The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-08-14
are still more significant, thus:

the live stock, but In spite OF It's increase,
year later The value of the beef cattle and
hogs alone more than doubled it. The bus
mess appears to be upon a certain footing
and manifestly is of the greatest Importance
to the Appalachian section of the South, so
near to tide water, if it but takes advantage
of it,
'.Do your statistics show the regions OF
production and countries of destination? ?"
inquired.
81 have made an analysis OF the expor-
tations for the year," replied the New York
er, ''showing the ports Of shipment and
their destination. OF course, most of the
shipments were from New York as the
whole country is tributary to that great
commercial centre, but know of no means
of ascertaining the regions OF production
with any exactitude. though the returns OF
railroad treights might show it approx
mately.
ssThe exports of horses during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1878, were 4,104, and
Of mules $500, together valued at 81, 300, 236,
of which 1854 were shipped from New
York, 1882 from New Orleans, 237 from
Boston, and 22l from Baltimore. Except
81 to Scotland, all of the mules went to the
West Indies. OF the horses, 1890, valued
at over half million dollars, went to Eng
land, 359 to Canada, 295 to Mexico, 270 to
Scotland and 1873 to Cuba.
s'The number of hogs exported during the
same fisca. year was 29,2S4, valued at $780,
259, the district of Huron shipping 1889
head; Boston 1890, and Puget's Sound
1.os1. England received 1867 direct and a
large proportion of the 1873, 1896 exported to
Canada; 1.OS2 went to British Columbia.
and $50 to Cuba. OF the 1878 sheep ex-
ported. valued at $3.50, 400, Mexico took
l53, O65; but they were worth little more
than dollar a head, while the 9,792 sent to
England averaged over 81. so head, and
the 5,246 shipped to Scotland docs not that
sound like sending Goals to Newcastle ?'')
nearly 81 per head; British Columbia took
7 $40 and Canada 2,7l4. AS may be imag-
ined, Texas and the Pacific coast furnished
the greater number and inferior stock. while
the most valuable animals were shipped to
Europe from the Northern ports-l4,694,
worth sll2.s9s 1874 worth $2l, 197 from
Boston, and ], 4e5 worth IS, $50 from Bal
timore.
"The exports of horned cattle for the
same period numbered 5000, valued at
SO, s96, s1S, the heaviest shipments being
from Texas, which, as you know, has long
supplied the West Indian and Mexican mar
kets with her coarse. long -horned steers
The %, 1888 from the Texan ports were val
ued at only 1883 per head, and the H.
OH from the Florida ports at only $13.76
per head. The fine grade, heavy fat cattle
were nearly all shipped from Boston and
New York-l3,ss7 worth 81 ,346, 74s from
the former, and 1887 worth 1928, 22O
from the latter port, together averaging
1914 go per head.
delphia 1907, and Baltimore 5O4 head. The
principal importing countries were Cuba,
which took 40.l72 head, England 20, 9S5, Can.
ada 92S7, British West Indies 1874, Germany
iii, Scotland 997, Belgium COS, and France
$3.50. Four head valued at $4,000 were sent
to Greece, 20 to Japan and $50 to Russia.
Mr.. Nimmo states that the average value of
the cattle shipped to Cuba was but SIT per
head, to Canada. $46 and to Great Britain
over 500. He also shows the rapid growth
of the expectation OF cattle to Great Bri-
tain as follows: In 1874, 1913 head !;
in ls74-75, 10 head /; in 1876, 244
head in 1S76-77, 5,O91 head and 1877-7s,
24,9s2 head. Most of these cattle, sup
pose, came from west of the Ohio. Indeed,
until you mentioned the fact was not
aware that any OF them were Virginia
stock.''
"Most Of these cattle, it is true," said in
response to his inquiries, "come from the
West, and the best from Mr.. Gillett's famous
stock farm in. Illinois. Next to these, the
best that have entered the Liverpool market
were bred and fattened on bluegrass pas
lures in this very county of Pulaski, Va,
! through which we are now passing. They
had not one 1.-THE of the careful and skilful
handling that Gillett's cattle received, and a
comparison of the cost OF production and
shipment would show strongly in favor OF
Southwestern Virginia. The reason why
Virginia has never received credit for her for
eign shipments is because, the South having
no regular steamship line to Liverpool, her
stock have gone to the Baltimore market,
where the best were selected for expectation
from New York.
| "The first direct expectation was leo beeves