The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-11-08

The Manufacturers Record has re-
Gently pointed out the remarkable activ-
lily in the foreign trade interests of the
country, and especially the enormous
engagements made for export of grain
and other products through South At
lantic and Gulf ports. Probably no
branch of trade In this country has ever
developed more rapidly aud commanded
wider attention than the foreign trade
OF the Southern PORTS. which is now
making such phenomenal progress.
NORFOLK.
The growth of this business is empha-
sized in letter received by the Manu-
facturers Record from the North Amer
lean Transport Company, OF Norfolk,
giving list OF steamers which that
company now has under charter TO load
general cargo for various European
ports. This list includes boats ranging
In size from 5000 to 10000 tons, and in
Guides In the list of foreign ports for
which these steamers Will load Liver
pooi, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Amsterdam.
Leith. London, Glasgow, Bristol, etc
II Is understood that the steamers under
charter by this company alone have an
aggregate carrying capacity of consider
ably over 100000 tons of freight In I'D
dition to these general cargo steamers.
which carry not only grain. but lard
Hour, cotton, etc. there are large num-
Der of boats engaged to load full cargoes
OF grain. In n letter to the Manufac-
turers' Record, this company says:
During the last six months we have
handled enormous quantities of lard
and Westinghouse products which Is
comparatively new trade To Norfolk"
NEWPORT NEWS.
At Newport News the same remarka-
Die activity prevails. and Messrs. Fur
ness, Witty & Co. Limited, agents for
the Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship
Company. In letter to the Manufactur-
erS' Record say:
$50 far as this port Is concerned there
Will be an enormous amount of general
cargo. consisting of flour, grain, tobacco,
cotton and lumber, moved forward for
the United Kingdom and the continent
between now and spring. We have six
regular steamship lines running to Liv-
erpool and London. and besides these
there are large number OF outside
steamers loading for Hamburg, Rot
terdam, Amsterdam, Bristol. Leith
Glasgow and other ports. General cargo
business is exceedingly large, and we
expect large grain business.
AS FAR as the port of Norfolk is con-
| cerned, there Will be an enormous
| amount of cotton moved from that
| place during the coming winter, Incl
dental to the change of terminal by the
southern Railway Company"
PORT ROYAL.
| From Port Royal, s. c., we have n
letter from William Johnston & Co,
Limited, managers of the Johnston
Line of steamers, in which they say:
| owing to the pressure we have had
| with cotton, we have taken very little
| general cargo business, as 1t has been
very difficult to secure sufficient tonnage
1 TO carry off our cotton engagements.
| me steamer jamaican loaded recently
| at our WharveS and went to set draw
ing twenty-five feet seven inches, and
had 1t been necessary there would have
i n ~ n rl,pt .N,., t..
sending her direct to sea drawing twen-
| ty-SiN feet. This will show you what
can be done at this port. Our last
| steamer went to sea drawing twenty
| five feet"
SAVANNAH
n contract has just been made for
! the establishment of direct line of
| steamers from Savannah to Europe,
ana that port Will probably soon be in
company with Newport News and Nor
| folk in the magnitude of its direct
steamship business. AT the Gulg ports.
| from Pensacola to Galveston an i'm
| mense volume of export business is be-
| ing done.
1t should be borne in mind, in study
ing these facts that this foreign trade
| is to large extent a comparatively new
business for the South. While South
ern ports have always made large ship
ments of cotton, the bulk of this new
SoHSiStS "a gram, lumDer and
Western products that are seeking n
foreign market through Southern sea-
| ports. The influence of this most re-
markable advancement upon the nnan-
| clal, commercial and industrial interest
| of the entire South is a subject of pro
found interest. 1t necessarily means n
great growth of general business and
manufacturing. and the building ND of
| large ana prosperous cities on the South
| Atlantic and Gulf coast.
CHARLESTON.
| a dispatch from Charleston. s. c..
shows that shat city. which has been
displaying so much progress of late, Joins
| others in THE foreign trade advance
ment by securing regular steamship
! lines 20 Europe. The telegram says:
| arrangements were Yesterday per
| fected between the William johnson G
| Co, Limited, Steamship Company, of
| Live: pool, and the South Carolina and
Georgia Railway to establish a line of
| steamers between Charleston. Liverpool
and other foreign ports. The first ship
of the line will arrive in Charleston
December list, and within a few day.
thereafter will be cleared for Liverpool
with cotton and general cargo
1.-THE South Carolina and Georgia rail
road. (which is one of the contracting
parties in the enterprise, has formed n
traffic arrangement securing practically
a through route to St. Louis Kansas
City and the Mississippi Valley, and has
completed a grain elevator here with q
capacity for handling 80, 900 bushels of
wheat daily. The purpose is to clear at
least two shiDs q month from, this mort