The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-08

ioS'Is"Ssus " 1souiuO tut4t tn0- pToudct,
Of she, Weet viii more than double in
Wias his s beesn is S6ne / SSsn sSo%a n the
el olSyp e, nges ,pssdsfetio99 81
SijsyiasjppE il i s3s 81 Was BIB, Odd s bes,1 g
els in 1850, 26, 600, ,l00 0blsie els in 1869,
1000, coo, and III iis847, I5S, 900, 900 bush
els, Twenty fYe years ago no railroad had
been completed from th6 ssaEoaId TO that
river. In 1876 there were thirteen rail-
lEoad bridges crossing the; river, 4north of
ST. Louis, which had been built at,a cost
of over 100000, 600, aud in that year
S,344s3d4 tons4ofi freight crossed those
| bridges going east. InSla78, 3iS54Sl838
1 tons crossed IN the ysafJs direction, shuws
ing an increase in three years OF over
Loo. 600 tons, . year. !, ~.
| Lettus Ese IwHattthis ak1ualsihcfeass
would do for one city On the seab6ald,
tshouId it get the whole Of it. It would
give is. SEM atrainsGeS fo1t5ears, each car
ssR ISaf IsS6Ss SEEK
and would require foHpFf vessels Of ono
Thousand tons every dayi 10 ifomofs 'it.
Is not this q prize worth striving f9r3
Shall Cherleston remain inactive While
every other city and port on the, Atlantic
iaud Gulf.is making the most etreuuous eff.
fortssto Obtain 3itsilas .,sa HtinAu
There is now favorable. opportunity
for the construction sof additional, lines
of Communication and there ere special
reasons why the great West now. looks
more keenly than ever to- tho ports ofithe
Sontb HtlaKtic coast.) ~ 5t,I HfiH
From AlabaDla,to Virginia, . diatance
Of more than 400 miles only one line, of
| the Northwest aud the Southeast, IT ia
| now forming for the development 3 of
Western and Southern. business that
there should be at least one other line of
railroad connecting the West with the
South Atlantic. Unless. this be had,
leach ana every Weslern Vine, 4atever
| pc S6Bealth gapd itsg peces4n ie9I oan be
choked OF from Communication with the
! South AtlanticI by any company which
| has control of the single line from Chat
tano0ga to Atlanta. It isa geograph phicat
necessity that the new end Independent
+ Ille BIi passi Elifk ,ols C, ftaAe Aeoga, and
there are Substantial and Obvious reasons
| why the terminal point should be Char.
lesion in preference to any other South
Atlantic port, OF the general edvanta-
ges Of Charleston we shalt speak hereaf,,
ter. The special Importance or this city,
| now and in the future, is in connection
with,th markets Of Central. and South
America and the West Indies, to which
the West must look, ,fot Q market when
Europe shalI cease or DO unable to con s
sumo her surplus productions !, , - &,
In the West Indies !ana the. States of
Ceutraliand South America, there. is %
pop9lahono of forty, ,tT0r millions. living
bree6stuffs and meat and the menufac-.
] ture Of clothing. Int produsing;is abun,
stitS oSiiee, st;'I, ssiiiu
sumption In this country. They have
what we need, and we prodise what they
require. In the Interchange of the pro-
| ducts of such countries for The products
of the Northwestern States IL the surest
road to permanent md spro We com;
merciat prosperity w So 8 :
The countries we have described now
import yearly from Europe and America
provisions and other articles to the value
of $3.50, 100000. OF this amount the
| United, States supply, only S61, COO, 900.
The exports tof these countries hnaoAht
TO S4S8, 100000, QUITO %hichft The United
States [ re and consume $150000, 900.
The United States, therefore, pay to
these countries $89, ,000, 900 in cash annu-
ally as the difference between what we
buy and what we sell while Europe
sells these countries every year products
| valued OF $295 ,006, 600 and takes from
them in return their productions to the
value of. S298, ,Q00, 900, What Europe
now ioes the u Tilted s;tStes can and, we
trust, viii ultimately dc.
The bulk of the shipments from the
Northwest 70 Central and South A1 1leTica
and ehe West Indies nov go1by way of
imports z.osza e.ss:E::E:=s s.:sss a=;:sE::E:=s take ...s
came circuitous route. 1t need not be
Il e! s : 6 s: s s
opening channels of trade. In this as
pect Charleston has surprising advantae
| ges as 8 substitute for Northern ports.
mas By Way Of DHariSstSmn d & | iS65 IIiles
less than by way Of New York, aud 600
miles lessthan hy way Of Boston. !Talcs
| ing ST. Louis as the Western terminus,
| The gain in distanca Isl greater by about
150 miles. Charleston has the same adj
vantage as regards che whole Of the West
Indies and Cantre and South America.
This, it should be renein bsfed, is on the
basis of the lines Of railroad already
completed. The building OF the. short
links now wanting east and Hast of the
|, Blue Ridge would Increase the saving in
!sdiataAc CO more tlani 100 miles, aud the
new lines would paes through the heart
Sofsnnes OF stha richest copnt tries Ia minars
ais In the United States--a region whose
!Ssesourcesiare to-day imperfectly known
md enkiJsly u1developed, It shoni1 be