Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — ONE EFFECT OF THE WAR [ARTICLE]

ONE EFFECT OF THE WAR

Many Cargoes Leaving Western Ports for Japan. One effect of the war in the Far East is to greatly stimulate exports from the northwestern ports of the United States to Japan. The Mikado’s success in forcing the Russian bear to take to the tall timber has led to the liberal purchase of supplies, not alone of necessities, but of construction material as well, the whole making many shiploads. In consequence large numbers of extra steamers are being chartered to rush across the Pacific supplies of many kinds. The big steamship Minnesota, four Japanese liners and the big freighters of the Boston Steamship Company running from Tacoma are insufficient to carry to Japan the immense shipments of barley, flour, meat products and other supplies now piling up at Puget Sound ports. One firm has chartered four large steamships to load at Tacoma during the next thirty days. At least six heavy cargoes for Japan will leave Tacoma this month, and as many more next. Their cargoes will include railroad supplies and equipment for a road that is being built across Korea. The steamships Shawmut and Tremont have already sailed, with an aggregate of 29,000 tons, chiefly for Japan.