The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-09
COTTON ROLLING IN.
sAVANNARs BUSY SEASON BE-
GINNING EARLY

GINNING EARLY.
This Weeks Receipts Expected to Be
$4,000 Bales-Cotton Men and Ship
Brokers Busy-FreigRt Room Scarce
and Rates High, but Everything
Being Taken-The Cotton Fleet-The
First Steamer Expected to Clear
Tomorrow.
The busy cotton receiving and shipping
season will soon be well in, and from pres
ent indications Savannah VIII handle it's
share Of the crop, aud will handle it quite
rapidly.
The receipts last week were 20, 7O9 bales.
an increase over the corresponding week of
last year of about 5000 bales, and if the
proportion IS maintained this week the re-
ceipts for the week will not fall far short
of $1,000 bales The river movement has
been remarkably good, as have the railroad
movements, the Central railroad having
brought in the greater proportion of the
cotton thus far received.
As there is an increase
of acreage in the southern cotton belt, with
good weather until the close of the harvest,
large crop will be the result.
SHIP BROKERS BUSY.
Ship brokers have taken up vessels more
literally this season than last FreightS
went up so rapidly at the beginning of last
season that vessels were not chartered
freely, as brokers considered the rates too
high. They have not adopted such course
this year, although rates are higher
this season than for any season
for the past ten years Freight
room here for September delivery is very
scarce, and relatively full freight rates
have been paid in New York to Liverpool
on guaranteed deliveries this month, and
the fact is noted that last week One-half
pence the highest figure obtained in years,
ruled on 500 bales compressed for certain
delivery for the September contracts. In
October last year, freights being scarce,
went up, but rates will be fully as high
next month as they were last October.
COTTON COMING IN RAPIDLY.
Cotton, as has been seen, is coming in
more rapidly than last season, and IL the
activity is Kept up. the bulk of the crop
will have been moved by January. Hard |
" any sailing vessels load cotton before |
January, when they come in for the last |
shipments of the season for spring delivery |
IN the ports Of the Baltic Usually most of |
the shipping is over by Jan. l. aud the |
stock is pretty well cleaned up by March [. |
The sea island crop is about three weeks |
backward this season, only six bales having |
been received so far. The experiment of |
COMPRISING the long staple is to be tried |
this season. The bagging this year is not
quite SO ragged as last year, as there we're
all sorts of makeshifts then Cotton, how
ever, is coming in this year wrapped in two
different grades of cotton bagging, in lutte
covering, and there are some pine bagglng
coverings
THE JUTE COVERING.
About three-quarters of the cotton. so
Tar, has been put up in jute bagging, but
this proportion will hardly be maintained
throughout the season at this port, as the
Georgia planters are making hard fight
Tor the cotton covering, and, to show their
1eelng IN the matter, the fact may be
noted that one day last week some ND
country planters bought up storekeeper's
stock OF Jute bagging and applied torch
to it.
Going back :to the subject of the early
activity in cotton movements it NAV be
stated that at this time last year there were
but two foreign steamers, or "tramps.n in
port for cotton, and not more than three up
aud bound tor Savannah for cotton cargoes.
There are now seven steamers here in port
Tor cotton cargoes, and fifteen up aud bound
Tor this port.
THE FIRST STEAMERS.
The British steamships Kathleen and
Royal Prince are loading, and the latter is
expected 10 clear Tomorrow with ) 900 bales |
for Havre The British steamships Peconic.
1ocasset, Starlight, Hampshire and ANY |
Dora arein port awaiting their cargoes. |
ne Pocasset IS comparatively new vessel. |
he Starlight has been here before. and the |
Amy Dora is an old trader here.
1he following steamships are up and |
bound for Savannah for cotton, some six or |
seven OF which wlll arrive during the |
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mediterranean, via of New York, at which |
port they will discharge foreign cargoes and |
come 10 Savannah in ballast
THE COTTON FLEET.
Elena Cosulich, an Austrian vessel. and
the British vessels Helvetia, Piuua. Clare.
Coningshy, Pawnee. Capulet, Alcesrer
Aslatic, Scawfell Albanian, Inchgarbie
Napier, Drumburlie. and Donar. In add,
tion to foreign steamers the Ocean Steam
ship Company aud the Baltimore steamers
carry cotton coastwise for reshipment t.
foreign ports from New York, Boston. Bal.
tinore and Philadelphia.
mere were only flfty-four foreign
steamers that loaded cotton at this port
last year, but 1t " expected that no less
than seventy trGmps will be here this
season. Ut course this is contingent on the
successful harvesting OF the crop
A marked activity is noticed in the move
ments Of lighters on the river, which has
last displaced the drGy or cotton truck
system, and 1t does not require tie memory
oI an oId-tiHer to recall the time when
there were four or five dray firms in this
ely, each of which employed from
70 TO 100 teams. The building of the Central
railroad east on River street promises to be
stu further depressing to the trucking in
dustry on the Bay, and eventually, it is pre-
dicted, to become as dangerous a rival of
Tue lighters as the latter have proved to be
OF the trucks-a kind of survival of the
fittest,
HUNTED WITH A WARRANT