Review of reviews and world's work . ty in Man-churia that is turning out a good productand cutting inroads into the imports ofAmerican flour. Were it not for govern-ment aid, howe\er, this mill would have tostruggle to compete with the technique andby-product market of the American mills andwith native mills, which can buy wheat at amuch lower price than the foreign mill andsell the product free from transportationcharges. During the Russo-Japanese war theRussians had twelve Hour mills in operationalong the railway in Manchuria, but withthe ending of the war the bottom fell outof the business
Review of reviews and world's work . ty in Man-churia that is turning out a good productand cutting inroads into the imports ofAmerican flour. Were it not for govern-ment aid, howe\er, this mill would have tostruggle to compete with the technique andby-product market of the American mills andwith native mills, which can buy wheat at amuch lower price than the foreign mill andsell the product free from transportationcharges. During the Russo-Japanese war theRussians had twelve Hour mills in operationalong the railway in Manchuria, but withthe ending of the war the bottom fell outof the business and only five of these millsare now in operation. The recent closingof the port of Vladivostok to foreign tradewill undoubtedly increase the interior manu-facture of flour and the Harbin mills maytake on a new lease of life. Wry little foreign capital is invested in industries drawing raw mate-rials from the soil, the only business of anysize besides the flour mills and the trade in 718 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF THE MANCHbRlAN CART DRAWN BY FOUR TO EIGHT MULES.(Ciimbersom<j and of small capacity, but fitted to survive tlie Mauchurlan roads.) bean cakes being the tobacco trade of theBritish American Tobacco Company. Thiscorporation has recently erected a largecigarette and tobacco factory at Mukden andis buying large quantities of native growing in Manchuria will un-doubtedly be greatly stimulated by this busi-ness, as would all forms of agriculture ifbigger, broader markets existed. COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES. To turn from a discussion of what is inManchuria to a discussion of what might beis an entirely different story. Ones imag-ination fails to grasp what the commerce ofthis great country would be were it openedup, brought in touch with world markets,and its soils tilled with American machineryand by the best crop-growing practices ofAmerica. There is wheat land enough inthe North to make a second Minneapolis outof Harbin, and could the
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