New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-02

dlfferences in value from September to April
20, have been over nineteen million of dollars.
and this amount will be increased to 500 SCI 1888,
if the crop now going forward is included. The
value Of cotton exported to the close of the last
fiscal year. Both ofJune, was nearly $98 000, 900,
at an average of $3l 80 per bale, and in amount
2,444 ,000 bales Taking January and Febru-
airy, 1858, for examples, the value for the pre-
sent year will be $40 67 per bale The cotton
crop exported this year, therefore, is worth
vastly more than one hundred millions of dol
lars
The Sugar crop is one of growing Importance
| and already of immense value. A thousand
acres in cultivation upon one plantation is
common estate, and vastly larger ones are seen
| in all directions Sugar has been great pro-
duct with Louisiana for more than century
| and quarter The Jesuits introduced the cane
from st. Domingo in 1926, and planted the NAL
| abar and Creole Canes in the suburbs of ST
Mary's The Ribbon Cane, from the East In
dies, is now the favorite plant, and it thrives
earlier and later than any other Sugar plants.
There was a suspension Of planting when Loui-
siana was coded to Spain, but it was resumed
soon after, and the crop amounted to p 900
hhds in 1878, to $4,000 hhds in 1922 90, to
10000 in 1882 so, to l25,000 in 1872 As. and
to 32l 1874 hhds in the season of 1852 81. There
are 1000 pounds net in each hid of Sugar and
this yields from forty to Fifty gallons of Moasses
The crop of the past season was the best ever
known, and 10000 gallons of Molasses per 1000
pounds of Sugar was the product. The aggre-
gate amount reached 26,100,000 gallons The
32l ,194 hhds raised last year also averaged
ll25 pounds net per hid, and gave grand pro
duct of 36S $4,000 pounds. OF this amount
-, $50 hhds came from ifty-one plantations,
and was manufactured by the improved pro
cesses WHICH promise to revolutionize the manu-
facture of Sugar Already Louisiana has 1881
Sugar houses, 943 of which are regulated by
steam apparatus, and 53S by horse power
The sugar estates line each side of the Missis-
sippi river and its legion of bayous upon an
average of two and two and half miles in width
and it is now known that the low lands are sus-
ceptible Of drainage, and the chaparel lands of
clearance and cultivation. Beyond the memory
of man. on this, the only river in the world, the
tide has flowed from the river to the forests, |
until the people are frequently made to tremble |
at the devastation of the floods From New Or |
leans to the mouth Of the Ohio is distance of
over 1000 miles, and there is 100 miles of river
land below the city. On these 100 miles moth
ing of any great consequence is grown but cot
ton and sugar, and with the lands improved az
they may be, no one can well realize their ca |
pacity for production or their value in soil.
This city is to depend hereafter more upon
the local and Southern interior trade than upon |
the great river tributaries which have hitherto |
made New Orleans what she is. Northern and |
Eastern enterprise, the Virginia Road at Wheel |
ing, the Pennsylvania Road at Pittsburgh, the |
Erie Road at Dunkirk, with the railroad routes |
between Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and the lakes, |
have changed the current Of trade Memphis |
will ship her cotton and tobacco up river in.
stead Of down, and the river planters, SO far |
down the Mississippi, found better market at |
home this year, than by forwarding their pro-
duce to New Orleans Thousands of up the
country cattle have hitherto found their way to
this market, and they have been among the
hnest IN the world, But now they 20 towards
the mountains and lakes to the great Eastern
cities The owners Of the Mississippi boats
complain especially of the loss of this branch of
trade New York is Is receive even Southern
cotton and tobacco by the Northern routes