Arizona republican., 1902-02-08
DOMESTIC TRADE
 YEARS BUSINESS
Said to Be the Most Remark able in the Economic De- velopment of the
 Country
Extra Gains ill Almost All Staples. The Marvellous Growth of the Live Stock Business Movements in Grain-The Lake Trade.

Washington. Feb. 7.-(Special)- )-The December summary of domestic tr'loe movements of staple commodities as made by the treasury bureau or statistics closes one Of the most re- rnarkable years in the history or th" economic development of this country The accumulation of surplus products At interior centers. their distribution to- ward the seaboard and their with l drawal from domestic trade into the cxport movement are being subjected ! | more completely to measurement year , bv year. The monthly summary of in . teInal commerce issued by the bureau . of statistics shows that there have been ] extraordinary gains over the preceding i wear. The four leading spring wheat . markets for the first five months re- ! ceived, for instance. 122, 394,a bushels. ! in contrast with S7.T4S.974 bushels for ] { the corresponding period Of the preced- | ing year. At four winter wheat markets ! the receipts were 3s.l4I,9S2 bushels, ! l compared with 51. 136. .559 bushels during { six months of the crop year of 1sUO | ! The winter wheat section has furnished less than half the quantity shipped in the first six months of 1900. The com bined arrivals at the four spring wheat and the four winter wheat markets,
 
 els or 15.6 per cent in 1901.
 Taking Minneapolis as the chief cen ter of the production of flour, it is shown that the average output per week during 1901 was 3i5,103 barrels. compared with 2S6S11 barrels in 1900 and 2T4, 46O barrels in 1899. AveraS' weekly shipmens for these respective years were 2,211 barrels. 2S4, 13S bar reIs and 265. 300 barrels. Average weekly f,, f1-- tnaGa years were 75, S20 barrels, 91.463 barrels and v 5gg barreIs-the decrease for 1901 being charged by the milling interests to the relatively unfavorable rate on flour as compared with wheat.
 ! Taking the five leading cereals as a basis of comparison. the volume Of trade at Chicago representative O. the entire group of centers of accumu- lation of grain. During 1901 this mar ket is reported as receiving 245.201 ,655 bushels. while in 1900 the receipts were 301, ,726 l35 bushels. a decrease Of 2U.3 per cent. Shipments from that market
 show a decrease of IFS per cent The , trunk line movement of flour from Chi cago and Chicago points eastward , averaged 137,O64 barrels per week. the . grain shipments 2.025.,51 bushels per
 week and the provision traffic 25,
 tons per week. Comparing the trunk
 
 from Chicago. the trunk line movement
 amounts to D per cent of shipments | from Chicago.
 I The livestock trade of the interior
 was extraordinary in several respects.
 The feeding sections of the southwest.
 owing jointly to the decrease in the . corn yield and the high prices for stock, E precipitated unusually large quantities y of livestock, especially hogs. upon the
 
 r the calendar year. The decline in aver I age weights serves to measure the in '' tensity of this influence upon commer- cial conditions. At Chicago the average
 weight of hogs fell from 233 pounds in . December. 1900, to POP pounds in De- ' cember. 1901. At Omaha the decline was
 from 25e pounds to PIP pounds and ai = St. Joseph from 235 pounds to 191 - pounds. The substitution of wheat for |, corn in the feeding sections has mean '' while been going on extensively , throughout Kansas and Nebraska, the ! Nebraska Grain Dealers association
 estimating that 1O.OO0.OOO bushels of
 wheat in that state out of d; crop oi
 50.CU0, GOO bushels will be consumed foi ,- feeding purposes alone.
 al As factor in traffic operations the "a livestock movement has continued tC F. expand. At Chicago 14,535 carload. ,d were received Tn excess Ol lJDO. In Shlp " ments there was gain of 4,27O cars al The five western markets received D. 7.242. 467 cattle. IS. 764 oil hogs and 1899,
 062 sheep. making q total of 3S.406, ,5i - head. q gain of 3.O63.737 head Ovel
 1900. Of the total Chicago received 15,
 365,9s5 head; Kansas City, 6.696.6i
 head: Omaha 45i6, ,396 head; St. Louis le 3.7i0.S5l head. and St. Joseph, 3.056. i6 d. head.
 On the great lakes the reports of tE ga bureau of statistics cover the entir lk years naviga tion for the first time I The operations reported include 20 to ports of receipts and 331 points of ship SC ment during the calendar year 1901. E. q reducing the total freight to net tons t. the total quantity of commodities re IL ceived during the past year amounte' I to 45,6S9, scr tons. and the total amour ny shipped to 4G,O65, 2SS tons, the combine,
 total handled in the form of both re h. ceipts and shipments amounting to 91. nd 154. T95 tons. The tonnage passini off through the Sault Ste Marie cana IT, was 2S. 403 O69 net tons, compare h. with 25.643073 tons for the season 0 ", 1900. being q gain of ?, 759.996 tons. O nd Il per cent.
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