Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-09-08

The Merchants Exchange Prices Cur
rent, issued yesterday, contains the ian.
nual statement" Of the trade and COM
morce Of this city for the year 1865, care
fully compiled from the books of the
Chamber Of Commerce by its able Sec
rotary, Mr.. Trask, who las furnished
''revisw" Of our prosperity that is full of
facts interesting to every citizen. 1t is
with great pleasure we state that Mr..
Trask has performed his duties admira-
bly,, for which he should receive the
warmest thanks not only of the Chamber
of Commerce, but Of every wel-wisher of
Memphis, The following extracts will
give fair idea Of how we are progress
ing: t0 fe
A barge line to st. Louis and to New
Orleans; packet lines to St. Louis, Gin
cinnati, Louisville, the White, St. Francis
and Arkansas; as well as to points up
and down the Mississippi, are in success.
full operation while others are to be es-
tablished during the coming season.
The Little Rock railroad will be speedily
completed. The Mississippi river road
to Paducah and Cairo, aud the Memphis
and Iron Mountain road ere under con-
tract with an extension of the Little
Rock road to Fort Smith. A company
is organizing to build highway to Kan
sas City, and the construction OF road,
feeder to the Memphis and Little Rock,
connecting Helena and the Iron Noun
tain in Missouri, has been contracted for.
Beyond and above all these evidences of
progress, we have sold, during the past
year, two hundred and thirty thousand
bales of cotton, fully 10000 more than
during any preceding year. In the ag-
gregate receipts compared with last year
there has been falling off of 6, 500 bales,
yet nearly 1872, 900, 900 of money has been
distributed to the country trading with
and adjacent to Memphis. Farmers
have paid more attention to the culture
of cereals than ever before, and in many
localities produced more than sufficient
for home consumption. Our receipts of
hogs, bacon, corn, wheat aud other
grains from the White, Arkansas and
st. Francis rivers, have been nearly
doubled. The Arkansas country
raised large surplus of these pro.
ducts. The grape culture has attracted
much attention. Markets have teemed
with evidence of successful production
throughout the season, while all classes
of fruits and vegetables we're grown in
such increased quantities that citizens
were enabled to purchase them at trifiing
rates. Our well earned fame as the
greatest inland cotton market of the
country will cause cotton to seek our
market from greater distances than ever
before. Our saw mills, planning mills and
foundries have opened wide field of
industry and prosperity. Their BUSH
ness and that of builders, whose
labor is expended in the country
and villages everywhere along the
river and railroads, has increased more
than one-third over last year. One
Of our foundries has done $4,000 worth
of work for towns in Western Missouri
A factory has constructed several houses
to be put up in Louisiana and at points
along the lower rivers, oil bearing evil
dence of our superior facilities, together
with the cheapness and quickuess of per-
forming the contracts. These indications
of the prosperous condition of the sur
rounding country attest the fact that our
city is soon to be equally as fourishing,
and that ia short time the smoke from
thousand stacks will rise up, and the
hum of many spindles will make music
for an increased population destined to
inhabit the greatest Southern inland city
of the country.