The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-24
PROSPERITY OF The SOUTH.
The Products of.lts Soil and Bus
mess of its Ports.

Baltimore, June 1S.-The import.
ance of the South, both as base Of
outward bound commerce of the coun-
try and as a handler of that COM
merce, is revealed in the figures of
exports of domestic produce for the
eleven months of the present fiscal
year, as analyzed in this weeks issue
of the Manufacturers Record. The
total value of domestic exports of
merchandise was 81, 299, 026, 1872, an
increase over the same period last
year of $50, Ola, 514. Of this total
nearly "a per cent, or s3oS, 747, ,095,
represented cotton, an increase of S26,
800, $50. Referring to certain classes
of exports the Manufacturers Record
says;
''The total value of breadstufs, pro-
visions, mineral oils and cotton ex-
ported was s739, 797, ,427, an increase
over the same period last year Of 81
189, 503. There was falling off in the
value Of mineral oils exported of 3d.
266, 299, in the value of cattle and
hogs of 81, 737,s 1856, and in the value
of meat and dairy products Of S2l,-
727, ,0S7. Against these decreases, ago
gregating S2S, 733, 2Sl, were increases
in the value of cotton of S26, 800, 800,
and in the value of breadstufs Of So
O22, 704, total OF s32, 922, 784. Not
only was the value OF cotton exports
more than Al per cent Of the total val
ne Of the exports mentioned, but its
increase was within 81, 833, 201 of bal
ancing the combined decreases IN the
values of provisions and mineral oils.
Moreover the increases in the val
ues of breadstuf exports from two
Gulf ports more than counterbalanced
the total decline in values for all other
ports Of the country. The decreases
were as follows:
Boston, 1926, 959; San Francisco,
S3, 53l, ,656; Newport News, 50, 745, 091;
Philadelphia, 1922, 705; Baltimore,
s715, PIG; Willamette, s715, 219; Nor
folk, 1852, 476; Mobile, $3.50, 568; Chi
cago, S14s, ,237. Total, s14,078, 921.
"The increases, excepting those at
Galveston and New Orleans, were as
follows:
New York, 81, o29, sle; Portland, ST.
965, ,2s7; Superior. 1886, 665; Puget
Sound, SA79,Oo8; Duluth, sl52, 4l2;
other districts, S69l,7lA Total so,
O54. .9o5.
These figures show total decrease
of SS, 024, 0l6 for all ports, exclusive OF
two Gulf ports. The increases there
were as follows:
New Orleans, s7,043.321; Galveston,
81, O03, 399. Total s14. 046, 72o.
Substracting the total decreases
for all other ports from the increases
at these two ports leaves an aggregate
increase of $50, ,222, 7O4. The. increases
at Galveston and New Orleans we're SO
great as to make the total increase for
all Southern ports So, 773, 366 while
the increases in the group Of six men
toned above were sufficient only to
reduce the decrease at all ports except
the Southern ones to s., 750, 662.
During the eleven months New
Orleans led the ports in the combined
quantities of corn and wheat exported,
with 81, 12S, ,667 bushels, New York
being second, with 27, 735, III bushels,
and New Orleans showed the largest
increase, from 2,031, ,55S bushels in the
eleven months of the last fiscal year
to 1922, O26 bushels for the same
period this year in exports of corn,
Baltimore being second, with an in
crease from 8, 1896, PA to 1902, 243.