San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-18
DEEP WAFER NOTES.

The railways of the country, the
great transcontinental lines, are be-
ginning to realize that the movement
for deep water harbor on the gull
coast of Texas is an earnest one and
one that is destined to succeed. Re-
aIizing this they also realize the ne
cessity of preparing to avail them
selves of the changed condition of af-
fairs, in so far as these changes affect
the carrying companies. Speaking
to this point the Railway Register
says:
Southern Kansas is as near the
gulf of Mexico as 1t Is to Chicago; but
when Kansas grain has been hauled
to Chicago it is still 1000 miles from
tide water. This being the case the
Galveston route will draw effectively
from Nebraska also, and possibly
from South Dakota. The Atchison
will work the southern route for all
there Is in it. The Missouri, Kansas
and Texas may find it to its in
terest to haul grain south. The
Texas Panhandle, backed by the
Union Pacific, will haul grain that
be taken into the estimate in the
problem of export grain movements
in future. If the trunk lines wish to
retain this traffic they must make
very heavy reductions in through
rates, and even then the routes lead
ing to the gulf will cut heavily into
their traffic from this time forward"
The Register cannot prevent
this movement southwark. Every
thing else being equal, the
road running north and south
will disc Junt the roads running east
and west and for this reason. The
roads running north and south run
across parallels OF latitude, and
through, into and beyond the same
zones OF products, thus insuring
constant interchange of products be-
tween the several sections. By these
means heavy local traffic, that cam
not spring up along east and west
lines of traffic, will spring up along
north and south line and prove a
very material factor in the
business Of a road. With
avery few degrees of latitude
going either north or south We reach
1 very different stage of vegetable
growth. The more southern section
its fruits and vegetable
EARLIER will send them nOrthward to
supply the market not as yet supplied
by the northern agrIculturist. Later
n the season the exchanges run the
other way, the southern supply being
and the season closed;
the more northern sections send their
supplies southwark and thus the car
rying companies find a profitable To-
cal traffic, not found on the railway
lines that run with, instead of across
parallels of latitude.
The short haul to the Gulf cannot
be Offset by cheaper rates to the At
Ian tic sea board as suggested by the
Gazette. The shorter haul will be
made on the same general schedule
and can underbid the long haul all
the time, aided as it will be by the
local traffic which will necessarily |
grow up along the lines reaching to
the Gulf. The grain carrying trade
of the great west is destined to find
its sea board point of shipment at
the Gulf and at the port nearest its
WaStGrn extremity as necessarily
nearest the great grain fields them
selves. This means that the port
opened at Arkansas or Corpus Christi
pass is destined to be the great ship
ping port of the coast. In this GER
tainly San Antonio rests easy and
feels secure.