Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-13
C~ALvESTON'S GROWTH
AS A PORT OF ENTRY
Enormous Strides Being Made by
the City on the Coast of the
Gulf of Mexico.

J The Galveston News of September
l contains a synopsis or the con-
merce of the port of Galveston o
. the trade year just closed WHICH
u shows, among others, the Dreahihs VI
: the following records:
! Value of foreign exports.
: Value of foreign imports.
Value of cotton exported.
Amount of packing house products
exported.
Amount of corn exported.
! Exports of animals.
I Value of lumber exported.
Bank clearings.
Custom house receipts.
Amount of foreign tonnage.
Among the features OF the year
we're the development of Galveston
beach by the spending of thousands
, of dollars to turn it into a regular
4 Coney Island, and the coming OF the
new Brownsville Railroad.
With the increase of the amount
of cotton marketed through Calves
! ton. the Galveston spot market is be-
coming a dominant feature. The
Texas cotton crop for 1905-06
amounted to 2,521,SS5 bales, COM
pared with 2,S73,337 bales for 1904
O5. Galveston's cotton receipts for
the past year were 2,674,575 bales,
compared with 2,S79,336 bales for
1904-O5. The percentage, as COM
pared with the Texas crop, marketed
at Galveston was 1906. The per-
centage of the Texas and Territories
crops marketed at Galveston was
1913.
Bank clearings for the year just
closed were $63S,74O,0 600, an in
crease of 2,240,000 over previous
years.
Value of foreign exports through
Galveston, Size, 239,SS4, increase of
$4O,117,547.
Total value of cotton and by-pro-
duets, $144, 063,247, increase of $780,
1885.
Total value of provisions exported,
~$2,424,623, increase of $1,224,SO0.
Total value of breadstuffs export
ed, $11,255,019, increase of $685.
1872.
Total value of animals exported,
$~1,733,453, increase of $S4, 765.
Total value of woods exported, 3d.
17S,07S, increase of $692 ,SO4.
Total value of oils exported, $3,-l
417,614, increase of $1,513 ,647.'
Value of foreign imports, dutiable,
1880, 104, compared with $902,7 $50
for the preceding year.
Total value of foreign goods hand
led at Galveston, 6,299,0 DAG, increase
of $732,7S4.
The total foreign and coastwise
vessels entering and clearing, 1858,
with a tonnage of 3,731,765.
Custom house receipts, $527,6S5;
increase, $142,7S6.
Galveston is served by twenty-nine
steamship ines in the foreign trade.
Amount spent in government i'm
provements, $4S7,S19.
Amount spent in public and priv
ate improvements, $2,065,707.
Galveston holds first place in the
world in expectation of cotton, first
place in the expectation of cotton
seed products, second place in value
of foreign exports, eighth place
among ocean and gulf ports in all i'm
port matters, and thirteenth place
among customs districts.
Galveston has a total seawall pro-
lection of 4 37-100 miles, extending
completely around the gulf side of
the city. 1t is estimated that the
city's filling is about As per cent.
completed. The cost of the seawall
and grade raising is $1,000, 04O.
When the private improvements nee
essitated by the grade raising are in
cluded, the cost of seawall and grade
raising is placed at $5,250, 000.
One hundred and six thousand and
ninety-one loaded cars were handled
in the yards of the Galveston Wharf
Company by the various railroads,
compared with 93,151 for the pre-
viOuS year.
immigration through the port of
Galveston has been the heaviest in
the history of the port. Galveston
has become noted both as a summer
and winter resort and the excursion
travel to Galveston during the past
year exceeded all previous years.