New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-01
MONTHLY RECEIPTS FROM LIVERPOOL.

able one to any concerned, it has Deen par
ticularly disastrous to manufacturers who
have consigned their goods to this market
in hopes OF reasonable margin. At the
Northern and Eastern ports the railroads
run thei. tracks to the siGes OF the vessels.
from which salt ia hoisted in elevators in
bulk into box cars, in which it is trans.
ported to the doors Of the packeries of the
West, thereby economlzing greatly IN
freight, labor and drayage. Conceding the
advantage Of this, We hear complaints that
manufacturers can not unders tand how
under certain circumstance they suffer
from unreasonable shrinkage in the original
weight as shipped from Liverpool. When
this great evil is investigated and rectied
manufacturers, importers and dealers may
look forward with hopes to receive fair
return in way of margin for the large
capital they invest and the labor expended
in the legitimate pursuit of their business.
OAK SLAVES notwithstanding the de-
crease in receipts the stock is now larger
than at the beginning of the year. Stocks
At European ports are very large, and the
coming prospects are not favorable. There
have been large shipments to France, but
finding already more there than wanted,
remained several months on the market
and were sold at extreme low prices.
BEASs.-Large crops aud q reduced de-
mand have lowered prices for all kinds of
beans slowly but steadily ever since last
fall, and the present quotations are as low
as they have been for many years past.
Red kidneys, worth ten or twelve months
ago AZ, 43i and SC, refrigerated gradually
in value through all fractions Of eighths
and quarters until they reached the present
figure of 3d3Ac. and come time ago were
even as low as 2l2 q 224c. With white kid
neys it was about the same, except that our
market has now been bare of them for some
time. Mediums have equally declined. and
while they were worth last fall 35s a sac,
they are offering to-day at 02lic, without
finding buyers. Western white beans have
been unstable even at figures as low IS o
ll9c. With a steadily declining market,
operations in beans have not been remuner-
alive during the past year.
DRIED APPLES AND PEACHES.-Dried
apples during the past year have enjoyed
fair market, at figures hnctuating between
9 and 100, the latter being the rate at which
most OF the sales were made. Dried peaches
have been in moderate supply and slack de-
mand. The average figure fer them has
been about 90.
WooL.-In 1872 our Louisiana and Missis
sippi clips were active and strong at 50 q
500 T. ID; in 1873 they were slow of sale at
the reduced rates of % Doc; in 1874 they
showed some improvement and ruled at
34c; and in 1875 they we're all marketed
early in the year at $50. The course of the
market in the past year has been much
more unfavorable. Manufacturers of wooden
fabrics were carrying, at the commence
ment of the season, an enormous accumula-
ton of goods, with no buyers at even great
~ reduced prices, and, in order to unload,
resorted to the expedient of offering their
entire stocks at auction without reserve, re-
sulting in sales at figures 1920 y cent
below the cost of production, estimated at
last years prices for the raw material.
Wool has consequently become perfect
drug, and the qualities that brought $50 in
1872 and Soc in 1875, are now slow of sale at
20 2lc-a shrinkage from 1872 of over 30
Y cent, and from 1875 Of IS " cent more.
TALLOw.-The market continued steady
until July last at a 90, when it declined to
7l3 0Sl2c Y fb.
Coal STATEMENT.-The following table
shows the stocks on hand. arrivals and con-
sumption of Pittsburg, Mount Carbon and
Pey1ona camel coal, and the wholesale,
steamboat and retail prices for series Of
years. The coal brought to this market is
almost exclusively Pittsburg coal. which
is, as is we'll known, mined in the enviroEs
of Pittsburg, whence it is conveyed to that
city, and shipped thence to New Orleans
and other places in fatboats and barges
respectively, carrying on an average $500
and $500 bbls, Of about AZ bushels, or
about 1870 tts, of which about ii make
ton. The fats and barges are towed by
powerful tOwboats, built expressly for that
purpose. The towing between Pittsburg
and Louisville depends on the state of the
river. When the stage of water is too low
for navigation, which it frequently is tor
weeks, and even months, the supplies at the
lower points become deficit and prices
naturally advance, often reaching very
high figures. The coal fats and barges
sent to New Orleans are generally dropped
at Willow Grove, near Greenville, just
above the city, where they are superin-
tended for the owners or agents. When
boat or barge is wanted, small city tug
boat is sent to tow it to the city, or to it's
destination on the coast.
The following tables do not include boats
and barges dropped on the coast by tows
bound for New Orleans.
The arrivals, consumption and wholesale
prices of coal given on the first of each
month are for the month previous:
Stock On Arr Consump.