Private diary of Robert Dollar on his recent visits to China . heir own country. We are much in want of direct mail andfreight communication with China, as at present all the mailsteamers call at the various ports of Japan before going toChina. To do much trade with China we must have directand frequent communication. This can only be done by ourgovernment and the Chinese government paying a compensa-tion for carrying the mails, such as other nations pay. Wesubmit this to both governments for their serious consider-ation. If we expect to increase and perpetuate our commercewe must have both Am
Private diary of Robert Dollar on his recent visits to China . heir own country. We are much in want of direct mail andfreight communication with China, as at present all the mailsteamers call at the various ports of Japan before going toChina. To do much trade with China we must have directand frequent communication. This can only be done by ourgovernment and the Chinese government paying a compensa-tion for carrying the mails, such as other nations pay. Wesubmit this to both governments for their serious consider-ation. If we expect to increase and perpetuate our commercewe must have both American and Chinese freight steamers todo it, otherwise the trade will go to our more enterprisingcompetitors. In this connection we would call the attentionof Congress to the fact, that mails and passengers from thePacific Coast to the Philippines, are first carried through theprincipal ports of Japan and China before they finally reachManila. No other nation having dependencies of the import-ance of the Philippines but has direct and fast TAOTAI SHEN Tl^N-HO Head of tlie Red Cross, Manager of the Imperial Bank, and an All Around Man of Affairs ROBERT DOLLAR 75 LUMBER China imported from the United States 131,000,000 feetin 1908 and 91,000,000 feet in 1909. If the proper effortswere put forth this amount could be very much the competition from native woods is keen, as theycan be produced cheaper, the quality generally is not so good. The principal supply for North China comes from the Yaluriver, the boundary between Korea and Manchuria. Thetimber from this region is of a very good quality, resemblingthe white pine of the Eastern States. It is all hewn square inthe woods, running from twelve inches to thirty inches squareand from twelve feet to thirty feet in length. It is raftedand brought long distances from the interior to Antung orTatangow, where it is loaded into junks or steamers of highdraft, as the bar at the mouth of the river only
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