The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-31
LEADS ALL State
SHIPPING PORTS.
Bulletin Places Newport News
Ahead Of Norfolk and Ports
mouth Combined.
LITTLE BEHIND IN COTTON
City, However, Exports Ten
Times As Much Wheat
and Corn.
LITTLE BEHIND IN COTTON

FROM Our Regular correspondcnt.)

(Froin Our Regular Correspondcnt)
| WASHINGTON, y. c., October a0.--
While Newport News has not genera,
reputation MS great cotton. port, 1t Is
fact that 1t shipped almost as much
cotton In 1904 as was shipped from the
ports OF Norfolk and Portsmouth Nor
folk and Portsmouth shipped last year
1901 .6l5 pounds OF cotton. Newport News
shipped In the same period 1882, 115
/ pounds.
Newport News has shipped thus far
this year 11,G76oio pounds OF cotton. and
| for the Same period there have been
| shipped through the ports OF Norfolk ana
| Portsmouth l0,6s3,2Oi pounds Newport
| News seems to be gaining on the Other
| Virginia ports.
Wheat exported from Newport News
last year amounted to 10000 bushels.
None went out Of Norfolk and, Ports
mouth.
Thus far this year Newport News has
shipped 445,7Gi barrels OF -four The
total quantity shipped through this port
last year was 9o5.4i2 barrels. The figures
for Norfolk and Portsmouth are not given
in the bulletin issued by the Department
OF Agriculture. entitled Crop Export
Movement, from which the foregoing is
taken. These two ports shipped last year
n total OF 1886 barrels The total guam
tity Of domestic wheat and flour exported
from Newport News for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1905. reducing wheat TO
flour, with four and one-half bushels Of
wheat taken as equivalent to one barrel
Of flour, was 2,005.93S bushels; from Nor
folk and Portsmouth, 2S6,G.6. The figures
for the preceding year for the port Of
Newport News were 1924. 4S9 bushels; for
Norfolk and Portsmouth, 1862 bushels
Big Lead On Norfolk.
The corn exported through the port of
Newport News this far this year IS
3,1s1,7ls bushels; through Norfolk and
Portsmouth, 77s.53S bushels.
Tho bulletin gives considerable data re-
garding the features OF the port OF New
port News. 1t is stated that tho channel
leading up to the city Is twcnty-six feet
deep In its shallowest place at mean low
tide. The customs district of Newport
News was organized under the act of
Congress of October ~, 1888, and was
originally the Yorktown customs district,
which was organized by congressional
act March 2, 1899.
The value of the domestic exports from
the port of Newport News declined within
the five years ending with 1901 The value
in 1900 Of both foreign and domestic ex
ports from Newport News was $4,000, 600;
In 1902, $34, 0O0,0 and In 1901 the ship
mcnts amounted to only onc-half as
much, or slI000,00O The leading exports
In 1904 were -four, valued at $4,000, coo:
cattle. 100000; corn and lard, $1,000. 600
each. and tobacco and cotton. worth
about Sl,o00.00O each.
Cattle Exports.
About one vessel a month carries cattle
from Newport News to Glasgow and
Liverpool. and about the same number
OF voyages are made by cattle steamers
from Newport News to London, whence
some Of the cattle are forwarded 10
Rotterdam. The freight rate on cattle
from Newport News to European ports
varies from $3.50 to $40 head. Cattle
space on trans atlantic vessels sailing
from Newport News is leased occasipin-
ally for one voyage at n time, some.
times for three months and, under some
considerations for terms. as long as one
year. Cattle space may also be used
for lumber or cottOnseed cake 20 that
in case the supply Of cattle fail or the
cattle rates are too low, the steamship
s companies may substitute other kinds
OF freight The cattle exported from
Il newport news. come generally from IL
linois.
The oil cake shipped through Newport
News comes chiefly from st, Louis and
Chicago, with occasional shipments from
Kansas City and Louisville. The grain
comes chiefly from Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio; the -four from Minnesota, illinois,
Indiana and Missouri: the cottonseed oil
cake from Tennessee, and the cottonseed
Oil from Kentucky. Some vessels come
to Newport News light, and load partly
at that port, and complete their car
goes at Portsmouth and Norfolk.
The Chesapeake and Ohio terminals at
Newport News cover about nifty acres.
and have a capacity for handling 1000
cars a day. The railroad has three coal
piers. five covered merchandise piers.
two grain elevators and n 30-ton electric
crane for loading and unloading goods.
-Four OF the covered piers have storage
capacity equivalent to 2,4Oo carloads. The
largest pier is 500 feet long and 200 feet
wide.
Value Of Norfolk Harbor.
The bulletin calls attention to the fact
that the Norfolk Portsmouth harbor is
the only one OF any Importance on the
Atlantic coast which is entered from the
north. The minimum depth OF the chan
mel is 2S feet The description of the
harbor is accurate. Sailing np the Eliz-
abeth river" says the bulletin, zone
passes on the left Lamberts Point
sea board terminal of the Norfolk and