The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-08
Charleston In 1881.

commercial year which closed Yesterday.
| was satisfactory in most respects, and in
other respects was decidedly encouraging.
| As market for the chief staples,
Charleston has never stood higher. The
receipts Of cotton for the year were.62S.
lS7 bales, which is more than was re.
ceived in ANY previous year, and is lGO,-
$50 bales more than in 1879 so. The
receipts of Sea Island cotton were about
1921? bales. Rice was depressed in con
sequence of the increased growth, in
Louisiana in particular, and the decline
in prices would have been serious had the
factors been less judicious in supplying
the market. The receipts were 53,S7i
Il "es, against $4,000 tierces The year
before. In naval stores there was fair
business. The receipts were 81 900 casks
OF spirits OF turpentine, against 10000
last year, and 23l AZ barrels of rosin
| against 100000 in the year previous.
In phosphate rock and commercial fer.
tilizers q vast business was done. The
receipts of crude phosphate amounted TO
/ ilo,OO0 tons, and Of commercial fer:il-
izers to 100000 tons. This trade, already
so important, is only in its infancy.
In local manufactures there is mark
ed improvement. The value of the arti
cles produced i'll the year just closed was
ST,94o 900. During the present year the
advance will be still more marked, as the
Charleston Conon Mill will 30 into ope-
ration, together with two additional
Phosphate mills and the cotton-secd oil
factory and factories Of other kinds.
The wholesale and retail trade Of the
city ls in healthy condition, the csti-
mates, i'll the face of careful revision,
showing an increase in comparison with
the returns for lS79-so.
Charleston has not yet been injured by
the combinations which have been made
by srailroad syndicates during the last
year, and the expectation grows strong
that 1t will not be to the interest of any
existing combinations to discriminate
against this port. Charleston now has
two routes to Augusta, and in a month
or tw will have two routes to Columbia
lhe CT -imercial accommodations of the
port are being rapidly increased. New
wharves and depots are in course of con-
struction, and the older wharyes have
been repaired and enlarged. The South
Carolina Railroad has gone part of the
way to the water on the Cooper River.
the Northeastern Railroad has enlarged
lts accommodations there, and the quay
OF the Charleston Canal will, in the
course OF week or two, furnish wharf
ON the Ashley River one thousand feet
IN length, and wide enough for double
railroad tracks. Work on the National
Jetties progresses favorably, and in a
comparatively short time there will be
twenty-five feet of water or more OH the
bar, unless operations be retarded by the
unwise niggardliness of the government
III making appropriations. These facts
Justify the belief that the advantages of
Charleston as shipping port will con-
tinuc TO increase, and that even svndi-
Gates which have been deemed unfriend-
ly VIII md 1t more advantageous to allow
trade TO lake its natural chnunel than to
lorce 1t out OF It's course. Charleston, i'm
iine, stahds on its merits, and has no fears
Tor the future. There is confidence
everywhere that what changes and devcl-
opments take place will be for the better
Inc people have indeed good reason to
be hopeful. There is large increase in
the amount of exports and imports.
which IS token of Charlestons growing
strength, and there has been during the
year notable Improvement in the value
OF real estate and in the prices of local
securities. Full particulars on these
points are given elsewhere The purpose
here is simply to direct attention to some
sallent iacts, to ;ncite those interested in
the SUBJECT to study at their leisure what
Is by long odds the most careful and
trustworthy Review of the Trade and In
dustries OF Charleston yet given to the
public.
THE TRADE OF THE CITY.
The following table exhibits the
amount ond valua ne tbo ol,;oc t,-I
products received at Charleston during
the year, September l., 1880, to August
81, 1881:
Cotton, upland. baics......... 6ID97O s,74j0 ooo
Cotton, Sea Island, bass.....- l72l7 I3GG O00
Rice, terces.. 53s7I 5gO iMO
Naval stores spirits turpcn-
tine, cask3.................... 5l3SG 800 Don
Naval stores, r0sin. barrels. 23l4I. h5OoOO
ihosphate c:udc toii'........." lUS,lS3 500 OOD
i:umocr, ieet ;..-...:; ..;;lS6 6lO,Sb7 2.00000O
,otton goods, domestic, bales. 900. .OOO
Fruit, vegetables, &c packg's ......... 500 0OO
aiue oil s'aples :................... .556 PIG 0OU