San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-04
NEW ORLEANS IN 1891.

nuSl trade editions. The amount
information conveyed and the volum
of statistics compiled indicate q vas
amount OF preparatory work. Thi
work, judging from the figures ant
statements presented, has been yer.
conscientiously performed. No detail
are wanting, every department o
business has been thoroughly consid
cred, official statements and figureI
alone relied upon and the result is q
systematiZed presentation of the vol
ume of the city's business for tn,
fiscal gear just closed that will be in
valuable to the merchant and stats.
| tician as matter of reference. From
the columns presented, the following
facts are deduced.
The banking statistics of the review
saow for the city sixteen banks, with
a capital stock of $3.50, 200; surplus
fund S 2 ,225, 500; undivided profits
1915 SAG; an increase of $1S1, 500 in sur
plus fund, and of S42,O 0 in undivided
profits. The clearing house report
shows for the year just ended transac-
tions aggregating 1851, 764, l1S, an in
GREASE ver the previous II months of
Sl0,279, 500. The security market has
been inactive at times amounting al
most to stagnstion; otherwise, values
have been firm and steady, as much
so as in any other market falling
within the range of the financial
panic
The past year has seen the
opening of several new manutact-
uring industries, among them those
of furniture, leather, cooperage, seam
less hosiery and spinning yarn being
most notable. Tine city cotton mills
run 1900 looms and owe $4,000
s~pindIes, giving employment to 1850
operatives, consuming $1,000 bales
per annum and turning out %, 240, 900
yards of cloth.
A very marked increase in the man.
ufacture of beer is noted for the year
just ended. The output of the city
breweries aggregate go, 791 barrels,
an increase of 81, l53 barrels over pre-
vious year, about three-fourths of a
million gallons. The years products
represent a money value of about
81. 0C0, 900. In the bottling establish
ments 325, 900 dozen were put up, rep
resenting over $500, 900 in money.
Equal activity has been man
ifested in other departments.
The clothing output has been between
So, OOO, 900 and 1900, 900; the furniture
business has doubled its volume;
there has been q large increase in the
consumption of cigars and cigarettes;
the manufacture of baggIng, begun
within the year, already attains large
proportions, and in scores of other In
dustries satisfactory progress has
been made.
The table of exports and imports
shows total exports from this port of
Sl09, 022, 977, while imports were $780,
92l ,207, an increase OF Sc, 695, 757 YER
previous year. Coffee stands first on
the list of imports with a volume of
81, LOG, $50 for the 81, 71O,S42 pounds i'm
ported. Sugar ranks next with 1885,
764, 935 pounds valued at SIS, 27S, 457, an
increase of over 10000, 900 pounds for
the year.
1t was not until the fall of 1889 that
any attempt was made to secure grain
shipments for Europe, but the expert
ment so far as conducted has proved
a success and wheat shipments were
1926, sos bushels in excess of the year
ended August 81, 1890.
New Orleans is reaching out into
the great northwest and will make a
bid for the grain export OF all the re-
glon tributary to the upper Missouri
valley. She aspires to be a large
manufacturing center, and every year
adds to the volume of her established
in iustries. The old idea is changing
and within a few years her merchants
and shippers will be found disputing
the commerce of the great west and
northwest and southwest with every
port in the country. She has splen
did facilities for commanding trade
at the mouth of the Mississippi ant
its n~avigable tributaries, and doe
not intend to forego her opportuni
ties.
MILLS keeps on talking about tn
decrease in our exports and the eX