The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-13
PROSPERITY OF THE PORTS.
D1RECT TRADE WITH EUROPE A
RIG THING FOR THE SOUTH.

v.onttude of the Business Much
creater Than Most People Realize.
uidesDread Resumption of Activ-
,,x Among Southern Enterprises
since the EIection-SOme of the
vsxv Enterprises Now on Foot.
baltimore, Nd. Nov. 1.-THE Manufac-
.,,rers' Record in its review'rof southern
trsiness conditions, says: 1.-THE remark
chile growth of foreign commerce through
southern ports is emphasized by the ar
.,roements that have just been completed
x,r the establishment of direct steamship
lives from Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah
md brunswick to European ports. Five
are ago only three southern ports had
d,ract steamer lines to Europe, the ship
.,.rts from other points being made by
..,r,n steamers. Now eleven southern
.orts have established regular lines to
lorio,s British and continental ports. The
u,ognitude of this business is illustrated
;. The fact that one company operating
large number of steamers has engaged
r,rcb of their cargoes through the whole
-,rtar and up to March, and another COM
,,,,, onerating from Norfolk has about
aftv or sixty steamers engaged for carry
,.u General cargo business this winter
NIT oreat increase in foreign exports is
.rudiny up southern seaports and CIV
,.r n them as much activity and pros
.ori+v as has heretofore prevailed in the
,ndustrial centers of the south
4Following the general Improvement
80 the election, large number of
southern enterprises have resumed oper-
stiors and others are preparing to do so.
.ooonefthe most important reported IN
4beee TWO classes during the week are
he Ashland Steel Company, ana the NOT
ION nail works at Ashland, hy.' the pdl-
s.ir,orl Tin Plate Company, employing
~ I-c,,ds. the Wheeling Iron and Steel
emmy and the Whitaker Iron Com
80 of Wheeling, and other enterprises
bba1,a Increased the number of their hands
troms2. 600 to $500; the Kanawha WOODEN
naIIs Of charleston, w. Va; the Mary
Iard silk mills of HagerstoWn; the Cotloh
Snck mills, near Baltimore; the CAVES
rom Tex, rope and Irvine mill, employing
100 lands: the Fostorla glass WoLAs a.
HTo,,tdsville. W. Va, 800 men; Avery plow
norls Louisville, KY, 150 addiuonal
u,engfbe Louisville wooden mills, 300 oper-
LIS. the Bear Grass wooden mills, 200
5gn5s: the Howard Harrison Iron COM
nsrv Of Bessemer, Ala, put on fui force;
birmingham rolling mill, LOO men; the
cab city rolling mill, Gate City, Ala, SoO
men and a large number of other INDUS
trleI throughout the south.
"lmong the new enterprises looking TO
thaf development of business interests IN
I'D south reported for the week are a
nuhber of railroad undertakings, 81
an 30 company, organized in the west,
which has purchased 5000 acres of land
An Td&as for improvement and colonial
ton III connection with manufacturing en-
terprd1es; a Chicago company ORGANIZED
10 ptkrchase 10000 acres of land in Ala
hama Efor colonization; sales of several
large tfracts of timber lands for develop
ment, "a s15OOOO cellulose plant at Owens
boro. -; a $4,000 knitting mill company
at In LIN Point Ca; a 100000 electric
light I'D power company at Fort WORTH
Ma enterprises projected some
month"; ago and delayed by the political
exciteu& tent are now being taken up ac-
lively ii with a view to securing capital
for inn Mediate construction. Some of them
have MRpital already pledged contingent
upon 2 election, and these will be carried
torwar promptly.
"RepdNrts TO the Manufacturers Record
from a. D. parts of the south show a very
hopeful n feeling and a determination to
bend eve &fy possible energy to the material
advanced Mlent of this section, the news
papers Fry generally urging the people
to droA@ politics for the time and give at
tenuoIA to the advancement of material
intfrests'