The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-05
oHARLEsroN's TRADE TRIALS.
Annual Review by the News and Cou-
risr of the City's Yearly Business.

Annual Review by the News and Cou-
risr of the City's Yearly Business.
Charleston. S. c., Sept. 4.-The News
and Courier will publish tomorrow its
annual review of the trade and
commerce of Charleston for the
commercial year ending Aug. 81,
which has S0een one Of unprecedented
trial. vet the report shows that Charles
ton has held its own remarkably well
The storm in August, 1928. laid waste
hundreds of miles Of territory directly
tributary 70 this market and deprived
Charleston Of a rich and remunerative
trade. The rice crops were almost totally
destroyed, the sea island cotton crop was
nearly all lost, and the tUrpentlne forests
were blown down for miles and the river
phosphate mining companies so badly
damaged that they could not operate Tor
more than half the year. The dispensary
liquor law drove a great deal of capital
from the city and destroyed a hitherto
lucrative business The storms IN the
state last year and the general depression
throughout the country also affected the
trade OF the city, but in spite of all these
calamltles and drawba the trade of
Charleston shows a falling of OF only
about S3,5O0,000 as compared with the
preceding year. The aggregate value Of
the business of the city is more than
S1l,OOO,OO0. This, under the circum-
stances, is splendid showing.
The prospects for the new year are full
Of encouragement. The completion of the
letties make Charleston one of the finest
deep water ports in the world. and in
sures to this city great increase in its
foreign trade Ships drawing % feet of
water can DOW cross the bar with safety.
The government work on the jetties has
been most successful, and Capt F. V.
Abbott, the engineer in charge, says that
there is every reason to anticipate that
the full depth of % feet contemplated by
che project will be attained with less ex-
penditure than the amount of the esti-
mate.
During the year, he says, 1,079,000 cubic
yards of material have disappeared from
between the jetties aud the areas about
their landward and seward ends. This
gain in waterway or decrease of obstruct-
ing material, he adds, equals the whole
amount that was gained from 1884 to
1898"
The completion of the ietties will lead
in the near future to the establishment of
the direct steamship lines to Europe, and
TO the improvement of the terminal facili-
ties of the port, already the finest at the
South Atlantic coast New cotton and
exporting firms will do business here this
year, and ii is expected that there will be
a ldTB6 Increase IN bQ6 COLJOu r6C6lpUS OF
the port Last year the cotton receipts
exceeded those of the previous year by
more than 100000 bales.
The News and Courier will also publish
tomorrow, letters from its correspondents
in all parts of the state, describing the
condition Of the agricultural and in
dustrial interests. These letters, with
very few exceptions, are pleasingly mo-
notonous in their statement of the better
condition of the farmers, and in attribut-
ing the cause to the forced economy con-
sequent upon the disasters of the previ-
GUS year and the increased attention
to cereal products, induced by the
low price of cotton. The same
reasons have led to more attention being
paid to the raising Of hogs and other live
stock. If we are to accept the concur
rent testimony of so many persons in so
many varied localities, South Carolina
was never so well prepared to supply its
own hogs and hominy as it is to-day. In
some parts of the state people are raising
their horses and mules and cattle, and
supplying themselves with beef, butter
ard milk. In the upper tier of counties
wheat and oats, as well as corn, are avail
able as food crops. Tobacco and truck
farms and orchards have also come into
favor, and diversified farming and ex-
! tensive cultivation have apparently come
to South Carolina to stay.