San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-02
Of
FORD PLANT
b00MS OTHERS
More Untitled Car Orders
Than in History Of
Z Company.
JERKS A SEA PORT
Means for Supplying Euro
pean Trade Are
Needed.
bEEKS A SEA PORT
By j. c. ROYLE.

Upright. by The San Antonio Light.
New York, March 2. - The Ford
fotor Company pans to make 14S,-
100 cars in March as compared with
X25, 900 in February. Ford dealers
ave sent in acquisitions for 100000
airs in March, and, according to tele-
raphic reports from Detroit today
be company is further behind on I'M
lied orders than at any time IN Its
istory.
Those facts and the trend they
how in the automobile and other bus
nesses, are having a far-reaching
fleet on scores of industries. Steel
rices continue TO move into higher
erritory. Mills are breaking produe-
ion records, yet Pittsburg reports
hey are having difficulty in meet
hg the Ford demand Automobile
ody builders are fighting for pref
renee on aluminium and glass orders.
In increase in wages affecting 10000
on-union miners and workers in in
ustrial plants in the Birmingham
oal, iron and steel section, was in ef-
ect today.
Water Transportation Sought.
Freight tonnage on the railroads
at record rate with equipment
It'll cramped TO handle 1t. AS a con-
equence new boat lines are planned
or this season between Detroit, Buff
alo, Milwaukee and Chicago. AL
eady automobiles are being driven
verland to Muskegon and shipped by
oat from there to West Lake, Michi-
tan ports. Automobile manufactur-
RS expect to start boat shipments 10
! II available ports April /.
Newport News and Norfolk. bust
hess rivals for years, are bidding
gainst each other for the handling of
BE least a part of Fords Atlantic
xport business. Ford. according TO
business men of Norfolk, wants n
lite somewhere on Hampton Roads for
transatlantic steamship terminal
10 fill the European demand for his
| ars and tractors. Efforts to confirm
reports taht the Detroit manufactures
Vas negotiating for the army base at
Norfolk have been futile.
Newport News Offers Site.
In response to the report. how
kyer. Newport News has offered Ford
free site on the water front. which
l. is said, he has promised to con-
kfder. Norfolk countered with an
bther offer. the terms of which have
been jealously guarded. Ford repre-
Fentatives have been in both cities sew
Eral times and representative of one
bf the country's greatest financial
[ouses recently declared they had in
Eestigated the plant OF the Newport
News Shipbuildins and Drydock Com
pany.
With the Van Sweringens eontroll-
Ing the Chesapeake 4 Ohio Railroad
which they have linked with the
Nickel Plate. it is pointed out that
hose lines form a fairly direct rail
line to Ford factories. Reports have
been current in New York and Phila-
|lelphia that Ford interests played
Eome part in financing the acquisi-
|ion of the Huntington holdings in the
e. & o. by the Van Sweringens.
Increased Fruit Fleet.
In anticipation of the largest i'm
porting season in its history surpass-
ing even the record established in
1919, the United Fruit Company has
enartefcu seven IuOltlOndi steamships
for service between New Orleans and
central and South American ports.
This will make total of 30 vessels
in commission in this trade.
The French line and the Holland
American line have entered competi-
lion for passenger and freight traffic
from American gulf ports to Europe,
luxurious accommodations
obtainable only out Of At
Iantic ports.
Sugar Is Active.
Cuban sugar mills continue to grind
az capacity and very considerable
of the Cuban crop remains
to be marketed. The Western and
Middle Western Beet Sugar Company
have not yet sold more than % TO
b5 per cent of last years production
and as the grower is paid by the fac
tories on a basis of the price for
sugar. very decided advantage is
aScruing to the beet farmers from
present prices and conditions which,
however, are subject to change as
morn CON, nlnto ~, form tinn oS IN Tim