Arizona republican., 1902-07-07
THIS COUNTRIES
 INTERNAL TRADE
Showing of the Last Monthly
 Summary.
A Gain of Eleven Million Bushels of Wheat - The Coal, Cotton and Coastwise Business-Some Inter esting Live Stock Figures.

by the treasury bureau Ot statistics, sums up representative commercial 1 movements for comparative periods of i succeeding years. It reports that re- Ceipts of wheat at eight interior mar rent crop year, reached a total of 211,- 221 ,90a bushels. Last years receipts for the corresponding period were 204.- GS3.03 bushels. All Of this gain is to be credited to spring wheat sections of the country, there having been de- i crease of nearly 22. .000. coo bushels al | the winter wheat markets, compared | with last year. The largest gains were made at Duluth, Minneapolis and Mil 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 average 299.65S barrels for the first twenty-two weeks of this year. l compared with 2I0.042 barrels in 1901 and 330,377 barrels in 1900. The trunk line shipments eastward from Chicago and Chicago points show the usual high average in provision shipments, in contrast with continued Shrinkage in the volume of grain and flour traffic.
 Live stock receipts at five western markets in May amounted to 2,2S2. .9O5 head and for five months ending with May to 12,502, 506 head, compared with 13.213.926 head in 1901 and F 665.6 6S7 head in 1900. The receipts of hogs at Chi cago alone for these five months were 3,699, 343 head, and exceeded the entire receipts of any year at that market pricr to 1872. The growth of receipts of sheep to the end of May of this year at Chicago is shown by the fact that the number exceeded any entire years receipts prior to 1888.
 The advantage of the early opening of lake navigation is apparent Re ceipts of freight at l25 different points have thus far amounted to G,795. .4O1 tons, compared with 3934 ,6O1 tons for the corresponding period of 1901, show ing gain of 12.1 trr cent. Much Of this increase is in i u!4 ore shipments from upper lake ports, which have al- ready amounted to 5,113,979 tons. Dur ing May S,:42,940 tons were carried Gown the lakes, in contrast with 1,172,- a32 tons in May, 1901, and 2,52S.962 tons for May, 1900
 The main streams of traffic between the interior and the Atlantic scaboard
 
 which reach tide water at the ports of Boston, New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore. For this year. to the end Of May, these four ports show arrivals of S1.191.535 bushels. including flour and meal reduced to bushels For the cor responding period of 1901 the receipts were 142,69I.371 bushels There has therefore been d shrinkage ;nountir:- to 42 per cent in this years grain arI.i- 1 Nals at the Atlantic se2 board for these four markets. Taking New Orleans and Galveston shipments combined for | comparison with Atlantic seaboard re- celpts at Boston, New York, Philadel- phla and Baltimore, there has been q decrease at these gulf ports from 5O- 229, l39 bushels in 1901 to 90 O697O9 bush l els in 1902. CT 40 per cent
 Coastwisa shipping at Philadelphia Tor the five months ending with May 1 reports a total of 4S5 vessels. and the number arriving in foreign trade as 1 ol5 vessels, making total Or 99S yes seis- of the vessels engaged ill foreign | trade 20 were American and 4T3 foreign coastwise arrivals were reported to the end of May and 1,701 foreign arrivals. making q total of 4,731 vessels. Ali i baltmore the April arrival of vessels III domestic and foreign trade amount cd to S93, of which S23 were in the coastinS trade and 70 in the foreign trade.
 In the coasting trade coal shipments ar" prominent feature in the sun ply of Atlantic seacoast cities from inc great tidewater ports of distribution. l During April New York and vicinity shipped S47.410 tons to seaboard and river towns. Philadelphia sent 346.O12 tons two out of three leading carriers reportlng) and Baltimore shipped 153
 69S tons
 Trade in the south and southwest
 may be best measured by comparis0n oi the cotton, the lumber. the phos- phate, the iron and the petroleum ship
 mentS- Receipts of cotton in sight fer
 the trst nine months of this crop year
 Were 3So22lS bales. thus exceeding the
 receipts of each of the two preceding
 years The bulk of this traffic always
 moves to tide water 73S45 59S bales
 having arrived a { Seaboard points out
 of the above total. The overland ship
 ncnts were 1,o37,052 bales. and the southern mill takinss 1.3gS 900 bales
 This years mill takings within south
 ern territory were the largest in tho history of the cotton trade Yellow
 pine lumber shipments from the south west for the four months ending witt April of this year amounted to S7O, ,9S7 =
 106 feet, compared with 76O. OPS S44 feel
 last year. In the southern iron trade
 this year to the end of May S27. .409 ton:
 of pig iron. iron pipe ana small quan-
 titles of steel were shipped from pro. I ducirS sections. During the core. I spending period of 1901 the total wa. 6'3.64 tons. Phosphate shipments , blilhiy rom southern SCaportS 5 reached total of 43l 696 tons, compar
 cd with So3,633 tons for the first fiv,
 months of 1901. This years shipment.
 of petroleum from the Beaumont field.
 by rail to May 31, were 32235 cars. O 5,237 ,S63 barrels. Shipments by wate in May, mostly to coastwise destina
 tions, amounted to 403, 706 barrels