The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
THE TRADE REVIEW
The Government Summary Of Inter
nal Commerce for the First
Quarter Of 'O3.
Shows the Heavy Volume Of Traffic
Maintained in All Leading
Lines.

A summary of domestic trade movements for
the first quarter Of 1908 is presented in the
by the treasury bureau Of statistics. Eight
wheat receiving markets, to the end of March,
for the current crop year. reported 212, 73O, 936
bu of wheat received. For the corresponding
| reported, and in 1901 only $780, 912, 500 blu.
The stocks of cut meats at five reporting mar
kets on March 81, 1908 were 231. 962, O52 pounds,
compared with 300, pa, 553 pounds on the same
date last year. This is reduction of 24.2 per
cent.
Freight receipts for the first three months of
1903 on the Great Lakes. totaled S10,96S net
tons, compared with GAS net tons in 1902.
For the three months ending with March, ESQ
arrivals were reported, with a combined registry
of 2,666,13S net tons.
Coastwise commerce IN coal at the Atlantic
seaboard Is reported to the end of February this
year. For the two months ending with Febru-
AIRY, 1902, 800 $50 tons We're reported as shipped
from New York harbor' points; from Philadelphia
total of 5T7, $40 tons was reported from Balti-
more, A4722 tons, including ,296 tons for
Vessels .ueng . fr Ssa Newport News 2s2e27
and from Norfolk, 321, 945 tons, including 81 429
tons for vessels fueling
Coal receipts at Boston for three months
ending with March were 1,701 ,662 tons, of which
900, 494 tons came from domestic ports by coast.
| wise routes, and 6s2;694 tons by sea from for
of a ep Of For the first
only 1856 tons came from foreign sources
by sea.
The increase in the volume of grain trade al
| the gulf ports 1s shown by comparison OF
| shipments thru those ports to the end of March
| At New Orleans, grain shipments, including
-four =, reduced to bushels, for the first three
months of the year, amounted to Is, 316,318 bu
| compared with 2,1s5,4 blu for the correspond
| ing period year ago. At Galveston, the tota
| wheat shipments for the first quarter of this
year amounted to 2 652527 Blu, compared will
| 420370 Blu for the first quarter of 1902.
| On the Pacific coast, shipments Of redwood
from upper California during the quarter unde
consideration We're 65,996,7s3 feet, compared
with 58.729, 019 feet in 1902 and Sc 500, O56 fee
| in 1901. The movement of citrus fruits from
| southern California from Nov to April /, in
elusive, reached total Of TO- 541 cars last
| and 1881 cars the preceding season. TIL,
| movement Of -four through ports on the nortl
Pacific for oriental destinations credits Tacom,
with 500, 1853 barrels, Seattle with 4O9,s75 bar
rels, and Portland with 319, 674 barrels.
Traffic movements on rivers and canals re
porting indicate increasing activity with thu
beginning OF the season Of navigation For th,
| three months ending with the month Of March
| Monongahela river traffic amounted to 2,S76,06t
| tons, compared with q 122,279 tons in 1902. TIL,
| combined freight passing Louisville, KY, To-
the quarter ending with March; 1908, was GIG, 2Ot
| net TONS Tonnage moved by way of Davi
island dam for the quarter was 1884 922 ne
tons. On the Kanawha river, 31s8ss net tom
passed lock No. Il. The eastward and west
ward movement on the Chesapeake and Delawar,
canal for seven months ending with Marcel
amounted to 3o1, 72s net tons.
Anthracite shipments for the first quarter o
| tne Culient Seal .Mere lo,14i LUIS tons, com
pared. with IL, O9S,15S tons In the same month
Of 1902, and IA 271 ,347 tons for like period |,
j 1901. The Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsbur,
report 9.732, PA tons originating on those line
during the first twelve weeks of the curren
year, compared with $3.50, 371 tons in 1902, an,
3.415096 tons in 100. - The Chesapeake; q
/ Chicago railroad handled 956,391 tons of Goa
| during the first two months of 1903, compared
with l, 059,364 tons in the same months of 1902
Connellsvile coal shipments averaged 1924 car
per week during the first twelve weeks Of tn
current year, 1O,6o5 cars in 1902, and 10, 49,
cars In 1901. Coal receipts at St. Louis for tn
with. 1,446,7sO tons for a like period In 1902
At Chicago, coal and coke receipts for thi
quarter were 3,3S4, 675 TONS and for the CORE
Beaumont oil fields shipped 6.42s cars, contain
ing 2,791 ,4s3 barrels OF petroleum, for the thre
months ending with March. -.- Es2!s 3, 2ts