The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-06-20

900 tons a year is done in competition
with Atlanta, supplying a very large
territory not in any way supplied at
home.
"This is an immense and very rich
cotton district which employs great
numbers of mules and naturally re-
quires a large amount of dairy stock
and for this it produces no food sup
plies at all. In addition to this it is
country which consumes large guam
titles of corn meal and grows almost
none. The large amounts of feed and
flour from st. Louis consumed there
are carried by rail at a rate of 20
cents hundred, and the competition
with Atlanta for the Georgia trade is
very keen
THE Mississippi VALLEY Tranipcrta-
ton Company proposes to carry grain
to New Orleans for cents. Making
an outside rate of cents, and rate
on the Savannah river barges to Au-
gusta of A cents, this will bring the
material into Augusta from st. Louis
for IS cents, as against present rate
of 20 cents per hundred.
prominent merchants in this line
of trade in Augusta say this will so
stimulate trade as to increase their
business to about 100000 tons a year
in commodities of this class purchas-
ed in and around st. Louis.
'But Atlanta is not to be left out
in the plans of the Steel Barge Line.
It will be reached by three different
directions: By way of Chattanooga,
the first-class rate will be cut not to
exceed $1.05 and will possibly be re.
duced to 95 cents, figure 10 cents a
hundred lower than the rate from
New York to Atlanta, and giving St.
Louis that much of an advantage in
that territory; the second way is by
way of Augusta; and the third way of
reaching Atlanta is by the Apalachi-
cola river on which steamers now ply
from the mouth as fas up as Column
bus, Ga. These steamers will in time
be supplanted by barges, placig St
Louis freight, firct-class, in Columbus
for about 20 cents a hundred pounds.
and making Columbus a distributing
point for a very large territory.
Mobile is at the mouth of very ex-
tensive waterway system, the chief
river of which is the Alabama, which
offers good water to Montgomery, on
which a steel barge line is now
being installed which will enable st.
Louis goods to be placed in Montgom-
cry, Alabama, at a rate probably not
to exceed rs cents a hundred first
class, although the present rate is so
high it is cheaper to ship through
Montgomery to Mobile and return the
goods from Mobile to Montgomery
than to ship direct, in many classes.
"This barge line connection by way
of Mobile will open up the whole of
interior Alabama to direct connection
with st. Louis. But the far south
eastern connection is not limited to
the Savannah river line. There has
recently been chartered to operate in
that territory, the Columbia and At
lantic Railway Steamship Company,
which proposes to install steel barges
of the type of those used by the Mis-
sissippi Valley Line, on the Congaree
and Santee rivers between Columbia,
Georgiatown and Charleston. This
will give this line two seaboard con-
nections and will enable 1t to gather
material in Georgiatown and Column.
bia and intermediate points and de-
liver it to the outside line of the Steel
Barge Company either at Charleston
or by way of the inland passage at
Savannah. The inland passage be-
tween Charleston and Savannah is
sufficiently broad for an extensive
traffic; and from Savannah this in
land route is capable OF being used
for steel barees eoQthwagd e JACK