The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-14
OUR VAST INTERNAL COMMERCE.

throughout Ine OHlIed oldleS, dS It
fected by the July report of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor
through its Bureau of Statistics, are
quite satisfactory. Receipts of live
stock at five markets this year to the
end of July amounted to 17,734,S47 head
Last year, II, 232, 004 head were report
ed to the corresponding date, and 49,
599, 1888 head in 1901. In 1901 total of
374,976 cars of stock arrived at the same
five markets, 3o5419 cars in 1902, and
34f, 1902 cars in 1903. The total receipts
of stock for this year were divided as
follows: at Chicago, S,577,S47 head in
170,565 cars; at Kansas City, 1850, 33I
head in 54.210 cars: at Omaha, 2,731, 45S
head in 1925 cars; at st. Louis, 2OOl,-
945 head in 37,773 cars: at st. joseph,
1,773,26O head in 30,029 cars. July re-
ceipts of cattle at Chicago this year
were the heaviest since 1892, with the
single exception of those of July, 1901.
The increase in natives as compared
with range and Texan STOCKS was chd--
acteristic of July arrivals.
The state of the provision market, as
indicated by stocks on hand at the five
cities on July 31st, is significant of
lowering prices. On that date, in 1901,
there were 297, S01,345 pounds of cut
meats reported on hand. In 1902 the
corresponding reserve was 209, SS9,OSI
pounds, compared with 262, 4SS,44o
pounds in 1903.
Rackwardness of. the season is re-
Elected in the figures of wheat receipts
during July, the first month of the new
crop year. At the four winter wheat
markets of Kansas City, st. Louis,
Toledo and Detroit, 11,344,16 bushels
were received in July, 1901, as compared
with II, 695, 0s7 bushels in July, 1908.
Trade on the Great Lakes between
domestic ports to the end of July has
exceeded the quantity of freight
handled to that date in 1902 by mil
lion tons. In July, 1901 there were re-
ported 7,O04,6S5 net tons of freight,
against 7,5S2,S4S net tons in 1902, and
T.87e.41O net tons in 1908. For the first
seven months of the current year, 26,-
92S,513 tons of coastwise traffic were
reported, compared with 25,71S,S25 tons
last year, and 1881, 257 tons in the pre-
ceding year, in which navigation open
ed unusually late. The amount Of
registered tonnage arriving on the |
Great Lakes in coastwise trade for the |
season to July 31st, 1902, was s5.oS9,S76 |
net tons, and S5,S7O6ss net tons in 1908. |
Registered tonnage by the way of Sault |
Ste Marie Canal in 1902, to the same |
date, totalled 15,OO3,729 tons, compared |
with 13,92S.5O6 tons in 1903. This de-
crease is partly explained by the ten
dency in freight-carrying capacity Of |
through steamers to increase at more |
rapid rate than their registered tom |
mage.
I Grain receipts at the North Atlantic |
seaboard to July 31st last year were |
III, 536 ,2S9 bushels compared with 143,-
439, $40 bushels this year.
Receipts at New York for seven |
months ending July were $685. $50 |
bushels in 1902, and 1,416,469 bushels in
1903; at Boston, 15,617,322 bushels in |
1902 compared with 1S,6S2,9S7 bushels in
1903; at Philadelphia, Is, ,S04 bushels
in 1902, in contrast with %, 951, 972 bush
els in 1903; at Baltimore, 2009S, 533
bushels in 1902 and 80, 3S7, 912 bushels in
1903.
AT the Atlantic seaboard the coast
wise coal movement for the first six
months of the year credited New York
with 9,315191 tons shipped to coastwise
destinations; Philadelphia, 2,74S,S54
tons; Baltimore, S02,22 tons; Newport
News, Ss6,264 tons; Norfolk, 979,4S4 tons.
The total shipments during June from
these five points were 2,147, 566 tons, and
for six months ending June, 14.741.967
tons. Receipts at Boston for seven
months ending July. 1902, were 2,400,027
tons, compared with 1856, 1866 tons for
the same period in 1903.
Receipts of cotton at United States
ports to July 31st, being eleven months
of the cotton-crop year, were 7,549,4SS
bales in 1901, compared with 1872, 234
bales last year, and 7,697,999 bales this
year, of which 4,9sO,O16 bales were re-
ceived at Gulf ports, and 2,707,9S3 bales
at Atlantic ports The exhausted con-
dition of the supply in first hands is in
dictated by the receipt of only 2S,2S3
bales at United States ports in July,
compared with 1921 bales in 1902, and
173,237 bales in 1901. The extraordinary
rise in price to a scarcity level, has,
among other things, caused the ship
ping to New Orleans of 2,400 bales of
cotton, during July, from New York,
1899 bales from Boston, and 2,797 bales
of American cotton from Bremen, Ger
many.
New Orleans rice report for the year
ending July 31st, 1908, gives 1,79S, 5S1
sacks of rough rice as comprising the
wears supply and 2575 $50 Dockets of