New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
DOMESTIC TRADE FIGURES
ITS COURSE FOR ELEVEN MONTHS END
ING WITH NOVEMBER SATISFAC-
TORY-GREAT LAKES TRAFFIC.

TORY-GREAT LAKES TRAFFIC.
! Washington. Jan. (speciaD-The course of the
domestic trade of the United States during No.
vember and for the eleven months ending with
! November is generally satisfactory. The Treas
ury Bureau of Statistics reporting on internal
trade at interior centres. shows that Minneapolis
Duluth Milwaukee and Chicago received 10l OI0 los
bushels from spring wheat territory for the first
! quarter of the current crop year. being a gain
OF 81 per cent over the first quarter of 1900 the
winter wheat markets of Toledo. Detroit St. Louis
and Kansas City the first five months of this crop
year. on the contrary. show decrease in receipts
from 46,4n,iS bushels to 35 1882 bushels.
Arrivals of live stock at five Western markets
for the first eleven months of 1901 follows
including only cattle, hogs and sheep Chicago 49,,
solO61 head Kansas City. 6lS9,52G head: Omaha.
41554S2 head; ST. Louis, 3.4447e2 head; St Joseph
2'9T7 head, making total of 0,32O 55S head COM
pared with 27s77165 head in the same months of
1900 The only evidence of decline in the live stock
movement at Chicago appeared in the decrease in
the receipts and shipments of hogs AT Kansas
City the receipts have been larger and the ship
ments smaller than for the similar period of 1900.
Local consumption at these five markets has gen
orally exceeded that of the preceding year, and the
shipping movement, both for stocking and for feed
ing purposes. exhibits more emphatic decrease
as the end of the calendar year is approached
This seasons traffic the Great Lakes has gen
orally exceeded the operations of any preceding
season. BY way of the st. Marys canals 27.Sl7 SlI
tons of freight carried to November 50, of
which 22,6l9.909 tons were eastbound from Lake
Superior and 5I91,S02 tons were westbound Last
seasons figures were 20,23lSS2 tons eastbound and
50S6,656 westbound making total of 2527O53s
The freight passing through the American Canal
amounted to % 522 tons. and through the Cana
dian Canal 79l .2S9 Four times as many yes
sells passed through the American as through the
Canadian Canal, and nearly nine times large a
tonnage. Lake traffic for November represented I2l
ports Of receipt and 1@ ports of shipment. The
seasons receipts increased last years
cepts In flour, coal ore and minerals, logs and
unclassiied freight. Grain alone has fallen off
from 160.7lS,3l0 bushels last season TO I3 34S 40S
bushels this season.
At the North Atlantic ports November's receipts
of -four and grain at New-York were sS27. SIT
bushels, including flour. of which IDS III bushels
came by rail and 2.019O46 bushels came by water
The receipts at Boston for eleven months were
43236S2 bushels. against 4S59 bushels eleven
months of 1900. Wheat receipts Philadelphia
during eleven months have doubled. compared 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 advances over the first
eleven months Of 1900. Coastwise receipts of lum-
sources amounted TO l65 cargoes in November. The
receipts of domestic wool Boston during five
compared with 3752 bales in 1900. The coastwise
trade at Baltimore reports 1893 vessels for the
In Southern territory the arrival OF cotton at
ports for the first three months Of the commercial
year was 1855 bales. thus exceeding the receipts
OF the preceding years. Overland shipments
takings larger than FOR any OF the three pre-
cediug years. The receipts Of leaf tobacco at
Paducah. Nashville and Mayheld for the first
pared with s9 s3s hossheads in 1900 The six from
Nashville, Sheffield, MddlebOro and Chattanooga
furnished freight tonnage Of L655O75 OF pig iron,
the first eleven months OF 1901.
on the Pacific Coast SLICES centals OF grain
were received at San Francisco during five months.
Lumber shipments from Tacoma for November are
equally divided between foreign and domestic des-
vember the coastwisa movement totaed % f69 "a
feet, and foreign shipments lS36iae feet Three
-four for export from July 10 November p. Port
land supplying 266563 barrels. Seattle 22lSl barrels
California fruit trade during the commercial year
ended November !, 1901. show that 6,t59 Of
oecduous iTuit were shlppe9-, or %hlch La cars
Boston, 2I5 Minnca polls 20 TO Philadelphia and
246 to Denver Excepting 1888 the last years ship
The citrus fruit movement for the hrst ftve weeks
Of the new trade year starts out auspciousiy with
93l compared with 6S3 cars for the correspond
ing period OF the preceding season.
In intimate relation with internal commerce are
the export Withdrawals OF staples The Bureau OF
Statistics shows Withdrawals OF grain and grain
products amounting to ls073.9ls bushels in Novem-
ber 1901, compared with Sl,3299 9S9 bushels for No
vcmher 1907. For eleven months ending with
November the corresponding export withdra walls
from the national surplus were 800 425 $50 bushels
Withdrawals were Ih6l27si barrels and 16,Sl9266
barrels. respectively Both grain and -four have
over "a tbat 5f the breeding year PACKING bo1se
off, from iss2S27 976 pounds for the irst eleven
months of 1870, to 1s59l38s46 pounds in 1901 The
amounted 244217 bales, and 25AS 3Oi bales for the
corresponding period Of 1901. The exports of min
movement, exceeded those Of 1890 by almost So
900 600 gallons.