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VOL. VII.
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SAVANNAH’S GREAT FUTURE ASSURED
PROSPERITY ANO A GREATER
CITY BECOMING A REALITY
SOME GOOD REASONS FOR OPTIMISM
Facts and Figures Showing in
. Terse way the many advan
tages Enjoyed by Both the
Manufacturer and Citizen.
Savannah has always occupied a
unique position. The* largest port of
the South Atlantic, whose harbor
business for 1908 was greater than all
of the other ports on the South At
lantic combined, with unsurpassed
terminal and transportation facilities,
it is now in a position to offer manu
facturers and shippers ideal facilities
for the location of manufacturing
plants or the distribution of products
manufactured eftewhere in the South
to the North and East by rail and wa
ter and‘to foreign countries by steam
ship lines operating regularly from
this port.
County,
gia, settled in 1733, by General Ogle
thorpe, is the most important sea
port of the South Atlantic, and is one
of the oldest and most beautiful cities
in the United States, appropriately
styled “The Forest City,” because of
the number of stateliness of its mag
niflcient shade trees artistically orna
menting the beautiful avenues, streets
and numerous places or public squares.
It is located on a plateau 40 feet
above the Savannah River and is
situated on the South bank of the
latter, 18 miles from the Atlantic
Ocean in latitude 30 degrees and 5
minutes North, longtitude 81 degrees
and 8 minutes West; and has a popu
lation of 85,000.
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH AND AD
VANTAGES OF SAVANNAH.
While Savannah is, comparatively,
in the infancy of its industrial devel
opment, it posseses a number of large
and important manufactories, and
many of minor size which are pros
pering and developing rapidly, steadi
ly increasing their capital, output and
wage-roll. The seventy-five principal
manufacturing concerns of the city
now employ about six thousand hands
and have an output yearly of the
value of over twelve millions.
The past five years have been a re
markable development in this depart
ment of activity.
A number of the city s largest
manufactories have been established
during that time, have been exceed
ingly successful, and have opened the
way for other industries, several of
which are now located here.
Many openings exist for new enter
prises. Considerable of the goods of
all kinds used in this section are still
brought from the North and West, at
great expense for handling and trans
portaion, which could and should be
made at home.
Manufacturers, who enter this field,
study the demands of the people, and
meet them, will place aiemselves on
the high road to wealth.
Savannah* offers every possible en
couragement to men 'embarking 4n
manufacturing Industries, large or
small. Especially favorable are the
opportunities for manufacturers into
which lumber, cotton, and wool large
ly enter, Savannah being a great mar
ket for these raw pdoructs of the
THE LABOR HERALD.
Official Organ Trades and Labor Assembly, Savannah.
South. Every article which enters in
to the daily use could be made here
profitablely.
COMMERCIAL.
Since 1890, Savannah has more
than doubled the amount capital em
ployed in manufacturing, and more
than doubled the value of the output.
Diversified manufactories have mul
tiplied in recent years, which is in it
self the best guarantee that the ad
vantages are here for every charac
ter of industrial enterprise. Why
should not Savannah be a large manu
facturing city, being the largest and
important sea-port of the South,
than any similarly situated city in
the world, makes it the most inter
esting field of study to be found.
The South has practically a mo
nopoly of cotton, naval stores, lumber,
iron, phosphate rock and many other
important articles of the field, forest
and mine.
The business transacted in Savan
nah during 1908 will average $151,-
000,000, this, of course, ooes not in
clude cotton, lumber and naval stores.
It only represents manufacturers,
wholesale and retail businesses, etc.
The greatest strategic point for
Southern, distribution is Savannah
It is due to the lowest ocean
FREIGHT RATES and railroad cen
tralization.
SAVANNAH’S INDUSTRIAL FAB
RIC.
Savannah's manufactures now in
clude fertilizer works, scrap factories,
machine shops, iron foundries, copper
works, crate and box factories, paint
factories, cigar factories, railroad car
works, locomotive works, candy fac
tories, marine railway, ice factories,
sash, door and blind factories, rice
mills, mattress factories, harness fac
tories, woodenware factories, coffin
factories, rosin oil works, cotton oil
works, pharmaceutical laboratories,
canning factories, and many others.
SAVANNAH HAS COALING STA
TION.
At present about ten per cent, of
the. foreign steamships coal at sa
vannah. The Ocean Steamship Com
pany is now providing facilities for
coaling all of its New York and Bos
ton steamers.
Estimated coal requirements annu
ally for Ocean Steamship Company,
80,000 tons.
The greater part of four leading
Southern States is tributary to Savan
nah as a Jobbing centre. From its
wholesale houses the merchants of
the interior towns of Georgia, Fiori
da, Alabama and South Carolina, to
a large extent, draw their supply of
goods.
Savannah's position as a sea-port,
with extraordinary transportation fa
i ellities and connections with the great
markets of the North, gives it the
benefits of cheap freight rates from
the mills of that section. With ten
steamships sailing from four great
Northern emporiums of trade to Sa
vannah every week, its jobbers are
enabled to receive their stock continu
ously and at the minimum of expense.
The four great railroad systems cen
tering here place them in easy com
munication with a!l the interior
points in the States mentioned, en
abled them to supply wants of their
merchant customers promptly and
satisfactorily. The railroads operat
ing from the Nofth furnish reason
able and satisfactorily freight rates
in competition with the steamship
companies, thereby assuring to the
business interests of Savannah a con
tinuation of these benefits.
As a result of these favorable bene
fits, and the enterprise of it sbusiness
men, has, for many years,
been one of the greatest distributing
points of the South.
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Its jobbing trade is now placed at
$52,500,000 annually, divided as fol
lows:
Groceriessl2,ooo,ooo
Dry Goods 7,000,000
Boots and Shoes 3,000,000
Clothing 4,000,00 u
Hardware 4,000,000
Fruits, Vegetables and Pro-
visions 5,000,000
Tobacco, etc 10,000,000
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Hay, Grain, etc 2,000,000
Builders’ Supplies, etc. . . 2,000,000
TWENTY-ONE new factories have
located in Savaunah within the past
two years.
SAVANNAH GA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1909
t POPULATION AND ArlSa OF SA
VANNAH.
Statistical abstract of the United
States for 1908 s
population as 71,163.
The concensus of opinion now is
. that 82,000 is a most conservative es
timate of Savannah’s population.
Area in acres annexedThnce
June Ist., 1900 : 1,056
Area in acres annexed Jgnce
June Ist., 1906 . ; . . . . 4,320
BUSINESS EXCHANGES.
Savannah Board of Trade, Savan- (
nah Chamber of
Cotton Exchange and the Savannah ,
Grain Exchange. These Institutions ,
are presided over by directorates com- ]
posed of prominent and progressive (
business men w r ho are working steau
ly for the unbuilding of Savannah. ,
SAVANNAH RIVER AND HARBOR.
The 1905 project for improvement
of Savannah river ana harbor, for
which Congress made necessary ap
propriations was a tentative one, the
object being to determine whether the
depth of 33 feet across the ocean bar
at mean high water, or 26 feet at
mean low water could be maintained
without building jetties, and ultimate
ly extending the increased depth up
the river to the limit of the city
wharves.
The report of Col. Dan C. Kingman,
which has just been made to the war
department, shows that the desired
depth under the tentative project can
be maintained without building Jet-
Building Trades Department of Savannah and Vicinity
tics, and Col. Kingmann has rec
ommended to the war department
that the project be made a permanent
one, and that an additional $1,500,-
000 be appropriated for its completion.
At present we have 33 feet across
the ocean bar at mean high water and
26 feet in the river channel from the
city wharves to the sea.
The Government thus far has ex
pended over $8,000,000. For every
dollar there has been an increase of
$lO in commerce. For every foot of
increased depth there has been an in
crease in commerce of between $6,-
000,000 and $7,000,000 annually.
In ten years size of ships have in
creased 40 per cent., ocean freight
rates decreased 37 per cent., cost of
marine insurance decreased 25 per
cent.
In fresh water ships scour them
selves of barnacles and other marine
life on their hulls. This is a matter
of more importance than the mere
statement would indicate.
Survey of June 30th., 1909, showed
following depth of water at Ocean
Bar:
Depth in feet.
Low Tide High Tide Average wiain
26 33 240
25 32 330
24 31 410
23 30 500
21 28 945
TERMINALS.
The terminals of the railway and
steamship lines at Savannah cover ap
proximately 3,000 acres of land and
146 miles of trackage.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
:- have, in their terminals on Hutchisoi
t Island, at Savannah, the finest do
t mestic and export shipments of an;
,- city in the country.
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HEALTH.
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j Savannah stands pre-eminent among
; American cities from the standpoint
of general healthfullness. For miles
the country has been throughly drain
ed. In the city an extensive system
, of sewerage has been supplemented by
, a modern house drainage system, the
plan of the noted New York Engineer,
the late Col. George Waring.
Savannah wants manufacturing in
stitutions, and offers to them induce
ments not found elsewhere in the
South.
LUMBER.
On account of Savannah’s magnifl
cient terminal facilities and deep wa
ter from the wharves to the sea, she
has been able to maintain her posi
tion as the chief lumber port of the
South Atlantic. Notwithstanding the
fact that our immediate territory of
of yellow pine has materially dimin
ished, we are able to draw large and
heavy shipments from other lumber
ports, thereby enabling Savannah to
keep her proud record as one of the
chief lumber ports of the world. Dur
ing the past nineteen years there has
been something over 4,000,000,000 feet,
board measure, shipped through this
nnrt Tb»ve. has .been. A, steady, ifij
crease in shipments <n lumber—
years past, which is clearly shown by
the following figures, taken ten years
apart:
1889 93,311,939 feet, board meas
ure.
1899 170,865,243 feet, board meas
ure.
1908 420,865,243 feet, board meas
ure.
1909 230,786,432 feet, board meas
ure.
COTTON.
Receipts of cotton at this port for
the fiscal year ending August 31, 1908,
were 1,534.601 bales, which is an ex
cess of the previous season, 65,382
bales, or an increase of 4.45 per cent.
Total exports for the season, 1,467,-
474 bales.
Receipts at Savannah in periods of
ten years:
1897 699,726 bales $32,446,294
1889 828,619 “ 40,537,041
1899 1,101,454 “ 30.490,849
1908 1,534,599 “ 87,435,765
During the past thirty years, from
1876, to 1908, the receipts and ship
ments of cotton at this port have been.
Receipts „
32,275,181 bales $1,515,442,576
Exports
32,264,134 “ 1,514,890,684
This city holds the record of the
world for having shipped the largest
cargo of cotton, which consisted of
26,679 bales.
SAVANNAHS EXPORTS, YEAR
ENDING JUNE, 1909.
!908 $61,695,330
1909 50,900,156
INFLUENCE OF PANAMA CANAL
UPON SAVANNAH.
Savannah being recognized as the
natural port of entry and export for
the Southwest, and for a great extent
of western country, will have the ef
fect of bringing to this port a vast
commerce developed by reason of the
opening of the Panama Canal. The
construction of this canal will
threngthen its position in this and
other respects. When the great water
way is completed. Savannah will be
705 miles nearer its mouth than New
York; 610 miles nearer than Philadel
ph la, and 520 miles nearer than Balti
more. It will also be nearer than New
Orleans or Gasveston.
St. Louis, Kansas City, Oklaha, an i
other centers tor the distribution of
food products, as well as Chattanooga.
m Atlanta and Birmingham, and other
o- important points in the mineral sec
y tion of the South, are many miles near
er Savannah than 'to any of the North
' ern sea-ports.
g CLIMATE.
L t Savannah’s climate is the best des
s cribed in one word, it is “ideal."
b Snow, sleet and slush are unknown.
q Ice is a rarity. Extreme heat is as
y unusual as extreme cold. While the
e North and West are in the embrace of
• t blizzards, Savannah is enjoying a tem
perature that is bracing, but not full
. of acute suffering and distress.
Tourists have found Savannah the
> most enjoyable city of the South from
December Ist. to May Ist.
The railfall will averages 9.53 inches
during December, January and Feb-
• ruary; 9.68 inches during June, July
• and August, and 11.55 inches during
! September, October and November.
The mean average temberature for
s the four sansons is: Spring, 66 de
i grees; summer, 81 degrees; fall, 67
' degrees, and winter, 51 regrees.
A warm, salubrious climate, filled
with recuperative elements and enjoy
ed by tourists and travelers from all
i parts of the country. A cool breeze
blows from the Atlantic, only ten miles
away, continuously during the summer
i months, making Savannah the coolest
place along the Atlantic Coast during
i the months.
■ FINANCIAL INTER-
awake and progressive, and
keenly alive to the business of this
city and surrounding territory, Savan
nah’s banks have kept steadily p.aeal
of the times and neither the oid in
habitant nor the newcomer need lack
for most excellent commercial bank
ing facilities upon the production of
proper credentials and security.
Several of the banks have depart
ments for savings, where interest is
paid at the rate of three per cent
to six per cent on time uepos’ts. Most
of tne banks have provided special
departments for lady customers anu
all welcome small accounts as well
as large ones.
Loans are freely afforded customers
consistent with prudent banking
methods. Accommodations or collat
eral loans may be made ~y the larg
est banks to the extent ot $150,000 to
one person, or firm or corporation
upon satisfactory security, and it is
therefore possible for customers to se
cure accommodation loans of from
SIOO to $150,000, according to the re
quirements of their business and the
nature and extent of their security.
Savannah has fifteen banking insti
tutions, ten known as clearing house
banks and five who work independent
of that organization.
SAVANNAH’S BANK CLEARINGS.
For seven months of
1909 $101,866,290 68
1908 194,279,527 50
1907 224,750,532 88
1906 242,603,427 00
1905 232,522.039 98
The foreign exports from Savannah
(1908-9), were $48,554,174.00.
Total combined exports of all Soil.*
Atlantic ports were $60,000,000 —Sa-
vannah, $48,554,174.
HATTERS WINNING OUT FAST.
Official notice has been received
from the United States Hatters’ Union
that four more firms in Orange, N.
J., had made their peace with the
union and that their union handshave
reurned to work, after having been
out since January 15. It is expected
that several more Newark firms and
one of the remaining two Orange firms
a ill settle soon. The sentiment of the
six firms last week leaves only fifteen
of the original eighty-five hat firms
vhieh started the national tight
against the Hatters' Union in Janu
ary. which have not come to terms.
The battle of the Hatters’ Union was
to maintain the contract shop and the
use of its label. It has won its point
in the seventy factories which have
settled up to date.
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