Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-07
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
MOVEMENT AT SOUTHERN PORTS
IN THE INTERIOR.
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Baltimore, Md, Dec. 6.-Statistics
which have been compiled relating to
the commerce OF Galveston during the
past five years are interesting. not only
as showing why the men of that city
did not lose hope for it in the face of
the appalling disaster of September.
but also as being typical of the steady
progress of the movement of foreign
bound traffic through Southern ports
generally. In the eleven months of this
year the value of exports from Calves
ton was $T4, 1888, 797, or S3S 400,56 more
than in the whole of 1895, while the
imports, sl.S6034S, were $l,023.l65 more
than those of 1885 Among the large
increases in exports were 3033i0 bales
of cotton. Il gain of 80 1-3 per cent;
G9.729 tons of cotton seed meal or &c 2-3
per cent; 3,950.032 gallons of cotton
seed oil. or ZOO per cent: 1876, 400
bushels of grain. or 1000 per cent.
while flour exports tripled. and the
tonnage of vessels in the foreign trade
increased 5200S6.
The figures of this advance at Gal
weston may differ in some respects
from those OF other Southern ports.
but they illustrate the advantages
which have come to many of them
construction the union of compare
lively weak lines of transportation in
great systems criss- crossing the sec
ton which has in reality only begun
to feel the effects OF Industrial activi-
ties. and the tapping with n generally
north and south trend of the fields of
American agricultural production En-
ergies at Galveston, crippled only tenn
porarily by the cyclone, have their
counterpart in New Orleans. where the
healthy condition OF the cotton mar
Set and the fact that II has become the
depot for the deportation of thousands
of animals intended for service in
South Africa, have swelled the volume
of exports; at Mobile. where business
men are seeking closer connections
with the Latin-Americans and the !
West Indies: at Pensacola. with its |
large interests in shipments of phos-
phates. lumber and other articles: at
Savannah and Wilmington. sharing In |
great measure the trade in naval |
stores; Mt Charleston, preparing
through its exposition to direct trade |
OF the South To and from the West In
dies through its port, and in the great
Hampton Roads basin. with it's Norfolk
terminals OF great railroad systems
facing Newport News. with it's magnifi- |
cent docks and elevators, it's ship-yard |
and dry-dock. while Baltimore is
stirred to better harbor facilities.
Ht movement at SOulnern DOrtS lS
an index of the work now going on in
the interior, ana traced week by week
IN the Manufacturers Record whether
1t is in agriculture, now enjoying the
widespread benefits of an increased
value in the cotton crop. numbering,
phosphate development and other min
ing. southern iron interests have been
given new vigor during the past month,
ana the output of coal mines is finding
"A ready market at home and abroad
indicative of the vastness of Southern
Industrial operations, aside from the
steady growth of cotton manufactur-
ing, almost phenomenal in some in
stances, are the figures relating to one
interest alone operating in Tennessee
and Alabama This company owns OF
coal lands. 2511Sl acres in Alabama and
46.Sl9 in Tennessee: of ore lands 81 .Sl3
in Alabama and 651G in Tennessee: of
undeVeloped mineral lands. 5S,i2S acres
in Tennessee: Of miscellaneous lands,
2S.0li acres in Alabama and 213 acres
in Tennessee. 1t has 20 pig iron fur
naccs. with n daily capacity of $3.50
tons. steel works with Il capacity OF
] .0iO tons. Il rolling mill with capaci-
ty of 200 tons. and iron furnaces with
n capacity of so tons. It's output last
year was 65i. 145 tons OF pig iron, nearly
per cent, of the entire output of pig
iron in the United States; 415l, 496 tons
of coal more than , per cent. OF the
bituminous output of the country: L.
lS2,2S6 tons Of coke. about 6H per cent,
of the total production in the United
States 100000 tons of ore and 325 900
tons of stone.
In this spectacle lies the hope of the
South. Every cotton mill built there.
every furnace blown in. every mine
opened means employment for n great
er number of persons. a larger mar
kct for agricultural products and a
greater share in the commerce of the
country. destined 10 expand nightly
with the construction of the Isthmian
Canal and the enlargement OF Ameri-
can shipping facilities.