The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-09
TRADE STILL INCREASES.
This Year Promises TO Eclipse 1900
in Point of Commerce.
Picking Houses Continue to Call for
Hogs. and Lake shipping Il on IA
Boom--A Heavy Excess in the Cot
ton NONcment-Treusury Statement

| BOom-A Heavy Excess in the Cot
ton MISUNDERSTANDING Statement
! II has frequently been assumed that the
| high level Of last years phenomenal COM
/ mcrical operations could not be repeated
/ this year. Reports on the volume Of trade
4 for the six months ended June 30 do not
! Dear out this prediction. Figures gathered
/ by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, on
/ the movements Of internal commerce for
/ ;he first half of 1901. show that as a rule,
! the contrary is true and that the tide Of
commercial prosperity is still on the up
| ward trend Wheat receipts for example,
! at eight leading markets. including Min
( nepaolis Milwaukee, Duluth. Chicago,
| Kansas City, St. Louis, Toledo, and De
| troit. aggregated 2I1,I59. Ii3 bushels for the
| season to June 80. 1871, compared with
| 2r9 ~. S15 bushels Tor the season TO June 30,
I 1870. The yearly receipts OF live stock at
/ five Western markets to June 30, 1891,
/ have been 2.S6t.5t5 cattle. 3.l11.I35 hogs.
/ and 3,26g. so sheep. This exceeds by 344.552
! head the arrivals for the corresponding
period Of last year. Traffic receipts Of live
/ stock at Chicago alone were Ans cars
! above those Of the first six months of 1870.
! and shipments were greater by 1855 cars
! This illustrates the increasing extent 70
| sharing in the charging output Of staple
! farm products.
J Packing Industries have prolonged their
/ demand for hogs further than usual into
| the summer. The packing demand at
! Chicago may be taken as representative
! Here the weekly requirements during
january was 1853 head, and during June
! 24-29i head
The Lake trade i'm the Bureaus report
| for June represents lis receiving ports ana
/ 20 shipping ports. At the stage Of the
! season beginning with July l. Lake re-
ceipts had already exceeded those Of last
| season in the quantity of -four, coal, luIn-
| Der. logs. and Unbiased freight handled
The shipments Of grain for the six months
I since January l reached a total Of 50,559,
OH bushels, being a million and a half
I bushels ahead Of last years record for the
| corresponding six months. The Sault Ste.
/ Marie Canal, however, owing 10 the later
] opening of the seasons navigation. re-
I ports 6,7GLl2l tons Of freight carried Tor
/ three months ended June 30, 1901, compar-
1 ed with SG73.4Sl tons for the same period
[ of last year.
| How far the seaboard cities have shag-
/ cd in the first SIX months increase in
/ trade is instanced 10y the grain and -four
I receipts at these points. At Boston the
+ U0ur reduced 20 busheIsJ. compared with
.. 76s 7S5 bushels for the first half of last
wear. At New York June receipts alone
this year were ZIA,7lS bushels, compared
with I643S,Su2 bushels for June. 1900.
Philadelphia shows a decline in receipts
. from ,0y249sS bushels during the first half
. Of 1900, to p. 663. Sl4 bushels in l9u. Balti-
more advanced from 80 g97,2gs bushels in
1900 to 42gll .tt2 in 1901 Coal receipts at
. Boston. mostly coastwise. were 25l0.23o
! tons to June 80. the largest in the history
Z Of the movement.
I In the South the cotton movement 70
June % was g970965 bales. or nearly a
million in excess Of the receipts TOR the
first ten months Of last year. Overland
| shipments and Southern mill takiHgs fell
of, while port receipts and interior stocks
| showed marked gains AT thstadate over
the previous seasons figures. Some
Southern lumber movements. on the other
/ hand. as reflected. for example, IN the
! shipments from Charleston, were lower
/ than those of a year ago. The iron move
. meHt from territory covered by reports
I of the Southern Iron Committee amount
cd 20 S50,oi5 tons for six months since
January l. Tobacco receipts for d Ike
/ period, at seven Southern markets this
year were 1878 hogsheads, against 14D,4p1
{ uuESlOdLS IN SIX months OF lyD-
The coal trade is another index Of the
past half years commercial progress.
Chesapeake and Ohio coal shipments as
1 reported for the year ended June 20 1871.
were f.y6Z. 0lZ tons. compared with 4llG.gl0
tons in six months Of last year. Tide
water receipts alone increased from J. 49,
81 tons 10 25=s.s f2 tons. The Norfolk and
Western shipments were 2.75,fI tons for
the past half year and Z.SII .CNg tons for
the first half Of 1900. but tho tide water
receipts were 1873 per cent larger than in
1859 Taking Chicago and St Louis as
rcUres, Itatiye points IN the distribution
Of coal for the TWO EIlf-ys1T periods. IL IS
found that thicaSo.s receipts Of coal ara
coke 10 June 30 1901. were 3.N.4.Ia. tons.
as against f.5s31I5 tons for six months Of
last year. At ST. Louis CONNIE TCilI coal
received was p 1895 tons. compared With
l,%Gi.+53 tons for tho corresponding PERIOD
Of 1902 The shortage IN ChicagO's figures
opening Of lake navigation this season. as
compared with that OF IFpf
on the Pacific Coast tho same tendency
20 enlarged volume Of trade appears. The
lumber trade Of California for the FIRST
six months Of 1871 showed fully 10 per
cent gain over that Of the first six months
Of 1870 Citrus fruit shipments for this
season 10 July were p. Hi5 cars. against
IG i2u last season
This report on the principal movements
Of the country commerce indicates "a
substantial degree Of growth In the vol
Ume "f the domestic trade generally as
ant half Of the commercial year yet 10
. rom.