New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1928, Page 13

AMOY; WHERE TEA S BIG BUSINESS Gty Hsell, Thongh Large, Is| Generally Dirty Washington, D. C., May 11— “Amoy, the south China port which has threatened boycott of foreign | £oods, is of especial interest to stu- | dents of history,” says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., head- quarters of the Naiional Geographi- cal society. “From Amoy, aboard British ves- | «ls, came the tea which furnished material for the Boston Tea party. This was before the days when Amoy was an open port for foreign trade, though sailing vessels fre- quently called at their own risk. After Canton it early became one of the centers of clipper ship activity, ind was designated a treaty port | tor foreign commerce, Near Formosa “A strategic position on the China coast with relation to the tea trade was thus the foundation of Amoy’s fortunes. The city lies in Fukien Province, carly celebrated for fa- mous brands of the cheering bever- aze, and directly oppohite the Island of rmosa, home of the still sought after Formosa oolong. In fact the word tea itself is said to be an an- glicization of the Amoy dialect desig- nation of the brew, “During the last quarter century tra has somewhat lost its position of inportance at the port of Amoy. The quality of leaf grown in the hinterland is said to have greatly de- clined, and competition from Ceylon, Japan and other places has been felt in world markets. Th and more obscure causes have operated to re- duce tea from its high place on the list of Amoy's exports. Merchants Unusually Keen ‘Some tea, however, is still ship- ped from the old center, together with mucl porcelain, paper and oth- er Chinese products, Amoy is one of the most important pgrts with rela- tion to the American trade, being a leading center for United States) commerce. Sugar, rice, raw cotton, cotton goods, and ironware are among the leading imports which come into Amoy rom the outside world. Rice arrives by junk from distant parts of China and the Or- | ignt. Europe and America furnish the other products. “Though some fine an estimated population of about three ltundred thousand people, of these less than 300 are Europeans and Americans. The native mer- chants of Amoy have a reputation of being among .the keencst and most intelligent in all China, due no doubt to long intercourse with the outside world.” AMAZON EMPIRE 1 NOW OPEN T0 FORD {Auto Wizard to Develop Vast NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, needs is capital. Exempt From Taxes Ford, who plans to establish a huge rubber plantation on his new domain, will be a species of king. His contract permits him to engage {in banking, commerce, navigation |and contract labor without any gov- | ernment interference, lets him build |rallroads and highways ,and expro- priate land for them, without hin- dreance, and allows him to import materials duty free &nd form sub- sidiary companies that cannot be taxed. This gives him a free hand. If he | uses this opportunity to its fullest ! extent, it may be that he is now be- | ginning the most spectacular project |of his long, spectacular career. | Ford can grow, on his own plan- | tation, more than enough rubber to |turer in the United S ates—and | Detroit, May 11 (NEA Service)— United States manufacturers con- Henry Ford probably will never fit|SWme annually some S0 per cent of erown over his somewhat wrinkled | the world's output. In cold figures, it forchead. He doesn’t think much of | F¢ads like this: 1If he plants only kings, halt of his land in rubber, | Yet Ford, by his concession from |48¢S @ vield of 500 pounds to the| the state of Para, in Brazil, has be. | 3cré—Which is not too high an av- come an absolute monarch over a | ©'A€e—he can produce between 350,- rich tract of land nearly as large as | 70! and 400,000 long tons of rubber Connecticut and Rhode Island com. | Yar. The consumption of rubber | bined, {in the United States in 1926 totaled This concession gives Ford abso- | 574.461 long tons. lute control over some 3,700,000 This would not only shatter the acres of land on the Rio Tapajos, in | British rubber monopoly; it might | the heart of the wild Amazon basin. | even put it out of business alto- And, although its terms have arous- | gether. ed some opposition in Para and Rio| Of course, there is no indication de Janelro, most Brazilians are hop- | that Ford will produce rubber for ing that they will at least see what anyone but himself. But all indica- | they have long-drtamed of; large- | tions arc that. his undertaking will | scale exploitation of the rich Ama- | be a tremendous one, i zon jungle by twenticth century| This development, it is believed, business. | will give northern Brazil an indus- | The Amazon basin is, potentially, | trial and economic impetus seldom one of the richest areas on carth. | paralleled before in the world. Once The soil is black and rich from the | Lusir e R R accumulation of centuries of juvgle| Amazon basin the sky will be the| deposit. Abundant rainfall and trop- | Jimit, ical weather make it amazingly pro-| Rubler is not all Ford will get ductive. The wide, deep streams of gut of his kingdom. The land is cov- | the Amazon system permit ocean- cred with valuable hardwood trees going steamers to penctrate direct 1o fand produces an abundance of Bra- | Iord’s concession. All the land |z nuts, Ford intends to make these | products pay for the work of clear- {mg the land and establishing the | *| plantation. | Transportation problems are half | solved at the start. The Tapajos| river, which forms the western | boundary of the Ford land, is from | one to 10 miles wide and has a min- | |imum depth of 30 feet. Ocean-going |steamers can dock at towns in the, |17ord concession, although they are | upwards of 7,000 miles from the sea- | coast, via the Amazon. Ford will be | able to ship rubber from Brazil to his factories in Detrolt by an all-| Jwater route. | The Ford concession is largely | and aver- | buildings, Amoy city is scattered and Jirty. The port is situated on an is- 3and of the same name, containing | | unexplored. Hundreds of thousands | of acres in it have mever been seen by white men. Thirty-foot snakes in- fest its rivers, naked savages paddle rude dugouts on the surface and jaguars and monkeys roam through its dense jungles. It exists today as it existed hundreds of years ago. The Amazon basin is the last large sec- tion of virgin jungle in the world and the Ford concession is in the heart of it. Tanned young Americans are now making their way through this jungle with surveying outfits. They |are plotting routes for paved high- { ways and railroads. 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