Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-09-15
ChnrlestOM7s Annual Hsc.
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News and Courier lst instant I

THe.:radc nf Charleston. during the crm
merclsi year which closed yesterday, was
satisfactory IN most respects and in other
respects was decidedly encouraging AS a
market for the chief staples Charleston
has never stood higher. The receipts for
cotton for the year were 538 1877 bales,
which is more than was received in any
prev"ns year, and lG0, $50 bales more than
in lS79-S0 The receipts of Sea Island
cotton were about l7.2l7 bales. Rice vas
depressed in consequences of tle increased
growth, in Louisann in particular, and the
decline in prices would havo beeu serious
had the factors been less judcious in SUP.
Lying the market The receipts we're
33,S1l ticrces, against $4,000 tierccs the
year before. In naval stores there was IA
tl'r business. The receipts we're 81 .0OU
CASKS OF spirits OF turprntine against GO,
700 list year, and 23l AT barrels of rosiu
against 25O, 900 in the year previous.
In phosphate rock and commercial
fertilizers vast business was done. The
receipts of crude phosphate amounted to
llO,OOO tons, and of commercial fertilizers
to loO'oo0 tons. This trade, already so
important, is only 10 its Infancy.
ln local manufactures there is u marked
impro 'emcnt. ihe value of the articles
produced IN the year just closed was So
94o,0OO During the present year the
advance will te more marked as the
Charleston Cotton Mill will 70 into opern-
tion. together with two dditionnl phosphate
mills aud The cotton seed oil fuc,orics OF
other kiuds
The wholesale and retail trade of the
city ls in healthy condition, the estimates,
III the faco of careful revision, showing an
increase 10 comparison with the returns for
1S70-80
Charleston has not yet been injured by
the combinations which have been made no
fai!roud syhdIcates during the last year,
and the expectation grows strong that it
will not DC to the interest of any existing
combinations to discriminate against this
port Charleston now has two routes to
Augusta and IN u mouth or two will have
two routes to Columbia The commercial
accommodations of the port arc being ran.
idly increased. New wharyrs and depots
are IN course of construction, and the older
~harves have been repaired aud enlarged.
The South Carolina taiIrold has gone a
part OF the way to the water on the Cooper
lNVer, the Northeastern Railroad has en-
largcd its accommodations there, and tho
quay of tho Charleston Canal will 10 tho
course of week or two furnish wharf on
Ashley River one thousand feet in length
and vide enough fer double railroad tracks
Work on the National Jctties progresses
tavorably and in u comparatively short time
there will be twenty-five feet of wrter or
more on the bar, unlcss operations be re-
t"rded by the uowise niggardIiness of tho
government in making appropriations
These facts justify the belief that the adj
vantages of Charleston az shipping port
will continue to increase aud that even syo,
dcates which have boon deemed unfriendIy
will find it moro advantageous to allow
trade to force it out Of its course. Charles
ton, In tine, otands on its inertia and has no
fears for the future There 10 confidence
everywhere that what changes aud develop
ments take place will be for the. better.
The people have indeed good reason to
90 hopeful. There is largo increase ia
the amount of exports and imports, which
Is token Of Charlosons growing strength
and there has been during the year no
table Improvement in tho value of real
estate and in tho nyicos of Ino,l oo.,,;,;o.