The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-02
ESTABLIsHED..I 1881.

II 40 baIes. the t0ta receipts for this
aHt year being A 56f bal8s. Evans
. Vile isnOW sad tJ be the fourth city
Ia the ainOhut Of aeott0n business
transacted In the M eBt The larger
/ portion Of fh8 e0tt0s received In
/ Evansville Is ssent forward TO New
/ York and the EAstern manufactures
! over thegfailroadz uThis cotton is
T nTincipally derived from Tennessee,
! Alabama and Mississippi y t0Hhere
/ are now established here regular cot
! tOl sales Warehouses, for the storage
aud sale ofa the stdplo and usually
weekly 0r semi weekly public sales
are hetddwhIch attract muohf aiteu-
! ton from commercial menJVJiI1
d. The euFrent Of the tobaee0 trade
Of the i0Wer 0ho has very IN Btefially
! change1 since thelate war The ef-
4 feet Of Gbe closing of the Mississippi,
aud the destruction 0frthe New Or
/ leans market, turned tbeBXpoft trade
/ to d great ezteat toI New York, and
/ this change operated decidsdlyt0 the
4 advantage of the Evaasyille market
La 1857 thefewa an export from that
place Of 9,75lhoe5 5headsP I'm 1867 III
was 35,709 hogsheads9 That much
the larger portion Of this tobacco
vent East direct shown BY the fact
that the Evansville and CfaWfords
Iville Railroad shipped last year ~, ,6i9
hogsheads. lie WiHI Inat BE- forgotten
that this represea ats2 nearly four times
tho tobacco trade Of New Orleans.
The graih trade has IN like manner
chauged itseeur5s. - The wheat and
A ,ur Of theiWabash aud White River
Vallies formerly found 9leit gay 10
Egansville, laa8ghsp to New Orleans
Now, the greasef PORTION from those
regions is transported 10 New York
by che differeht .failfdaa5 ~ Eans
Vile Is, however, the centre Of the %
greatest corn pro 3ueing region OF the
West. It appears that is exports for
1867 amOunteH 10 1876 fOI, being 4
greater than th6se.of Cihcihhati Oh
Louisville Thig tfadgwill continue
60 descend the Mississippi, and will
be exported BY New Orleans.
The provision trade has been sreaglyia
diverted from the river, agd 7 hogs in 81
the. pork produel1g5 region Of Indiana o.
and Illinois, whose busanoss had been
done IN EYausvillesowe mainly to
Cincinnati Dy rail, or we're 'slaugh-
tered on the. lines of railroad more
Convenient for shipmentHtO tho New
i
The grocery business OF Evansville
was large before the wars which
broke up the intimate relations with
New Orleans, and destroyed the su-
gar, molasaes and rice trade with that
market With the ehangeljD the
current of shipments 20 the East there
came, also, change 70 some degree
Of tho grocery trade. .l.t f,.
The wholesale dry goods trade Of
Evansville is increasing rapidly. The
sales of one house alone are as high
as a million Of dollars annually This
is attributed to the combined enter
prise Of the merchants, who, By
pushing out the circle of trade, have
attracted 10 this city q business which
has heretofore sought other and larger
cities.Y On the subject Of manufac-
lures we note but one fact as OF impof-
lance to New Orleans. Evansville fs o.
50 SO convenient to the cotton fields of
the South. with cheap fuel and labor,
and a steady demand for its products, -
that there was no reason why cotton
could not be carried y
on with profit, and aid materially ia
developing the resources and pro-
noting the prosperity Of the city.
This enterprise was therefore In
augurated, and seems TO be III sue
eessful operation. When we remind
orr readers that New Orleans pos
sesses similar advantages we do not
see why cotton mills, moved like
those Of Evansville, By steam, should
not succeed here also. In looking
the statistics Of this report
we derive confirmation Of the views
always advocated By the Bulletin.
IL That the eommerce Of a city,
and especially It's sales Of merchan-
disc, depend entirely upon railroad
and express facilities for what the
reporteails pushing out
the circle of trade"
} q That the new law Of trade which
demands rapid and certain communi-
cation between production and con-
sumption, while it has taken away
from Evansville much of the trade
territory lying north Of that city, has
replaced It with more valuable trade
territory lying south of the city.
The commercial history of New Or
leans will illustrate OH large scale
the facts indicated BY the trade
changes Of the comparatively little
city of Evansville. New Orleans must
open railroads iut0 Texas and Ala
bama 5Sha must establish steam lines
to All the chief ports beyond the Gulf
Her trhde has bee8 cut off By rival
cities II must be restored By the com
binelr enterprise and expenditure Of
her merchants. Her imports from
the interior have been intercepted
and turned east by tue superior at
trootiona 0f Eastern markets She