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Why Savannah? 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 The Savannah 
 Chamber of Commerce 
 
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Why Savannah 
 
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 F you were required to name six of the 
 largest cities of the South, you could 
 readily do so. 
 
 If you were asked to designate the 
 leading agricultural, mining and manufac- 
 turing cities, you would not be far out 
 of the way. 
 
 But, if you were requested to put your 
 finger on the great strategic point for 
 Southern trade and merchandise distribu- 
 tion, you might hesitate. 
 
 Unless you were thoroughly familiar 
 with traffic conditions and the channels of 
 trade your answer would be wrong. 
 
In the first place, that city must not be 
 inland or it can never have the receiving 
 and shipping advantages and the benefit of 
 low freight rates. 
 
 It can't be in the West, because trade 
 tendencies are not West to East — but 
 always East to West. 
 
 A Western or Gulf port must ever 
 be at a disadvantage in serving the more 
 densely populated portion of the South — 
 the South-Eastern States. 
 
 Finding that your distributing point can 
 not be inland and can not be a Gulf-port, 
 it then must be on the Atlantic Seaboard. 
 
 Savannah is the principal seaport of the 
 Atlantic Coast South. 
 
 The Federal Government has expended 
 eight millions of dollars in improving its 
 harbor. 
 
It is recognized as the natural port of 
 entry and export for the entire South-East 
 and a great part of the West. 
 
 Savannah is nearer the great food- 
 producing sections of the West than any 
 of the Northern seaports, and the wonder- 
 ful mineral regions of the South are almost 
 at its gates. 
 
 It is seven hundred miles nearer the 
 West than is New York. 
 
 The vessels of four great Steamship 
 lines ply between Savannah and the various 
 European ports. 
 
 The docks of all Steamship lines 
 entering Savannah are connected with 
 railway lines. Freight can be unloaded 
 from steamers direcdy to cars or into 
 warehouses, at a saving over the more 
 expensive methods at the larger ports, and 
 
re-shipments made quickly and without 
 troublesome delays. 
 
 Four of the largest railway systems of 
 the South have their terminals at Savannah : 
 the Atlantic Coast Line, the Sea-board Air 
 Line, the Southern and Central of Georgia 
 Railways. 
 
 These roads have nearly seventeen 
 thousand miles of track. They traverse 
 ten States with a population of sixteen 
 millions of people. 
 
 Savannah is nearer the rate-basing junc- 
 tion points of North and South Carolina, 
 Georgia, Florida and Alabama, than is 
 any other shipping center. 
 
 Savannah is nearer Omaha, Kansas City 
 and St. Louis than is New York, Philadel- 
 phia or Baltimore. 
 
Since the year ninteen hundred, imports 
 at Savannah have increased over three hun- 
 dred per cent. 
 
 Savannah is the largest cotton port on 
 the Atlantic. 
 
 It is the largest Naval Stores market in 
 the world. 
 
 A great part of the South looks to Sa- 
 vannah for the financing of the cotton crop. 
 
 Last year Savannah received eighty-seven 
 million dollars* worth of cotton. 
 
 Manufacturies have increased one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five per cent, in five years. 
 
 Bank clearings at Savannah average a 
 million dollars a day. 
 
 It is one of the largest jobbing centres 
 of the South. 
 
The Coastwise Steamship lines handle 
 out of Savannah a million and a quarter 
 tons of freight a year. 
 
 If you are going to establish in the 
 South a manufacturing plant, a branch of 
 your business, a distributing depot for your 
 merchandise, you want to consider the 
 present and the future. 
 
 The great natural advantages of Savannah 
 can not change. The city's relation to the 
 rest of the South must grow in importance 
 as the South develops. 
 
 Other cities of the South have their suc- 
 cesses, their enterprise, and their enthusiastic 
 citizens. They are forging ahead in their 
 own way, and God speed their progress. 
 
 When it comes to natural situation — 
 ingress and egress — Savannah is the point 
 of vantage. 
 
Nothing can alter Savannah's position 
 as a distributing center. 
 
 The eyes of Northern business firms are 
 turning to Savannah — many have estabHshed 
 branches there. 
 
 The step is no experiment as any one 
 can learn by writing to twenty or more 
 Northern concerns of prominence whose 
 names will be furnished on request. 
 
 The Savannah Chamber of Commerce 
 Savannah^ Georgia 
 
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