on the ; hrhore. v-Vw.v- a South of tf. boundary between the United States and Mexico are many Im portant cities today. They are grow 1 L ...... -. - - - - I -Fr ee!Exf im MnU mm Seit I . . ' ' ii ii ii nil. i. ii ii i i i i i I i . i '- , , .j j . - . ., .. . , - . . .- ,-. r , ,'. ...'--'..... ..:,.. . .: .. t: 1 : - . ". ; A. ' -' - - - . - ..... .... ,, I S 9 I k - ......... i . -.... ..- t ft ' 1', fl ' t-K , ' I '' t .'' :.':'- ..... ',': .... 1 LiSw ' :'X.'-1 .' , . : i ' 'x i ' ' ' - . f ,0 ' j ' ' 1 H 1 - "V- .1 v J ' 5 ( i , t, . 1' I i" f II LJ M I . . I ' y .... A - f l i.;,,:;;, M ' i i' ' I "'."'. "' - , , ' -K ; - I , -1 . . . ' . ' ' - 1 "' ' '. - ' i 's. " - iV I :A-MF1ICAM';. CMm MM k t Ml 1 Ing daily In Importance. The construc tion of the Panama canal will accelerate their growth. The government-of Mex ico Is alive to these facts. At T&mplco, $3,000,000' has been spent in construct ing a harbor. Old Vera Cms Is a great commercial emporium today. It Is growing fast, and much money has been spent In providing facilities for the com merce centering there, wore Is being spent. - On Mexican West Coast. Is there any reason why the west coast of Mexico should stand still? If there is, no visitor hss discovered this reason. The railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepco anticipated the Panama canal and will be a formidable rival of the cut. At Puerto de Mexico a good harbor has been made and on the Pa clflo end of the railroad a better har bor is being made at Salina Cruz. The money being spent there runs to many millions- and the results are astonish ing all who behold them. Between the mouth of the Colorado Mver and Salina Crus -the development may be In a backward state. But the raw material is there ont of which to create great things. There are many ports there In embryo or actuality. They will all be facts and great factors lr. the coming greatness of the Pacific. Port Lobos, Guaymas, Topolobampo, Mazatlan, Mansanillo and Acapulco will all be called upon for service In the fu ture business of the Pacific. To show that the material exists out of which to construct an empire and achieve suc cess of industrial greatness Is the pur pose of this series of letters. I have seen what is here waiting for t)e magic touch of capital directed ,by Drains ana inaae eirecuve through la uBe?JK"0tJla!..l0"f as in tne united states, but there ia a long stretch and there Is no bit of the crust of the earth of the same extent which can at all claim superiority over this within the confines of our sister republic. It Is all in the raw. , There are few great actualities here, but there is a world of great possibilities. My effort will be to show them as they are, to point out the difficulties and drawbacks as well as the advantages and certainties. I am not the only per son who sees these matters as they present themselves to my eyes. J No ilH WW Wy. & 7 ' -',- - - . Z t ' ' ' - - .Jt ,;,'-""'::'.'? -,..i OPEN EVENINGS - 94 SIXTH STREET, CORNER STARK V .'""'.:.'..'. '."; V . ..',. ?. ....:..' ' w place In the world today is attracting more attention than this west coast of Mexico, although it is only a few years since It became much known to the out side world. At the present time one hears English spoken all the way from Port Lobos to BaMnaf Cru, and often In the Pullmans it is the only tongue heard at all. From British Columbia to Texas capable men. practical men, with means enough at hand to carry out anything, they undertake, are met all along western Mexico. This coast Is getting .ready for the completion of the canal, and its pulses are throbbing with the thought of the part it is to play In the contury In the great de velopment to take place in trans-pa-clflo trade. Western . Mexico will be ready when the time comes, and thej part it- will play in" the great things of the future will not be insignificant. But enough of generalities. As these letters develop they, will show Why I have so much faith in the sister repub lic.. Remember there Is the east coast of Mexico aa well as the west, and a center as rich in resources as the coast. The country Is all bound together In population, government and aspiration as well by more than 8000 miles of rail road, and all parts with their agri cultural and mineral wealth wiy con tribute to the development of the coast in which they have the most Interest. The one great deposit of Iron In Mexico so far as yet known Is In Durango, and not far from the Pacific . shores. ' ',"''' Kalama Chases 'Vice. f 'Special Dispatch to The Jpuruall Kalama, Wash Deo. 18. An t ordi nance passed by the city council last a Penalty therefor prohibits fortune tellers, houses where lost or stolen goods may be found, common prostitutes, the use of dice, cards or any other gam bllng device in saloons, all persons beg ging alms, 4 houses for the resort of prostitutes. : Any person having .no vis ible means of support , or acting con trary to this ordinance will be consid ered a vagrant and be subjected to 80 days, In the city jail or pay $100 fine. -As a result of the . ban on gambling numerous dice boxes and flecks of cards have ,been laid aside. TheV ordinance went into effect today. i ::Hji;,..u'-YCivuauiiKa TOO mm "-it i - .1 - - di Anne I 1iUU r Novy is your great opportunity. We prefer to cut the price ami get them into homes, rather than hold for regular prices. It matters cot what inducements others are offering, ,we are in a position, to do better, as an investigation will prove. We ' -make; rid '.statements -but' what are hacked up with the facts. Whatever you do be sure and see us before you decide on. a piano. We have the very best makes of pianos and player, pianos, and notwithstanding: the low prices we are naming this month, if you are not prepared to make your first cash pay ment, 'come in anyway'and select your piano and make your . first payment next month. For the convenience of all, our store will remain open evenings, the balan.ee of this month: , 103 FIFTH STREET, NEXT TO PERKINS HOTEL. WE ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU YOUR UNRE STRICTED CHOICE OF ANY OF OURv , IN THE HOUSE, WITH AN EXTRA PAIR OF PANTS, AS YOU MAY MADE TO ORDER I.1ADE' TO FIT ; !Mi cl Paate FREE! ' When we say the unrestricted choice we mean that you shall have the choice cf our stock, ths largest in the Northwest, which practically means that you can have the choice cf the finest wcclens that are now in this city. Just think cf it! Amcnj these . woolens are the finest imported English' serge, ths hancisbmest Sdotch tweeds and the very best grade of English worsted and cheviots, in blues, blacks,' browns, gray, $35, $40, $45 and $50 values. Our guarantee goes with every suit. No tit, no sal Best grade cf iilk Venetian and wool lining will be used.. The very best double-frcnt haircloth will be puf in tfie front cf every cc-t, insurin a permanent front, and every coat will be tried cn' in ths bastir.;. All worl; made in our own workshop. Remember, this grand effer lasts fcr two days onlv- Pfloncay and Tuesday. Ycvs for $20.G3. Mada to crdcr ' :-V ' ' . . 5 i . i 'Free! c Suitings SELECT, FOR : ? - :jraii Ml choice, with1 extra pantsTree,' mads to fit .