The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-28
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
PORTS REFERRING POSITIONS AS
 uANnJ,ERs OF BREADSTUFFs.
v.rwe. of Exports for the First Nine Months of the Present Fiscal Year Compared With
 the Ycar Before.

ps,ti,oore. Md, April 27.-(Special. ,
 In this weeks issue The Manufac- turers' Record says: .s.
 .Southern ports are noiding .hoil own and bettering their positions as hana,ars of American breadstuffs Tnis arre,rs distinctly in the following ng- uras eomparing the value Of bread stufY exports in the first nine months of the same period last year:
 .j D,ssricfs 1905. 1906.
 Rsitimo-e ...s 7,27s.543 { 2o.1sS.51o Newport News. s,sso.s4o s,s4s'sss Norfolk Ports Galveston. .... 2,516.455 l0.565.I0 I02 Mobile .. 1,S24,976 2,310,762 New orleans =. 9.39s,3o5 15,oo5,os6
 Total. .s25,424.145 : 57.976,464 All districts .$75,6SS.s02 $f4e,270.o4s
 "The increase at the six Southern ports was from s25.424.14s to seI'- e7s ASA. equal to S32.552.319. or at the rate of 12s per cent. while at other leading ports. including Boston, New York. Philadelphia, Portland. Puget sound. San Francisco, Chicago, Duluth and Superior the increase was from s5Oee4757 to $8S,293.5S4, equal to sSs,- 02s,sa7, or at the rate of but 75.6 per cent The total increase at the six southern ports was 46 per cent or the total increase at all ports.
 saOther exports at Southern ports are likely to increase in quantity with the completion of great railroad undertak- inss meaning the expenditure or sloo,- o00 coo in the immediate future. TO open mp the vast mineral resources which lie in the mountains of the Ap- palachian chain the expenditure or millions upon millions of dollars and the energy of thousands upon thous- ands of men is necessary. Lines or railroad are building and other lines are projected through regions in these mighty ranges where 1t was hitherto deemed impossible to lay track ex- cept at a cost which would financially swamp the enterprise. One, of these roads Is the South and Western, whose carefully y-surveyed route is up near the crests of the Black Mountains in North Carolina, but with a grade SC easy that heavily-laden coal trains will be able to travel unbroken from the mines in the Virginia highlands across the great backbone of the east srn half of tho continent to the mid- evels in the Carolinas and the low ands by the sea, where exporting ter ninals will be established, although llI.the fuel will not find it's way to the ,oast. for much of it will go to supply ,otton mills and other industrial plants Inland. To build this road $25,000,0 ,000 ar $30.050,OO0 are being expended.
 "A similar instance of building rail-
 oad to a low grade is found in the construction of the Deepwater and Tidewater railways, which will form a continuous routs from mines in West Virginia to Norfolk. and in the con struction of which about $50,000,000 are being spent An easy route is followed through the mountains, even the sum init not being difficult, and from there it Is downhill all the way to Chesapeake bay, and it is proposed to have the entire road. from the Kanawha to the coast. completed early next year. A survey is now being made to carry the railway further westward to the Ohio river. and talk is heard of an extension beyond that water highway. even as far as the Great Lakes. This is what the Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake and Ohio are apparently aiming at their own outlets for their coal.
 But great and impressive as are these two coal railroads now building from the mountains to the sea, their wonderfully bold engineering is equol- led If not surpassed by the unique dar- ing of Flagler's extension of his Flor ida East Coast Railway to Key West Here Is a line which Is being built ir part over the ocean. one of the gaps between the islands being several miles wide, while some others are each more than a mile in width. To place the