Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-03
Monthly Volume OF the Country's
Business Presents Some Ap.
palling Figures.
Increase in Grain, But Decrease
in Live Stock Shipments
Sheep in Demand.
Southern Mills lncreasing-Coa
Fell Off-Big Business on
the Lakes.

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by the treasury bureau OF statistics,
Sums up representative commercial
movements for comparative periods of
| succeeding years. Ii reports that re-
ceipts of wheat at eight interior mar
kets to the end of May in the current
| crop year reached total of.211, POI ,9O2
bushels. Last years receipts for the
corresponding period We're 204.0e3.037
bushels. All of this gain is to be cred
tied to spring wheat sections of the
country there. having been a decrease of
nearly twenty-five million bushels at
| the winter wheat markets compared
| with last year. The largest gains were
made at Duluth, Minneapolis and Mill
waukee all other markets. including
/ Chicago, Toledo, st. Louis and Kansas
| City, falling short of the receipts OF the
previous year.
| Weekly shipments of flour at Mime
apolis averages 299,65S barrels for the
! first twenty-five weeks of this year,
| compared with 270.042 barrels in 1901.
and 33O,377 barrels in 1900. The trunk
/ line shipments eastward from Chicago
| and Chicago points show the usual high
average in provision shipments in con-
trast with continued shrinkage in the
| volume of grain and flour traffic.
| Live stock receipts at five western
markets in May amounted to 2,2S2,9oo
head. and for five months ending with
| Nav to 1850, 500 head, compared with
13,213.926 head in 1901 and 12.665.6S7
head in 1900. The receipts of hogs at
Chicago alone for these five months
were 3,699,343 head, and exceeded the
entire receipts of any year at that mar
ket prior to 1872. The growth Of re-
ceipts of sheep to the end of May OF this
YEAR at Chicago is shown by the fact
that the number exceeded any entire
wears receipts prior to 1883.
The advantage of the early opening
of lake navigation is apparent. Re
ceipts of freight at 1876 different points
have, thus far. amounted to 6,s9o,4ol
tons. compared with S.934.601 tons for
| the corresponding period of 1901, snow
Ii ing a gain of 72.7 per cent. Mucn OF
this increase is in iron ore shipments
from upper lake ports, which have al
ready amounted to 5.11S.970 tons. Dur
ing May 3.3A2,940 tons were
carried down the lakes, in contrast with
1,172.532, tons in May 1901, and 2,52s,-
962 tons for May 1900.
The main streams of traffic between
/ the interior and the Atlantic seapoafu
consist of grain, flour and PROVISIONS
which reach tide water at the ports OF
Boston, New York. Philadelphia, and
Baltimore. For this year, to the END OF
Nav, these four ports show arrivals OF
Sl.T97.535 bushels, including flour ana
meal reduced to bushels. For the cor
responding period of 1901, the receipts
were 142,697,371 bushels. There mas.
therefore, been shrinkage amounting
to AZ per cent If this years grain ar
rivals aft the Atlantic seaboard for these
four markets. Taking New Orleans ana
Galveston shipments combined for COM
parison with Atlantic seaboard receipts
at Boston, New York. Phlladelphla' ana
baltimore, there has been decrease at
these gulf ports from 5O,229.l59 pusheis
in 1901 to 30,069,709 bushels in l9o2' OF
40 per cent.
Coastwise shipping at Philadelphia
for the five months ending Wltn May
reports a total of 1,4S5 vessels, ana the
number arriving in foreign trade as olo
vessels, making total of l,99S vessels.
or the vessels engaged in foreign trade
forty were American and i73 foreign IN
nationality. AT New York, 5000 coast
wise arrivals were reported to the ena
of NAV. and 1,701 foreign arrivals, max
ing total of 4,731 vessels. AT Baltl-
more the April arrivals of vessels IN
domestic and foreign trade amounted to
$50, of which S23 were in the coastlns
trade and seventy in the foreign trade
In the coasting trade, coal shipments
are a prominent feature in the supply
OF Atlantic seacoast cities from the
great tidewater ports of distribution.
During April New York and vicinity
shipped S47.410 tons to seaboard and
river towns. Philadelphia sent 346,Ol2
tons (two out of three leading carriers
reporting) and Baltimore shipped 1885,
COS tons.
Trade in the south and southwest
NAV be best measured by comparison
of the cotton, the lumber, the phos-
rhate, the iron and the petroleum ship
ments Receipts, of cotton in sight for
the first nine months of this crop year
We're 9S52273 bales. thus exceeding the
receipts of each of the two preceding
wears. The bulk of this traffic always
moves to tidewater, 7,3S4,b9S bales hav-
ing arrived at seaboard points out of
the above total; the overland shipments
We're 1037,O52 bales and the southern
mill takings 1898, 900 bales. This years
mill takings within southern territory
were the largest in the history of the
cotton trade. Yellow pine lumber ship
ments from the southwest for four
months ending with April of this year
amounted to S70,9S7, LOG feet. compared
with 7G002S,S44 feet last year. In the
southern iron trade this year to the end
of May S27,409 tons of pig iron, iron
nine and small quantities of steel We're
shipped from producing sections. Dur
ing the corresponding period of 1901 the
total was 673,674 tons. Phosphate Ship
ments. mainly from southern seaports,
reached IA total of 431,G96 tons, COM
pared with $50, 633 tons for the first five
months of 1901. This years shipments
of petroleum from the Beaumont field
by rail, to May 81, We're 32,235 cars of
SEQ 500 barrels. Shipments by water
in NAV. mostly to coastwise destina-
tons. amounted to 40S.706 barrels thru
Galveston, Port Arthur and Sabine
Pass 6e
The coal trade during May reports
anthracite shipments to the amount of
1,7OS.S92 tons, compared with 4,G93562