The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-29
SHIPS FROM CHILE
FOR SAVANNAH
FIRST VESSEL ON WAY.
LINE WILL BE ESTABLISHED BE-
TWEEN HERE AND VALPARAISO.

Vessels VIII Bring Nitrate Soda for
Distribution Among Fertilizer
Factories in This TerritOry--Re-
turning ships VIII Garry CargOeS
of Goods Tint Can lie Disposed
of in Chilean Professionally
Week-LittIe Nitrate Soda Is
Brought Here Now.
A line of sailing vessels will be
established between Savannah and VAL
paraiso, Chile, by Grace & Co., of New
York, and the first vessel the Golden
Gate, is now due to arrive here from
the West coast.
The vessels will bring nitrate soda
for distribution among the fertilizer
manufacturers in this city and Augusta
This will also be the distributing point
for Atlanta. Chattanooga. Birmingham
and other inland cities.
The vessels will run regularly but
will have no schedule time. On account
of the long trip around Cape Horn and
up the, Atlantic coast it would be i'm
possible for the vessels to make
periodical trips.
The returning vessels will carry
cargoes when they are able to secure
such goods as can be disposed of to
be established here at an early date
to- look after the disposition of the
nitrate soda, and for the purpose of
collecting suitable cargoes for the re-
turning vessels.
Have Line to Charleston.
Grace & Co. now have an agency at
Charleston, and the vessels arrive there
every few weeks from Chilean points.
The Charleston agents, William Roach
& Co., will look after the Savannah
business until an agency is established
here. This trade is said to constitute
the bulk of Charleston's import trade
and brings much money into that port.
prominent ship broker said yester-
day that Savannah would be far bet
ter distributing point for this class Of
trade than Charleston, but that on ac-
count of the large number of fertilizer
factories in Charleston and vicinity,
there was little likelihood that the yes
sells would discontinue their trips to
that port.
Will Mean Much to Savannah.
1t was said the establishment of an
agency here by Grace & Co. will mean
much for Savannah, as. all the vessels
will take on stores here for the round
trip, as supplies can be purchased here
much cheaper than in Chile. Then,
too, after the long voyage, the vessels
will have to undergo repairs, which
will mean much to the ship chambers
and the marine railways at this port
The ship crews would be paid off here
at the end of a voyage, which would
cause money to be spent among the
business houses of Savannah
There is now a small amount of nj
trate soda brought into this port by
Beecher, Duval & Co. of New York,
who are represented here by ]. M.
Lang & Co. But the supply brought
here by. this company, it is said, does
not begin to supply the demand. There
is now a vessel en- route here from
Chile with a cargo of nitrate soda, con-
signed to Beecher, Duval & Co., which
will be distributed among the fertilizer
factories at this place and Augusta.
There are four fertilizer factories
here that use large amount of MI
trate soda, and several factories at
Augusta that have been supplied by
Beecher, Duval & Co., through their
agents, Lang & Co., but it is said that
the supply brought here by this COM
pany is not sufficient to supply the
local factories The vessel en- route
now for Beecher, Duval & Co. is the
steamship Lymeric, and is due to ar
rive March z.