The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-28

| d ear for carrying hogs Sixty hogs fill n cal
and weigh twelve tons. Now, If we eau make
money carrying twelve tons or hogs for 500
don't you think we could make money carry
ing fifty passengers. weighing four tons. fot
tho same money! We often carry hogs from
Chicago to New York for 81 apiece and feed
them on The way. too. w, We have to load
hogs and unload them twice, feed them, and
transport their keepers from Chicago to New
York. at III apiece. Now. men load and IN
load themselves. Fifty men get into a car
So tell you that we can carry passengers
from New York to Chicago for 81 apiece and
make money, and for 81 apiece, provided We
can carry d full train Of twelve cars each
trip"
DECLINE or SHIPPING AT Boston. +Ac-
cortling To statement made In tho Post prob
ably no large seaport In the United States
shows such n decline OF sailing ships and
other square-rIgged vessels as tho port Of
Boston. III 1859 Boston had twenty-four
hundred ships, banks and briggs arrive at Its
port. against New York's thlrty-six hundred.
This included both arrivals from foreign aud
coastwise ports, and shows that Boston had
two-thirds the movements in Inward vessels
that New York had In 1879 New York aver
aged two ships arriving every day; Boston
two ships every month. New York ten banks
every day, Boston one bark per day. Thus
Boston has now ono thlrtieth as many ships
arrive AZ Now York, and one-tenth as many
barlss. Both Philadelphia and Baltimore also
have eight or ten times as many ships arrlv-
ing annually as Boston, and more steam
ships also.
t, the production OF copper, a correspondent
Of the New York Post says:
No copper mines in the world, not even
those of Australia or South Africa, can aD-
proach in richness to our Lake Superior cop
per deposits. Not only are these deposits al
most inexhaustible, but the ore Is tho purest
and richest known Ono corporation alone.
owning the Calumet and necla mines, pro-
duced Ia 1878 Il 500 tons Of pure ingot copper.
o., II we take ton to be only 1000 pounds,
this corporation produced nearly 2i,00O.000
pounds OF copper, or perhaps 60 per cent OF the
whole producti u. Tho Lake Superior copper
deposits are MS interesting as they are old, aud
searchers for relics of the prehistoric races
on this continent have actually found Lake
Superior copper ornaments some 5000 miles
south OF the lake. Enough for our purpose is
the fact that copper can % produced BY the
tHluLltb aUtl I1aGIa IlLLle5 W tUG lOWESJ PRICE
In the world. Besides this, II the copper
mines on the lake should BE- worked as
urgently as the silver and gold mines on the
Comstock lode are worked, enough copper
could be produced TO supply almost the
world. AZ 1t Il, our copper production during
the last two years has been not only sufficient
for all home wants, but we exported to Eng
land, France and Germany the following
quantity of American tngot copper:
1878 Copper exported IL pot .s7s pounds
iSI9-Copper exported II .2O0. 739 pounds
MOVEMENTS OF GRAIN.-The New York
Tribune says the receipts of all grains at the
four principal Atlantic ports during the week
ended October q were TAI, 43s bushels,
against S,O13,3s5 bushels for the preceding
week, and against 5,2l2,G61 bushels for the
week OF 1878. Compared with
The same week OF 1878, the total increase Of
J, IT'S bushels was divided as follows: New
York gained 1,O1s,391 bushels; Baltimore.
'5o, 227 bushels; Boston, 24s.1 40 bushels; and
Philadelphia. ,02o bushels. OF the gain at
New York, s341 31 bushels were due to the
greater receipts BY railroads, 1G3754 bushels
10 the canals, and 20,506 bushels to receipts
oy coasting vessels. So 1t Is plain that the
gain ut Baltimore exceeds the gain by rail-
road at New York. The total receipts since
January at the four ports have been 2Os,-
'o1 ,63l bushels, against ls1, 437 24 bushels for
The samc time of 1878; this years Increase,
", 554, 4O7 bushels. or this total increase,
Baltimore secured nearly thirds, name
", 16,G93,9A bushels; Philadelphia little
ess than one quarter, g. 1852 bushels; New
York less than one-eighth, 3,3l9,395 bushels
Ind Boston about one twenty-seventh, 1,095,-
l36 bushels. But the comparison Is more
plainly seen when put rs follows: From jan
lary to October d. 1878, New York received
% ,O59, sos bushels. against 79,35O,419 bushels
'eceived at the other ports; New York's re-
,epts In excess Of Those Of the three ports,
y, 739, 1856 bushels. For the same time this
year, New York has received 105, 406, 200 bush
is, against 1O3,5S5, 43l bushels at the other
,orts; New York's receipts In excess or those
# the other ports, 1.s2o,771 bushels. New
York this year has gained on the receipts of
asst year 3.3l9,395 bushels, while the other
ports have gained "a 1895 ,o12 bushels.
Our Low RIyERs.-Between st. Louis and |
Jairo there are only four and a half feet OF
water On the shallow places ia the Mississippi
liver, and although immense lots Of produce
lro seeking shipment to the South, boats can
lot bring out more than a third of load. !
This obstruction to trade Is costly to shippers
md unprotitable to the boats. The Ohio IS |
llso very low, as Is the Mississippi from the
mouth OF Red river to New Orleans. And yet /
here Is an abundance Of water In the Missts-
ippi tor all purposes OF safe navigation If it |
we're confined to narrower channel. The St. |
louis Republican, in an article on this sub
ect, says: "The river is nearly a mile in
width and at d low stage the supply Of water
pread over this great area brings the shoals
lear to the surface and makes navigation diff
icult. BY a system of jetttes or other contri-
'ances for contracting the channel at the
hallow places the four and half
Get depth could be Increased to seven
eet. The value Of such an Improvement to
he West and South would be tncalculable.
When the river Is high freights to New Or