The San Francisco call., 1910-12-03
PROSPERITY PORTS
AWAIT new Line
Bates & Chesebrongh Will Find
Big Cargoes at Every
Point
Steamers Will Take Much BuSi=
ness From the TranscOn=
tinental Railroads

With the California-Atlantic steam
ship company now well established,
Bates & Chesebrough declare that the
support given to their New York via
San Pedro and Panama line has full
hlied all their expectations. They have
an equitable agreement with the Pan
anna railroad both on the isthmus and
IN New York and their gulf business IS
developing into what they believe will
De a large and important branch of the
trade of this port. Taking his past
utterances at their face value, they be-
lieye that r. p. Schwerin, upon his re-
turn from the orient, will discontinue
the Pacific Mail companys direct serv-
ice.
On its part the new line has kept
falth with the shippers and has main
tanned schedule of 27 days between
New York and San Francisco.
FUTURE HAS ROSEATE HUE
The steamer George w Fenwick left
the isthmus yesterday with 3.100 tons
of New York freight for this port the
Stanley Dollar has just arrived at An
con with full cargo and the Melville
Dollar and Olson & Mahony brought
fuu cargoes to this port. There is
enough freight now on the way to
Panama from New York and New Or
leans to insure full cargoes for all the
ships coming this way for some time,
and the local shippers are so support
ing the line that outward freights to
the full capacity of their ships is also
assured.
Harry Bates said yesterday: ave
have kept our agreement with the
Panama railroad and the Panama rail-
road has more than given us square
deal, not only on the isthmuS but in
New York and Washington. They
have done everything they agreed to
do and in addition have made allow
ances for our ineXperience. for which
we would like to express our appreci-
alton. 1 am inclined to believe that
the Pacific Mail company will with
draw its opposition to our line when
Mr.. Schwerin returns. Schwerin is a
personal friend of mine and I have
every confidence in his sense Of fair
ness. Under any circumstances we are
here to stay and the prospects for sue
cess never looked better than they do
right now"
ARE GETTING SOUTH TRADE
The Bates & Chesebrough gulf line
is developing a trade with the Missis
sippi valley that the transcontinental
railroads formerly monopolized. The
last steamer from Panama brought a
from Pittsburg all the way by water.
The cost of transportation by river
barge down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers to New Orleans is considerably
less than the short haul overland from
Pittsburg to Philadelphia or New
York. a big trade is being worked up
between here and the middle west in
barrel woods and manufactured prod
ucts and as the waterways connecting
with the Mississippi are developed an
enormous territory will be opened to
the new line
The new line has contracted to de-
liver 10000 tons of California asphalt
in Pittsburg early in the new year.
other big deals are under consideration
and by the time the Panama canal is
opened the water trade between here
and the middle west will be bigger.
Bates & Chesebrough believe, than the
trade between here and New York.
Meanwhile the California Atlantic
steamship company is giving local
shippers an independent outlet for their
New York and middle west shipments
and has forced both the Pacific Mail
and the American Hawaiian line to i'm
prove their respective through services.