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347 stations in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee was $i .14 per 

 bale, or about 23 cents per 100 pounds. Cotton sent to Savannah 

 from 738 stations in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and eastern 

 Alabama was charged a mean rate of 41 cents per 100 pounds. Con- 

 signments of cotton to New York City from local stations in the 

 cotton regions may be carried all the way in freight cars or may 

 be sent down to some southern port and there transferred to one of 

 the lines of coasting vessels for shipment northward. The mean rate 

 per 100 pounds to New York from 298 local points in Mississippi, by 

 railroad routes exclusively, was 48 cents, or 25 cents more than the 

 rate to New Orleans as given above, and the mean rate to New York 

 from 402 stations in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern 

 Alabama was 65 cents by all-rail routes and 59 cents by rail-and- water 

 routes. These charges, it will be seen, are from 1 8 to 24 cents above 

 the rates from practically the same regions to Savannah. The mean 

 freight charge to New York from 700 local points among the cotton 

 fields hi Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and 

 eastern Alabama is taken as 54 cents per 100 pounds, the same as the 

 estimated average rate from stations in Texas, Oklahoma, and 

 Indian Territory down to Galveston. If the relative quantity of 

 cotton exported from each port be taken into account, the average of 

 the freight rates on cotton to Galveston, New Orleans, Savannah, and 

 New York from local shipping points would be 40 cents per 100 pounds. 



Ocean freight charges are subject to more frequent changes than 

 are railroad rates. If the vessels at a certain port have a large amount 

 of available space for cargo and the quantity of goods to be shipped 

 is relatively small, freight rates are likely to be low. The mean of 

 the published quotations for cotton to Liverpool for the first week of 

 each month during the year 1905-6 was 33 cents per 100 pounds from 

 New Orleans and 17 cents from New York. The rates from Galves- 

 ton and other leading Gulf ports are regarded as practically the same 

 as those from New Orleans. 



The average ocean rate on cotton from the United States to 

 Liverpool for the year 1905-6 was about 32 cents per 100 pounds, 

 excluding terminal charges, the same as the annual mean of the 

 quoted rates from Savannah to the United Kingdom. It will be 

 noted also that the average railway rate from all local points to all 

 ports, as estimated above, was 40 cents, while the charge from local 

 points to Savannah was 41 cents per 100 pounds. In regard to both 

 land and water rates Savannah occupies a medium position. 



