The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-17

this magnificent harbOr will open up
splendid opportunity for ship building
along its shores and create market for
tho manufactured stcol from the iron
mines Of The South.
1ho climate Is such in summer and
win:or that moro days work can bo done
on, of doors, on the sea islands Of South
Carolina, than almost anywhere along
our American coast, and the bringing
down Of the material for this important
industry, which is 50 mach needed in this
country the building up of the merchant
marine would lie Il most valuable aid to
this great Iailrond ma at the samo tirnc
enable us 10 carry under tho a rnercan
iaE a Part of the products wc send abroad
20 foreign countries.
E"glnnh in 1-sG built ninc hundred
and sixty thousand tons of steel ships,
and III the same period America bun; on
~ ninety thousand tons. .nnd most ofti, ~
for usr On he Lakes, want To stiinu.
ihl" ino building oi steamships Wfich use
50 much OF tho products, our iron mines
when building aud consumes 50 much of
oar southern coal when engaged III com
tncrcr.
tiaH" seen tho com rnorco OftiIo world
changed from sail Ia steam, for when
was boy there were 10 ocean steamers,
and havo seen tho first regular Atlantic
"icamcrs that ever crossed It's stormy
waters, tho iil-fllci "president," and
have seen almost every large and i'm
pnTiant steamer that has crossed the At
ianiic since tha. time. and there is moth
I'M; i: ;ho .;oT!,.', history that can exceed
tho wonderful improvements which haye
bee u made in the construction, size ana
speed OF steamships since those carly
days, the Time in crossing tho Atlantic
hting reduced iivo days, and tho modern
steamer is a fairy palace filled with skilled
SCIENCE nnd art of the bcs, intcllcc.s sftho
world.
Thcro arc said to DO over ono hundred
different occupations required to build
iirst-class modern steamship, and yut we
in America have little part in this groat
work, notwithstanding we produce more
iron and steel i'll a year than great Britain
Franco and Germany combined. Having
the material and the skilled workmen.
we aught. at least, to do a part of this i'm
portant industry, which would give em-
ployment to SO many men, stimulate our
southern iron and steel works, and aid
her railroads In giving them employ
ment in bringing material to the coast
IL Is to the completion OF this great !
project now before us, the building Of the |
Black Diamond Railroad, that we look |
for these developments. If put in orera-
tion it would most certainly create new
and much needed and ever increasing In |
dustry on the southern coast in addition |
to building up an Immense trade in coal,
israii. and lumber aid othor products OF i
the interior. These things must certain |
ly follow the building Of this road, and |
may tho time be hRstensd when this great !
project will be completed, and the great |
w eat and the New South he more closely |
welded together by continued band of |
steel and a successful and mutual busi-
ness. which will aid all the sections |
through which this great Railroad is to |
run on its way to the grandest seaport of /
the South AtIantic-the magnificent deep |
water harbor of Port Royal.