Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-07-17
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Summary for Three Months Of Pres
ent Year Proves Interesting.
Heavy Falling or in the Movements
Of Live Stock, But q Large In -
% crease in the Amount of -~..
s-.gE Grain Handled. =

movements for the first quarter of
1908 is presented in the March sum-
mary of internal commerce, issued by
the treasury bureau of statistics. It
comprising the first quarter of the
current year, the receipts of live
stock at five leading markets were
7,607,90 head, compared with $780,
ss2 head last year and 7,646,572 head
in the preceding year, for CORE
spending periods. A. comparison of
traffic operations shows that to the
end of March, 1908, the same five
markets received 144,S76 cars of
stock, whereas IA, 275 cars were cred
tied to the corresponding quarter of
1902, and 1882 cars in 1901. A no.
ticeable feature in the market is the
increase in the number of cattle,
sheep and horses, accompanied by a
numerical decrease in hogs, but an
extraordinary increase in the aver
age weight of hogs, the average
weight at Kansas City for March,
1908, being 30 pounds greater than in
March, 1902.
Eight wheat receiving markets, to
the end of March for the current
crop year, reported 212,73O,936 BUSH
els of wheat received. For the cor
responding period of 1902 total of
1876, 732,766 bushels were reported, and
in 1901 only 1so,912,s96 bushels.
The stocks of cut meats at five re-
porting markets on March 81, 1908,
was 231,962,o52 pounds, comps red
with 306,214,553 pounds on--the same
date a year ago. This is reduc-
ton of 24.2 per cent. A comparison
of receipts of hogs at five markets
shows reduction of SO per cent.
Freight receipts for the first three
months of the current year on the
great lakes totaled s10,968 net tons,
compared with 614,818 net tons in
with March, 2,670 arrivals were re-
ported with combined registry of
2,666,138 net tons.
At the north Atlantic seaboard, the
four ports of Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, received
64.o41:99 bushels of grain, including
-four reduced to bushels. for the first
quarter of 1908, and A 30s,077 bush
els for the corresponding quarter of
1909. At New York receipts for
three months ending with March,
were in 1903 27,214,349 bushels, COM
pared with 21,5oo,1o7 bushels in 1902.
At Boston the corresponding figures
were s.s26,147 bushels, compared with
6,4t4.ss2 bushels; at Philadelphia,
10.940,229 bushels, compared with
7,911,1S1 bushels; at Baltimore, 49,
| 651,s41 bushels, compared with 7,311,-
457 bushels; at Portland, Me-,
officially inspected receipts for three
months ending with March amounted
to 3,769.2O9 bushels, not including
| flour, of which total 345,315 bushels
| were of American origin and 3,423,
1914 bushels of Canadian origin.
Coastwise commerce in coal at the
Atlantic seaboard is reported to the
end of February this year. For the
two months ending with February,
1908, 2.550,552 tons were reported as
shipped from New York harbor
points; from Philadelphia, a total of
577,679 tons was reported; from
Baltimore, 244,722 tons, including 49,
296 tons for fueling Of vessels; from
Newport News, 292,627 tons, includ.
ing 21,433 tons for fueling vessels;
and from Norfolk, 321,945 tons, in
Guiding 67,429 tons for fueling YES
sells.
! Receipts of coal at Boston for
three months ending with March
were 1,701,662 tons, of which 900, 494
tons came from domestic ports by
coastwise routes, and 6s2, 694 tons by
sea from foreign points Of shipment.
For the first quarter of 1902, receipts
were 1,1os,341 tons, of which only
194.s16 tons came from foreign
sources by sea.