Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-31
OUR TRADE STATISTICS
Half Yearly Comparison of In
ternal Commerce Given in
Government Report.
Live Stock Shipments Decrease,
But Domestic Freight Re-
ceipts Gains.
Cotton Manufacturing Industry
in Southern States Reaches
the High Point.


modities produced in the interior of
the country are necessarily subject to
something of n lul during the mid
/ summer transition from one crop year
+ the data collected by the treasury bu
Ieau of statistics. on internal commerce
up to the end of June, an opportunity
i for halfyear comparisons of CONNER
Icial movements. such as those of live
stock. grain, provisions and produce.
| The five western livestock markets of
/ is and st. Joseph, taken as AN index of
the trade generally, report total re-
ceipts of meat-producing stock, includ-
!! ing cattle. hogs and sheep, between
Jan. | and June so. inclusive. of Ia
! 766.S55 head. This was 109.2S3 head
less than for the corresponding period
of 1901, and 347,692 head less than for
| 1900.
Taking the Chicago market as typi-
cal. the monthly average weight of cat
tie has begun to recover from the lower
level of $40 pounds per head in April.
In May the average weight rose to 951
pounds. and in June to 964 pounds per
head. The average weight of hogs is
likewise recovering, but the numerical
supply is still nearly million short of
the receipts for the first half of 1901.
A rough guage of the increase in the
consuming demand for meats is found
in the trunk line shipments of provis-
ions from Chicago and Chicago points.
These shipments go primarily eastward
from the centers of production in the
interior, and secondarily southwark.
For the first twenty-six weeks of this
year 652,217 tons of provisions entered
into this movement, compared with
572S15 tons last year. The gain of 1873
per cent over last year amounted to an
average of 1854 tons per week more
than the weekly demand for 1901 The
five markets reporting stocks for cut
meats had. in round numbers. 24o.000-
600 pounds of cut meats in stock at the
end of June, 1902, against 311,000,000
pounds for the corresponding date in
1901. This is a decrease of 21.2 per
cent AT Chicago the stocks were over
100000 pounds below the level of a
year ago. Al the four other packing
of 51,OO0.OOO pounds. or 29.1 per cent
from the basis of supply available at
the end of June, 1901.
Domestic freight receipts at 155
ports reporting in June were 7.442,932
tons. compared with T.052,54l tons in
June 1901. Shipments from pa ports
in June this year amounted to 7,747.s71
tons. against 7,2Ol2OS tons in June.
fl, - of
and 1902 the freight receipts at lake |
ports aggregated 11,SS6,512 tons. and
1S135.97S tons respectively. Iron ore
shipments to the end of June this year |
totaled S127,271 tons compared with /
4.4I5,216 tons last year.
Shipping operations at New York for
the first six months of this year give
the total number of vessels arriving as
5.915, of which $40 vessels We're en-
gagged in the coasting trade. and 2.145
in the foreign trade. At Philadelphia
there were 2,441 arrivals, of which /
1928 We're engaged in the coasting
trade, and 61S in foreign trade. At
Baltimore the total arrivals for five 7
months only We're LOIS vessels, of
which 934 We're credited to the coast
ing trade, and 81 to foreign trade. New
Orleans reports 649 vessels arriving
during this year to the end of June,
of which 1913 vessels We're engaged in
trade, and 456 in foreign
trade.
The three ports of New York, Phil
and Baltimore together sent
out S15.250 tons of coal by water to
coastwise destinations during the
month of May, and for the five months
ending with May, 5.252,135 tons. as;
reported by the leading coal carriers
and shippers at the principal points
of trans-s shipment Coal receipts at
Boston during the first six months en-
ding with June totaled 2.2S6,004 tons,
with 2,S11,703 tons in 1901.
Ordinarily these receipts are about
divided between anthracite and
but thus far this year
there has been a loss Of 40 per cent
in anthracite tonnage, While bitumin-
Gus receipts increased 10 per cent over
those of the first six months of 1901
The first 10 months of the cotton
year in southern territory show re-
ceipts of 1O,O21,473 bales. OF which
I 4S5,013 bales arrived and 1,502,000
bales We're taken by southern mills.
The cotton manufacturing industry OF
the cotton states has, therefore, reached
4 point where it takes approximately
Is per cent of the American cotton
Weld The yearly consumption of the
entire United States up to 1S771S7S
aad never reached the dimensions of
the southern consumption during the
past 10 months. Iron shipments in
territory in the past six
months reported a gain of 10 per cent
over those of the same length of time
in 1901. Six producing districts
shipped 9S7,716 tons of pig and pipe
ron. compared With S30,047 tons for the
period of last year. Vel
ow pine shipments from southwestern
erritory show that 744,0S6.957 feet We're
marketed in the first six months of
1900: 932.421.041 feet in six months of
1901. or gain of % per cent; and
0S,744,276 feet in the first half OF
1902. being an advance of 40 per cent .
over the output of 1900.
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