New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
New Orleans
Customs Set
High Record
Receipts s4,000,0 900 Above
Best Previous Year; Al
Glasses Of Foreign Trade
Show Healthy Increases
Wharfage Charges Cut
Dock Boards New Rates
Will Save 100000 Year
ly to Ships Entering Port

NEW ORLEANS. La. July Gus
toms receipts at New Orleans for the
fiscal year ended June 30 beat all pre-.
vious records BY 100000. The total
was si6.is6.0i0. Sugar comprised 65
per cent Of the imports. The previous
high record WAS for 1890.
Coineident with this announcement
comes the reduction in wharfage rates
by the dock board.
Henecforth the dock boards charge
for the first day a vessel is moored at
a wharf will be cents per gross ton,
instead Of 4. reduction OF % per
cent; the second days rate will re-
main the same; but the third days
rate is cut from to 21 cents. II is
estimated that this reduction will save
the 2,000-odd ships coming 70 New Or
leans every year 100000 annually.
New Orleans building operations
are breaking all records There Is
under construction now S5,000,000 Of
new building. 20 per cent OF which is
I In commercial structures. This 70
J 81 100000 more than the complete
building operations for the first six
months Of last year. Thousands Of
I dollars Of construction, already com
U lAfNtu AlAN lfATs arc WWN lNAlAhAA ~
/ the compilation. Building permits
have increased steadily this year. from
| S570.s75 In January TO Sl,l0f.830 in
June Architects now have under way
plans for about Sl5,000,000 Of new
building.
lt Was only decade or 50 ago that
New Orleans had q six-month foreign
| trade year the business being practi-
. d IL II. ~ tfrr
season. with the river looking Ike a
/ deserted village the rest Of the tune.
I The difference now is strikingly Illus
trsted in 6gures just compiled by the
/ Association OF Commerce. showing that
/ during 1921. the year OF slump, the
foreign trade Of the port increased by
more than a million tons The total
/ for the year was l2.953.530 tons, com
pared with 1928 .s63 in 1920. Imports,
exports and coastwise shipments all
made healthy increases.
In foreign trade values New or
leans dropped less than the other large
ports of the country The dIop in
| values 9as ass per cent - compared
with 1920. During the same period
the drop in New York was SOL per
cent. Boston. els per cent; Philadel-
phia. 60 per cent; Baltimore, 59.2 per
cent: San Francisco. 1873 per cent; Sc
attic. 54.6 per cent.
Ship tonnage OF the port increased
from 9.505.72i 10 10 ss79cS. This year
I finds New Orleans maintaining the
same pace.
In the agricultural sections Of the
state, the situation Is bright. Rice IS
bringing n good price and the stocks
/ have been almost exhausted. This viii
mean continuance Of good prices
with prospects for rise when the ne"
crop which will be the first crop OF
the season. comes or. The condition oi
sugar Is encouraging both from a grow
ing standpoint and from o selling. Cot
ton Is in better shape than 70 was thif
time last year. and the price Is very
strong In the flooded sections the poo
pie are getting 20 work and find thai
the black cloud Of disaster has silver
lining after all. for the silt depo%ted
By the river has enormously enriched
the productivity Of the land.