Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-09-25
BUSINESS.
A Few Important Items for Com
mercfaI Men and Others 90 stick
In Their ScraPbOOhs.

We have seven miles Of Nicolson-
paved streets, which cost 81. 100000.
We have eight hardware stores, with
capital of $400, 900, among us.
Four cotton presses in this city com.
pressed 200, 900 bales of cotton last year
Last year the banking capital of this
city was 81 ,024, 900; it now is 80, O20, 300
Memphis can boast of FIVE marble
yards, that give employment to fifty arti.
Fans.
There were 1919 bales Of cotton
shipped from this city to New Orleans
last year.
Our cotton-gin factories have ginned
2,700 bales of cotton and repaired 200
gins during the year.
Our streets are travelled by 937 licensed
drays, l03 licensed hacks and carriages,
and 25 omnibuses.
Our dry docks employ seventy five
mechanics and laborers, at an average
outlay Ct $ll0O week.
Our goodIy city is favored with four
teen Wholesale liquor establishments and
four lager beer breweries.
Our carriage. makers, four in number,
employ sixty hands, and. have 1850, 900
capital invested in their business.
A company with capital of 100000
has been organized to'make Memphis a
depot for the distribution of guauo.
In 1860 Memphis received $l9,6l8, 900
for 392,69O bales of Gotten; in 1868 she
received 1871, 100000 for 1868 bales.
A soap factory in operation here has
capacity for manufacturing 100000
pounds of soap from crude cotton-seed
oil.
There are six founderies in Memphis,
with a capital of $3.50, 900; they employ
450 hands, at an average of SO so day
each.
Capital invested in sash, door and
blind factories in this city amount to
about $3.50, 900; they employ $50 hands,
at 50 so a day.
The average price per pound paid for
cotton in Memphis during the past year
was q 1925 cents; in New Orleans,
n $50 cents.
We have eight ssw-mills in operation,
with an invested capital of $3.50, 900;
they employ 200 hands, at an average
expense of $500 week.
The Memphis Gas Company has
twenty seven miles of gas mains running
through the city, and annually manufac-
lures $4,000, 900 cubic feet of gas.
Our millers are running four mills, on
an invested capital of $3.50, 900; they
employ fifty hands, at 50 so a day, and
daily grind about 300 barrels of -four and
meal.
During the past year our brick-makers
made only 100000, while in 1866 they
made 2O,O0O,OOO. Not more than sixty
hands are employed at this business, at
the rate of ST so day.
The aggregate capital of foreign insur.
ance companies among us is SAC, $50 900 /;
total capital of Memphis fire insurance
companies, 0,eOO; of Memphis life
Insurance. companies, 81 100000.
We received 247,698 bales of cotton in
this city last year, against 253, 2O7 bales
the previous year, falling off of $500
bales, owing to Radical legislation keep
ing the negroes out of the cotton fields.
There is capital to the amount of $780,
900 invested here in cotton-seed oil fac
tories, which annually consume 100, 900
sacks of seed, turn out 1000 barrels of oil,
g. 60 cents gallon, and large quantities
of oil cake, at $50 ton.
The trade of Memphis extends three
hundred miles into the interior, compris-
ing eighteen counties in Tennessee,
twenty in Arkansas, and twelve in Mis-
sissippi, all trayersed by rivers or rail-
roads.
An area of one hundred and twenty
FIVE miles around Memphis contains
800, 900 people. This circle in 1859 pro-
duced $4,000 bales of cotton, and
possessed 1,5l2000 porkers Commonly
called swine), 100000 horses and mules,
81, 900 cows, and 1000 sheep.
There were shipped from Memphis
last year, 247,6 5l bales of cotton-32,-
S79 bales by the Memphis and Charles
ION railroad; l1,l22 by the Mississippi
aud Tennesses railroad 66,450 by the
Memphis and Ohio railroad; 1885 by
steamers northward, and 49, by steam
ers southwark.
On the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road last year, 63.O72 bales of cotton
came to this city; on the Mississippi and
Tennessee road, 1864; on the Men,
phis and Ohio, 80, 1909; on the Memphis |
and Little Rock, $3.50; on steamers,
1925; on wagons, 80 457-making a
otal of 247, 6s3 bales,
Iu 1860 the total cotton crop vas t.
575,S7O bales. ont of which New Orleans
received 2,255, 448 bales, and Memphis
39S,72l bales; in 1868 the total cotton
,rop was 2, 465 800, out of which New
Orleans received $50, 432 bales and Mem
,his 247,698 bales-fscts showing that
While the receipts are falling off in New
Orleans they are insFssSing in Memphis,
We received ia this city last year,
1864 sacks of wheat; l4s,7sS barrels of
our; 1883 bushels of corn; 1892
,arrels Of corn meal 5000 tons of hay;
2,S4Y sacks Of OATS 2a5 hhds., 4ls4
,oxes and l4,44l packages of tobaccol
'499 casks, 1926 tierces and 1883 boxes
# bacon; 22,5O7 barrels of mess pork;
lO4l hhds., 1898 barrels and Sl2 boxes