Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Increased Trade of the South. [ARTICLE]

Increased Trade of the South.

Very significant, indeed are the figures of the bureau of statistics showing the exports from the United States in the eleven months ended May 31,1894. The total was $834,000,000, against $782,000,000 in the like period of the preceding jear, an increase of $52,000,000. But more than half of this increase was in exports from the South, showing the decided revival of business activity in that section. The exports from Southern ports aggregated $285,700,000, or $27,000,000 more than in eleven months of the year ended May 31, 1893. Baltimore’s exports aggregated $73,963,000; those of Charleston, $13,028,130; Galveston, $34,985,000; New Orleans, $79,373,000; Newport News, $13,638,000; Norfolk and Portsmouth, $10,039,000; Pensacola, $3,694,000; Richmond, $3,965,000; Savannah, $24,815,000; Wilmington, $6,999,009. These totals, as respects some of the ports, are surprising. The rates of increase over last year are also surprising. Baltimoie’s increase was $7,400,000; that of Savannah, $5,900,000; of Newport News,s6,ooo,000; of New Orleans, $5,100,000; of Charleston, $4,000,000. Baltimoi e Sun.