Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-27
SLUMP IN EXPORTS
Estimated Figure for This Month,
$i,4O6,l6S.
INTERESTING COMPARISON
Business for August This Year Nearly as
Great as In August, 1898. Total About
HAITI as Large us July. Grain
Exports FOX Last Week.

|
month Of August now promise to be
llshter than was expected last week
by fully half a million
| The books of the custom house have
been made up to the present time aud
| aS lar as can be sscertained to any dc
gree OF accuracy. there will he Ecry
! Nv moro ships TO sail from Newport
News with exports during the remain
| ing days ;:t the month
| IL is absolutely known that two large
steamers are to leave for foreign norris
before the closing of the record of
August. but no more are ,,xpectel #
has frequently happened however. ana
may De the case now. that ships have
g me from foreign ports which are not
looked for. and this may swell the gen
eial amount 10 some extent but there
IS no possibility that this month will
| ." anything like as heavy an export
month as was July.
Ihere are still four mlnifeSts of cS-
pert ships which have not been enter
ed on the books at the custom house.
but all told the business for the month
will not be as large. By many tousands
as had been anticipated.
Inc books last night showed the fol
lowing total to date:
IN to the Goth Observation-Disclosures 81 o56 7Gs
Balance (esti1nated) ;. ........ 150. 900
Total for August 81 .4oG 1GS
This is the most conservative csti-
mate. and under no probable t.irrum-
stances can the total be larger than the
.lEures given above. The calculation
Is based on previous instances. and is
thought to be rs nearly correct as any
calculation of the kind can possibly be-
y FEW COMPARISONS
IN TINS connection it Will be of inter
st to give 4 few comparisons from
isures secured at the custom house
Yesterday afternoon of previous eX-
ports from this port
he exports for The month of July,
iris year, We're s2.9l2.0lo. which is con
sidered one of the heaviest months
business. under the same conditions,
that mas ever. been transacted in New
port News by the custom house
from the very first part of this
month 1t vas not expected that the ex-
ports would be as large as usual This
Vas IN fact almost am impossi5lity
lhe yellow fever quarantine had a
BAD effect on the shipping, and it was
known at an early date in the month
that II would help a great deal townrd
knocking off the export totals. "a short
ume later the West Indian hurricane
tied up shipping for about a week, and
curing tha1 time there was practical y
no business at the custom house
notwithstanding these facts the ex-
ports for. AngnstlSa9, will be nearly as
neaFS as they We're in August 1895.
Last year the total for thu. month in
question was $l.61s,092. which is only
s2ll.s44 greater than the total for the
same month this year This is bv no
means a terrible falling off, considered
from Year to year hut taken from one
month TO the next the total is not as
large as might be desired
The fact that the exports this month
regardless Of all the events which have
helped to knock te total down, are
- ha\ !,
ago. when business vas good in shin
Ting circles, shows beyond all dues
ton that the trade of Newport News
with foreign ports is constantly becom-
ing larger and the prospects for a still
greater increase in the business arc
Very bright
shipping men who are in a position
TO know what they are talking about.
expect the exports for Sertem Der and
October to be much heavier than they
nave been so far this year. The fall
months of the year are always con
sidered good exporting times, ana the
prospects are that this year these
months will be no exception to the
rule.
What will be done in this line next
year is only matter OF conjecture but
there is every reason to believe that
all Of the local records will be broken.
The new grain elevator of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway Company
will then. in all probability. he in on
Grafton and the grain shipments from
Newport News go long way toward
swelling the total export figures
GRAIN EXPORTS.
Grain exports for last week We're not
as large as had been anticipated There
was a great quantity of corn and oats
shipped but there was no wheat at all
exported. The figures for the week
Corn Cbushels). :. :. :. :. .416.714
Oats (bushels).. !. ;. ;. ). ). ..1G5 900
The reason that the figures are not
larger is owing to the fact that the
four ships this month which have not
been entered on the books as vet. car.
ried large shipments of grain. The
vessels We're loaded last week at the
grain pier.