The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-31
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shipments piven tne destination OF the
mamie ~ nenrnhad on weekly receipts and shin
,,od;,;os Important and unimportant com
lnoIitrs " are gwen, but there is no nnbl;c 20.
| cord OF the destination of sbinman,p puoil4 re-
specification OF the different routes 5v anu rh no
shipments are made. " WHICH
| AT New Orleans the weekly receints or n,
staple products from the interior by rail and
river, and the weekly exports to foreign conn
| tries are given, but OF the coastwise shipments
| IL is believed DO account whatever is kept, un-
less it be for those outside of that Collection
District.
At Baltimore and Philadelphia the COM
mercal records of the receipts of the staple
products from the interior or coastwise are as
yet imperfect. Even of some varieties of
grain there is no record, and of other articles
the records are mea9re.
AT Boston the record of receipts is still i'm
perfect. Barley is hot included in the receipts
OF grain. The details Of exports are quite
fIll, with the exception of destination. They
are all embraced under two heads, coastwise
and foreign.
The New York Produce Exchange on its
records OF receipts includes only eighteen ar
tlcles. Cotton, TOBACCO butter, cheese, beans,
wool, ana many other important staple pro-
duets, have not heretofore been included
AT Portland the Board of Trades record is
account
ceipts and exports.
At Albany the tide water receipts of flour,
grain and lumber by canal, and of a small
number of articles only by the Central rail-
road, are given weekly.
AT Pittsburg and Wheeling, with the ex-
ceplioh OF live stock at the iormer) there is
| no record through the Board of Trade or the
| newspapers of the receipts or shipmepts at
| those points. The only record is the annual
| reports OF the Baltimore and Ohio, and Penn
| syIvania Central railroads, and it is with diff
Guilty that even these can be obtained ip four
months after the close of each fiscal years
business.
At Erie, Pennsylvania, or Dunkirk. New
York, there has never been any commercial
record through their respective Boards of
Trade OF either receipts or shipments Of prop
erty.
AT Louisville Kentucky, the records of re-
ceipts and shipments of the principal articles
of produce re given, but of the latter there is
no account of destination.
At Memphis Richmond, Charleston, Nor
folk, Savannah and Mobile, the commercial
records are ia the main confined TO cotton
and tobacco.
Until the era of the introduction of rail
ways, the movement of property from the in
terror to the sea board and uice ueysa. was by
the water lines, which were comprised in the
Mississippi, the lakes, and the Erie canal. 1t
account OF the movement OF the staple prod
ucts from the interior. Then New Orleans
and New York were almost the only outlets
for the surplus products of the interior. Now
we have another water line via the lakes and
the st. Lawrence river, and five through lines
of railway north of the Ohio river, extending
from the Atlantic ports to the Mississippi riv-
er, and projected lines from Chicago 20 Rich
mOnd and Norfolk; from Cincinnati, Louis
vile and Cairo to Mobile, and from Cairo and
ST. Louis to New Orleans. These Hallway
lines will all be completed and in operation
within comparatively short period.
The movement of the agricultural staples,
animals and animal products OF The country
by rail is already of great magnitude, and is
being rapidly augmented. The movement OF
gram by rail from Chicago, Milwaukee, Tole-
do and Cleveland, during the year 1860 was
nearly 24,000,0O0 bushels exclusive of flour.
A very considerable portion of this grain
| reached tide-water at Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. The remaining por-
| ton went direct to consumers in the Middle
and New England States.
This rail movement Is of such vast magni-
tude that the business interests of the entire
| country require the making OF daily reports
| OF rail shipments, from all the imporlaHt trade
centers OF the interior. including Buffalo, Os-
weeo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago,
| Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati, of ali of
| the staple products. Ihe receipts and ship
ments at and from these places are now given
as hereinbefore mentioned; but they are still
imperiectly given. First, the Chambers of
Commerce and Boards of Trade should give
at each trade centre the aggregate shipments
OF each article daily, including those destined
for the seaboard and for the interior. Second
They should in connection with the aggre-
gaze shipments OF each article give the asgre-
gates OF those destined for tde-water, speci
fling the destination something like the iol
lowing: