The Washington times., 1901-12-02
THE EXPORT OF STAPLES.
Domestic Advance In Cereal yaIne~
Reduces October Shipments.


The October summary OF domestic trade
| movements, just issued by the Treasury
| Bureau OF Statistics. contains statements
| of Withdrawals OF staple commodities
! from the internal commerce OF the coun-
| try, and compares the domestic move
| ments for the first ten Toonths of this
year with those of the corresponding pc
riod a year ago
According to this statement from the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics. there were
withdrawn during the year to October 81
| from the country's stock of cereals for
export 2si. .e22. .12O bushels, compared with
2bS,5S3.4S1 bushels for the corresponding
period Of 1900. The withdrawals of pack
ing house and dairy produces for the
same period this year amounted to 1885,
1G3,ll2 pounds, compared with / 1895, 1885,
$50 pounds for the preceding year.
The demands Of home consumption have
been such as to raise domestic prices to
level at which they have begun to pass
less readily into the export trade 1he
October Withdrawals Of cereals this year
were 21.976.1l6 bushels. compared with
2S,276,4H bushels in October. 1900. show
ing a decrease of 5000, ,32S bushels. The
high prices of cereals in the domestic
markets have. it would seem. beGun to
check the export movement, but, en- the
other hand, they have given the agricul-
tural sections OF the country. from which
these three products are derived. a great
ly increased purchasing power, the effect
of which IS been to stimulate osfecially
to an extraordinary degree.
At interior centres the leading spring
wheat markets for the first three months
OF the crop year gained in receipts from
81, 1872 245 bushels last year to 2,535. .ST2
bushels this year. On the other hand.
four winter wheat markets which re-
ceiyed AZ 29l OBS bushels for the first four
months of the last crop year. had re-
ceived only 81 491, SIS bushels for the cor
responding period of this year. Shipments
of flour from Minneapolis to November
amounted to 12,5e0. .1S7 barrels. compared
with 13, ,109 ,203 barrels in 1900, and IL ,Ts2,-
$40 barrels in 1899.
The eastward trunk line movement from
Chicago and Chicago points for the three
leading classes of trunk line traffic for
the first forty-four weeks of the year
have averaged i31.s s63 barrels Of Hour per
week, 207, ,1s2 bushels OF grain, and q $50
tons of provisions.
Official live stock receipts at five West
ern markets for ter months en5ed with
October this year amounted to 27,078, ,104
head OF cattle. hogs and sheep. During
that period last year the arrivals we're
p, 0,i69,743 head. being an Increase of l.
90s ,361 head.
At the Atlantic seaboard, Boston re-
ceived 44,S79.62l bushels OF grain. includ-
ing flour reduced to bushels. to October
. r.r;fb 40 %
year to that date. October receipts at
New York were 13.S26,712 bushels. COM
pared with 1S.S33.17 bushels last octo-
ber. Philadelphia and Baltimore made
marked advances in the volume of flour
and wheat received in contrast with re-
ceipts during October, 1900.
In coastwise shipping Baltimore. under
its newly organized system of collecting
coastwise trade statistics. reports for
September the arrival of SST vessels. In
October New York arrivals from coast
wise ports numbered SIT vessels.
In Southern territory a noteworthy fea |
ture of the cotton movement has been the I
unusually large takings of Southern mills, /
334, 143 bales having gone to meet this de- /
mand during the first two months of the (
current season, compared with 27f 6G6 ,
bales for 1900.
An index of the statistical position of I
the leaf tobacco trade is given in the (
form of the total sales at Richmond Dam
vile. Lynchburg Winston and Durham
for the commercial year ended October l.
during which period ths 2 four markets
received from first hand 80, ,J2f pounds.
which total was 81 95S, ,S96 pounds below
the sales of the preceding year. {
On the Pacific Coast the progress of
trade is shown by official figures for San
Francisco, by the citrus and deciduous
fruit shipments from California, and by
the flour movement for the North Pacific
ports fer export. These ports have been {
growing rapidly as milling centres. From
July to October rs there were shipped to
the Far East POS. .222 barrels of -four from
Portland. 19442t barrels from Seattle, i
and 1z5.770 barrels from Tacoma.