Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-24
Five Million Tons Of BLACK Ola.
moRd" Will be Shipped I,
This Year.
H.W PEa INCREASES OUTPUT

Coast and Has Long Since Dlataho.
cd Other Middle Atlantic Ports--A
Glance Backward.
a LrlIoUGH tho history or this
~ port rs a shipping center
dates back Eonly twenty.
three years. Newport News ranks
irst among The ports or tho Mid
die Atlantic States In the foteiEn
export anal import trade mud stanyis
first among the great shipping pcrfs
on the Atlantic coast In THE ship.
ments of bltumlnous coal both TO
American and foreign ports.
the growth of the port has been
little short of phenomenal. Tho
Ing the first fiscal year OF tho ports
history ending June 80, 1884, was
s3,G9O,0Oo. In 1887 the export bus.
mess had Increased to $7,432817,
and there was but little change in
these figures until 1892. about
which time uhe port appears to have
commenced Its onward progress In
earnest. The foreign trade increas.
cd rapidly from that Tine on, the
avowlgc yearly value of exports
shipped s,nce~ then being about
S2o,o00,O0O. Tho highest yearly
values IN exports sent from this
tal for the two years being $685..
5Al ,a03. ", ~
Succcss Last Year.
Dnrlng the past year the volume
OF exports Increased nearly $1,000.
ma" "a A.
ana an oven greater increase Sis
expected this year. Newport News
now ranks nth among the port 8
on rae Atlantic coast in the
amount of foreign business handlen,
outstriEping Norfolk, .Wilmington,
n c., Savannah, Charleston. PROV
idcncc and Portland
The bulk OF the foreign ex;,art
business at this pert Is handled by
lnurness, Wlthy & Co, Ltd, tine
United States Stripping Company
and tho Holland American Lite.
Fnrness, Witty & Company oper.
port and England, one to London.
don and the olher to LIVERPOOL
Three steamers with II eapaciiytf9f
about $4,000 tons, arc operated On
tho acknowledgement News Fac ard
ON the acknowledgement, .5 News
line four steamers, Of total G..
1900 tons capacity are operated.
-Four steamers OF $4,000 capacity
ARC operated between this port
ana Rotterdam anl Amsterdamjsby (
INC HoEand1hmcr.oan Line, while
The United States Shipping Com.
pa'y handles two direct lines To
Europe, one to Glasgow and tnd
other Hamburg. Three steamsps
of total of $4,000 capacity, pfy
on the Glasgow line and two
steamers Of about 5000 tons ca
pac.ty ply on the Hamburg line.
Leading Coal Port.
AS a coal shipping point New.
Iori news takes rank With the
largest Forts on he Atlantic coast
and seems destined within the next
year or two to outstrIp oil ports In
Inc United States In this trade,
1tlis city became known as Il coal
sh!pping point about twenty years
ago. About that time chesapeake
and ohio coal piers. Nos. 2 and
. were built and coastwise trade
was opened UP with New England
Exceedingly small at first, fine
coal business Increased steadily nm
I'll. In 1890. total of 100000
tons OF black diamonds" was car.
Lea AWAY from the harbOr. The
demand for coal from Newport
News continued tn increase aud
about *eyen years ago 1t was found
raat The two coal docks were nm
ah'c To dump enough coal to sup
ply the enormous demand and In
eAier to fcly meet the require
'H5nts of Tic trade The Chesapeake
f'al Gao Railway Company con.
structed coal pier No. 10.
Ws.h this new pier in operation
The yearly omput was greatly in.
creased. running to nearly 300O00Dg
ions in 1903. II asst year was 4 the
banner year in the ports history IA
total of 3,2S4.557 tons be shipped
This was an increase of more than
100000 over the output for 1905.
To meet the demands Of the CON.
timed increase In the trade the
Chesapeake &; Ohio railway last year 4
decided to construct a now coal pier
here. to be the largest coal dock on
the Atlantic coast The contract was
let last April is now practically com.
pletcd. When this pier is In full .op.
Grafton the shipments of coal from
this port will, ii Is believed, aggregate
5,oo0.000 tons! q year. Us II
Coal Agencies.
Seven big coal companies, handle