The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-04-28
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to s,3ll o42 bushels, including -four and meal re.
duced to bushels compared with II 1,367,a57 bush.
els in March, 1901. Grain and -four receipts at
Boston for the three months ending with March
of this year were 6,5OI,507 bushels, including
flour and meal reduced to bushels, compared
with 12,254,249 bushels for the corresponding
period of the preceding year. At Philadelphia
the receipts 1851, ,sGo bushels OF wheat, corn
and oats. against lO.Ss7,S62 bushels for the cor.
responding quarter of 1901. At Baltimore $780,
757 bushels of wheat, corn, oats and rye arrived,
compared with 1s,029.3O1 bushels during the first
three months OF 1901. The four ports Of Boston.
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, on the
basis OF the above totals received an aggregate
Of "a, ,s469 907 bushels to March 81, 1902, compared
with 20. ,03l bushels for the corresponding pc.
riod in 1901 This is decrease of 81. .65 per cent.
in this particular feature Of traffic by rail from
the interior to the seaboard.
Coaswise coal shipments reported for seven
months ending with February 90, from both Phil
adephia and New York, were 3, 49,, ,2OI TONS rep.
rescntng the trade by the principal barge lines
and schooners. The receipts at Boston for the
quarter just closed slightly exceeded one million
tons
Cotton received in sight from the Atlantic
states amounted to 3,4sl,4 bales out of Il total
OF 9,275,299 bales reported to March 81 while
from Texas territory 2,S05 l47 bales were received,
and 2,0sS.7s bales from the other Gulf states
Receipts OF naval stores at II primary marScts
for the season ending April l, 1902, were 2O2s,-
Gal barrels of rosin, and 54i,6O3 casks of spirits
Of turpentine, being a somewhat smaller output
than last year, but considerably larger than that
OF the preceding year.
On the Pacific coast there is falling off in
the citrus fruit movement. The average weekly
shipments to April 2, last year, were COS cars;
This year, 48S cars.
Anthracite coal shipments for March wcra g..
sl3,767 tons, compared with 4,O6i,35s tons in
March, 1901 and 3, lbs, SAG tons in 1000. The bi.
luminous trade and the coke trade generally
show gains up to the present date over shipments
OF year ago. The average weekly shipments Of
coke in the Connellsville region to March 20 were
IO,55i cars, compared with l0,30S cars to corre-
spending date in 1901. Approximately correct
figures of oil shipments from the Beaumont,
Texas, field credit that district with 3,4ji,a74
barrels Of oil from the time shipments began in
1901 TO March 81, 1902
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