The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-08
CATTLE RECEIPTS
 SHOW DECREASE Difference of l,l01,928 Head
 to Be Supplied. INTERESTING STATISTICS Coal Shipments from New York by Water for the Month of June
 by Six Carriers Was
 1se,4s7 Tons.
INTERESTING STATISTICS

| commerce of the country is brought to- gether in the July summary of internal commerce issued by the treasury bureau of statistics.
 Of interior trade movements the report stetes that for seven months ending with July, 1902. the receipts of live stock u the five markets of Chicago. Kansas l City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Joseph. reached total of 84.222.os4 head. in con trcst with 35S2S,s72 head for the corre- spending period of 1901 There Is a diff ference of l1O1.s7S head to be supplied be- fore the receipts of the current year shall have equalled those of last year.
 Analysis of stocks of our meats at the five markets of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph and Milwaukee show that on July 31 of tho current year there were on band 2o9, o940s7 pounds. On the corresponding date of 1901 the combined stock consisted of 270.sol.si5 pounds.
 Freight Receipts.
 Freight receipts at 12l points on the Great Lakes for the month of July, 1901, were 7o046 6S5 tons. and for the corre- spending period of 1902 there were re- ceived 7.5S2,S tons at IA different ports. Shipments from 2o4 different points for July, 1901. were 7.0si, ,s57 tons. and for 1902, 7,zs6,54s tors from PIT ports. Total shipments for the first seven months of 1901 were 19. 653, 334 tens. and 26,S76.0o4 tons for the same period of 1902. showing a gain of 7.222, 679 tons, or 36 per cent; 16,- 56S, S99 tons passed the Saulte Ste. Marie canals. against Il. 54s,ls2 tons in 1901, and 12, T5,246 tons in 1901.
 Trade movements at Boston, New York; Philadelphia and Baltimore, show that for the first seven months or the current year the receipts of grain and flour, re. duced to bushels, at New York were 56.- 6266S0 bushels, compared with S3,510,6SS bushels for the corresponding perlcd last yeer. At the three other ports of Bos- ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore, the re- ceipts were 57,266,04s bushcfs, compared with 121, ,795 bushels Tor the same De. riod of 1901. Of receipts at New York in July of this year, r per cent. came by rail and 2S per cent. by water.
 Traffic in iron and steel originating in southern producing territory during the first seven months of this year amounted to 1,13l,275 tons, compared with S57. 7sO tons for the corresponding period of 1901. There has been decline in this traffic in July, the tonnage of 143,559 tons being the smallest in the course of the current calendar year. but considerably higher than the tonnage of 127,7 tons in July 1901.
 Coal Shipments.
 Coal shipments from New York for
 
 by six of the leading coal carriers to tide water. amounted to 196, 497 tons, and for six months ending with June 3,967 666 tons. Reported shipments from Phila- delphia were as follows: For June, 102,- 500 tons; for six months ending with June, 1271,191 tons. Coastwise coal ship ments from Baltimore during June were 172,soe tons. and for six months to the end of June, 1.Oo6,s97 tons The total amount reported from the three ports was 471.90S tons in June, and GAS s54 tons for six months ending with June Coal receipts at Boston, mostly by coastwise lines, for the first seven months of 1901 were 2,661, 346 tons. This years receipts were 2497, ,7S7 tons.
 During the half-year to the end of June 1901. there arrived at San Francisco | 13,S15.222 bushels of wheat. For the half | year to the end of June, 1902 the total re- ceipts were 17,125. 77s bushels, being a gain of 2S.6 per cent over the receipts of the | preceding year The report of the Pacific coast salmon 1 pack for a series of years gives the | total for 1901 as 5,056. 7sS cases. including l Columbia river Sacramento river, Puget Sound and outside rivers, British Colum- 1 bia and Alaska. The largest output for any preceding year was that of lS9S amounting to S,13S,O4O cases of four dozen l one-pound cans each.
 Traffic on MonongaheIa.
 Traffic on the MonongaheIa river. as reported by the engineers in charge, dur ing the month of July amounted to SAIL 069 tons. The tonnage movement at the l Davis Island dam on the Ohio river south of Pittsburg for July was 1,123.s91 tons The tonnage moved through the New York state canals for the season ending with July shows total of 1.3s3. .623 tons, 1 compared with 1447,12S tons for the same period of 1901.
 The Pennsylvania railroads shipments to August ?. originating east of Pitts burg and Erie, amounted to 22. .305, BIO tons, of which 16l2,659 tons were anthra- cite coal 1496S, 1s3 tons bituminous, and 5. ,06S tons coke The Baltimore and Ohio railroads coal and coke movement for the first six months of this year reached total of 10,711,94 tons, of which S439,2 ,26S tons were bituminous. 4O9. .466 tons anthracite, and 1.s63,2o9 tons coke On the Norfolk and Western rail road the six months tonnage was re- I ported as amounting to 4.140.S79 tons. of which 1,3331S3 tons reached tidewater. For the twelve months ending with June the Southern Railway. embracing Ten nessee and Alabama districts, handled B. 431 s6S tons of coal originating on it's lines Receipts of coal and coke at St. Louis for the seven months ending with July of this year amounted to 2,s1s.51S tons, compared with 21s.s4S tons for the corresponding period of 1901. Receipts at Chicago for seven months ending with July show total of 5,lss,o62 tons this wear. compared with 5.22s. es7 tons last year The Connellsville weekly coke out put still averages somewhat higher than during 1901.
 Thousands of people praise the medi- cinal merits of Hoods Sarsaparilla to ] their friends