The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-01

An othsr-51. 7s7.s31. Total sxports
l-.Atlantic. Lac. z0o,5Ss. or 1901 pcr
Ieent: Gulf, z,6o2,ssz.603. or 60.49 per
cent: Pacific, 1sl.0s3.47S or 3.s1, per
cent. Grand total of exports. 4soa.-
I74I2se.
Touching port facilities the bulletin
gives much valuable and instructive
data obtained chiefly from railways
and reports OF boards Of trade - the
diftereut seaports. Descriptions OF har-
bors, their entrances. channels ana
tanned fram the United states Coass
Pilot. publisAed BY the United States
Coast and 0eo6etic Survey.
The terminal facilities of = railroad
at seaport include tracks, wharves,
warehouses;, elevators and appliances
for transferring freight. The capacity
for handling cars Is about 1000 cars q
sometimes as low as IS cars day for a
smaller terminal at an important sea-
port. In some cases two or more rail-
roads will Use the same terminal at a
port. A Usual sise for an ocean steam-
shin pier Is about ESQ fest wide and
500 feet 1cng. Ir the middle of the
pier are railway tracks and on either
side OCEAN vessels are moorej. They
being covered. frNsht ID transferred
from the cars to the vessel with very
little exposure to the weather.
The docks and wharvcs In most Of
the seaports OF the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts are owned and controlled by pri-
waite enterprises. But at New York
and New Orleans a large proportion Of
the docks and wharves IL owned and
operated by the respective city govern-
| meats. New York has controlled its
wharves and docks for more than thirty
years. ard the New Orleans /,cks and
Irur1. 1rxxs& II -
city since Nay. 1901. The City Of Bal
timore Is soon to build now docks
and wiarves and to control
ORIGIN ef Exports.
In some instances. the farm products
exported from o seaport are bought and
| shipped by the local merchants Of the
port This Is usual In the grain and
some extent In New York city. Flour.
provisions and cotton are often ship
ped from interior points to Europe,
/, merely passing through the seaports OF
| this country. being shipped by mer-
| chants whose place of business IL not
| at the ports through which the exports
pass. One OF the largest cotton Arms
| IN the United States has its central Of
Hoes In city on the Atlantic coast
| through which comparatively little cot-
ton passes. This firm buys cotton
through Its agents In the South, con-
tracts for ocean freight at whichever
port offers the best advantages at the
time. and sells the cotton through Its
| agents to buyers In Europe.
Cost cf Transporting Gotten.
A member OF the firm referred to es-
Inmates the average cost Of carrying q
bale OF cotton. of 500 pounds from an
interior point in Texas through one OF
the Gulf ports to Liverpool at SO. This
| includes cean and railroad freights, in
surance, once expenses and minor
charges.
In 1897 a special agent of the Do
partment of Agriculture, living at Mo-
bile. Ala. estimated the cost of ship
ping bale of 500 pounds of cotton
from the interior through Mobile TO
same service through Mobile In 1910
was estimated in Hunts Merchants
Magazine of March, 1s4o, as $1S.15.
When consignment of goods 10
loaded at an interior point and adj
dressed to o point in Europe, the agent
OF the railroad company receiving the
goods may give o through bill OF lad
ing. This includes the passage over
the railroad, the transfer at the sea-
liner.
The bulletin describes the various
ports. Of export. including Mobile and
Pensacola as follows:
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The port Of Pensacola il located ON
the northern shore of Pensacola Bay,
| six or seven miles from the entrance
The bay itself Is about twelve and a
half miles long. has an average width
OF about two and a half miles, ana with
It's tributaries covers about $50 square
miles. The entrance is about three
fourths of mile wide. and opens into
one OF the most important harbors ON
the Gulf of Mexico. The shallowest
part OF the channel at mean low water
u thirty feet deep, and the soft mud
on the bottom makes 1t possible to be
used by vessels drawing more water
than would be the case IL rocks were
more numerous The arms OF -Pensa-
cola Bay AFFORD water transportation
for cotton, lumber and other products
to Pensacola.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road is the most important railroad
terminating at Pensacola. In the fall
OF 1904 this railroad had to use three
large wharves and another tust about
completed. Beginning at the north
east, the hrst--the Muscogee wharf
is used chiefly for loading coal. phos.
pilates and lumber 1t is 2.24O feet
long, and at the sea end 100 feet wide.
The entire area 10 10000 square feet.
On this wharf there are thirteen coal
chutes and four grain chutes, all OF
which can be pulled out of the way
when not In use, ana are equipped with
extensions by which the matches Of
vessels Of any size may be reached,
Next to the Muscogee wharf il the
Terraeoua Street wharf, which IL cow
cred by two long warehouses and is
i,e50 feet long by 1870 and 40 feet
wide. One of the warehouses Is used
for receiving imports, the other for
dtscharging exports. At the shore end
OF the wharf is a grain elevator having
storage capacity of 100000 busheIs
A system of belt conveyors extends cut
from the elevator along the pier for
l.sss feet. ana has capacity for de-
livering 10000 bushels Of grain per
hour to vessels. Alongside the belt
gallery there are twenty-seven spouts
for loading vessels. The elevator IL
also equipped with machinery for
handling, Weighing and cooling grain
This last Is Of especial Importance ON
account of the warm climate OF the
Gulf region.
A slip 100 feet wide separates this
wharf. from that at the foot OF Com
mandancia Street. This wharf Is 2.O65
feet long and ITO feet wide, and con-
tains a two-story warehouse 1900 feet
long, Five tracks. all under cover, run
alongside this warehouse, three tracks
on this lower floor and two on the up-
per. Vessels alongside this wharf can
be loaded from both floors of the ware
hOusa at once and aIsn from, norn