The age-herald., 1901-06-15
THE OILY DAllg NEWSPAPER in ALABAMA
Liberty pluoks Justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse.
 Measure for Measure.
Growth of Gulf Ports.

The exports handled at New York have fallen from 525 per cent. in 1890 to 4703 per cent. in the fiscal year 1900 That city is slowly losing ground in percentages. In imports New York is holding it's own, barely so.
 But Boston, which has long held second place, has lost it, and New Or leans is now second. The exports from New Orleans in the fiscal year 1900 were s115,S5S,764, gain over those of the previous year of about BPS S,0O0, ,000. During the nine months of the fiscal year 1901 the exports from New Or leans were s122,234,669, securing for that city clear and undisputed title to the rank of second in the list of American export cities. the figures for Boston, which formerly held the sec ond place, being for the nine months SS1. .173,051. or over S4O,000,00O less than those of New Orleans.
 The exports of Galveston were in- creased in the year 1900 over $7,000,- 900, and our own Mobile did not lag in this race for trade. The Mobile Reg ister thus sums up the situation in that port:
 Tn 1878 the work of making deep water channel begun. And we are glad to add that with every foot of increased depth came an increase of shipping and an in- crease .of busi,iess.
 Eighteen years of work resulted in giv- ingus the channel we are now using with a practicable depth of about twenty-three feet throughout. And in the last years of this use we see an immense development in our commerce, more particularly in the last two years. since the war with Spain came to an end. For, be 1t borne in mind, that not only has the increased depth of fered unusual facilities. but our commun- ity has been enterprising and has taken immediate advantage of those facilities. Mobile, for example, was the first port on the gulf 10 send a vessel into Havana after peace was declared. Mobile does more business with Cuba today than all the ports of the Atlantic south of Phila- deiphia and of the gulf combined, and ranks next to New York in the amount of traffic done with the island--a remark able growth of trade, as Is shown by the fact that in any one year previous to 1898 we did not more than $75,000 worth of trade with Cuba In 1898 the trade was valued at s100,0Oo in 1899 at sl,sss,000 and in 1900 up to September l. s, 7e5. 900. Up to the present time the exports of this year indicate an increase over these figures of at least half a million. In timber and lumber exportation and shipments into the interior Mobile showed a total of 361,- 00o,0o0 feet last year. against 210,000000 feet in the previous year, an increase of 7l per cent. We also export cotton direct to Europe in large quantities. and iron also is material item In our export list. The total exports for the commercial year were 7e per cent larger than for the year before. which were 37 per cent larger than for the year before that and AZ per cent larger than for the year 1894 when the channel first reached a condition where its merits were known and 1t could be used to full advantage Imports also in- creased in like proportion, showing for the year Ss per cent increase over the i'm ports of the year previous and $40 per cent over the imports of six years ago. Tho value of the imports and exports may be said to be the dividend upon the governments investment here. For the twelve months ending December 31. 1899. that value was s12267.575. and for the same month in 1900 it was sl7.o29,lOO.
 This is a good showing, but 1t Is one that will be greatly increased when an Open Warrior is secured. A mil lion tons of iron will then seek an out let year at Mobile. worth about $1o,- 100000, and coal and coke and ma chinery will double this sum. Mobile is deeply interested in an Open War rior. The entire Gulf section of the Union is, for that matter.