San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-02
The South's Export Business.
SUPPLEMENTING IT'S INDUSTRI-
AL GROWTH.
New Steamship Lines aud New Man
ufacturing Enterprises.

The Manufacturers Record, of Bal.
timore, of November %, in reviewing
the industrial progress of the south,
says:
1.-THE development of the South's
foreign trade, upon which the Manu-
facturers' Record has so frequently
commented, and which was empha-
sized last week In the announcement
Of the Inauguration of four steamship
lines from Newport News to Europe,
receives another illustration this week
in the esta blishment of five steamer
lines from Norfolk toLondon, Liverpool
Glasgow, havre and Antwerp. The
magnitude which this business has
already attained is shown in the fact
that the government report of the
value of foreign exports from the
United States for October puts the
total from all Southern ports at S44,-
100 900, against $5S, 800, 900 from the
rest of the country, the shipments
from the south being over AZ per cent
of the total for the month. The ten
dency of Western trade to seek foreign
outlets through Southern ports is
being daily impressed upon the coun.
try and while Newport News and Nor
folk with their regular steamer lines,
are making heavy shipments of grain,
-four, provisions, lumber, etc, the
more svutherly Atlantic ports are AL
so advancing rapidly, and New Or
leans and Galveston are handling 8
big grain and general business, the
shipments of wheat from the former
city for the four months ended Octvb-
or 81 having been $3.50, 900 bushels
against POI 900 bushels for the CORES
pOnding time last year. This growth
of the south's foreign trade
is destined to have wide
reaching influence upon the
prosperity and progress of this
section. Added to the steady
industrial advancement which il
going on, it means that the manufac-
turing interests are to be supplement-
ed by great commercial cities with
growth goes on steadily, :and among
the enterprises reported in this weeks
issue of the Manufacturers Record
are the opening of the great million
dollar canal at Columbia, 5. c., on
which work has been in progress for
so many years, and the decision of
the New England capitalists, who
have secured control of it, to COM
mence at once on building q $500, 900
cotton mill. to be followed by
others; electric light works, Eli
colt City, Md; the sale of coal land In
West Virginia to Chicago capitalists
for S66, 900; street.car shops at Hous-
ton, Texas; a $l50.00O ice factory at
the same place; an 5000 electric light
company at Point Pleasant, w. Va;
a large cable. car power-house at Bal
timore, Md; a $780, 900 elevator COM
pany at Dallas, Texas; 1000 man.
ufacturing company at Waco, Texas;
a proposed increase of 5000, 900 capital
for enlargement of sugar refinery at
Baltimore. Md; S25, 900 mining
and smelling company at Fort
Smith, Arkansas; a $4,000 elec.
trio light plant at Marietta, Ga;
800, 900 enlargement of water works
at Memphis, Tenn; a 5000 lumEer
company at Ocean Springs, Miss;
$4,000 coal and coke company at
Clarksburg, w. Va; a $4,000 electric
light and water company at Romeo
verte, w. Va; 100000 vitrified
brick company at Houston, Texas; a
shirt and clothing factory at Column
bus, Ga; a S25, 900 brick company at
Covington, KY, etc"