The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-14
ANOTHER GREAT TRADE.
FIRST CARGO OF PHOSPHATE TO
BIZ SHIPPED PROM SAVANNAH.

The Bark Gler TO Begin Loading 700
Tons Of Florida Rock Next Wee K
for Darsten Dock, Liverpool-Savan-
nah the Probable Shipping Point for
the Florida OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to
be Built and Facilities to be Pro-
vided for the Trade.
The first full cargo Of phosphate ever ex-
ported from Savannah and the first cargo
of Florida phosphate to be exported Will be
shipped from this port about April by the
Marion Phosphate Company, composed of
Savannah men. The bark Gler, owned in
Savannah, her managing owner, J. B.
Dnckworth, being also interested In the
Marion Phosphate Company, has been
chartered for the cargo.
The vessel will begin to load next week
cargo of ZOO tons of 50 per cent. bone
phosphate of lime, at the Savannah, Florida
and Western wharves, for Darsten dock,
Liverpool Five hundred tons of the cargo
have already arrived, and it is Of a very
fine quality. 1t has attracted great deal
of interest, aud hundreds have visited the
sheds to examine the much talked of phos-
phate.
BIG THING FOR SAVANNAH
George J. Baldwin of this city. president
of the Marion Phosphate Company, when q
MORNING NEWS reporter called on him
yesterday morning, was almost on the point
of declining to be interviewed. 1.-THE peo-
pie" he said, will begin to think that !
am trying to keep our business before them,
and that is position we do not want to be
placed inn
''But this is a matter of public interest,
and the beginning Of a new industry at this
port, and the people Of Savannah have
more than an idle curiosity about it..
MIR. Baldwin replied that this is no doubt
true, as the initial shipment soon to be
made viii be an incident in the history of
Florida phosphate.
TO EXPORT FROM SAVANNAH.
No permanent arrangements have vet
been made at any port for exporting the
product OF the company's phosphate fields
in Florida, but wharf facilities have
been furnished by the Savannah, Florida
and Western railroad for the half dozen or
more initial cargoes which they expect to
ship the present season, and he added that
II satisfactory arrangements for rail
freights can be effected Savannah will be
the point Of export for the product of their
mines
1t is expected, Mr.. Baldwin says, that the
next cargo will be sent to Hamburg as soon
as another vessel can be chartered. as the
Gler has been chartered only for the first
expectation. 1t is the intention of the COM
pany to mine 250 tons week of the 80 per
cent. bone phosphate until such time as the
improved equipments for mining the phos-
phate more extensively are provided.
TO HANDLE THE ROCK.
Mr.. Baldwin says that the company has
contracted for buildings at the mines to dry
the phosphate in which improved condition
1t will be exported hereafter.
Inc demand for the Florida phosphate is
steadily increasing, but until the works are
prepared to mine and prepare it for ship
ping more expeditiously, expectations will
necessarily be small compared with what
may be expected next year. The Dunnel-
Ion Company will also export Florida
phosphate, but it is not known what port
will be selected, and it has been suggested
tnat the board of trade and cotton exchange
take some action inviting the other com
pany TO investigate the shipping facilities
OF Savannah, with a view of having all the
Florida phosphates 60 from this port
TO BUILD PHOSPHATE wHARvEs.
Ii the Marion Phosphate Company finds it
practicable to make Savannah its perma-
nent point of export improved facilities will
be employed in transferring the phosphate
from the cars to the vessel, and to provide
HSoAhob AhuoiIupulOnS III Une regular 6Ched-
ule OF the phosphate trains as high as ]. 500
tons OF phosphate will be kept on hand in
bins and sheds constructed Tor that pur.
pose.
Phosphate exports on a large scale will
require close connections with vessels bv
phosphate trains run on regular schedule,
so That as little delay as possible in loading
vessels will be experienced. The demand
abroad will be very large, and the industry
Will be one whose Importance can has dly be
approximated
A GREAT TRADE IN PROSPECT
1t will employ large numbers of men at
Cne mines, increase the traffic of the roads
and be leading factor in the commerce
and shipping of Savannah, which is con-
coded to be the most practical and only
natural point of export.
The only phosphate rock ever exported
from Savannah has been broken cargoes of
south Carolina rock in ballast, whereas the
FLORIDA phosphate will require in the near
future sailing and steam vessels of the
largest tonnage, whose entire cargoes will be
exported to the United Kingdom and con-
tinental and Asiatic ports, at all of whica
points the less valuable Carolina rock has
heretofore found a market.
EXCITED BY RIOT RUMORS.