The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-13
SIX CARGOES A MONTH.
sAVANNARs FRUIT IMPORTATION
THIS WINTER

The Fruit Trade Becoming One Of the
Great Industries of the Port-The
Demand for Fruit in the Interior
Greater Than the Importers Can
Supply.
Six cargoes of imported fruit, or 3, OOC
| punches Of bananas every month, is what
Savannah will receive this season from
Baracoa, Jamaica and Blueisld.
The importers say that three years go only
about 1900 punches were received here.
Only small portion of this amount was
| shipped to the interior, the bulk of the fruit
being consumed in Savannah New Y orIl
and New Orleans were formerly looked to
for the country fruit supply. Savannah's
facilities for handling the fruit for
large territory of the great west
were not recognized 1t had natural ad-
vantages, though, over those ports which
we're supplying the west and thess audvan-
tageS have just been recognized by large
| concerns north.
The northern concerns have combined
with the fruit dealers mere, and from now
on Savannah viii import more fruit for the
Interior than any port on the South Allan
tic coast.
THE FRUIT TRADES RAPID GROWTH.
The enormous increase since 1886 will
not be grea er than the increase of
the next couple of yeas over
tnls year. The western territory
has been invaded by Savannah, and it has
been seen that wherever Savannah has
| placed fruit in the west it can do SO at a
much more reasonable cosL and in quicker
time. The railroad facilities are guar
antee for this.
Savannah's connections with the west are
direct. The Central railroad system op-
| crates into a wide territory The pres
ent management has made it a special
feature OF its administration to place Sa-
vannah IN as direct communication with
| the great west as possible. 1t has done So
Birmingham, Kansas City, Cincinnati
Cleveland, st. Louis, Louisville and
Chicago can be reached quicker
and with less freight tariff from Savannah
than any port in the country that imports
from Central America or Baracoa or
Jamaica. The Bluefeld fruit can be brought
about as quickly, and certainly no other
port can get fruit from Baracoa and
Jamaica in as short a time as Savannah.
NEW ORLEANS BIG TERRITORY.
New Orleans has heretofore had the
western trade, and has been supplying a
large territory in Alabama and Georgia
Atlanta has received its supply
OF bananas and cocoanuts from
New Orleans, from which port the freight
rate Is over 800 a car load, while from
Savannah it is but S26. The ratio does not
differ widely from this to many of the west
ern cities. Since it costs no more to trans
port the fruit from Central America to
savannah than it does to New Orleans,
Savannah can therefore place fruit just as
cheaply, where, even, the freight rates are
the same from the two ports This will
enable Savannah to divide the bulk of the
western trade with New Orleans.
Savannah importers, however, do not
seek to invade New Orleans territory. II
has as much as it can do now with its lin
| tied facilities to supply the demand in a
territory near by. Nor when Savannah
gets better facilities is it the desire of the
importers here to try to take from New
Orleans any of the territory that it can
supply by reason of it's natural advantages
ENOUGH COUNTRY FOR ALL.
The importers say that there is
enough territory for both New
Orleans and Savannah, and as
many of their sister ports as may enter the
trade. In claiming what belongs to them
the importers say that no port is justified
in an effort to crush them out when they
take territory which. by natural circum-
stances, is Savannah's. If, however, any
| pOTG SuOulu Try TO 'cnOk0" Savannah off
the effort will be fruitless, for on it's own
| ground it can withstand their ohslaughts,
| One importer was asked yesterday to
| what points in the west the most of the
fruit to be imported this season will go.
He replied that Chicago alone can consume
all the fruit which Savannah will import
this season. 1t is probable that New
| Orleans will go into Chicago, as it has
heretofore, and it is not likely chat Savan-
nahs shipments this season to that point
will interfere with New Orleans, but the
fruit that it will place there will be at a less
rate of freight than from any other port.
Savannah's rate is 500, which is very much
less than New Orleans, it being over 800.
NEW YoRK's IMPORTERS.
| While New York receives a great deal Of
| fruit from the points that Savannah will
this year, it will not come with
it down into the territory that
Savannah will supply Because being at q
disadvantage in the water rates, New York
| cannot secure freight rates adequate to Ell.
able it TO compete with Savannah in sup
plying this territory. The railroads which
afford connections for Savannah in reach.
ing all of these points have seen the wisdom
| OF making a great fruit distribute e center
of Savannah, aud tley are giving every
assistance possible and aiding in every way
| they are able to the new entes prise.
BOUND HE WON'T GET THERE.