The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-11
ASTONISHING GROWTH.

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70 per cent.
ASTONISHING GROWTH.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
says: A striking illustration of the aston
ishing growth of the foreign trade Of
Newport News, Va, is found in the re-
port of the Bureau of Statistics, giving
the exports and imports at all ports for
1891 and 1890. In 1890 the total value of
foreign exports from Baltimore was $72,-
500 00; in 1891 it was $40, SOC, 900; an
increase of $1,000, 600, or 10 per cent. In
1890 the exports from Newport News
were $4,000, 900, and in 1891, $14, SOC, 900.
an increase of $6,2OO,00O or a gain of IS
per cent, the percentage of gain being
over seven times as great as Baltimore's.
The force of this growth may also be
emphasized by a comparison with the
increase at Philadelphia, The growth
of Philadelphia's foreign trade has been
greatly commented upon by the papers
of that city for months. A wonderful
increase has been reported, and many
new steamship lines told Of, but the
actual increase in 1891 at that great city,
as shown by the official figures, was
$1,000, 600, or only 100000 more than
the gain at Newport News, and the per-
centage of gain at the latter port was
nearly five times as great as at Philadel-
phia. No other port of any prominence,
either on the Atlantic or the Pacific
coast, made any such rate of growth in
its foreign trade in 1891 over 1890 as
Newport News. These facts show that
the South is pressing forward in the de-
velopment of it's foreign commerce as
rapidly as in it's industrial interests.
BUILDING ACTIVITY.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
company has let a contract for the build
ing of a 800 900 passenger station at
Newport News, which, with the $500, 900
extensions and improvements of piers
and shipping facilities started last week,
will keep things lively at that point.
Add to this the 81 900 900 water works
now under way, on which 500 men are
at work, the great building activity, the
steady increase of the force at Mr.. C. P.
H~untington's $4,000, 900 ship-yard, and
the enormous increase in foreign trade,
and there are few places in the country
which can show such an outlook for the
future. The Norfolk Virginian's New
port News correspondent, under date of
February 5, says:
"Work on the street car line is going
along very nicely now, a large force of
men being at work. Mr.. G. p. Hunting
ton, Mr.. I. Eugene White and Mr.. 4. A.
Low are going to build $50 houses on
property near the line. The necessity
for these houses is very apparent now,
because there is nothing in the shape of
a residence for rent in town, and the
ship-yard people wan to take on 1000
more hands. The houses will be ready
for occupancy in about four months.
Give three story brick buildings have
been started in the last ten days for store
purposes. Contracts will be let for some
three or four more next week"
The force of workmen now employed
at the ship-yard, numbering about $500,
and to which the Virginian says 1000
more will be added shortly, is to be
gradually increased. according to the
statement of Mr.. Huntington, to 5000
men. 1t will be remembered that last
summer, after Mr.. Crhmp, the Philsdel-
phia ship builder, and Mr.. Irving A.
Scott, president of the San Francisco
Iron Works, which built the U. S. cruiser
Charleston, returned from an investiga-
ton of every large ship-yard in Europe,
Mr.. Scott, in an interview, said that they