The Wenatchee daily world. [volume], March 15, 1909, Page 5, Image 5

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RAW OF RUS
SIA 111 BAD SHAPE
WARS AND STRIKES HAVE
WORKED A GREAT LOSS—EF
FORTS TO INDUCE FOREIGN
CAPITAL TO BUILD LINES.
St. Petersburg, March 13.—A new
minister of Russian imperial rail
roads, Sergius Roukloff, takes office
this week. To foreigners who hope
to do business with Russia it is an
important event; to American rail-
Toad men the chapter of negotiations
that preceded the appointment
should furnish as much astonishment
as instruction. «.
Mr.Roukhloff comes into power at
a moment when the Russian govern
ment is pushing the policy of grant
ing to private capitalists t Uu »ight of
constructing branch lines in promis
ing industrial regions that connect
with the main state owned system.
The purpose of bringing in private
capital to co-operate in a state en
terprise is to put money into circu
lation in Russia more freely than
can be done by government loan op
erations.
Under Russia's present system of
railroad rates North American wheat
can be imported into Baltic ports at
a freight charge of ten kopecks (five
cents) a poto or 40 Russian pounds.
The corresponding charge of bring
ing wheat from Russian Siberia or
South Russia to the Baltic provinces
is from 40 kepocks to 50 kopecks a
pool. Rail carriage is so unsatisfac
tory, owing to both the expense and
the delay, that much of the South
Russian wheat required yearly to
make up the shortage In the North
is carried by ship from Odessa and
Rostoff-on-Don through Turkish wa
ters to the Mediterranean and so
Tound by the Atlantic and North Sea,
making a journey ten times longer
than the overland distance. Siberia
is a very good wheat growing coun
try, but the railroad transit is so
"hopelessly inadequate that the grain
turns half rotten on the cars, owing
to the time that it is on the journey.
As an independent department, the
administration of state railways has
always suffered through having to
give right of way to all military and
governmental traffic. It has never
recovered from the Manchurian cam
paign, when the trans-Siberian road
and the systems feeding it became
exclusively strategic lines, and from
the disorganization following the
general railroad strike.
Gen. Schaufus, the outgoing min
ister, was brought in •to cope with
the situation arising from the revolt
of 1904. He was expected to fur
nish a corps of military engineers
Neely & Co.
We are now in our
new quarters to do bus
iness with the public at
home and at large.
We have lots of prop
erty of our own, also
other City Property,
Orchard Property and
Large Wheat Tracts.
World Building, 2nd Floor
Phone 1042
THE WENATCHEE DAILY WORLD, WENATCHEE. WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1909.
GREAT INAUGURAL PARADE PASSING ALONG PENNSYLVANIA
mVENUE.
This cut gives an excellent Idea of how the Taft inaugural parade ap
peared as It passed along Pennsylvania avenue from the capitol to the court
of honor, where it was reviewed by the president. The ceremony, parade,
ball and attendant celebrations at the Taft Inauguration will go down in
history as the biggest thing of the kind ever held in Washington.
and a soldier service of guards and
porters in case of another strike of
the civil staff. But he never came
near wiping out the enormous annual
deficit.
His only attempt at increasing
the revenue —by raising the charges
both for passenger and for freight
traffic was disastrous.
At leading railroad centers the
passenger tickets have been forged
by the thousand, in collusion gener
ally with the senior railway staff,
the parties to the fraud dividing the
profits among themselves. Some
have pocketed as much as $200,000
in the last year.
Even greater losses have come to
the department from the practice of
traders making bargains with mem
bers of the traffic department to have
their consignment of goods deliver
ed by a certain date, in return for a
gift. Their frauds have become known
only through the disappointed trad
ers denouncing them.
They brought in the first inspec
tor of prisons, for that is Mr. Rouk
hloff's old office, to restore honesty
and order in the state railways. Mr.
Roukhloff is reputed to be a demon
for statistics, and for verifying the
contents of reports submitted to him.
All independently built railways
come the absolute property of the
state in Russia at the end of 81 years.
When the company satisfies the min
ister that it has enough money to
carry through the work the govern
ment guarantees interest on bonds
covering that amount.
TAFT PLANS TO
TRAVEL MUCH
Washington, D. C, March 15. —
That $25,000 traveling expense ac
count which Congress declined to
grant the president this year, in view
of the increase In salary, would have
come in quite handy on the extensive
tour of the country that President
Taft has mmmd. Yesterday he let it
be known that it was his purpose to
get out among the people of the Far
West and South.
Senators Smoot and Sutherland
| visited the president yesterday on be
| half of the state of Utah and the ex
; ecutive committee charged with the
: entertainment of the Grand Army of
' the Republic, a warm invitation to
i attend the next annual encampment,
| which will be held in Salt Lake City
from August 9 to 14. The presi
dent was not able to give a definite
promise that he would attend, but he
made it plain that, if his present pro
gram for the summer were carried
out, he probably would accept this
invitation.
May Visit Exposition.
If Congress adjourns at a reason
ably early date, it is the purpose of
the president to spend much of the
summer and the late fall in traveling
about the country. He is particular
ly anxious to visit the Pacific coast
states and to take a run up into
Alaska, which is the only territory
the president has not visited. His
; coast trip probably would be con
cluded with a visit to the Alaska-
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
which will be held from June until
October, although that exposition
: would be well under way before the
president got there. President Taft
wants to visit Denver, and his itin
erary, no doubt, will be so arranged
as to include not only the Colorado
capital, but Salt Lake City and the
j Grand Army of the Republic en-
I campment. ,
It will be remembered that while
in Augusta Mr. Taft gave notice of
his intention to make a friendly inva
sion of the south. The hospitality
' with which he was received at Hot
, Springs, Augusta, Atlanta, and oth
jer southern cities, persuaded him
that he should see more of that re
j gion. His schedule of travel will in
! elude an extensive trip through ev
ery southern state, not omitting
Texas, which, alone, will involve quite
a railroad journey. The president
I probably will reach this part of his
\ schedule late in September or early
jin October.
It is his expressed purpose to
spend as much of his time as is con
sistent with his public duties in go
ing about the country and meeting
the people personally, studying their
ideas and finding out what it is they
believe should be done to Improve
the administration of the affairs of
the government of these United
States.
YAKIMA BUSINESS
MAN VISITS CITY
ARTHUR COFFIN, ONE OF THE
FIRM WHICH OWNS 56,000
ACRES OF LAND ALONG THE
COLUMBIA RIVER.
Arthur Coffin, of the firm of Cof
fin Bros., North Yakima, merchants,
bankers, sheepmen and large land
owners, is in the city today. His
firm owns 56,000 acres of land along
the Columbia river, a portion of this
being in Chelan county. The wheat
land and the irrigable land along the
river is to be sold off during the
coming summer. There is room for
Arrived
A Car of Timothy and Alfalfa Hay
A car of Seed Potatoes
and
A Car of Chicken Feed
When the snow was on the ground we
had trouble to get dry wood. Our great
est trouble now is to get enough. We
have some on hands and lots coming.
CENTRAL PRODUCE CO.
hundreds of fine homes on the land
of this company along the Columbia
river. The firm is going to keep the
range land and has just shipped in
2.000 head of blooded cattle. These
are just below Trinidad now.
Mr. Coffin has been in business in
North Yakima for the past 15 years
and has seen that city grow from a
little burg, with very little business,
to a city of 18,000. He commented
58 and 91-100 acres one mile from
Leavenworth in the Wenatchee
Valley. 40 acres under cultivation.
14 acres in one-year-old trees. 5
acres in young bearing orchard,
and one acre in ten-year-old trees.
19 ready to plant. All fine soil and
a good proposition to plat into
small tracts; $3,000 cash, $4,000
Oct. first, Balance long time at 8
per cent. We have other choice
buys
ESTES-HANAN REALTY COMPANY
Head officii at Cashmere, Wash, Phone 147
10 ACRES CLOSE IN
Nine acres in bearing, seven acres in apples. Price $12,000.00.
City property taken in part payment. $5,000.00 cash will handle
it. This is a rare bargain.
Five acres, all In bearing, $7,500.00. City property taken in
part payment. $2,000.00 cash will handle it.
Three and one-third acres, close in, ideal location; all apples
four years old, best variety; nice home. Price $6,200; $2,000 cash.
MOTTELER BROTHERS
28% Wenatchee Avenue
on the needs of paving the streets
' and when told that creosote paving
was to be used this summer, he said
j that a serious mistake would be
; made. Yakima sent the members of
the city council all over the west to
study paving and they finally agreed
: upon brick. They claim to have
the best paved streets in the west.
and Mr. Coffin is a strong convert to
; brick paving.
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