Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-29
REACH OUT FOR TRADE
NEW ORLEANS INTERESTS PRE-
PAaE 10 PROFIT FROM TIE
PANAMA CANAL.
aut Business With S2ata America by
Mississippi Valley Fuft - New
0flaans= Quarantine Rules
5ut Business Wth soata America by

QfHeans Quarantine Rules
Washin4ton Dec 9.-Iae COM
Hore5a and Industrial ORGANIZATIONS
Ief New Orleans have appointed a
committee ro look for tlade in Cen
tfal aud South America, i'll anucfpa
ton of the opening of the Panama
canal an The growth Of populations
CT tie ist5nns during tie =eonStrfle
t'on But nothing can he accomplish
Cd. eIt6er for New Orleans OF the
Mississippi valley, without modif.
c:tioH ot the quarantine resuations
lin hat city New Dreams formerly
E, eentso5oa The Cuban trade AMI
rieht have had large commerce with
Central America and the Spanish
Main because of lis facilities and
geographical advantages But the
Quarantine regulations have been 50
severe for the last twenty-five years
| that vessels from the southern con
tEent were compelled 10 so else
Where except d fleet Of small steam
ors that brought bananas over from
Honduras
Some years ago the Illinois Central
Railway company sent commission
Iol experts down to Central and South
America to work np trade. and pro
posed to put on a line of steamers
fG connect with IFS terminus at New
Orleans. and thus open up an outlet
for The agricUltu~a al and mechanical
product OF the Mississippi valley.
Nearly 50 per cent of our exports to
the Latin American states originate
| ielween The Allegheny mountains
ana the Mississippi river the very
country that should eentribute it,
traffic 10 q longitudinal road, and the
| Illinois Central people p opposed to
CRY II at low rates Rut their
steamship line was abandoned. their
missionary work Was wasted and our
oNpoAts from the West=to=the south
ern continents continue to be ship.
| ped Via New York because the board
Of health in New Oreaps proposed TO
tie UP every steamer down al the
quarantine station for ten days after
arrival, without permitting passen-
gers. mails or eight to be landed.
Tie Illinois Central people oftered to
make the transfers from the steam
err to the ears q! point ten miles
heloW the ely and iun their trans
| throush to Illinois soil without stop
ping. They also offered to have .
sanitary inspection at Colon before
tie steamers started. But neither OF
tEese propositions would be consider
ed and The scheme was abandoned
he Havana trade Was transferred to
tampa for the same reasons. and al.
though Havana was a hotbed of vel.
low fever and other contaeions dis.
eases for years until American occn-
Is"tion, there was never case in
tampa, SO strict We're the steamship
and sanitary officials.
The natural trend of trade fram
the center Of the United States
Ought to be down the Mississippi val
| ley instead Of eastward ac oss the
mountains, fou reasons that appear
en- every map The flour from Min
neapolis, the lumber from Michigan
land Wisconsin. and the mannfactur-
ed goods from the central states
ought to have an ON 'el on the gulf,
while the coffee hides anI other raw
materials Of Central America and
he Spanish Main oueh' 10 come in
the same way. Fhere will be a very
iaree immigration 10 The i.thmHs
while the canal is building. during
The next ten years; millions Of dol
ar worth Of supplies and materials
must be sent for The Subsistence OF
the wos kmen and for construction
purposes. The railway distance and
rates from Chicago or any other cen
tral point 10 New Orleans are about
the same as 10 New York But the
sea voyage between Colon and the
latter city is four days longer New
Orleans has equal facilities for hand
ling the trade and can transfer II
from tse cas- 70 the shr. at HaGf
the eNpesse#t&at IS aocas ary n Me-