The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-02
PORT STATISTICS
WILMINGTON COTTON AND SHIP
PING BUSINESS FOR YEAR
The Receipts OF Cotton Were 2S4,290
BaIes-Six Thousand New Bales Al
ready Received This Season
Three and Four ships
Arrived in Twelve Months.


During the cotton year ended August
Goth. the receipts of cotton in the pa.
Of Wilmington have been 2S4, 299 bale.
against 25S,5 SCI bales the previous yee~.
N exports for the year just ended
have been 27O,653 bales OF which the des-
tination was as follows: Great Britain,
1865 bales; continental Europe, ZAP, ~
bales; cOastwise (dOmestic), 1886 ba:es;
interior points. 1,GO1 bales. The official
figures will not be posted at the COM
merciaI rooms Of the Chamber of Com
merce till tomorrow, but the official
figures will probably be the same Or #
they vary the difference Will be practi-
cally small.
THE YEARS SHIPPING.
From the books Of Captain E. ID. VIII
liams, harbor master, we learn that
during the cotton year ended Augu. [
Goth, there ave arrived in the port OF
Wilmington 304 ships, of which $50 werc
steamships, u barks, 3 brigs, IL bargea
and 119 ~schOOners. The grand total tor :
nag Of all vessels was 2S3, 035.
OF the arrivals there were ships as
follows:
Notwithstanding, Ill, with Il
tonnage OF AS, 001; banks, 3, with a tor
mage Of 1873; brIgs, l, with a tOnnag' Of
2yi; bargeS,11, with Il tOnnage of 1875;
schOOners, 10, with a tonnage of 38.SGS.
Notwithstanding, 49,, with 65.9i0
tons; barks, IS. with 9,I91 tons; brigs, 2,
with 392 tons; sChooners, 3, with 2,G9i
tons.
The arrival of shipping for the last
year by months was as follows:
AMERICAN VESSELS.
September-Eight steamships ~ ill.,
G9G tons; , schOOners of 7O3 tons; | barge
of /, 40 tons.
October-Nine steamships of 1920
tons: s schOOners of 1,945 tons.
November-Nine steamships of 11.SI9
tons; l bark of 525 tons; L barge OF =
COO tons, . ~schOOners of 1852 tolls.
Observation-Disclosures steamships o:
1860 tons; l barge of 1900 tons, ,
~schOOners of 1,S4O tons.
January-Ten steamships of 13,44S
tons; l barge of 1000 tons: il ~sCloU"5rS
OF 3,50I tons.
FebrUary-Eight steamships of 9,45r
tons: l barge of 1000 tons; ten schOon-
ers of 2,915 tons.
March-Ten steamships of 1862 tons:
1 bark of 5II tons; l barge of 1,610 tons;
6 schOOners of 2,OS9 tons.
April-Eight steamships of lO,420 tons,
1 bark of 5TI tons: y schOOncrs of 9,6lO
tons
May-Nine steamships of 11,511 tons;
l barge of 5000 tons; IL ~schOOners ~ g.
367 tons.
June-Eight steamships of 1920 tons;
L brig of 294 ons ? barges OF 1850 tons:
u ~schoOners of 1854 tons.
July-Nine steamships of 1884 tors;
9 SchOOners of 1929 tons.
Lugust-Ten steamships of Il, TAI tons;
. oarges of 2,SS6 tons: "A schooners Of
T.: ! tons.
craftsmanship. III, of 1850 ton9;
3 tLrks OF 1.679 tons; 1 brig of 294 tons:
II barges of 1896 tons; 11G ~schOOn""s
of SS,S6S tons.
FOREIGN SHIPS
S-ptember-Eight steamships of 49,.
109 tons; 1 bark of G2S n l schooner
of 1877 ions.
October-Nine steamships of 1871
tons; , barks of 1000 tons: . schoone"S.I
of 357 tons. /
NOvember-Three steamships of $40
tons: one brig of 1856 tons.
D~ecember-Six steamships of 10 III
tons; 2 parks of 1,126 tons: l schooner
of 112 tons.
January-Two Steamships of 3,71G
tons: five barks of 2.542 tons: l schooner
of 191 tons.
Fe5ruary-FOur steamships of 4.I12
tom; l bark OF 40 tons: l schooner OF
rs tons. !
March-One steamship Of 152 tons I
schooner of 134 tons.
April-Two steamships of 1926 tons:
three banks of 1866 tons.
One bark of So tons.
JU~P-Two steamships of 2,406 tons;
l b: k of 500 tons.
JIIy-One bark of $50 tons. ! brig Of
196 .1ns: l schooner of 1879 tons.
-gust-Two steamships of S.645 toHs;
l bark of 49S tons; 1 schooner of 196
tons.
Tctal steamships, 80. of $40 tons:
bars. Is. of 9.791 tons: brigs, , of 392
tom: ~schooners 9. of 1904 tons.
SHIPPING ARRIVALS FOR AUGUST.
TIE shipping which arrived in port in
Aug ISt just ended was as follows:
MISUNDERSTANDING. 1G, of PA
tons: schooners. IA. of 1917 tons; barCeG,
.. of 2.SS6 tons. Total American vessel.
20. of a total aggregate of -. 944 n
Notwithstanding. , of 3,64o N
barks. I. of 49S tons: schOoners, l. of 1876
tons. Total number of foreign VeSsei<, !
4. with n total aggregate of 4.S3S tons
Grand total number of American a2d
foreign vessels. 80. with a grand aSgre-
gate of 81. 2S3 tons.