The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16

fiftv miles for wharf frontages, its large
banking and business capital, Us trained
merchants, aud its two great lines OF rail-
roads, to the business Of which all lesser ROADS
necessarily contribute, viii not Only recail
its position as the laading South Atlantic
seaport, but win CONT its hundreds of
thousands of population while other places
S i'll count their population by tens.
Savannah has always been fairly pros
porous AID progressive. 1t has
been a place TO accumulate wealth,
mach Of which has followed the biblical
prophecy and has taken wings" to other
lands, bus new men wit new ideas b. ave
entered upon the stage, and the past thres
years have developed an enthusiasm in the
future Of the city that will make Its pro-
greSs IN the commercial world o marvel to
even its most enthusiastic citizens.
The steel rails have just been laid into
the city of Montgomery, Ala, connecting
Montgomery wi Savannah via Balm
bridge, and $50, 900 bales of cotton will seek
the sea card at this point over the Alabama
Midland. The railroads already referred to
as having reached Albany, OF which
are protected from that city.
mean more business for Savannah,
and other railroads constructed or
projected are inquiring the route here. 1t
seems as If the people of the state, and
even far beyond Georgia, and the people OF
Savannah, have awake red about the same
time to a realization of the advantages of
the great deep water port at tue mouth of
Georgla'S great river.
THE GREAT PLANT SYSTEM.
The railroads which are combined under
one management called the Plant System
contribute a large share to Savanaah's
prosperity. Their steel rails and those of
other systems in close connection with it,
extend TO Tampa ON the west and st. Au-
tina ar, fhe oCk Of h. ,v~i1
sula, and bring every city in the south
east in close connecti N. thereby contribut-
ing to tho general prosperity of all. The
coal fields OF Alabama are connected with
its railrS I'D system, and at Tampa a
feet of fast steamships has opened a
route to the Queen of the Antilles and the
c0u tries to the south of it. Not satisfied
with furnishing these great facilities for
interstate and international trade, the Key
West Commercial Company has been
formed, by which to divert the commercs of
the coun ries to the south of the United
States into the new AMI improved channels
afforded by tire Plant system, and to build
up and increase their trade.
just as Mr.. Plant and his party were
leaving Savannah telegram aluou need
the arrival of a steamship at Tampa with a
load OF bananas, and before the party had
reached the end of its journey anot or tels-
gram announced that thirteen carloads of
the fruit had arrived at Chicago and were
sold at good prices.
ELEMENTS WHICH BUILD UP THE COUNTRY.
A combination of capital and brains, with
the nerve to enter untried fields of enter
prise, is beneficial to the country and de-
serves success 1t requires, however, i'm
mense capital to command the possibilities
Of such undertakings. 1t requires a clear
head to keep free of speculative railroad
deals that often make failures of such
gigantic systems just as they are about be-
ing perfected. Mr.. Plant has kept
aloof from Wall street railroadlng,
preferring to take his chances of Or RU in
the legitimate development of the property
in which he is so largely lterested, and the
people of Georgia and Florida, and even
those across the straits of Florida, are secur-
ing the benefits of the wise course which he
has mapped out for his guidance. Mr.
Plant has developed one OF Savannah's
original railr Jad enterprises, the old Allan
tic aud Gulf railroad, now the S4van-
nah, Florida and Western railway,
far beyond tho most sanguine
expectations of its projectors, and in that
way has done great work in advancing
its commercial prosperity. Let any one
study over the railroad map of either of
Savannah's two great railroads. tho Central
OF Georgia or the Savannah, Florida and
| Western, and he will see, if lie never sa W
before, the causes Of Savanhah's prosperity.