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 NEW ORLEANS 325 1870, 168,878,592 Ibs., $14,260,636; 1871, 146,906,125 Ibs., $12,487,020; 1872, 125,346,- 493 Ibs., $10,027,717; 1873, 103,241,119 Ibs., $8,122,575. Similar fluctuations are noticed in the statistics of cotton from 1860 to 1874: YEARS. Receipts, bales. Value. YEARS. Receipts, bales. Value. i86o-'6i. 1861-'62. 1862-'63. 1863-'64. 1864-'65. 1865-'66. i866-'67. 1,849,312 38,800 22,078 131,044 271,015 787,886 780,490 $92,465,600 1,769,040 6,107,082 46,677,872 73,820,398 140,812,185 97,639,299 1867-'68. i868-'69. 1869-'70. 1870-'71. 1871-'72. 1872-'73. 1873-'74. 668,395 841,216 1,207,333 1,548,136 1,067,011 1,382,958 1,322,106 $68,510,487 98,825,025 120,129,633 101,015,874 94,430,473 116,168,472 94,530,000 The rice crop shows on the whole a very large increase during the seven years from 1867 to 1874 ; the yearly product has been as follows : YEARS. Bbls. YEARS. Bbls. 1867-'68 . 21 663 1871 '72 29973 i868-'69 1869-70 . . 29,960 57956 1872-'73.... 1878-' 74. 52.206 96546 1870-'71 87,585 In corn there has been an effort of late years to create a large foreign trade, which has met with fair success. The exports to transatlantic ports in 1873-'4 were, according to one au- thority,- 1,034,348 bushels, against 695,925 in 1872-'3. The total value of the principal arti- cles received from the interior from 1863-'4 to 1873- 1 4 is shown in the following table : YEARS. Value. YEARS. Value. 1868-' 64.... $79,288,948 1869-'70.... $200 820 496 1864-'65. 113,549,285 1870-'71.... 170 100 414 1865-' 66 201 722 179 1871-'72. 169* 756*667 1866-'67 168,343,569 1872-'78 140*000*000 1867-' 68. 127,459,561 1873-'74... 170 000 000 1868-'69. 167559658 The receipts of leading articles for 1872-'3 and 1873-'4 were as follows : ARTICLES. 1872-'73. 1873-'74. Apples, bbls. and boxes 118,934 74298 Bacon, casks and hhds Bacon, boxes 40,385 10,933 27,985 7915 Bacon, hams, tcs 20,401 18578 Green meat, hhds 11748 8849 Green meat, boxes Meats, Ibs in bulk. 3,551 1,459,208 8,076 2 878 974 Bagging, pieces. 7409 8960 Butter, firkins and kegs Bran, sacks 32,152 191880 22*344 117 373 Beef, bbls. and tcs. 6769 9374 Cotton seed, sacks 889,738 908993 Cheese, boxes 52330 88281 Candles, boxes 61 797 54630 Coal, bushels 5,841,264 4 948*406 Corn, bushels 1 877 910 1433472 Corn, sacks. 1 884 127 1 316236 Corn meal, bbls 151,465 Flour, bbls... 1,046 124 1 001 504 Hides 439522 876 073 Hay, bales. 165698 152 050 Lard, tcs 50257 81 683 Lard, kegs 55669 89 586 Lime, bbls. western. 49905 44935 Malt, sacks 55721 62602 Molasses, bbls 150640 151*531 Molasses, half bbls.... 5.340 5.262 ARTICLES. 187S->73. ISTS-^. Oats, sacks 559518 Onions, bbls. 26*260 Oils, cases. 16 788 Oils, bbls 23*203 OQ fiflO Oil cake, sacks 98'523 Potatoes, bbls... 201*597 176 420 Pork, bbls 101 324 76*427 Shingles, M... 6*255 11*474 Soap, boxes 27*169 QA'AOO Staves, M 3967 4004 Tallow, bbls. and tcs. . 5541 6827 Tobacco, hhds. 8o'l82 Ifi 7ft8 Tobacco, pkgs., manufactured "Whiskey, bbls 69,045 51 219 57,628 83 163 Wheat, bushels, in bulk 725 823385 The following table gives the shipments of a number of commodities by sea and to Mobile and Texas, during the same period : ARTICLES. 1872-'73. 1873-'74. Bacon, casks and hhds Bacon, boxes 18,029 8625 10,655 8443 Bran, sacks 42855 87229 Coffee sacks 82867 24,756 Corn, bushels 833411 1 001 630 Corn, sacks 833484 570 256 Corn meal, bbls 25,226 23,182 Flour, bbls 479,747 476044 Hides. 568521 858 708 Hay, bales 22,842 15,075 Hams, tcs 5351 Lard, tcs 21518 18759 Lard, kegs 16,598 9,528 Molasses, bbls 108,282 93218 Oats, sacks 160635 126871 Oils, bbls 87,060 86,068 Oil cake, sacks 220,835 256,985 Pork, bbls 15592 8762 Salt, sacks 60,682 21,512 Staves .. 6,514,857 Sugar hhds 15996 9170 Sugar, bbls 22,596 21,804 Tobacco, hhds. 19,989 25,947 Tobacco, pkgs., manufactured Whiskey, bbls 28,910 88,559 82,782 27,069 Wool, sacks 12,972 14,080 Wheat, bushels, in bulk None. 823,082 The manufactures of the city are not exten- sive. According to the census of 1870, the parish of Orleans contained 911 manufacturing establishments, employing 517 steam engines and 5,640 hands; capital invested, $5,751,985; amount of wages paid during the year, $2,554,- 554 ; value of materials used, $4,566,543 ; of products, $9,980,278. The principal manufac- tories in 1875 were 5 of cotton-seed oil, 8 of sirup and cordial, 7 of tobacco, 3 of fertili- zers, 3 of vinegar, 13 of soap, 5 sugar refine- ries, 5 distilleries, and 15 breweries. There were also 3 gas companies, 2 ice-manufactur- ing companies, 5 dry-dock companies or firms, 42 insurance companies, 23 banking institu- tions, 5 tow-boat companies, and 24 custom- house warehouses, arranged in four classes. For municipal purposes the city is divided into seven districts, Algiers constituting the fifth, Carrollton the seventh, and the rest of the territory on the left bank the other five. It forms part of the first two congressional districts of the state, and for state legislative purposes is divided into 17 representative dis- tricts (in some cases with adjacent parishes)
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