The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-15

signed TO Serachan q 20.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has a number of unusually large new poles
laid along Bay street and along other routes
through the city. 1t is the intention Of the
Western Union to replace all of its poles in
this city with larger ones. The new poles
are of cyprus. seventy feet in length. and
are capable of accommodating almost any
number of wires. They are brought from
Tennessee The Western Union is also put
ting up new poles along It's route to Florida.
The receipts Of freight by the South
Bound railroad will be reported at the cot
ton exchange to-day. aud from now on.
similar to the reports OF receipts by the
other railroads. The officers Of the South
Bound are not ashamed to have its receipts
posted, even II it is new road with only
one train day. "The South Bound is get
ting its full share Of freights from the sec
ton which it penetrates," they say. 1t is
bringing in a considerable amount of cot
ton now, and its receipts of naval stores es-
pecially are attracting attention.
The rice planters report that about one
half the crop has been out and is now lying
on the ground. Cutting and threshing are
going on rapidly and the crop will be
marketed as fast as it can be harvested.
No damage to the rice Is reported from the
recent showers. The planters are making
no predictions as to the outcome of the crop.
They say that just now it is In its most
critical condition. If the equinoctial
storms, which are expected about Sept. %,
should be heavy, aud there should be much
of the rice on the ground it would be al
most totally ruined.
The farmers of this state have not paid
over so cents 100 on an average in years,
though in exceptional instances higher
prices were paid for special reasons. II the
farmers only paid so cents when cot
pound they could hardly afford to
pay twice that when cotton is
only bring aud s cents. A dollar a 100
would mean SIS to $l7 for bale, that would
only bring $40 for the picking alone, leav-
ing all the expenses of cultivation. picking,
baling and marketing and the profits, which
there usually isn't any to come out Of the
remainder. The receipts will hardly be cut
short any by the cotton pickers' strike.
The cotton men of Savannah ore not wor-
rying themselves much about the reported
grand strike of the colored alliance cotton
pickers, that was to have gone into effect
last Saturday, They have heard of no
strikes in Georgia or the neighboring states
and they are not expecting any. The fact
is that the colored alliancemen are small
potatoes in this state and seldom heard
from. Those who do belong to the alliance
are mostly farming for themselves and
nine-tenths Of the cotton pickers are OUT
side Of the alliances Instead of
striking for 81 hundred, most
of the cotton pickers in this
state would be glad to get so cents 100. and
Al cents 100 would probably be a fair
| average of what the farmers are paving,
as good cotton picker can pick all the
ing 20 how thickly the cotton is opened in
the field, this is not poor wages. A woman
can easily pick over 100 pounds aday.
The receipts of cotton at the ports yester-
day proved considerable surprise TO the
cotton men and big point iu favor of the
bears The receipts at Savannah were
1887 bales, against z, 753 bales the same day
last year. While this would have caused
remark, it was still more remarkable when
at all ports for the day to have
been 56,4ll bales, against 37,5O7
last year. In the face OF the unusually
favorable crop conditions and heavy early
movement Of last year this was somewhat
OF surprise. The market went off imme-
diately. The prices upon good grades from
low middhng to middling fair declined h Of
CshI uuTIuB the ud(s caused Dy the re-
ports OF the heavy receipts and the decline
Of the New York marEes from the same
cause. If this keeps up the market will go
down with tumble.
The Commercial and Financial CIiron-
icle IN its issue OF Sept. II publishes its
statement Of the crop for the year 1890
81. 1t made the total crop S,G55, 5ls bales,
Weighing 1926 400,O 45 pounds. This is a
CFOn OF Ona aud oua-thfrd rnfllsor, no
larger than the previous year, which was,
as Is now well known, the largest crop
previous 10 last season ever produced. IL
shows that, although the receipts at the
ports were quite large. ths volume o. cot
ton carried overland shows a considerable
iuarease. This is remhr cable when 10 is re-
membered that ibsD-'90 there was de-