The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-18

Exchange issued their report to-day,
making the total crop for the year ending
September, 1875, ,S,s27, ,S45 bales, Of which
ga were exported to foreign ports
and l,20O,473 taken by home spinners, in.
cluding l2G,550 Southern consumption.
Sea Island crop, 1867 bales, including
S,l39 Florida, 1914 Georgia, 1905 South
Carolina and l66 Texas, The average
weight Of the crop is 4GS pounds per bale;
Sea Island crop 392 pounds.
Relative TO the overland movement the
report says: ItOccurred to your commit
tee that in compiling the overland move
ment, statements could be obtained from
the railroads leading out from the points
Of crossing on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, setting forth the aggregate guam
tity Of cotton transported and also detail.
ing the points OF destination. A complete
check could be afforded against the over.
land receipts at the Atlantic ports and
riee versa. A difficulty in the way Of oh.
tanning such check has hitherto been the
custom Of billing cotton through to the
delivery ports and changing by telegraph
the destination Of such shipments while
in transit to mills in the interior,
Special inquiry has been made upon
this point and We find that little II any
through cotton has been diverted from
the original points Of destination this
year. In tracing the overland shipment
as shown in our report we have in all
cases credited these receipts at the first
delivery port touched. This was neCes-
sary to avoid confusion and especially to
conform with the custom Of counting cot.
ton as net the first port at which II Is re.
Ceived or through which It may pass, For
example cOttonshipped from the interior
to Providence, passing through New
York, is credited to New York and 80
with like shipments via other ports. To
ports or to the mills the difficulty OF work.
ing up these details has been en-.
HANGED by the fact that the few
transportation companies kept their
books so as not to be enabled to fur.
nish anything but the aggregate quantity
of collections handled, Gnd 1t was there.
fore necessary 10 overhaul this years
business item by item to arrive at the |
facts. In most cases II was done by the |
railroad officials themselves, while in |
others access was Cheerfully given to the |
representatives Of the National Commit.
Tee on Exchange to all the records from
which could be extracted the necessary
information.
With these remarks your committee |
submit the figures OF overland transport.
alton for the year ending August 81, 1875!
Shipped from 1t, Louis l2S,SO5 bales;
carried north across the Mississippi at
Hannibal s,425; carried north from
Grand Tower and Carbondale 455; car.
ried north from Cairo via Cairo 4 Vim
cennCs Railroad 3,2l7; carried north
from afro via Illinois Central Railroad |
81, ,l70; carried north from Evansville via
Evansville d Charlottesville Railroad o..
423; carried north from Loui4ville via |
Ohio 4 Mississippi road 5s,l42 carried
north from Louisville via Jacksonville,
Madison Il indianapolis road 1921;
carried north from Louisville, via the
Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington rail.
road, 2l,390; received at Cincinnati by
river 80, shipped to mills adjacent to
the river and to points above without
touching at Cincinnati, exclusive Of cot
ton to Mnysville, counting in Southern
consumption, l0,470; total 4jG,Oj2; less
shipments at st. Louis to Louisville,
counted at both places 1917; shipments
at CarbOndale to St, Louis, counted ut
both places, 075; shipments at 81. Louis
to Cincinnati by river Ol: shipments at
st. Louis to Memphis by river 33; st.
Louis to New Orleans by river 502; to.
tai 2,4Sj. Total overland 454,SG7. De.
duct receipts overland at New York, Bos-
ton, Providence, Philadelphia and Balli.
more, 252, ,GlG; shipments from Mobile to
other ports by rail and river to
the interior l5l,3jS, less deduct
ed at New Orleans l30,22S; less
deducted at Savannah 4,3O2, less deduct.
ed at Charleston 1905, less deducted at
Norfolk l,45G; total TO be deducted from
Mobile l4l,lll, leaving l0,247; making
the total receipts nt New York, Boston,
etc, and interior 2G2, 1903, leaving direct
overland movement, not elsewhere count.
ed Of 10l ,G0l. We have made special In.
quiry relative 10 the line Of shipment to
the mills adjacent to the river,
etc., which Is set down above as
lO,470 bales, and have traced the actual
shipments as follOwsi To Pittsburgh,
400; Carrolton, Ind, 1850; New Albany,
| $40; Evansville, $50. Total 1O47O.
In addition to the above $50 bales we're
shipped to Maysville, which went into
southern consumption; 253 from Cincin.
natl to Pittsburgh, and 800 from the same
place to Allegheny City, Pa, the two last
being already accounted for In the Cincin.
natl figures. These arc mentioned to in.
dictate that no point at which cotton
could have been taken either for con.
or in transit along the Ohio and
rivers has been neglected.
The following siowes the production Of
cotton by the States Of Louisiana, Miss.
issippi and Arkansas, 093,4 ,4S2; Alabama,
32O,S22; Texas, 3GS,24j; Florida, 37,4G7;
Georgia, 576BSi; South Carolina, 43g550
North Carolina, lOl, ,l0l; Virginia, 4l9,.
BO4; Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri,
444,220; total crop In the United States
for 1874, 1882, ,Sl5; stock at ports at the
commencement Of the year, l24,Oll; total,
3,9jl $50; exported during the year, 1874.
AS; sent to Canada, $685. burnt, 3,l36;
stock September /, 1875, 7l,4l3; total,
2,9jl 1888; takinga Of Spinners in the Unit.
ed States, l,2OO,473; taken by spinners in
southern States, l20,Gl3; total takings by
spinnerS, l,07O,SGO.
The report says: We now give the de.
tails Of the movements at the shipping
ports in the Cotton States, but the Secre.
larry Of the Exchange wrote II "produc.
lion Of the State Of Virginia, 4l9,G04;"
and this Ia the movement at Norfolk and
City Point rather than the production Of
Virginia. To these movements must be
added the Southern consumption, which
Is not included.
MIR. IIepcher Declines a Public