Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-14
TRADE WITH SOUTH AMER
ICA.
A Line OfEteamers BY C.P. Hun
tingtOn and Others.
Cincinnati Commercial, 13.

| Nlnclhnall Commerclhli 10.
G. P. Huntington and others inter-
ested in the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
way have purchased controlling in
terest in the United States and Brazil
Mail Steamship Line. Its Importance
to this city will berecognized by all
shippers. The company is organized
under the laws of the State of New
York by prominent merchants of New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Richmond, for the purpose of running
semi-monthly line of new, fast and
well equipped iron passenger steam
ships between the United States and
the South American ports Of Para,
Maranham, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio
de Janeiro and Santos, stopping at st.
Thomas both ways. Differing alto
pether in the character Of its ships and
in the personnel OF its organization
from former efforts in this direction,
this company grows out of the necessi-
ties, as well as the opportunities of the
largest and most prosperous houses in
this country engaged in the South
American trade, who are interested
both as shareholders and as merchants,
that have been cramped for the want
Of proper facilities of intercourse be-
tween the United States and South
American ports.
With them are allied leading rail-
road interests in this country, giving
to the company new and valuable
facilities for gathering at the seaboard
the products Of the United States
which are in demand in South Ameri-
ca, and affordiDg the products of the
latter country cheap and rapid dis
tribution throughout the markets of
the United States-through bills of
lading being offered to all points.
The company has three iron steam.
ships now building at the shipyards Of
John Roach & Son, at Chester
under the direction of a committee
representing the leading staple pro-
ducts of the two countries to be
carried, and knowing from long ex-
perience the great Importance of de-
livering these products at their desti-
nations in the most perfect condition,
and also acquainted with the peculiar.
tiles of all the harbors on the South
American coast. With superior ac-
commodations for fifty first class pas
sengers, with special arrangements for
handling each of the great staples,
giving to each air tight iron compart.
ments, so that rubber, hides, sugar
and coffee shall not be slowed to.
gether, or -four, lard or general mer
chandise, the company inaugurates
a new era in the history both of the
trade and the travel between the two
continents, aDd makes sailing vessels
and slow freight steamers without
passenger accommodations as far be-
hind the age as they are between New
York and Liverpool.
A most valuable and promising fea-
ture of the line is that it unites with
it the business interests OF Baltimore
| and Richmond, whose exports OF -four
aud lard and imports of coffee aud
rubber form a large factor in the com
merce Of the two countries. A pre-
liminary and highly successful expert
mental line has been running chartered
steamships on this route for nearly
ten months, under, the management OF
Mr.. Q. McCullogh Beecher, running
up to Baltimore to coal and complete
cargo. Under this arrangement the
Richmond fours were shipped to Bal
timore to meet the line, but through
the active interests OF parties controll-
ing the Chesapeake& Ohio railroad, the
steamship company has perfected its ia
cilities for economically concentrating
and picking up its ireights, by arrang-
ing to use Newport News. the seaboard
terminus in Hampton Roads OF the
transcontinental lines embraced in
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad sys-
tenn. Here steamships of the greatest
size find harbor second to none on
the coast for depth Of water, capacity,
security from storms and easy aecessi-
bility to and from the ocean. Here
the Chesapeake & Ohio Company have
finished immense wharves and store
houses, aud have improved facilities
for rapidly coaling steamships from the
superior steamer Goals of the Kama
wha and New River region, through
which the road runs. Here will con-
centrate for export the fours OF Rich
mond, West Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee, the naval stores and lum-
Der from North Carolina, and the
steam and gas Goals before alluded to,
all of which are in demand in South