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MMON’SrGlGANTIC SALE
Prpat crowds have thronged our store each day oT this Gigantic
ne-et their share of the great bargains we are now offering to the
Never before in the history of our business have we been able to
nable merchandise at such greatly reduced prices. ; -
is coming Now is the time to lay in your Winter supply. Consult
iterests and trade where your money will do you the most good.
Why not get the habit that so many have? Trade at
your own
tion. Otherwise it will be impossi
ble to develop sufficient traffic to war
rant any improvement in the present
limited ocean transportation service.
There is much practical information
of great value as to foreign markets,
the tariff laws of foreign countries,
etc., that can be obtained from the
state department, the Bureau of the
American Republics, the Bureau of
Manufactures and other government
offices in Washington. All tjiis in
formation is readily accessible to the
Southern Railway company, .and, with
a view to being of practical assistance
to our manufacturers and merchants
desiring to develop export business,
this company will" take pleasure in
securing and supplying any of this in
formation that may be desired.
Correspondence on this subject
should be addressed to the president
of this company. Yoiirs very truly,
W. W. FINLEY, President.
was enjoyed by all present.
Miss Dollie Staten was the guest of
Miss Mae Crow Sunday.
Miss Myrtle McClurd was the guest
of Misses Eva and Julia Jones Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Staten spent
Sunday with Mrs. Howard, near Tem
perance Hill.
Miss Mae Crow spent Sunday night
with Miss Dollie Staten.
Mrs. P. Gossage was the guest of
her mother and father last week.
Mrs. Wm. McClurd took dinner with
Mrs. J. W. Smith Sunday.
"Grandpa” Smith took dinner with
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pritchard Sun
day.
There will be baptizing at the O’Barr
bridge next Sunday. Let everybody
attend.
Miss Mae Crow spent Friday with
Miss Liza Leroy.
Miss Myrtle McClurd and Miss Mae
Pritchard and Mrs. J. H. Pritchard
were in Dalton, shopping, Saturday.
■importance. At the outset it might
be found impracticable to develop
enough traffic to support regular lines
with but a single port to call at'each
end of the voyage, but there are vari
ous combinations that might be made.
Vessels might stop at two or more
ports of the United States, discharging
part of their cargo and receiving part
of a return cargo from each. In the
same way, vessels engaged in the
River Plata trade might also call at
Brazilian ports. In some cases ports
in the West India Islands might ad
vantageously be included in a round
trip voyage. Thus, Cuba buys large
quantities of sun-dried beef, known as
“jerked beef,’ 1 from the River Plata
countries. The vessels carrying this
beef to Cuba get no return cargoes
from that Island, bnt only a short voy
age would be required to bring them
to a South Atlantic or Gulf port for
such a cargd.
If this trade is to be developed to
the utmost and is to be made of
the greatest possible value (to our
Southern people, earnest efforts must
be made to build it up. One thing
that might be suggested is the estab
lishment at our Southern ports qf
houses devoted to handling export, bus
iness directly from those ports. Such
a house handling Southern cotton
goods, for instance, would not only be
of assistance in developing th^ Latin-
American trade, - but could make direct
exportations to the Orient and other
parts of the world as well. . Another
thing of importance is direct repre
sentation in the countries in which
it is sought to sell goods and a care
ful study of the wants of each partic
ular market. This is particularly de-
OUR SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE
The health of our community is very
good at this writing. Sunday school at
this!* place is progressing nicely, with
Mr. J. R. Neal superintendent. Prayer
meeting is growing more encouraging
every Sunday night. There was a
large crowd attended Sunday night
and we hope ‘to see a large "crowd next
Sunday night.
Mrs. C. V. Pitts is not any better;
but her friends hope her a speedy re
covery.
Miss Myrtle McClurd spent Satur
day afternoon with Miss Johnnie Map
Smith.
‘•Mrs. Delia Dillard was the guest of
Mrs. J. H. Pritchard Monday morn
ing.
Mrs. Wm. Baker was the guest of
•Mrs. Tom Dillard and Mrs. Lee Dil
lard one day last week.
The pound supper at Mrs. Duckett’s
tanneries use South American hides
to a considerable extent and their use
may be expected to increase, as there
is no duty on them under the new
tariff law. At present these hides
come in through the North Atlantic
ports almost entirely and are shipped
to Southern tanneries either by rail
or by rail and water. Some of them
even go by way of Europe. In one
case that came to my notice hides
for a North Carolina tannery were
shipped from Argentina to Antwerp,
across the ocean again to New York,
and thence by rail to the tannery.
In another case a Southern tanner
bought 20,000 hides in Mexico but
found that, on account of shipping con
ditions, he had to have them carried
from Vera Cruz, New Mexico, to New
York, and thence by rail to his tan
nery.
In the fiscal year ended June 30,
1908, seventy-six steam vessels entered
at our ports south of Cape Charles,
Va., with cargoes from South Am
erican ports, and seventy cleared with
cargoes for South America. While
this trade, as a whole, is thus nearly
balanced, it is not so as to individual
ports, as is shown by the following
table:
Washington, D. C., Nov. 8, 1909.
Editor Dalton Citizen, Dalton Ga.
Dear Sir—The publication of the
letter on the importance of direct and
regular steamship communication be
tween our South Atlantic and : Gulf
ports and the Latin-American coun
tries, which I addressed, under date
of July 8th, 1909, to the editors of
Southern newspapers, resulted in the
receipt by me of a large number of
letters showing a widespread inter
est in this subject throughout the
South.
This. correspondence revealed the
fact that some very important manu
facturing interests are ready to take
advantage of opportunities to extend
their trade in this direction by ship
ments through Southern ports. This
information and statistics of existing
commerce indicate that, with regular
lines in operation and with system
atic and co-operative efforts on the
part of our manufacturers and mer
chants, a considerable trade may be
built up. In fact, something may be
done in this direction even in_ advance
of the establishment of regular lines.
The Southern ports, in endeavoring
to build up trade with. South America,
should rely principally on the devel
opment of new business and on the
more systematic handling of the irreg
ular traffic now moving in both direc
tions between them and South Ameri
ca by vessels chartered for single car
goes. There is a considerable volume
of this business, but it is not suffi
ciently regular to afford constant em
ployment to the vessels which engage
in it. They seldom make round trips
with cargoes in both directions. For
instance, in the year ended June 30,
1908, there were imported through the
South Atlantic and Gulf ports 245,-
415,955 pounds of coffee, largely from
Brazil, and some, rubber and other Bra-
: zilian products were brought in
through these same ports, but the ves
sels bringing them did not obtain re
turn cargoes, but sailed in ballast to
North,Atlantic ports qr with cargoes
to Europe, and this notwithstanding
the fact that Brazil, in that same year,
bought from the United States pro
ducts to the total value of $19,490,077,
including 3,470,818 yards of cotton
goods, 742,898 gallons of cottonseed
oih 306,871 barrels of flour, manufac
tures of iron and steel to the value of
$5,945,082, and other articles, some
proportion of which could advantage
ously be shipped through Southern
ports. In like manner we imported
through Southern ports, principally
from Chile and Peru, 82,165 tons of
nitrates, but the vessels bringing them
in seldom or never obtained return
cargoes, though the west coast coun
tries are steadily increasing their pur
chases of American goods.
The best' customer the United
States has in South America is Argen
tina, to which country our ® x P^ ts
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AMERICAN AND ELLWOOD
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEALERS IN
Norfolk and Portsmouth, -Va.
Newport News, Va.
Charleston, S. C
Savannah, Ga.
Ferhandina, Fla
Apalachicola, Fla.
Mobile, Ala.
Pearl River, Miss
New Orleans, La ,.
Galveston, Tex
Dalton. Ga., Nov. 1st, 1909
TO THE TRADE
Total
The prihcipal commodities carried
by the steamers which cleared from
Southern ports for South
It is with
America
were lumber, naval stores and coal.
The first step in the direction of
developing more regular service might
be taken by systematic efforts, both
in the Southern ports and in South
America, to secure return cargoes, so
that vessels -could make round trips
and be encouraged to stay in this
service. Then, with knowledge in ad
vance that a certain vessel was .to
arrive at a Southern port with coffee
from Brazil or nitrates from the west
coast, it would be more practicable to
concentrate a return cargo, and, in
the same way, if it were known in
advance that a vessel from a South
ern port would arrive on a certain
date at Buenos Ayres there would be
a better chance of getting .a return
cargo, including hides for Southern
tanneries. This employment qf ves
sels of known capacity for round trip
service would obviate one of the prac
tical difficulties encountered in trying
to obtain cargoes for tramp steamers,
which is that, when the exact carry
ing capacity, of a ship is not known,
there is danger of not getting a full
cargo and having to pay higher char
ges than if , the vessel were loaded
to its capacity or of concentrating at
the port more goods than it can carry,
and then, in order to prevent undue
delay, the surplus must be reshipped
by rail or coastwise steamer to some
other port where it can go by a reg
ular line.
While some increased business might
be built up by thus systematizing the
use of irregular steamers, the estab-
yaras, a decrease of nearly 75 per
cent in four years. This is partially
explained by the fact that Brazil, un
der a high protective tariff, is build
ing up a cotton manufacturing indus
try, using native cotton. But Eng
lish mills, in most of the years of'this
period, increased their shipments to
Brazil by having their expert repre
sentatives on the ground to study the
needs of the market and to supply
those grades of goods not made by
the Brazilian mills. In the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1908, Brazilian pur
chases of American cotton goods
amounted to but $373,545, as com
pared with purchases of British cotton
goods for the calendar year 1908 to
the value of $8,357,766.
The total purchases of American
cotton goods by all the South Ameri
can countries for the fiscal year 1908
amounted to but $2,760,231. In the
calendar year 1908 the values of cot
ton goods bought by these same coum
tries from the principal European
countries were as follows: United
Kingdom, $38,330,205; Germany, $13,-
832,000; France, $5,702,000; Italy, $8,-
332,764, and Spain, $2,030,282. In oth
er words, the United States sells to
these countries less than four per cent
of the total value of the cotton goods
they buy from the six countries above
mentioned. This poor showing can
not be improved merely by supply
ing better steamship service, impor
tant as it is. If a larger share in
the South American trade is to be
had it must be sought earnestly and
be won in the face of sharp competi-
We are also pleased to announce t
Mr,. Jim Henry, will remain with us and will
friends any time they are in the city.
Trusting we may have the pleasure
and to your entire satisfaction, we are,
; v : Yours truly,
FITE-FERRELL HARDWARE CO.,
By Paul B. Fite