Douglas Daily Dispatch

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possibilities in the electric field of the future. Copper metal is essential in that expansion.

"Our copper is produced by companies practically all of which are owned by Japanese capitalists and investors. There is the most friendly interest in outside capital if it wants to come with us, but our copper properties have been developed among our own people. That is true with the exception of Korea. There are some American corporations operating there but they were operating when we acquired Korea. They have been shown the finest consideration and are finding their relations with our government most satisfactory. I think. There is one gold mine and one tin mine in Japan worked by English capital.

"Our wage scale runs from $1.50 to $2.50 per day for the miner and the other help is paid according to the responsibility and the ability, just as it is in your country. Our miners are working happily and living pleasantly. Our mining is all by the shaft, type of working and the deepest is to exceed 2,000 feet. Our largest mining property produces 3,000,000 pounds of copper, 500 pounds of gold and 1,000 pounds of silver each month. There are many fairly good sized properties but the one mentioned is the outstanding one.

"As I have told you, our mining men follow the New York metal market prices. It will interest you, too, to know that we read the American mining journals most thoroughly and we consider them authority on the industry. We formerly read the English and the German journals but we found they were grown stale and that they lacked that punch and achievement that the American mining men were displaying. Now, if one visits the engineering offices he will always find American mining magazines on hand and showing much evidence that they have been read.

"We follow your American trends in other matters, too. We follow the New York stock exchange, especially the movement of such stocks as Anaconda, Kennecott and the standard issues because we see in those trends the business barometer of the industry. In my country, we know your Phelps Dodge corporation as Copper Queen. I think those familiar with its history will understand how that has come about. But we also link it closely with the name of Bisbee, which is known possibly better in Japan than any other mining camp in the world, and we think of Douglas as the place where the ores are smelted."

Mr. Tanaka was asked for an expression of his opinion of the United States after some three months. He arrived at San Francisco on Sept. 15. "It has been most delightful to me all the time since I landed," said he. "I have been given every courtesy or consideration that the American people with whom I have come into contact could extend. The engineers, the general managers, the foremen, the workmen, all have been the very embodiment of courtesy and kindness. You have a great hospitality. I am going home with a warm and enthusiastic regard for the American citizen of every rank. He is a splendid type of human being and I respect him highly."

"What do you think of the United States as a nation and how do the people of Japan feel toward our country?" Mr. Tanaka was asked.

"As I have indicated my attitude toward the people, personally, so I may say, as to the United States as a whole-I have a most wholesome and friendly regard of this wonderful nation. If the units of a thing are sound; if they are good, then the whole ought to be good; ought to be sound. That follows as to your country. Now as to how my country feels toward the United States. Possibly you have in mind the fears that some have expressed concerning the relations of the two nations. That is all imagination and there is no danger. Our people have a kindly and fellow feeling because with the United States. Japan stands as one of the great powers of earth. There is the greatest need for friendly interest and that is what exists.

"Some years ago when the problem of immigration confronted your congress, there was an action taken which pricked the pride of Japan and we felt it would have been happier if some other solution should have been found, but Japan is a nation that has high regard for her standing among the nations of the earth, and we knew that we must pay the proper regard for the edicts of your government. That is what we have done. It is not causing any friction now, because the broader-minded have seen that it will work as it has been decreed and Japan proposes to observe it scrupulously. No, there is not the slightest cause for worry over the friendly relations of our countries, yours and mine. We are friends-we shall be friends. And one of the happiest memories of my life will be this visit to your great country."