The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-07
Western, livestock Shipments
Show Little Variation, in
Last Three Years.
WHEAT RECEIPTS DECREASED.
Current Years Shortage Due to
Baclwardness of Season and
Slow Adjustment of Price
Levels Everywhere.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Washington. Dec. 6-lnternal commerce
! conditions of the United States for the
month of October are summarized by the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
through its Bureau of Statistics. as fol-
lows:
The Western livestock movement. COM
| prising receipts at five principal markets,
amounted 10 3,2i5,iS9 head in October,
compared with 3,1S4.6lO head in September,
and 2.,i2 500 head in August.
The corresponding figures last year were
as follows: october, 3.5i7, ia; September,
S.Oi4, 259 head, and August, 2,56s,0oo head.
Receipts of all kinds for ten months,
ending with October, 1908. were 2s'sg.4lo
compared with 2S.535,966 head in 1902. and
2T.i2i, 70l head in 1901
The relative Importance Of the five mar
kets concerned is seen in the statement
that Chicago Is credited with 12,66i.S29
head, Kansas City with 4,3I1.3I5 head,
Omaha with 4,265.I5l head, st. Louis with
S,c96,252 head, and st. Joseph with 2,52l,0
head Receipts at ST. Paul were 1,4al ,ib2
and at Sioux City 1152,067 head.
Exports of live stock amounted to 67,-
s2i head during October and imports to
s5,502 head, the net results OF imports ana
exports being Il gain of 1S.OSl head. For
the ten months, ending with Octoper'
there was a loss OF III. ivo head.
WHEAT RECEIPTS.
Receipts of wheat at eight principal
markets for the current crop year to No
vember l We're S3, 49,, lis bushels. compared
with Al bushels in 1902 and JOS, 2OS,-
S33 bushels In l91l.
The current years shortage IS party
due to the backwardness OF the season
and also to SLOW adjustment or price levels
in the home anu foreign markets.. Inc
trunk-iine movement of flour during torty-
four weeks ending with OCTOBER 81 from
Chicago and Chicago points eastward was
500 barrels, compared with 4,056,SlS IN
1852 and o.559,9lG in J!pl.
The grain shipments to the seaboaI ro
Trunk Line trade amounted to essoo'Uo
bushels to the end of October 1903. COM
pared with 5?.9SS0C0 in 1892 and S94so,eU
in 1901. indicating tenccncy to recover
the lost ground of the preceding year.
In provision traffic the trunk lines have
had a fairly constant record for three
years. l,l590T tons being carried TO octo-
Der 81, 1903, compared with 1.l2S,225 tons
in 1902 and 1,lo22i7 tons in 1901
LEAD SHIPMENTS.
Lead shipments We're 1,6s4.O2s pigs in
1892 and 1,1Si156 pigs in 1902. Shipments of
zinc and spelter at st. Louis for ten
months amounted to PA sos slabs. COM
pared Win 81. SldDS III IN'Se'peo
of pig iron at Cincinnati show a decrease
from 7,5l5 tons in October. 1903, to 6i.02o
tons in October. 1902. For ten months re- re-
ceipts We're 4s6,90a tons in 1893 and Ss5,ssS
tons in 1862.
Shipments of grain by rail from Buffalo,
ex-lake trade TO the Seaboard were 10
October II. this year 81, 297. 800 bushels,
compared with 2,TU7, 127 in the correspond
ing months of 1892, and 7o,s5O.0A2 bushels
in 1901.
Grain traffic by canal from elevators for
the season to October 81, 1913. amounted 70
15029. 3iS bushels. compared with 1881 10
October freight receipts on the great
lakes We're 7.lo5,245 net tons. compared
with 7.lT7,s65 tons in September and $780,
9l4 in August. The total receipts for ten
months were 5o.192,96S net tons. compared
with 46,1i3.3S9 net tons in 1902.
Coal shipments for ten months were l3,-
12S $751; including I,SoS,9S1 tons loaded for
vessels consumption. Shipments of coal
in 1902 to the corresponding date amounted
only to 7,s12,7sl tons. the difference being
due TO the anthracite strike.
COTTON FIGURES.
In Southern territory the total receipts
of cotton for two months, including Sep
TENDER and October, were 2,'04,Oi4 bales,
compared with S217,251 bales in 1902, and
2,S76,i 5S in 1891. Net overland receipts have
shrulken 10 1900 bales. compared with
ia bales in 1902 and 1928 in 1901.
Shipments OF grain since September at
New Orleans this year amounted to 2.oE;.-
$50 bushels. compared with 1902. 1856 bushels |
in 1902. At Galveston for the same period |
5.6i3S74 bushels of grain were shipped,
compared with 4.503,995 bushels in 1902.