Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-15
MOORE & HILL, 717 1Ath Street N. w.
DOMESTIC COMMERCE.
Important Phases of Leading Move
ments Discussed.


Leading movements in the domestic COM
merce of the United States are now being
made the subject of monthly reports by
the treasury bureau of statistics. An idea
of the growth of this feature of the bu-
reau's work may be gathered from the fact
that the April summary of commerce and
finance contains over 100 tables showing
commercial movements at interior centers,
traffic on the great lakes, receipts at the
Atlantic seaboard trade movements In
southern territory and on the Pacific coast
and shipments of coal, COKE petroleum
and other mineral products In various
parts Of the country. In many cases COM
parsons are made between the four
months ending April, 1901 and the CORE
spending period Of last year. Attention is
also called to the broadening basis OF in
ternal commerce consequent upon the con-
version of vacant lands into farms in the
northwest and recent mineral developments
In the southwest, whic.- sections are en-
loving large influx of population.
In western territory live stock and cereals
are leading factors of domestic trade move
ments The live stock receipts at the 1lve
principal markets of Chicago, Kansas City,
Omaha, ST. Louis and st. Joseph during
1901 show remarkable gains over last year,
both as regards April and the four months
ending with April, the official receipts OF
e,
Just ended showing an Increase OF BOZ, AT
head, as compared with the corresponding
four months of 1900 The rise in the price
of corn is pointed out as being largely re-
sponsble for this increased movement Of
live stock to market, it having become
more profitable to sell corn at % per cent
above last years price than to keep the
stock on such high-priced feed The re-
ceipts Of spring and winter at the eight
markets of Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Du-
luth, Chicago Kansas City St. Louis De-
LODI or lor raCt IN
April 80 were 10,S40,,2 ~ bushels more than
a year ago. gain Of approximately 6 per
cent.
lantic seaboard include grain and flour re-
duced to bushels. During April, 1901, Bos-
ton received 1902, S92 bushels; New York,
bushels, and Baltimore, e,313, 254 bushels,
making total OF 24,99S,662 bushels for
those four principal ports.
In southern territory the cotton move
ment is the most important 9,3S4, 947 bales
having come into sight by May 1, 1901.
OF this amount Texas alone contributed
35OS, 400 bales. The growth of New Or
leans as grain port Is seen in the fact
that there were exported from that city
during the four months ending May /,
IS go, 1893 bushels Of grain, as compared
with NJ 4 1921 bushels in the four months
An event of sufficient Importance to be
noted in its bearing upon this phase Of the
internal commerce Of the country during
April is the shipment of a carload of Va
lencia oranges from southern California to
Portland, Ore. destined for Vladivostok,
Siberia. This is the first fruit shipment of
the kind, and illustrates the tendency in
this branch of production to relieve itself
from the necessity of depending solely on
the domestic and European markets. The
failure of California orange growers to
find sufficient supply of cars to enable
them to put their fruit on the eastern
market and the high rates of ocean freight
from the Atlantic seaboard to Europe have
conspired to force the growers either to
work up the product at home or to find
new markets in the far east. Another ex-
perimental feature in the distribution of
the citrus fruit crop of California is the
shipment eastward by way Of coastwise
steamers from Redondo to Seattle, thence
over the Great Northern railroad to points
as far east as Chicago. Several train loads
have been marketed over this route.