The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-27
INTERESTING FACTS And FIGURES
The COastwiss and Foreign Trade of Brunswick
For the First Five Months Of 1897
Shows Total Increase Of 81 ,422,-
468 Over Corresponding Per-
iod Last Year.

Brunswick is the deep-water harbor of
the state 1t is a city destined to become
the principal shipping port OF Georgia
True, other cities on the coast do much
larger export and coastwise business, and
many show receipts much larger than
Brunswick; but they are much Older cities
and their trade was established long be-
fore the magnificent advantages OF Ogle-
thorpe bay as safe port had been dem
onstrated. Until about fifteen years ago no
great attempt was made TO load and UNI
load vessels at Brunswick; the advantages
of its harbor were overlooked by the mar
ines in their efforts to obtain the trade of
other ports. But awakening day has
come. Brunswick no longer occupies
back seat stands aside and allows 9th
er cities to obtain what by right belongs
10 it, Time was when the city was on
the defensive; now it is the aggressor,
spreading out its arms of commerce and
encroachng upon the fields of other cities.
Capitalists, exporters, shippers and mer-
chants have awakened to the fact that
the port of Brunswick offers decidedly su-
perlor advantages 10 other cities on the
coast which are less favored.
40 city on me south Atlantic coast
can ot1er as safe IA harDor for vessels nor
much available water front, 50 neceS-
sary Tor the proper trnsactIon of an export
and coastWise trade, THIS city There
are some thirty-seven miles of available
water frontage, of which about twenty
niles nave been utilized for wharves. The
narpor is completely lilnd IocKod, shows
III some places a depth OF lifty feet and is
Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo,
uhuer President CieVelandS aummIIstra-
ton, upon visit TO tins city lew years
ago, sad that the harbor was great
sun PRISE 10 nun and ranked second to none
he mad seen; that was capable OF harbor-
ing Tie entire navies of the world and
sun nave room to conduct a marine trade
or many times mat when brunswick now
enjoys.
On the ocean bar work is being stun con
tinued, Already theue are twenty three
feet, with promising prospects OF twenty
I'VE feet in the next year.
Direct foreign trade has been establish
ed, and a regular line, together with many
tramp steamships, Plies between tins port
and Europe.
Inat brunswick as a port is growing Is
an inGisputable fact, backed by figures,
wn.cn speak, like actions, stronger than
words. In 1895 the collections OF the GUS
tom house on imports We're $7,422.lO; in
1876. $S,O47.l1, The value OF imports, for
eign and coastwse, as compiled at the
custom house. 1895, 81, 1876 6l7; in 1896, 81 $685.
4O2. Exports, coastwise and foreign, 1895.
$3.50 4O4; 1896, $S,6S7242. AS complied by
captain o. Johannesen, a recognized au-
thority on these matters, expressly for The
Times, and shown in tabuated form be
low, the 1895 imports were $S,955SlS; 1896,
A,95l, 296 Exports, 1895, SS3iO,i4i; exports,
1896, 107l4,lO6.
me total volume of the export and import
trade, as shown by Captain JOhannesen, in
1896 was SIS Goa, 4O2, while that of the prey
Gus year was Sl2, 295.9G2, an incaease in TO