Department of Commerce [pp. 335-350]

346 COMMERCE.
FLORIDA.
Marion County...... The accounts from all these localities represent the
Alachua County...... plant as rusting from the rains, which have fallen
in torrents for weeks; this, with the depredations
Gainesville.. of the worms, must render one-third of a crop exOcala...............J tremely doubtful.
WILLIS & CHISOLM.
Charleston, S. C., 25th September, 1867.
3.-ESTIMATE OF THE RICE CROP, 1867-8.
Estimates of
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Locality. Pinckney Willis &
Bros. Chisolm.
WVaccamaw........... 1,500
Peedee.............. 1,500
Santee............... 4,000
Cooper River......... 3,200
Pon Pon..............1,250
Ashepoo.............. 2,000
Combahee............ 4,500
Savannah, Back R.... 5,000
Altamaha..... }
Ogeechee.......12,550
Cape Fear............ 2,000
Casks........ 35,000 37,500
Compiled for DE Bow's REVIEW, by
Thurston
&
Holmes.
4,000
2,000
4,000
1,200
2,000
6,000
6,000
13,000
2,000
40,200
Cohen, W. C. Bee
Hanckel & Co.
& Co.
.... 2,000
.... 1,500
.... 5,000
.... 4,500
.... 1,500
.... 2,500
.... 6,000
.... 16,000
.... 15,000
.... 2,000
30,000 46,000
WILLIS & CHISOLM, Charleston, S. C.
On this subject the editors of the Charleston Courier say, in their annual
statement:
The rice crop, although of limited value as a national interest, has always
been of considerable local importance, constituting, as it did in former
years, an article of prominent consideration in the exports of this city. The
late revolution has, perhaps, affected this product as strikingly as any other
staple; and while our exports before the war generally amounted from
125,000 to 160,000 tierces, it was reduced to about 3,000 tierces in 1865-66,
and 10,500 tierces in 1866-67. The planters, during the last winter and
spring, made their arrangements for a considerable increase in the crop,
but, owing to the disastrous floods in the rivers, their expectations have, in
some instances, been disappointed. We think, however, notwithstanding
the drawbacks, should the season henceforward prove favorable, we nmay
look for a crop of 30,000 tierces in Carolina and Georgia, of which amount
some 20,000 tierces will be on the market for export. The balance will probably be consumed or sold for local consumption. Louisiana has also made
efforts to increase her crop of this article, and, although accounts differ, it is
not unlikely that some 15,000 tierces may be grown in that State, most of
which will doubtless be consumed near the place of growth.
IV.-COMMERCE OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
From the annual statement of the Charleston Courier, we take the following tables, which, we are pleased to see, indicate a slow but steady revival
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