The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12
The Grain Export business.


Recently we called attention to an eff
fort that was to be made to find out
whether grain could not be exported prof.
tably by way Of this port. We have not
heard anything about the matter within
the last week or two. 1t is assumed, how
ever, that the experiment win be made as
soon as the necessary arrangements are
completed.
There are reasons for thinking the ex-
pertinent would be a successful one Sa-
vannah has all the advantages that any
ether southern port has for exporting
ships that could take mixed cargoes of
grain and cotton-and she has excellent
railroad communications with the grain
fields.
When it was first proposed to export
grain by way of New Orleans the propo-
sition did not excite much enthusiasm in
the west, and even at New Orleans it was
thought by many that the climate was
against making that city a grain export
ing point There were a few men, how
ever. who thought the grain shipping
scheme a practicable one, and they gave
it every possible encouragement. The
first shipments were sent to New Or
leans by way of the Mississippi river.
The river shipments were not always sat
isfactory for the reason that the grain
frequently suffered damage in the grain
boats. 1t was not until the railroads be-
gan handling grain that New Orleans be-
gan to be big grain shipping port. Now
the amount of wheat and corn shipped
abroad by way of that city is enormous.
on Thursday the New Orleans Times
Democrat said that New Orleans is now
doing a very large grain export business
that, in fact, it is doing better than
New York. The same paper expresses
the opinion that with proper terminal
facilities the larger part of the grain ex-
ported from this country would be ship
ped by way of New Orleans. The advan-
tages of Savannah as a grain shipping
point are superior to those of New Or
leans. Savannah is about as near to the
grain fields as New Orleans is, and she
is much nearer to the final destination
lower ocean freight rates and can get
lower insurance.
This matter of grain shipments ought
to be taken up by our trade bodies and
thoroughly investigated. Savannah is
commercial city and nothing should be
left undone to increase her commerce.
A Wisconsin reformer says the way to
get in an effective 'Jab at the devil" is
FOR the Christians to form Political par
ty, nominate Christians for Office and on
election day elect them. If there were any
way to prevent Old Harry from borrow
ing cloak and getting into the conven-
lions, the scheme might be more plausi-
BILE than it is. The chances are that it
would not be a great while, if such an
organization were started, before his sa-
tanic majesty would be the chairman of
the executive committee So far as poll
tics ought to go. this is already Chris
tian country.
Some rich quartz veins and placer mines
have lately been found in Cherokee county.
Some ore taken from an old pit near Cher
okee Mills recently showed gold in a prof
liable proportion. and quartz taken from a
vein not far away showed assays that
ran from $40 per ton up to more than
500. A mining company has just bought
us acres of gold bearing lands in Chero-
kee. and will at once commence opera
lions.
Some of the loudest demands for the
enforcement of the Monroe doctrine
come from Kansas. Kansas had MOTH
ing to do with the formulation of the doc
trine, and has never done anything to-
ward defending it. Yet she knows all
about what it is, and what ought to be
done in the premises. Presently we shall
have Utah telling us what ought to be
the governments financial and foreign
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