The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12
TRADE FOR THE
YEAR WAS GOOD
Trade During 1901 Was on the
Whole Quite Satisfactory.
KANSAS CITY'S GREAT GAIN
MISSOURI RIVER TOWN BECoM-
ING BIG LIVESTOCK MARKET.
(speclal Correspondence.l

Washington, Jan 6.-The treasury
bureau of statistics report on internal
trade shows that the course of domes-
tic trade Of the country during the
past eleven months ending with No
vember has been generally satisfac-
tory.
Arrivals of livestock at five western
markets for the eleven months Of 1901
were as follows, including only cattle,
hogs and sheep: Chicago, 1891, 067
head; Kansas City, 6139,52O head;
Omaha, Ass, 432 head; st. Louis, 3,444,-
7e2 head; st. Joseph, 2.77S,777 head;
making a total of 30,320,55S head, COM
pared with 1881, 165 head in the same
months of 1900. The only evidence of
decline in the livestock movement at
Chicago appeared in the decrease in the
receipts and shipments Of hogs.
At Kansas City the receipts have
been larger and the shipments smaller
than for the similar period Of 1900. Lo-
cal consumption at these five markets
has generally exceeded that of the pre-
cedtng year, and the shipping move
ment, both for stocking and for feed
| ing purposes, exhibited a more en-
phatic decrease as the end of the cal
endar year approached.
This seasons traffic on the great
lakes has generally exceeded the oper-
atoms OF any preceding season. By
way of the St. Mary's canals, 1917, 81
tons of freight were carried to Nov. 80,
of which %, 619, 909 tons were eastbOund
from Lake Superior and $751; 1902 tons
were westbound. Last seasons figures
were 20, 231, SS2 tons eastbound and s.
OBS, 656 westbound, making a total Of
%, go, 5Ss tons.
American Canal Popular.
The freight passing through the
American canal amounted to 25,062, 522
tens, and through the Canadian canal
2,7a1, 2S9 tons. Four times as many
vessels passed through the American
as through the Canadian canal, and
! nearly nine times as large a tonnage.
At the North Atlantic ports NOvem-
ber's receipts Of -four and grain at New
York were 1927 bushels, including
-four reduced to bushels, of which T.,
22S,771 bushels came by rail and 2,009,-
046 bushels came by water. The re-
ceipts at Boston for eleven months
We're As, 500, 632 bushels, against 48, 49,
926 bushels in eleven months of 1890.
Wheat receipts at Philadelphia dur
ing eleven months have doubled COM
pared with those of the preceding year,
but this port has lost most in grain
receipts, owing to the failure of the
corn crop. At Baltimore the receipts
of both -four and grain have made ad-
vances over the first eleven months of
1900. Coastwise receipts of lumber at
New York from southern and eastern
sources amounted to 165 cargoes in No
vember The receipts of domestic wool
at Boston during five weeks following
! Oct. rs, 1901, were 1881 bales, compared
with 1852 bales in 1900. The coastwise
trade at Baltimore reports 799 vessels
| for the month Of October
| In southern territory the arrival of
/ cotton at ports for the first three
I months Of the commercial year was
! 3, 49, S5 bales, thus exceeding the re-
/ ceipts Of the two preceding years.
/ Overland shipments. were the lowest in
| four years, and southern mill takings
| were larger than for any Of the three
/ preceding years.
On the Pacific coast 6.171, 1886 centals