Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Cotton – Suggestive Statistics

In the Mobile Advertiser we find the usual comparative statement of the receipts of cotton at all the ports for the first four months of the cotton year, viz.: from the 1st of September to the 1st December.

The following is the result:

Bales Received at -
1860
1861
New Orleans
901,075
1,759
Mobile
326,370
22
Savannah
33,280
130
Charleston
331,868
4,591
Memphis
70,310
3,328


– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 2

1 comment:

Jim Miller said...

The numbers in this article were extremely hard to read and should not be taken to be accurate, however the difference in these #'s between 1860 & 1861 is the real meaning & significance of the article. Additional research would be needed to determine if I was able to correctly transcribe (doubtful) the numbers.