The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-04
INTERNAL COMMERCE.
OF UNITED STATES
Receipts of Grain at the
Marts of Trade.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
Nearly Ten Million Bales of Cotton in
Sight From tbs South-Yellow Pine
Lumber Shipments-The Coal Trade
During May.


commerce. issued By the Treasury Blu
reau of Statistics. sums up representa-
tive commercial movements for com
parative periods Of succeeding years. It
reports that receipts Of wheat at eight
interior markets to The end OF May in
the current crop scar reached a total
/ Of 2GI. 22l. g02 bushels. Last years re-
/ ceipts for the corresponding period were
204. os2. 027 bushels. All Of this gain IS
/ TO be credited to spring wheat sections
| Of the country. there having been a de-
crease Of nearly 2. 009, coo bushels at the
winter wheat markets compared with
/ last year. The largest gains were made
at Duluth. Minneapolis, and Milwaukee,
/ all b-ne- markets. including Chicago
/ Toledo, ST. Louis. and Kansas City, fall
! ing short Of the receipts Of the pre-
vious wear.
/ Increase IN Flour Shipments.
Weekly shipments Of -four al Mime
/ apoIis averages 299, 658 barrels for the
I first twenty-five weeks of this year,
/ compared with 27e.543 barrels in 1901,
and 330.3 81 barrels N 1900 The trunk
/ line shipments eastward from Chicago
and Chicago points show the usual high
average in provision shipments in con
trast with continued shrinkage in the
volume Of grain and flour traffic.
Live stock receipts at five Western
markets IN May amounted to 2.2S2, sos
head. AID for five months ending with
/ May to u SOP SOC head, compared with
Q ~ . . ~ :
( head in 1860. The receipts OF hogs at
/ Chicago alone for these FIVE months were
/ :. 500 .343 head. and exceeded the entire
receipts OF any year at that market
/ prior to 1872. The growth of receipts Of
sheep to the end Of May of this year
at Chicago Is shown by the fact that
the number exceeded any entire years
receipts prior 10 1888.
Freight on Western Lakes.
The advantage of the early opening Of
lake navigation is apparent Receipts
Of freight at 125 different points have,
thus far. amounted to 5.795.401 tons.
compared with :, 1884, 01 tons for the cor
responding period Of 1901, showing a
gain CT T2-7 per cent. Much OF this in
crease is in iron ore shipments from
upper Lake ports. which have already
amounted to 5,1I3,979 tons During MAY
3-342. $40 tons were carried down the
Lakes. IN contrast with 1,I72 532 tons in
May, 1861, and 2,52S. 982 tons fer May.
1900
The main streams Of traffic between
the interior and the Atlantic seaboard
consist Of grain, flour, and provisions.
which reach tidewater at the ports of
Boston, New York, Philadelphia. and
Baltimore. For this year, to the end OF
Nay, these four ports show arrivals Of
S1.791.536 bushels, including flour and
meal reduced to bushels. For the cor
responding period Of 1861. the receipts
were I42, 69T 81 bushels. There has.
therefore, been a shrinkase amounting
to y per cent in this years grain ar
rivals at the Atlantic seaboard for these
four markets Taking New Orleans and
Galveston shipments combined for com
parisoE with Atlantic seaboard receipts
az Boston, New York. PHILADELPHIA. and
Baltimore. there has been a decrease at
these Gulf ports from 81, 22g. I3g bushels
/ in 1901, to 30, 089, 709 bushels in 1902. or
40 Der cent
On the Atlantic Seacoast.
Coastwise shipping . at Philadelphia
for the five months ending with May re-
ports total Of LBS vessels. and the
number arriving in foreign trade as 51S
vessels. making & total Of l 1893 vessels.
OF the vessels engaged in foreign trade
10 were American and Alb foreign in ma
tionality- At New York, 5000 coastwise
arrivals were reported 10 the end Of
May, and I,TOI foreign arrivals. making
total Of /, T31 vessels. AT Baltimore the
April arrivals of vessels in domestic
and foreign trade amounted to S93. of
which 823 were in the Coasting trade
and 20 in the foreign trade.
In the COastiug trade, coal shipmen4s
are a prominent feature in the supply
Of Atlantic seasoast cities frorrs the
great tidewater ports of distribution
During April, New York and vicinity
shipped S4T,4l0 tons to seaboard and
river towns. Philadelphia sent 46.O12
tons-two out of three loading carriers
reporting-and Baltimore shipped 49,
69S tons
Trade in the South.
Trade in the South and Southwest may
be best measured by comparison Of the
cotton, the lumber, the phosphate. the
iron and the petroleum shipments. Re
ceipts Of cotton in sight for the first
nine months 0: this crop year were 8
$50. 273 bales. thus exceeding the receipts
Of each Of the two preceding years Tie
bulk OF this traffic always moves to tide