The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-09-21
oALVEsToN's PROGRESS.
Texas Port Shows Great Increase
Along All Lines.

The Galveston News of Sept.
contains a synopsis of the commerce
Of the port of Galveston for the trade
wear just closed, which shows, among
others, the breaking of the following
vecords.
Value of foreign exports
Value Of foreign imports.
Value Of cotton exported.
Amount OF packing house products
exported.
Amount Of corn exported
Export Of animals.
Value Of lumber exported,
Rank clcarings.
Custom house receipts.
Amount of foreign tonnage.
Among the features of the year
"'erc the development of Galveston
9each by the spending of thousands
ni dollars TO tnrH it into regular
cohey Island. and the coming of the
new Brownsville railroad.
with the increase Of the amount OF
cotton marketed through Galveston.
The Galveston spot market is becom.
ing dominant feature. The Texas
cotton crop for isOj.0G amounted to
.s.32i,ss5 bales, compared with 2.S73,.
l31 bales for 1994.0j Gaiveston's
cotton receipts for the past year were
2,67i,j7i bales. compared with 1879.
!36 bales for ls0I-05. The percen.
tage, az compared with the Texas
crop. marketed at Galveston was
1905. The percentage OF the Texas
and Territories crops marketed at
Galveston was 1913.
Bank ceariucs for the years lust
closed were s6Ss, 100000, M increase
OF ssj.2io,O0O over previous years.
Value OF foreign exports through
Galveston, slGG,23s,SSI. increase ot
$i0IlI5iT.
Total value of cotton and bv-pro
d"sts slii.oG3247, increase OF $50.
1855.
Total value of provisions exported.
S2,'2i,G23, Increase Of S1.22I.gO0.
Total yalue OF breadstuns export
ID, Sll,2jj.Ol9, increase Of sS,SGG.
1872.
Total value Of animals exported.
N.Ia3,i53, increase of SSi,IGj.
Total value of woods exported. 49,.
'S,ofS, increase Of $692. S0i.
Total value of oils exported, S3.4l7..
Gl4, increase OF s1,5I3,G47.
Value Of foreign imports. dutiable.
Sl,2So1Oi, compared with s9O2, $50
fr the preceding year.
fetal value Of foreign goods han.
died at Galveston, s6,29s,O4G. increase
VI S732,7Sl.
The total foreign and coastwise |
vessels entering and clearing, 1853. |
with a tonnage OF 3,731,7G5.
Custom house receipts, S527,CS5. in.
crease, s142,7S6.
Galveston is served by twenty-nine
steamship lines in the foreign trade.
Amount spent In government i'm.
s4s7S19
Amount spent in public and private
s2,O65, 7O7.
Galveston holds first place in the
world in expectation of cotton, first
'lace in the expectation of cotton
'eed products, second place In value
# foreign exports, eighth place
mong ocean and gulf ports in all
IMPORT matters, and thirteenth place
mong customs districts.
Galveston has a total seawan pro.
ection of 37-100 miles. extending
around the gulf side Of
he city. 1t is estimated that the
ltys Milling is about 45 per cent
The cost of the seawal
nd grade raising is $3,jO5,OiO. When
he private improvements necessi-
lted by the grade raising are includ.
d, the cost of seawall and grade |
using is placed at $5,25O,OOO.
One hundred and six thousand and
ineiy-one loaded cars were handled
! the yards of the Galveston Wharf
ompany by the various railroads,
ompared with 93,l5i for the prev.
'us year.
immigration through the port of
has been the heaviest in
le history of the port Galveston
as become noted both as summer
nd winter resort and the excursion
ayei 10 Galveston during the past
FAR exceeded all previous years.