New-York tribune., 1901-06-15
TRADE OF TIE INTERIOR.
GREAT COMMERCIAL MOVEMENTS RE-
VIEWED BY THE TREASURY
BUREAU OF STATISTICS.

washington. June IA (SpeciaD.-Leading move
ments In the domestic commerce 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 bureaus
work may be gathered from the fact that the April
summary of commerce and finance contains over
hundred tables showing commercial movements
at interior centres. traffic the great lakes, re-
cepts at the Atlantic seaboard, trade movements
in Southern territory and the Pacific Coast, and
shipments of coal. coke, petroleum and other min
eral products in various parts of the country. In
many cases comparisons are made between the
four months ending April 1901 and the correspond
ing period of last year. Attention is also called
the broadening basis of internal commerce conse-
quent the conversion of vacant lands into farms
in the Northwest and recent mineral developments
in the Southwest, which sections are enjoying a
large influx of population
In Western territory live stock and cereals are
leading factors of domestic trade movements The
live stock receipts the five principal markets
Chicago, Kansas City. Omaha. St. Louis and st.
Joseph-in 1901 show remarkable gains last
year. both regards April and the four months
ending with April the official receipts of cattle
hogs and sheep in the four months just ended
showing increase Of S5s.417 head compared
with the corresponding four months of 1900. The
rise in the price of IS pointed out being
largely responsible for this increased movement OF
live stock to market. it having become more proh-
able to sell corn at % per cent above last years
price than to keep the stock such high priced
feed.
The receipts of spring and winter wheat at the
eight markets Minneapolis, milwaukee,, Duluth. Chi
Cago. Kansas City. St. Louis, Detroit and Toledo
for the harvest year April 80 1OS4o12 BUSH
els than a year ago. gain of approximately
per cent. The commercial movements at the At
lantic seaboard include grain and -four reduced TO
bushels In April 1901. Boston received 4,092S92
bushels: New-York. 9655.919 bushels; Philadelphia.
4931.597 bushels and Baltimore, 6313,254 bushels,
making total of "a ,662 bushels for those four
principal ports .
In Southern territory the cotton movement is the
most important 9.3Si 947 bales having come into
sight by Nav l. 1901. OF this amount Texas alone
contributed 350S 499 bales. The growth of New-tr-
leans grain port is from the fact that io-
02263 bushels of grain exported from that city
during the four months ending May !, as compared
An event of sufficient Importance 10 be noted In
its bearing this phase of the internal commerce
of the country during April is the shipment OF
carload of Valencia oranges from Southern Calfor-
MIA to Portland Ore. destined for Nladivostok,
Siberia This is the first fruit shipment OF the KIND.
and illustrates the tendency in this branch or pro-
duCtion to relieve itself from the necessity of de-
kets. The failure of California orange growers 10
find a sufficient supply of cars to enable them 10
their fruit the Eastern market. and the h1gh
rates of ocean freight from the Atlantic seaboard
TO Europe have combined to force the growers
either to work up the product at home or 70 md
new markets in the Far East. Another expert
mental feature In the distribution Of the citrus
by way of COastwise steamers from Redondo TO
Seattle and thence the Great Northern Rail-
road to points as East Chicago. Several
trainloads have been marketed over this route.