Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
COMMERCE OF PAST YEAR
Comparative Figures en- Live Stock Re-
Oeipts at Principal Markets
INCREASE OF TONNAGE ON THE LAKES
Most Noticeable Feature of the Year
Was n Decrease In Grain RE-
ceipts at seaboard
Points.
CFrom a stan correspondent

In the December summary of internal COM
merce, issued by the Treasury Bureau Of
Statistics, According to these reports the
receipts Of cattle at the five leading stock
markets Of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha,
st. Louis and ST. Joseph during the past
year numbered 7,71O,55 head. compared
with 7~,243,469 head in 1901, and $500, 735
head in 1900. The number OF hogs re-
ceived in 1902 is given at IL, 614 ,129 head, in
contrast with the much higher number of
Is, 1854, Ola head in 1901, as we'll as with
II, 2S9, 621 head in 1900. The average weight
Of the 1886, 2Ss hogs received at Chicago
In 1902 was 220 pounds, compared with 226
pounds for twelve months OF 1901. At Kan
sas City the average weight of hogs re-
ceived In 1902 was 200 pounds and 1877
pounds In 1901. AT Chicago the demands
for city use and local consumption for the
year 1902 were IL, $50, III head Of all classes
Of stock, compared with 12,439, 2O7 head in
1901.
At Kansas City a somewhat different ten
dency was shown in lighter requirements
for local consumption and heavier demands
for feeders shipped and driven to the
country. In 1902 local consumption took
4~,1S0,297 head and in 1901 5,572, $50 head.
The feeder movement in 1902 reached the
extraordinary total of 1,112,067 head, in
comparison with 1858, 045 head In 1901. At
st. Joseph a similar condition prevailed
throughout the year. resulting In a reduc-
ton in local consumption from 2,75s, ITO
head in 1901 to 2,419,5 35 head in 1902, while
the number of feeders shipped and driven
to the country increased from 81, 926 head
in 1901 to 1852, 1913 head in 1902.
The contribution of livestock to rail-
way traffic at these FIVE markets in 1902
amounted to $50, 245 cars. compared with
622, 1852 cars in 1901 and $50, PSI cars in 1900.
1t would thus seem that the high tide Of
livestock traffic was reached in 1901 and
that the last year has returned to the
level Of activity indicated by the figures of
1900.
The stock Of Cit meats at the FIVE mar
kets of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha. st.
Louis and Milwaukee on December 81, 1901,
amounted to 269, 137147 pounds. On the
corresponding date Of 1902 the stocks were
179. O29. 100 pounds. There was thus a
s%hrinkage Of 90, los, 047 pounds, or 33.4S per
cent, in the course of a year.
Commerce on the Great lakes between
domestic ports for the entire calendar year
resulted In freight receipts amounting to
81, 074, 729 net tons, compared with 45,079,-
019 net tons for 1901. Iron ore and min
erals constitute approximately half Of this
freight tonnage. In 102 there were a.
S9S. 424 gross tons Of ore and minerals re-
ceived at lake ports from domestic sources,
in 1901 O,77O, 447 gross tons. Coal con-
tributed S,256, lit net tons to the receipts
of 1902 and 9.2O5, 764 net tons in 1901.
Totals of Lake Trafhc.
The final figures for arrivals and clear
ances Of vessels in the c~oasting trade on
tAo GA Iol--a For 100O ofya In not raQi9-
tration arrivals OF "A, 500, 251 tons and clear
aIIces Of 74,sO7. 71s tons. The maximum
movement occurred In August, when ar
rivals totalled 10, 59S, 176 tons and clear
aaces 10, s4S, 1884 tons. Freight traf1c through
the Sault Ste. Marie canals amounted to
S5, 961, JAG net tons in 1902. 2s,403.065 tons in
1901 and 25, 643, O73 tons in 1900. Freight
tonnage passing through the Portage axe
ship canals was 2,6s2, 1s9 tons.
At the north Atlantic seaboard receipts
of grain and -four reduced to bushels were
22S, III, 1884 bushels at the four ports OF
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more, compared with 1922, ass, 1874 bushels In
1901, a loss in 1902 Of 29.3 per cent. 1t is
estimated that shipments of grain and -four
alone from these four ports represented a
shrinkage Of about 1900, 900 net tons In
| ocean freight. Receipts OF grain, including
-four, reduced 20 bushels, at New York dur
ing the past year were ia, 926, 1923 bushels.
in comparison with 1885, s3.751 bushels in
1901, a decrease of 1912 per cent. The re-
duction in grain receipts at Boston was
from so, 434, S2O bushels in 1901 to 31,674,S1S
bushels in 1902. or 1853 per cent. At Phila-
delphia so, 1866, 1856 bushels were reported as
received in 1901 and in 1902 SSrO0s, S06 bush
els, a loss of 25.4 per cent. At Baltimore
---aa --.a. 80 aA,,r -nAeaoA 10 hIah-
els amounted in 1901 to 1891. 37S bushels,
in contrast with 40, 773, 1855 bushels in 1902,
a decrease OF 1884 per cent.
Receipts of grain at Portland, Ne, IN
1902 amounted to II, Isl, $40 bushels, those
Of -four to 2S,22e barrels, making a grand
total of 12,27S,S 57 bushels, including -four
reduced to bushels. OF grain only, not in
Guiding flour, 2,979,4 6S bushels came from
American sources and 9,172.S 77 bushels from
Canada. OF the quantity derived from
American sources 2,S90,61 bushels were
| wheat and IS, $40 bushels were corn.
On the Atlantic and gulf coasts promi-
nent features OF trade are the shipments OF
coal by water from New York, Philadei-
phia, Baltimore and Newport New1. Nine
coal companies reporting shipments over
their docks at tide water give IA. 205, 500 tons
as the quantity carried from these ports to
| coastwise destinations from January l to
November 80, 1902. Coal receipts at Bos-
ton for the calendar year 1902 were 1880
2O9 tons, compared with 4~,Sl2,419 tons In
| 1901. OF this latter quantity 2,164,55S tons
were anthracite and 2,64S, SCI tons bitumi-
nous. For 1902 anthracite amounted to
| 1,O54,17O tons and bituminous to 3,226,oSs
tons.
Receipts OF cotton in sight for the first
four months OF the season to December 81,
1902. amounted TO 6.77S,59s bales. OF this
total 4,934.17 bales were received at sea-
board ports. Southern mills took 500, SOC
bales. In net overland shipments there has
been a steady decrease to 500 bales in
1902 from 597 $50 bales in 1901 and 704, AGA
bales in 1900.
A total Of 10, 1898, S42 bushels of wheat was
shipped from Galveston in 1909. South
western yellow pine shipments for the
eleven months ending November. 1902, are
given as 1881. S3s thousand feet. in COM
p~arison with 1882, col thousand feet in 1901
and 1,719, 72s thousand feet in the equal
period OF 1900.
Receipts Of coal at San Francisco fol-
1902 amounted to LAS .5sS gross tons. being
smaller than during any Of the preceding
three years, 81 per cent coming from for
eign sources. The Paciae coast SALMON
pack for 1902 is reported as amounting tC
4,224. $50 cases OF four dozen one-pound cans
each, to which Alaska contributes ass, 43!