The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-11-29
She Outclasses Many Ri
walls in the Shipping
Industry
AND MAKES A GREAT RECORD
The Manufacturers Record of Balti-
more Presents Facts That Should
Appeal Strongly to the People
of Brunswick

Baltimore, November 28.-A sug-
gestive reflection of the generally re-
cognized Importance Of southern ports
in American commerce is given In q
sturdy of this weeks issue of the
Manufacturers Record of the imports
and exports at those ports, together
with the figure of their RESPECTIVE pop
ulations, in comparison with similar
facts about other ports of the coun-
try, although it embraces but about
30 per cent of the total area of the
country and contains less than one
third of the population.
During the past fiscal year, too,
southern ports handled more than 35
per cent OF the total exports of the
country, while of thes3S,41S,613 in
crease in the value of exports over
the preceding year $35,342,395 was at
southern ports. 1t is thus seen that
the south is doing much more per
capita in the production Of material
for American commerce and in the
handling of it than the rest of the
country. When comparison is made
of individual ports upon a similar basis
using the latest figures available of
population, those of 1900, and of COM
merce, those OF 1903, the striking ex-
hibit or southern ports in comparison
with those of the rest of the coun-
try is made.
Of the seventeen typical ports, Gal
weston has the heaviest commerce per
each of its inhabitants. s2,795, follow
ed by Newport News. s1,51S. Savan-
nah. s1,O17, Brunswick, $94S, Pensa-
cola, 1882, Wilmington. s727, and New.
Orleans S61e. New York, with 1927,
is less than all of these and also less
than Mobile, 436, and Portland, Me-,
s37s. San Francisco. with s2O4. is
close to Norfolk's $500 and less dian
Tampa's $24S and Baltimore's s2lb.
OF the selected ports. Charleston has
the least weight in the south per I"
habitant, $124, and Philadelphia the
least in the west of the country $103,
while Boston's S310 is less than the
weight of eight southern ports.
To be sure, when it is borne IN
mind that comparatively littla Of the
commerce actually originates in the
ports which ha&dle it, this per capita
idea is merely augsearlve How sag
gestive it is, though, is apparent Wneh
it is realized that Savannah, with a.
900 inhabitants, has a commerce an
nually OF $55,O00,000, while Bortfano'
Me. with $4,000 inhabitants, has al
commerce of $1S,0O0,000; that New
Orleans, with 2S7,0O0 inhabitants, has
a commerce OF SLIT 100000, while Bos-
ton, with 100000 Inhabitants, mas
$3,OO0,000 less.
That many of these southern ports
are destined to be far greater impor-
tance is shown by the figures OF their
commerce during the past twenty
wears compared with those for other
ports. -s-
Between 1883 and 1903 the value OF
the exports and imports increased
from $1,547, ,O2O,S16 to $2,445,SS9,552,
or $685., ,S69, ,296, equal to So per cent.
This rate fo increase was exceeded By
Newport News, which had an advance
of 1850 per cent; Pensacola, sos per
cent; Brunswick, 452 per cent; Mobile
422 per cent; Galveston, 239 per cent;
Wilmington, 207 per cent; Sdvauneh,
1876 per cent, and New Orleans, 69 per
cent, of the southern ports, Tampa
making an advance in tea years OK
GIT per cent, and by two Oh the @ncr
ports-Philadelp which had an ao-
vance Of IS per cent, Of Portland,
23S per cent. The ra.e of New York,
which handled 55 per cen. Ot the to-
tai commerce in 1883 and 16 per cent
in 1903, was 81 per cent, which was
exceeded by Baltimore's 81 per cent,
and was slightly greater than Bos'
toms 20 per cent. Two ports on the
| Atlantic coast and one on the Pacifici
Charleston, Norfolk and San Fran
cisco, showed a rate of decrease OF 20,
49 and 20 per cent, respectively.