The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-10
IT PAYS TO PUT ON JUTE.
EXPORTERS MAKING A GOOD
THING OF RECOVERING COTTON.

They Figure Profit OF SIS Cents to
80 Cents on Every Cotton-Covered
Bale Recovered With Jute-what
Cotton Men Say About the New
Bagging-The Difference in Tare in
Favor of Jute.
The cotton exporters Of this city are Sc
riously thinking Of recovering with iute
bagging the cotton coming here in cotton
bagging, and for double reason that the
cotton bagging does net afford sufficient
protection against damage and loss in
weight, but principally because they can
make handsome profit by bringing the
weight of the rated tare allowance up TO
pounds in every 112, thus making a net
profit of about 50 cents to 90 cents on every
bale recovered. Norfolk merchants are
doing this, and are making good thing
of it.
The cotton exporters Of this city say that
the cotton bagging will not stand 1t
weighs but three-quarters of pound TO the
yard of A inches and will not boar re
peated handling, and especially the rough
usage Of loading and relOaling by steam
ers, and not only is the staple damaged, but
handling at the plantation until it is IN
loaded abroad
WHAT COTTON MEN SAY.
A leading cotton exporter said yesterday
that there is a smaller percentage of cotton
covered with cotton bagging coming in
now than there was in the earlier part Of
the season, and thus the percentage will
continue TO decrease until the close of the
season, and next season he does not expect
to see cotton bagging Used at all.
The exporter went on to explain that no
tare allowance has been fixed by the Liver
pool Cotton Association aud at continental
ports, so that the only tare allowed will be
the actual weight of the cotton bagging
which is about 4 5 pounds, and which orgi-
nally costs the planter about 81 cents, and
with the tare allowance, on the basis of
10 cents per pound for cotton, it
still makes his bagging an expense to him,
when he can cover the cotton with jute
which will not cost him on an average over
65 cents, and on a bale of cotton
weighing 480 pounds, the average per bale
last season, his tare allowance would be
ABOUT 81 %, leaving him a net profit by
using jute bagging of something like 81 on
every bale covered with the jute, aud If the
use Of cotton bagging was even practicable
the planters cannot afford to use it at such
q sacrifice.
OOITUN BAGGlNG UNDESIRABLE.
The Liverpool Cotton Association thinks
the use of cotton bagging undesirable as
the test made last year was not satisfactory.
Cotton bagging weighing but three-quarters
of a pound to the yard is not strong enough,
the rough handling necessitating mending
OH arrival at foreign ports, aud the absence
of that kind of bagging abroad would cause
delays, and would complicate the question
of allowances for tare, and that the in
creased cost of supplying such bagging.
even If practicable, would be a loss to the
importer on every pound of bagging used
for mending, as the cost of the cotton bag
ging per pound is considerably in excess of
the same weight of cotton.
t. ZiZinia Of Rail- Bros had a bale of
cotton recovered yesterday, as an expert
meat, with strips of jute bagging at each
end Of the bale to bring it up to the tare
allowance. He was not prepared, he said
= MORNING NEWS reporter, to say that
his house will recover lis cotton at Savan-
nah although he is of the opinion that il
should be done to protect it from DAMAGE
and loss in weight from the rough handling,
as he says the cotton gging is not strong
enough.
CAN BE RECOVERED CHEAPER ABROAD.
AS to re covering it for the profit Mr..
Hiznia Is inclined to think that it can be
dove at a greater profit at Liverpool. where
the Jute bagging may BE- bad at less cost
and where labor is cheaper. The best facil-
tiles are to be lad at Liverpool for re-
coyerlng the cotton, but he was not suffi-
cieatly well acquainted with continental
ports 10 say whether the jute bagging covers
could be substituted for the cotton bagging.
bat he presumed II could be done
About two-thlrds OF Savannah's cotton
goes to continental ports, Mr.. Zizinia SAYS.
lie added that the jute strips can be put on
here at fair profit. lie SAYS that he can
lave cotton recovered, with the lutte BAG
gig furnished, at 60 cents per bale. at n
profit of about 55 cents, on the basis of 10
cents PER poundfor cotton on the tare allow
ance, and the additional freight on the.
difference of weight per bale would be
very small Some cotton has been re-baled
on, but none Is being re-baled now as far as
he knows.
THE DIFFERENCE IN TARE
G. Menelas said that there is difference
of between twelve and thirteen pounds in
the tare allowance in favor of the lutte
bagging, which costs less than the cotton
bagglng. He thinks that cotton NAV be re-
covered with the Jute during the season of
light receipts, but when the congresses are
busy there may be some difficulty in hay-
ing 1t done so protitablv. He is inclined TO
the belief that the cotton can be re,-bnled
more probably in Liverpool and at the con-
tinental ports than in this country. They
always have odds and ends of jute bag
ging, and exported secondhand b gginy
last year as substitute for new lutte bay9
ging when the jute trust ran up the price
Of new bagging.
Mr.. Menelas said that the cotton bagging
Is not SO satisfactory, and he anticipates q
smaller proportion Of it the last of the sen.
son. The planters who are using the cotton
bagging are losing in weight on the bale
and In the price for the bagging They are
getting tare allowance of only from 4 to
"a pounds to the bale of 4S0 pounds. when
with tie jute bagglng they would get from
II to ls pounds. lie planter is thus losing
from IA TO 10 pounds tare allowa ICE and
losing on the weight of his cotton from the
use Of the defective cotton bagging.