The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-10

ton. having been built by Messrs. John
s. MetcaIf and Co. of Chicago. 1t has
storage capacity Of 30, 900 tons OF grain or
a million and a half bushels of wheat,
and in it there are 226 bins or pits. the
largest of which holds as much as SO0
tons. The elevator is right on the canal
and the grain Is taken directly from the
shin through a marine. leg, which WORKS
by revolving buckets on an endless chaIn'
lifts the grain up into the tower beside
the boat and drops it upon wide india
rubber belt, which carries 1t into the
elevator and up into the bins. There are
alao pipes which do the same work by
means of suction. so that a shipload Of
wheat may be discharged within a few
hours, The machinery will take 500 tons
from the steamer hold into the elevator
in one hour. 1t weighs the grain at the
waters edge, and later on weighs 1t again
when 1t is in the sacks ready to be loaoeo
upon the carts or barges by which II is
taken over the country. 49,.
During my visit to the elevator. ana,
indeed, throughout the trip, l was &C
COMMANDED by Mr.. A. Joynson OF the
Manchester Canal Company. He tells me
that the grain imports have steadily IN
creased since this elevator was hnisned'
and that they now amount to about lo0-
600 tons annually. During the hrst SIX
months of this year $1,000 tons or gram
have been received into the elevator, and
the most of this came from the United
States.
ue tells me that the shipping from the
United States is steadily increasing. Reg
MAR steamers have been run here for
years from New York. Savannah. New
Orleans and Galveston. and there have
been occasional sailings from Baltimore.
Newport News, Charleston, Brunswick.
Mobile and Pensacola. Cattle are now
brought here from Philadelphia. and In
the near future there will be a direct
steamship line from Chicago to Manches-
ter by way of the st. Lawrence, the Well
and canal and the great lakes. These
ships will bring cargoes of lumber and
provisions and regular service will prob
ably be maintained.
Canada and the West Indies.
Canada already has line of large
steamers to Manchester, which make reg
ular trips during the summer. These
ships bring both lumber and 1eatkle' some
Of the are of over 5000 tons. having ac-
commodation for 100 live beeves.
There is a good prospect for a fruit
trade between Manchester and the West
Indies Within the last few months
bananas have been brought here from
Jamaica and a regular banana service is
to be instituted which will supply the
Midlands with this fruit. and this service
may in the future be extended to Porto
Rico and Cuba. The fruit companies here
have bought three steamers from the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
and will run them to Jamaica. Each boat
will bring 10000 punches of bananas.
Among the recent arrivals are two
ships from the Black Sea with 1000 tons
of Indian corn, the sailing vessel Mil
tiades from San Francisco with 11.o0
Quarters of barley and wheat and Champa
of Tacoma with $500 tons of wheat from
our great Northwest.
The traffic of the canal is steadily grow
ing. Within the last six months the rev.
enue has increased to the amount or
S125, 00O, and there has been steady growth
in the business since the beginning. The
traffic of the present year will be greater
than that of any year of the past.
In my ride up the canal l passed cotton
ships from America and from Egypt The
American imports up to the middle of
last April were almost 100000 bales and
the Egyptian about one-fourth that num-
Der. At the lumber docks 1 saw a ship
from Mobile unloading a cargo of pitch
pine and at the same wharf was one
similarly loaded from Pensacola. There
were great tank steamers from the Rus
Sian oil fields at the Russian oil tanks on
the right bank of the canal, and on the
left other tank steamers discharging
American petroleum. | passed the freez-
ing works where the New Zealand ships
land their frozen mutton in my sail on the
Duke of Leinster and also the great cat
tie sheds and abattoirs belonging to the