Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-26
A| NATIONS BUSINESS
No Loss in Four Months Volume
Of Livestock Receipts-April
Receipts Light.
Flour Business Nearly Equal 70
1900 Wheat Volume Ex-
ceeds Last Year.
Extraordinary Advance in Great
Lakes Tonnage 200 Tons
for One in April.
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Special to Times Republican.
Washington, May 26.-The latest re-
port en- internal commerce, from the
treasury bureau of statistics, shows
no substantial loss in receipts of live
stock at five western markets for the
first third of this year. For the frs
four months of19o2 1o,o76.313 head We're
received at these centers, compared
with O,106, 495 head in 1901 and 9,735,
924 head for the corresponding period
of 1900. April receipts of cattle at
these markets were considerably high
er than those of April 1900 but some
what below those of April, 1901. Re
ceipts OF calves continued to exceed
the arrivals of the two preceding years,
but hogs and sheep both fell below
the figures of 1900 and 1901. At Chi
cago the demand for live stock for city
use and consumption for the month OF
April shows a shrinliage of per cent
in all kinds OF stock; but for the -four
months ending with Apr! there was
an increase of 11.69 per cent over the
requirements of 1901. April receipts
at this point, however, fell off 1892
carloads. compared with those of April
last year. For the four months ending
with April receipts gained 3,019 car
loads. This contraction in numbers
during April is noticeable also at Kan
sas City and ST. Louis in both receipts
and shipments, while at Omaha and st.
Joseph the first third of the year shows
a gain in receipts and shipments.
FLOUR AND WHEAT.
The flour trade in the northwest il
best measured by Minneapolis ship
ments. The total shipments for the
first eighteen weeks of this year 5,413,-
1874 barrels; 4,SI4,53S barrels in 1901
and 5,713,S4S barrels in 1900. For ex-
port the average weekly shipments
were lower by one-half in 1902 than
those of the first eighteen weeks o.
1901, and less than half of the total ex-
port shipments for the corresponding
period in 1900. Foreign trade in flour
has evidently undergone a radical
change.
Receipts of wheat at eight leadin,
markets in both spring and winter
wheat sections to May ! for the cur
rent year amounted TO 20f0S1,S66 bush
els, compared with 194,736,S22 BUSH
els tor the corresponding portion of tho
last crop year TIE average weekly
shipments of flour from Chicago and
Chicago points eastward since Janu,
airy l Were l52,523 barrels compared
with 1878 barrels in 1901, and L.
$4,000 bushels of grain thus far thia
year compared with 2,594.o0O bushels
in 1901. The provision traffic eastward
from Chicago has averaged thus far
this year 25,S79 tons per week, com
pared with 21,600 tons in 1901, being an
increase of 1913 per cent.
Receipts OF flour and grain at the At I
antic seaboard continue to emphasize
the loss of trade on account of contli-
lions prevailing at the interior. During
April, New York received S,6I5,5e5 (
bushels of grain, including -four re- I
iuced tr bushels, compared with 9,655,-
@l9 bushels in April, 1901. The total re-
2eipts last year to the end of April at /
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and /
Baltimore from seaboard sources and I
Interior centers We're 10I452.234 bush T
is. compared with G3,02319S bushels |
or the corresponding period of 1902
GREAT LAKES TONNAGE.
On the great lakes the month of April
made an extraordinary advance over
hat of the preceding year. A total
reight tonnage OF 3,2S2,S41 tons re-.
,eived, and 4,15l,090 tons shipped is re-
ported in contrast with last April's
45,709 tons shipped. This difference
shipments and receipts repre-
ents in a general way the amount of
reight shipped during the last several 4
lays of the month, the arrivals of
which occurred in the following month.
The registered tonnage passing thru
he Sault Ste Marie canals in April
vas 2,322.S79 tons compared with TO-
II tons in 1901. and 529,191 tons in
500. The Portage lake ship canals
how a registered tonnage of $685. !,
ons
COTTON AND IRON.
In southern territory the cotton re-
eipts in sight to the first day of May
we're 9,624,S52 bales, Of which 2,S9a.342
ales, or so per cent of the total re-
eipts, We're derived from what is
nown as Texas territory; 3,096,270
ales, or 32.2 per cent from the other :
ulf states, and S,635,74O bales, or SIS .
er cent from the Atlantic states. At I.
,ew Orleans the grain shipments for
EN- months of the current fiscal year .
ere 19,276,659 bushels, against 34.121,-
81 bushels for the corresponding per-
I'd of last year. At Galveston the
mounts We're 9,451,113 bushels and l2,-
56, 434 bushels. respectively.
The iron trade for the first four
ionths of this year furnished a tom
age of 657,67O tons In contrast with
29lS1 tons for the corresponding peri
d of 1901. The home demand for pig
'on from this quarter has almost ex-
nguished exports. Out of a total ship
lent of 145.261 tons of pig iron In April
My 149 tons We're credited to export
ON southern iron territory.
Valuable Property. Z
The committee on buildings and :
by order of the city council,