The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-17
GOOD EXHIBIT OF
SOUTHERN PORTS
The Percentage of Their Gains
Greater Than All Others.
VERY FEW SHOWED A DECREASE.
More Than one-Tiird of the Outward
Commerce orthe Whole Country
The Past Year Was shipped
From Southern Harl,o,s
Especial Dispatch 10 The Iirnes.l

Especial Dispatch TO Tie Ifnes.l
BALTIMORE, August 16.--ln the sum
ming up of this country.s commerce Oh
the fiscal year, the exhibit made by south
ern ports IS gratifying TO everybody inter
ested in the traGe development OF the cities
on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts The
points Of the exhibit particularly noted oy
> thu Manufacturers Record are:
More than one-tfird. or. definitely, S..6
per cent. of the outward commerce of
tine year passed through southern ports.
Nearly, If not quite, one-th:Td OF me
snateria. exported originated in the South
-sThe percentage of gain in exports, at
al southern port> was above the percent
age OF gan for an other ports
The gain n exports at southern potis,
was 43. OF the total gain al all l'nf>s.
''of the e3ghty-three ports Included IN
s14: years summary, only went -e.s.it
show decreases in ports compared WEI
the figures OF 1888. OF these. but nine are
southern, ports, three OF them being on the
Gulf. There are decreases at seven North
Atlantic ports tllree Pacific and nine IN
ierlor and lake ports.
GENERALLY DISTRIBUTED.
1.-THE twenty-one North Atlantic ports
Increased Their exports from S6ei-e2S,o'S 10
$3.50, SS6b G7s. or $50. 1872 l02; the twenty-five
southern ports from S4lI,51T,90S to S4S4, 6iS,-
81, or s.s,l25.G69; the nine Pacific ports
from S5I ~ TO 81 81 1863, or S14. ls9 ana
al other ports from $50 So, SGT TO Sioi,3iu-
T5a, or 1880, SSf-a total increase IN the
country from s., 22i OF, 3o2 to 81 9a 1S6,5Il or
S1G1, 165 .069. il is notable that while me
bulk of the Increase at North Atlantic
ports was due in great measure to the IN
crease of about COCO al one port, New
York. the increase at southern ports was
more generally distributed. 1t was Sc
SOS 4S7 at New Orleans, the total OF that
Jt.or- t31-1s CT lAr-
than Ss:.tpeeG., and that 1t Baltimore by
more lAlan 500, G09; SIi 22e 400 al Savannah,
3.S14, 13S at Baltimore, Si.1Sc,S45 at Calves
ton. S6,5S0. 5G6 at Newport News, S4 o2S 80
al Salurta, S4.S04.2l5 at Mobile and $685.
gs5 at Wilmington The great gain on
the Pacific coast was due to the increase
OF more than 90, al San Francisco.
TREND OF FOREIGN TRADE.
These figures indicate the trend of
foreign trade as affected by the internal
CONDITIONS of the country during the past
two years, and The development of its
newer foreign relations. They show the
increasing tendency OF goods TO move
through southern ports-goods from many
parts of the country. At present the
Tection. originate in The south. The exports
OF goods practically southern. and Only
southern in origin, during the year We're
S24l So. raw cotton $14. .53S cotton oil.
Sl2.4l4.l 9i naval stores, 11.2s9. 1SS cotton
seed cake and meal and $6,SII63S6I crude
phosphates. The south also supplied ex-
ports common to the whole country TO
about the following extent, according to
fair estimate: S5aeGa, GOO mineral oil S3o-
G9e.09a tobacco, SIS. $50 timber and lumber,
sla,oa1,Glp cotton goods, Sl10oo. coo livestock.
SS.seeGvo coal and S3.t9o,eeo pig-iron. With
these must be reckoned the contributions
OF the south in raw material and manu-
featured stuff of wood, iron, steel, grain,
flour, hides. leather, fruit and provisions
OF one kind and another, reaching probably
S5ntDn.'tnD in value. The total of The souths
contributions is thus seen to be at least
$tit. ole, 0o1
Allowed 10 develop on right lines Under
the spur of enterpr:sing home capital ana
that .udicious.y placed from outside. the
proportions OF raw material in southern ex-
ports will tend 10 become less. Already
experimental exports of southern steel have
been Inade-a logical sequence of the sue
csssful experiment with southern iron of
a lew year.S ago. The East and Latin
America are rich fields for sou1herl-:nade
cotton goods, and the islands Stirring the
southeastern coast must become better
markets for southern flour, cattle. Iumba..
and other products. The next few years
should show marked advance not only
in the total of southern-gr exports and
OF exports from other paris of the country
moving through southern ports, but also
OF southern manufactured exports That
VIII mean fun realization of southern
resources and opportunities