Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-24
THE co z'EGN CRxGsP.
Total Bales Raised for the Year.
I.@27.St5 -Enterc.linE Figures
Relative TO the Overland
MnXRIuANG.

I,>27,Si5 Enterc>Iins Figures
Relative 10 the Overland
Movement.
New ORLEANS, September 1.-THE
Crop Committee of the National Cot
ton Exchange issued their report to-
day, making the total crop for the
year ending September l, 1875, 3, s27,-
S45 bales Of which 2,6T4, 448 were
exported foreign, 1000, Alb taken by
home spinners, including 126, 500 for
net Southern consumption sea il
land crop Is, 6S7 bales, inc: aiding {, l39
Florida 1,06l Georgia, 1903 South
Carolina, aud 1866 Texas average
weight of crop 46S pounds per bale,
sea island 392 pounds per bale. Reia-
tive to the overland movement the re-
port says it occurred to our committee
that if in computing the overland
movement, statements eould be OBJ
tanned of the railr Dads leading out upon
the points of crossing on the Ohio aud
Mississippi rivers, setting forth not
only the aggi egrate quantity of cotton
sransported, but also detailing points
of destination, complete che ok would
be afforded against statements of over
lani receipts at the Atlantic ports, and
rice ocrSa. A difficulty IN the way of
b zen i'll the custom of billing cotton
through to delivery ports and chang
lug by teItgr Iph the destination of
such shipments while in transit to
mills IN the interior. Special inquiry
has been made upon this point, and
We fud that little If any, through cot
ton has been diverted from thu origin
al points of dest;nution this year, In
tra,iL 2 the overland shipments as
| shown in the annexed statement We
have in all cases credit Il these as re-
caipts at the first delivery port touched.
Tins was necessary n order to
AVOID CONFUSION,
and especially t. conform to the Gus
tom of counting cotton as net at the
iirsr port ut which it is received, or
through which it may pass. For ex-
nor to Providence, passing through
New York, is credited to New York,
and 50 with like shipments via other
ports to polt, or to mills. The diff
Guilty OF working up these details has
been enhanced by the fact that few
trans portatlOn companies kept then
books SO as To be enabled to furnish
anything but the aggregate quantity o1
| rotttnS handled, ant. 1t was therefore
necessary to overhaul this years bust
hess item, by item, 10 arrive ar the
| f;,ct> In most Gases this was done by
railroad officials themSe Ives, whilst IL
others access was cIleerfutty gwen tu
the representatives of the National
Cltt.n EXcnaIEG TO all records from
which cugGlI be extracted the ncc@ssa
" information With these rem irks
[Gur committee submit the figures of
THE OVERLAND MOVEMENT
for the year ending August 81, 1873
Shipped from ST, LOUIS, 12S S95; car
Ell north across the Ml>sippi. al
Hannibal, S,425; carried north from
Grand Tower aud Cnrb ondaie, 455
carried north from Ialro. via CaIrc
and VIncenes Railroad, b, III; carried
north from Cairo via Illinois Contra
: Railroad, 37,170; carried north from
: Evansville, via Evansville and Draw
louisville Railroad. 8, 423; carried nortE
from Louisville. via OHIO and Mlssi>
sippl Il nlroad, SO, 142; carried norti
from Louisville, VIA jeff rsopvitle
2 Madison and indianapolis Railroad
l16 721; carried north from Louisville
via Louisville, Cincinnati and Licking
ron Railroad, II 800; received at Gin
cinnati 10y river, 33,225; shipped t.
mills adjacent to the river to points
=, above without touching at Cincinnati
exclusive of cottuns to MaysvIlle
} counting iii Southern consumption
1O,479; to-al, 456. 952. less Shipment
4 from St. Louis to Louisville, counted
t at both pla .es. 1.047; shipments from
Carbonate to ST. Louis, counted a
2 botu places, 81; shipments from
, Cairo to st. Louis, counted a
{ both places, 975; shipments from
st. Louis to Cincinnsti by river
A 81; shipments from st Louis to Mem
[ phis by river, 33 shipments from st
y Louis to New Orleans by river, 3l2
I, total 2 49, total overland, 454, 467
u deduct receipts overland at New York
: Boston. Providence, Philadelphia ant
Il Baltimore, 90 GIG; shipments fror
D Mobile and other outportS Dy rail ant
5 river to interior, l5l ,35S; less deduct
: ed at New Orleans, 1876, DDS; less de
Quoted at Savannah, 4. 1862; less de
Quoted at Charleston, 5,065; less de
;. Quoted at Norfolk, l ,456; total to b
deducted from shipments from Mobile
I41,11l-leaving 10, 247; making tots
: receipts at New York, Boston, etc
e and interior, 262, S63, lea ing direc
: overland movement not elsewher
| IOI,Op1.
D We have made special inquiry rela
e tive to the item Of
t, SHIPMENTS TO MILLS
: adjacent to river, ETC., which is sc
Y down above as 1919 bales, and hav
: traced the actual shipments as follows
To Pittsburg, 4, 400; Cannelton, Ind
:, 1850; New Albany, Ind, 1879; Evans
t vile, $50; total, 10, 479. In additio
: to the above, 1850 bales were shippe
i to Maysvilie.
e which vent into Southern cOnsuml
: tion 253 from Cincinnati to Pitts
: burg, and 800 from the same place
i Alleg haney City, Penn. :. the two la
Y being already accounted for In th
Z CincInnati figures. These arc me-
- toned to Indicate that no point
;, which cotton could have been take
S either for consumption or in trans
> along the OHIO and Mississippi river
e las been neglected.
Tie following shows the productlC
1 of cotton by States
6 Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansa
L 993, 1872 Alabama, 800, 1922 +; Texa
, 368,245 Florida, 81. 4o5; Georgl
t $40, 6S4 South Carolina. 439, 55(
Y North Carolina, 10l, 161 Vngini
I 4l9, 664 Tennessee, Kentucky, Mi
sour, &c, 444, go. Total crops in t.
q United States 1919, 1927, 845 sto
he at ports at commencement of the yea
r. IA OIL; total, 1851, 856; export'
', during the year, 2,674. 44S; sent
t Canada, 1888 burnt, 2.139 sto
ID september 1, 1875, Tab total,
i'll 75l, 383 taken by spinners IN the
e. 5, 1900, 473; taken by spinners
~ | Southern STATES, l29. 6l3 total takir
] by Northern spinners, 1,O7O, $50.