The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-05-27

importation Oh fOIelSu ITuits
In the year 1881 the importation OF
Mediterranean fruit at New York con-
sisted of III cargoes by English steam
srs, and twenty-five cargoes by Italian
and Norwegian sailing vessels, In all
comprising S19, 223 boxes and cases of
oranges, S6O,24l boxes of lemons. On
comparison of these figures with the inn
ports of 1880, the result shows an in
crease of twelve cargoes by steamers,
and six cargoes by sailing vessels. This
increase in the number of cargoes is
represented by an increase of 204, 485
boxes and cases of oranges and 20, 092
boxes of lemons. The total number of
oranges imported in 1881 comp. Used 226,-
220, 720, of which 80, 48S, 28S persisted on
the voyage, loss of forty per cent,
and the total number of lemons i'm
ported in 1881 was 2S3, 879, $50, of which
| Sc, IT'S, 9O6 persisted on the voyage,
loss of twenty per cent. As whole,
the Mediterranean fruit trade returned
but little profit to the importers.
There were AZ, 200 barrels and 10000
half barrels of grapes imported. on
which there was a loss of TWENTY-FIVE
Of 1880, there was an increase of 5, 946
barrels and decrease of 466 half bar
rels.
The importation of oranges from the
West Indies in 1881 consisted of nine
full cargoes and several parts Of cargoes
by sailing vessels; also, 119, 497 barrels
Of oranges by ia steamers. On COM
parison of these figures with the imports
of 1880, the result shows an increase of
A, 230 barrels, and of 12,435, 706 Or
anges. over the imports of 1880, also an
increase of twenty-one steamers engaged
in the trade, and decrease of eight
sailing vessels. OF the increase Of A.
230 barrels of oranges, 3S,3l9 were from
Kingston. The orange crop of the
Island of Jamaica in the last year was
very abundant, and oranges generally
sold at remunerative prices. Some of
the oranges imported from Nassau were
seriously affected by the destructive par
asite which has recently made its appear
ance in that region. The oranges from
Kingston were also more or less affected
from the same cause.
The importations of pineapples from
the West Indies consisted of thirty-three
full cargoes by sailing vessels, and parts
of cargoes by seventy steamers, m king
a total of 2,056, 019 pineapples. of viii. b
514, 004 persisted on the voyage loss
of twenty-five per cent. On comparison
of these imports with those of 1880, the
result shows decrease of twenty-nine
cargoes by sailing vessels, and LII. 1888
pineapples, during the last year. The
large decrease of the number of pine
apples is mainly owing to the failure of
the productiveness of the soil on which
the pineapples are grown, its strength
having become exhausted from long and
continued cultivation, and also to the
large number of pineapples required for
canning at different establishments in
the West Indies. The deficiency was
partly made up by the receipt of
255, 222 pineapples from Florida, from
which State largely increased number
of pineapples is respected the present year.
The importations of bananas from the
West Indies in the last year consisted of
ninety-two full cargoes and parts of sew
eral cargoes by sailing vessels, and
seventy cargoes by steamers, making q
total of 424, 261 punches, showing an
increase of 81 1884 over the imports of
1880. OF the above, "a, $50 punches per-
ished on the voyage, a loss of twenty
per cent. The trade in West India ba-
nanas did not prove profitable to the inn
porters, but resulted in some consider
able losses. A large part of these losses
was sustained by the importers of ba-
nanas from Baracoa, and was principally
caused by the long and severe drought
which prevailed in that part of the island
of Cuba last season.
The importations of bananas from
Aspinwall largely exceeded those of
any previous year, and consisted of
sixty-seven cargoes per steamers. COM
prising in all AGO, 961 punches, of which
IS, 139 punches persisted on the voyage,
loss of 18.47 per cent. There was an
increase of fourteen cargoes, and Of
163, 1881 punches of bananas over the inn
ports of the previous year.
/ Cocoanuts were imported from the
West Indies, etc., to the number of
1885, 1929, which constituted the car
goes and parts of cargoes Of ia sailing
vessels and ninety-two steamers. Of the
above, 967, 200 persisted on the voyage,
loss of eight and one-haf per cent
/ On comparison of the above with the i'm
ports of 1880, the result shows an in
crease of /, 346, 849 cocoanuts for 1881.
The importations of lines comprised
1866 barrels, on which there was loss
Of thirty per cent; LILO shaddocks,
loss ten per cent; $4,000 grape fruit,
loss ten per cent; 47,525 mangoes, loss
sixty-five per cent; 24,300 plantains,
loss ten per cent; $3.50 sapodillas, loss
forty per cent; 400 guayas, loss thirty
per cent; 400 Avocado pears, loss thirty