The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-15
Leading Movements
OF Domestic Trade

Spe ial Correspondence Of The Tribune.
Washington June H.
r EADING MOVEMENTS in the domestic com.
nercc Of the United States arc now being
- made the subject of monthly reports by
the treasury bureau OF statistics. An idc,
OF the growth of this feature of the bureaus work
may be gathered frcm the fact that the April
Summary of Commerce and Finance contains
over II hundred tables showing commercial move
mcnts at interior ccnters, traffic on the Great
Lakes, receipts at the Atlantic scaboard. trade
movements in Southern territory and on the
Pacific coast and shipments OF coal coke. pc.
trolcum and other mineral products in various
parts OF the country. In many cases compare
sons are made between the four months ending
April, 1901, and the corresponding period of last
year. Attention is also called to the broaden
ing basis Of internal commerce consequent upon
the conversion OF vacant lands into farms in
the Northwest and recent mineral developments
in the Southwest, which sections are enjoying
large influx Of population.
In western territory live stock and cereals are
leading factors of domestic trade movements
The live stock receipts ut the five principal mar.
kets 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 re-
months Just ended showing an increase OF 35o,il
head as compared with the corresponding four
months Of 1900 Tie rise in the price of corn
is pointed out being largely responsible for
this increased movement o: live stock to market
it having become more profitable to sell corn at
81 per cent. above last years price than to keep
the stock on such hiGl,-priccd food. The re-
ccps of spring and winter wheat at the eight
markets of Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Duluth, Chi
cago. Kansas City, st. Louis, Detroit and To.
lodo for the harvest year to April 30h were
lcsio,72 10 bushels more than year ago, gain
approximately per cent
The commercial movements at the Atlantic
scaboard include grain and flour reduced to
bushels. During April. 1901, Boston received
400, .,s92 bushels: New York, 0.Gjj.olo bushels:
Philadelphia, 1881, ,jo7 bushels and Baltimore.
6,3a,2j4 bushels making total of 2i,2o3,td2
bushels for those four principal ports.
In Southern territory the cotton movement
Is the most important, o,3Si.0l7 bales having
come into sight by May l, 1901. Of this amount
Texas alone contributed ?,50S,i bales. The
growth of New Orleans as grain port is seen
III the fact that there were exported from that
city during the four months ending May lst
1s,022,363 bushels of grain as compared with
li,l53 121 bushels in the four months of 1900.
An event Of sufficient Importance to he noted
in its bearing upon this phase of the internal
commerce Of the country during April is the
shipment Of Il carload of Valencia oranges from
southern California to Portland. Ore, destined
tor Nladivisock, Siberia. This is the first fruit
shipment of the kind, and illustrates the tend.
cncy 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 scahoarL
10 Europe have consprcd to force the growers
either To work up the product at home or 10 find
new markets in the Far East Another expert.
mental feature in the distribution of the citrus
fruit crop OF California is the shipment east.
ward by way Of colstwsc steamers from Re.
dondo to Seattle, then over the Great Northern
railroad to points as far East as Chicago Scv-
oral train loads have been marketed over this
route.