. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . is little sign of life from any ofthe steamers at the docks, though here and there adrunken river-hand blunders along the wharvessinging some dialect catch; but with early sun-peepcomes once more the roar, the rush, the rattle! The coastwise trade is one of the importantelements of the commerce of New Orleans. Of thetotal tonnage entered and
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . is little sign of life from any ofthe steamers at the docks, though here and there adrunken river-hand blunders along the wharvessinging some dialect catch; but with early sun-peepcomes once more the roar, the rush, the rattle! The coastwise trade is one of the importantelements of the commerce of New Orleans. Of thetotal tonnage entered and cleared from that portduring the fiscal year 1871-72, fifty-four per cent,or 1,226,000 tons, belonged to this trade, representingsomething like $125,000,000; while the foreign tradewas only $109,000,000 for the same period. Duringthe commercial year ending September 30, 1872,two thousand five hundred and nine steamboats,comprising a tonnage of 3,500,000 tons burthen,arrived at the port. The value of the principalarticles brought in by these boats was $160,000,000,the up-river cargoes amounting to about $90,000, is, therefore, fair to estimate the net value ofThepolite,j^jat^consequentiai negro ^j^.^ commerce at nearly $400,000,000 per 58 THE COMMERCE OF,NEW ORLEANS. Now let US take the actual figures of the commerce of the Gulf for oneyear: that from September, 1871, to September, 1872. Coastwise trade $135,000,000 Galveston trade 25,000,000 Mobile trade 24,000,000 Exports from New Orleans ... 90,800,000 Imports to New Orleans . . 18,700,000 Cuban trade 150,000,000 Porto Rico 25,000,000 Mexico 35,000,000 This, exclusive of the Darien and Central American trade, now so rapidlyincreasing, makes a grand total of more than five hundred millions of dollars.* * The collection district, of which New Orleans is the chief port, embraces all the shores,inlets, and waters within the State of Louisiana east of the Atchafalaya, not including thewaters of the Teche, of the Ohio
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