The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-29
THE MARKETS
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE.

statistics, reports the progress Of tradt
movements in the different parts ot Tho
| United States for the first two months of The cal
cndar year. These figures arc gathered through
the cooperation of the commercial organizations
| trade periodicals and transportation companies
and present from month TO month records IN
| comparison with tho corresponding period for the
| preceding year. The receipts Of wheat, for cN
| ample, at four leading spring wheat markets for
| the seven months of the crop year ending with
| March I, 1902. liSsO,226 bushels, compared
with 1O7, ,7j9,027 bushels for the corresponding pc.
| riod Of the preceding year. This increase has
| given decidedly stronger impulse to traffic aud
| values throughout the entire northwest where u
| return TO good harvcsts has stimulated mmi.
| grafton to an extraordinary extent. At the four
| winter wheat markets the condition is reversed.
| Receipts for the first eight months of the crop
| year ending with March 1, 1902, were iO,i3l go
bushels, compared with 5IS0o,5I2 bushels in 1901
| The output of -four at Minneapolis for The first
nino weeks of this year shows total of 2,5Oi io1
barrels, compared with 2,2jO,2GO barrels Tor the
corresponding period of 1901 and 2,S53,li barrels
in 1000. The average shipments per week thus
| far this year have amounted TO 2s3,3Ol barrels,
| compared with pa i07 barrels in 1901 and 3OOsit
| barrels In 1900. The northwestern stocks of wheat
| in store at Minneapolis and Duluth show that
! Minneapolis reached its maximum in the week
ending with January %, while the stocks at Dn'
luth still continue to accumulate, awaiting the
| opening of lake navigation.
| The traffic movement Of live stock at five west,
| crn markets-t,hicago Kansas City, Omaha and
| st. Joscph-fas behind that OF the preceding
| two years. For February, 1902. those markets
received 41,3S7 cars; for 1901 4l033 cars, and for
| 1900, 4l,5W cars. The numerical receipts how
| ever, for the two months ending with February
continue to exceed those OF the preceding two
years The arrivals of cattle, hogs, sheep, hor'cs
| and mules aggregated 6,6l7,216 head, compared
with 5,iW.14S head last year and ., ,35C head
the preceding year. The average weight OF hoSS
| received at Chicago for February OF tins year
was l6 pounds lighter than for February, 1901.
| For the two months ending with February TINS
| years live stock receipts ut Chicago amounted to
|
period of last year. At Kansas City receipts and
shipments show fall in numbers Carload ar.
rivals have decreased from 22OOO cars in the hrst
two months of 1901 to 1904 cars for the CORE.
| spending period of 1902; the volume of traffic Is
| thus being unfavorably affected by the production
in supply. Likewise the feeder movement ue.
creased from 1l5.s01 head in the first two months
| OF 1901 to s5,3Ii head during January and febru'
| airy. At Omaha receipts declined, but snip
| ments and local consumption have been con
| sderably enlarged over last year. At this mar
| ket the average weight of hogs has fallen off 20
| pounds compared with February, 1901. receipts
| and shipments at ST. Louis bear out the same
general conclusion, both for February ana t9r e,
| the two months ending with February. At 81:
| Joseph, however, an advancing tendency is still
| in control of receipts for February and OF re-
| cepts and shipments for the two months ending
| with February. Local consumption is pnrticu'
lary active. though the feeder movement is losing
| ground. Stocks of cut meats at Chicago, Kansas
City, Omaha and St. Joseph are noiceably Larger rS
than they at the end of February in 1901
For the nine weeks ending with March ! the
shipments OF cured meats from Chicago fell of
from 12i,OO0OO0 pounds to 1OiOOO,OU pounds
though there was gain OF over lS,OOO,ooo pound
i'll dressed beef shipments Throughout the lls
there is tendency to lighter trade activities II
produce, though there are many noteworthy eX
ceptions in the commercial activities OF the Er2a
interior markets. Lumber and wool at tinclh
natl show liberal gains over the first two month
Of 1901. At st. Louis wool receipts are two ant
one-haf times larger than in the first two month!
of last year. The receipts of broom corn at In
uiln1DDlS
amounted to 1,5S2 900 pounds, of which only lcJ,
500 pounds were shipped. The hay trade show
remarkable increases OF receipts at New York
Cincinnati st. Louis and Chicago out of cigh
leading markets reporting in the east and west.
On the Great Lakes there are signs of an early
opening of traffic. The bureaus report OF win
ter traffic show that 1S0 LOG tons were handled
mostly in trans-lake business, during February
this year, as compared with 16s,3S2 tons dnrine
February, 1901. For the first two months Of thi
year the freight carried was 6352j TONS com
pared with 36s, ,7s2 tons in 1,Ol There were l,23
| arrivals of vessels representing registered ton
| mage of 1853, 69D tons at twenty-four dihercn
| ports participating in winter traffic The trunl
line movement of flour, grain and provisions from
| Chicago and Chicago points eastward for thu
first nine weeks of the current year averaged
17SO6s barrels of flour, compared with lol,9I
| barrels for the corresponding period of 1901; 1,
$50. .4SS bushels of grain compared with 2.3'G "A
bushels in 1901, and 26,ll7 tons of provisions
compared with 22,395 tons in 1901. At New
| York the grain and -four receipts for Februar.
we're 99s sol bushels (including flour and mca
reduced to bushels). compared with s,i0O09
bushels in February 1901 At Boston the receipt
for two months of this year Gncludine -four an
meal reduced to b,Ishels) were 4,017,0Oi bushels
compared with Z 1876, ,304 bushels in 1901. At Phil
adelphia the reduction is from G7I3.3N2 bushcl
of wheat corn and oats to 24il S5l bushels thi
year Baltimores receipts likewise declined from
g. 1G2 257 to OIL S3S bushels, not including -four
The rpcaipts Of domestic tobacco at New Yor
for the fist nine weeks ending with February
| 1909 were l3OlO eases compared with %, IS
cases a wear ago At Boston traffic has felt, tn
able position OF domestic. wool in the Bosto
market at the beginning OF tne year IS ra;mm ue"Ga on