The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-23
DIRECT TRADE--NO. 6.
rHEGEORGIA DEMOCRATIC STATE
CONVENTION ENDORSES 1T.

80 SUCCESS Enthusiastically Certain
with a Persistent Effort on the Pres
ent Line.
Tbe direct trade movement is going right
along soldly.
The conditions are ali favorable. and a
universal public sentiment in the south
oscks it.
Ihaye shown the amazing increase in the
aouth IN ten years, of property, 20 per cent. /;
abroad mileage, lis per cent; cotton mills
growth, 400 per cent. pig iron production,
$40 per cent; wood industries and value of
nanufactures, $50 per cent; coal mined,
an per cent. minerals mined, 900 per cent. 4;
,oro crop, one year, 25 per cent. cotton
,rop. one year, 20 per cent; railroad con-
,truction, one year, half of the whole coun.
nv; exports, one year, 40 per cent, against
"a per cent. for the United States; pro-
iuctive investments, one year, 40 per cent.
and decrease Of debt, ten years, so per cent.
Ihave shown Savannah nearer than New
York by rail to the great western states; to
Memphis, 542 miles; Kansas City, 1873, st.
Louie 1862; Salt Lake City, 1870; San Fran
,isco. 1O1, Portland, 81; Nashville, 469;
chattanooga, 1872; Birmingham, 621; Mont
Eomery, 69l. and Atlanta, ISL miles.
Tpon motion Of Capt. w. D. Ellis the
Georgia democratic state convention We'd
oesdav enthusiastically Endorsed the move
ment and its promoters. The board of
trade of Savannah. Atlanta. Columbus and
others have passed ringing resolutions for
Il and the city councils are, without ex-
ception, voting warm sanction. Every pub
Ho and business leader, banker, railroad
head and industrial president wants and
urges the project.
But the most valuable fact, perhaps, of
ali the splendid encouragement, is the power
already given by the great Southern Rail-
way and Steamship Association to the cons
missioner, Col. Z. B. Stahlman, to make
low railroad freight rates from the west TO
the south Atlantic ports, thus securing
equality of cost Of transportation with other
lines, with the great advantage of nearer
distance and quicker time.
The outlook is certainly very hopeful
with a concerted, earnest, persistent use of
the means in our grasp.
| wish 10 say work of Col. Thomas p.
Stovalps equipment for this work, IN quali-
ties, ia experience and business ties.
Col. Stoval built the Stoval Excelsior
-four mills of Augusta, Ga, and was the
first TO open up the western trade with that
city and brought the first grain from Chi
cago to Georgia for milling. He was the
first president OF a millers' association in
the United States, and he made a barrel of
fancy -four from new wheat that sold in st.
Louis for $225, and another barrel that sold
in Liverpool, England, for SS7 so. His
flour sold in New York, West Indies and
Europe, evidencing his enterprise.
In 1874 he, in connection with President
McGrath of the South Carolina railroad,
and Gen. WiuSlow Of the st. Louis and
Southeastern railroad, did valuable labor
on a direct trade move with Europe. In
1878 be visited Europe and established di-
rect trade i'll grain and flour for ST. Louis
and Milwaukee from Belfast and Glasgow
to Bordeaux and Leghorn, with offices in
London. He was a foreign commissioner
for the United States Millers' National As
ISOLATION in Europe, aud secured Cunard
steamship that brought business men TO the
Cincinnati millers' exposition in 1879. He
was st. Louis commissioner to the Paris
commercial convention. He first suggested
a southern cotton exposition, which two
years later Atlanta successfully carried
out.
He brought offers in 1886 from the great
est steamship company in England to put a
line Of passenger steamships etween Liver
pool and a southern port, and to guarantee
equal passenger and freight rates as between
Liverpool and New York, and advances on
shipments, for given period. if tonnage
could be assured. He has established in
Georgia, below Macon. a plat of "a, 900 acres
called Adams park, successfully. which is
rapidly being settled with thrifty immi-
grants.
He Is energetic, practical, full OF resources
and experienced, and knows what to do,
and has the foreign agents to do it with.
aud his plan is simple, business-like and ems
urelY feasible w AVRRY