The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-05
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.

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Washington, July 4.
"HE MONTHLY summary of internal
commerce. issued by the treasury
bureau of statistics. sums up rep
resentative commercial movements
for comparative periods of succeeding
wears. IT reports that receipts of wheat
at eight interior markets to the end of
May in the current crop year reached a
total of 81. .o21, ,9O2- bushels. Last years
receipts for the corresponding period were
oO4 OS3 O37 bushels All of this gain is to
be credited to spring wheat. sections of
the country. there ha aving been decrease
of nearly o. 900 900 bushels at the winter
wheat markets compared with last year
The largest gains were made at Duluth
Minneapolis and Milwaukee. all other
markets, including Chicago, Tolado, st.
Louis and Kansas City, falling short Of
the receipts of the previous year.
Weekly shipments of -four at Minne-
apolis averages 299, ,65S barrels for the first
90 weeks of this wear, compared with 90
042 barrels in 1901. and 33O377 barrels in
1900. The trunk line shipments eastward
from Chicago and Chicago points show
the usual high average IN provision ship
ments in contrast with continued shrink
age in the volume of grain and flour traf-
fic,
Live stock receipts at five western mar
and for five months ending with May to
12. 500 5O6 head. compared with 1928, 926
head In 1901 and IL. .665 6S7 head in 1900 The
receipts of hogs at Chicago alone for
these five months were 3.699. .34S head, and
exceeded the entire receipts of any year
at market prior to 1870. The growth of
REGENTS of sheen to the end of Nav of this
wear at Chicago ia shown by the fact
that the number exceeded any entire
wears receipts prior to 1SSs,
The advantage of the early openinr OF
lake nav,ration ia annarent, REGENTS of
freight at 135 d,fferent nonts have thus
far announced In A 7a5 Ao1 toms comnarod
with 2 93a 60I tons for the correspondinr
neriod of 1eo, showing n gain of 797 ner
cent Much of this Increase is in iron
ore sbinments from unner lake norts
uh,ch have aIreadv amounted to ia s7e
TONS During Nav 2 34o 9aO tons we're car
riaI down the Lakes in. contrast with l.
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sor Mo- 1000
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