The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-09-01
RECEIPTS.
Houston Received Seventy Per Cent Of
the Texas Crop.
IA TOTAL OF 2,543,OOO BALES.
Gross for the Past Season Broke All
Records.
SOME COTTON EXCHANGE STATISTICS
what the Enormous Receipts at
This City Menns-Recordso of
Previous Years.

Tor the season ending August 81, 1899, the
gross receipts of cotton at Houston were
z,543,O 59 bales
This is by far the largest movement ever
"A recorded. The nearest to these figures in pre-
n yious years was in 1s94-s5, when the Texas
n crop was 3,21s,0o0, and of this Houston re-
N ceived 1903. 592 bales.
~ This years total is therefore, 739. i67 bales
q ahead of all previous records 1t is four
81 times as much cotton as was received here two
n years ago.
q For the commercial year ending yesterday
4 the entire crop of this State (Which statistic
N ally includes the Indian Territory will APP
proxmate S,6Oo.Oo bales
This means that 20 per cent Of the past sea-
\ sons crop has moved to and through this
place, the largest percentage of the total
yield that Houston has ever reported, no mat
ter what the size OF the crop.
The enormous gross receipts at Houston the |
past season place this city ahead of every cot
ton market in the United States. No other
city has equaled this record. Houston heads
the list. Galveston comes second and New Or
leans third.
The passing OF the 1000, 00O- bale mark was
made the occasion OF a big banquet by the
Houston Cotton Exchange last January, for
never before in the history of the trade had
such an amount been received In an entire
season. Since the first of the year more than
half million bales have been added to this
record.
The 2543,o59 bales of cotton that constituted
Houston's gross receipts for the past season
are estimated to have sold for s71, 100000. The
bagging to cover this cotton and the ties to
bind the bales cost 100000.
Placed end to end and piled three bales high
these 254a,O59 bales would make cotton wall
that would reach from the Rio Grande to the
Red river.
The cloth that has been made from these
i,2TJ,OoO0OO pounds of cotton was sufficient to
furnish a cotton dress for every inhabtant Of
this GLOBE
From the statistics compiled by Secretary
Warner OF the Houston Cotton Exchange the
1S97-9S. 1898 go
Houston gross receipts. /, 1888 2,543, O59
Net receipts by rail -, 639,312 1856 1854
Net receipts by wagon. 1870 22,3l6
Shipments outward. 81, 404,S35 2041 ,974
Shipments all rail to
New Orleans ......... 34SS75 ADOPTS
Shipments all rail to
New York ....... 665
Shipments to Japan..... 34,271 44077
Total compressed. ...... 31S,330 1928 900
Stock Sept. 1. 1S99...... 1246S 29,2O1
HOUSTON ANNUAL RECEIPTS.
Season Of Gross. Net.
1ss4-s5 ................l 4OS,234I 1870 AIS
lsS5-S6 ................ 94,357f 202, 1887
1862 ................ 100000 209,025
1sS1-SS ................l GAL 1881 liza, $50
1SSS-S9 ...............l 6755O4I 2l1 24d
loS9-yU ................N T94, SOL 80 1883
IoJO-5l ...s............ 5,OS4l 367 ,o94
1S91-92 ................l 1135S72I 434317
1929 ..,..........,l ia 1891 465 e37
1858 ................ 1,106, 1891 1872 ,147
1S94-95 ................l 1909, 592I 500 1873
1896 ................l 16O 1881 454 4S4
le9b-sI ............... l4l573Si 5fl ,o04
1928 ................ 1,7S3,3S3l 654 $50
1883 ................l 2.543.o59I 7S6,S6f
RECEIPTS BY RAILROADS.
For the seasons of 1S97-9S and 1898 80 ,
the railroads entering Houston reported
gross receipts as follows:
Roads 1S97.es. lS9S-o9
n. G. T. c. $500. 42S.029 Sal, 109 {
M, X. IL T...... 500, l56 570,243
4 G. N......... 36S,259t 6S4, 236 ]
5. A. d A. P...... 151672l 230,071
g., II. a s. A...... 1891 173, ,s5
II. p. q w. TO-. S3979 1880
G, c. & S. Feel 57,057 77.2S5 !
7. g. N. O.........h 1874 9.232 l,i
MONTHLY MOVEMENT. !
a ATba -Srnss-+eeeif,ts- here for eacH month
during the past season were as follows:
1S9S99-- Bales. !