The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-18

March Summary of Internal Commerce.
issued by the Treasury Bureau of
Statistics. It shows that for the three
months comprising the first quarter OF
the current year. the receipts of live
stock at five leading markets were
7.So7.sO1 head. compared with $3.50. $50
head last year and 7.64s,572 head in the
preceding year. for corresponding
periods. A comparison of traffic opera
tions shows that to the end OF March,
1903, the same five markets received
1856 cars of stock, whereas 141,275
cars were credited to the corresponding
quarter of 1902. and 112.Ss2 cars in 1901.
A noticeable feature in the market is
the increase in the number of cattle
sheep and horses, accompanied by a
numerical decrease in hogs, but an ex-
traordinary increase in the average
weight of hogs. the average weight at
Kansas City for March. 1903. being
thirty pounds greater than in March,
1902.
Eight wheat receiving markets, to the
end of March for the current crop year,
reported 212,730,936 bushels of wheat
received. For the corresponding period
of 1902 total of 1876, 1872, 766 bushels were
reported, and in 1901 only $50. s12, 1896
bushels
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porting markets on March 81, 1908, was
2S1 ,e62, 052 pounds, compared with $685.
PA, 55S pounds on the same date a year
ago. This is reduction of 24.2 per
cent. A comparison of receipts of hogs
at five markets shows a reduction of
2O.2 per cent.
Freight receipts for the first three
months of the current year on the
Great Lakes totalled S1O,96S net tons, |
compared with 614,S1S net tons in 1902. |
For the three months ending with
March, $50 arrivals were reported with
a combined registry of 2,666.1S net
tons.
At the North Atlantic seaboard, the
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delphia and Baltimore received 64,o41,-
991 bushels of grain, including flour re-
duced to bushels, for the first quarter
of 1908, and 44.SOs.O77 bushels for the
corresponding quarter of 1902. At New
York receipts for three months ending
with March. were in 1903 27.214,349 BUSH
els, compared with 21,5O0. 107 bushels in
1902. At Boston the corresponding fig
ures were S,S26,147 bushels, compared
with GAIA, SS2 bushels; at Philadelphia,
o940, 229 bushels, compared with 7.911,-
1sl bushels; ait Baltimore, 1851 ,s41
bushels, compared with 7,311, 457 BUSH
els: at Portland, Me-, officially inspect
ed receipts for three months ending
with March amounted to 3.769, 2O9 bush
els, not including flour, of which total
345,315 bushels were OF. American origin
and 3,42S, 1874 bushels of Canadian ORR
gin.
Coastwise commerce in coal at the
Atlantic seaboard is reported to the end
of February this year. For the two
months ending with February, 1903,
$3.50, 552 tons were reported as shipped
from New York harbor points: from
Philadelphia total OF ,679 tons was
reported; from Baltimore, 244,722 tons,
including As, 296 tons for fueling of yes
sels; from Newport News, 2s2,627 tons.
including u ,433 tons for vessels fueling;
and from Norfolk, 321, 945 tons. includ-
ing 81, 429 tons for fueling vessels.
Receipts of coal at Boston for three
months ending with March were 1,7O1,-
662 tons, of which S20,49 tons came
from domestic ports by coastwise
routes. and $50, 6s4 tons by sea from
foreign points of shipment. For the
first quarter of 1902, receipts were 1,1oS.-
341 tons. of which only 1914, SIG tons came
from foreign sources by sea.
In Southern territory traffic opera
lions in cotton for the first seven
months of the season indicate that out
of a total available supply of 9,5Ss,6o6
bales, 7O63,152 bales We're received at
ports. 94115S bales entered into over
land shipments, and / .379, 900 bales We're
included in Southern mill takings. This
last figure is to be compared with
.231, 256 bales for Southern mill takings
last season, and 1,0O4, $50 bales in the
preceding season. OF the port receipts
given above. 4,540.173 bales were re-
ceived at the Gulf ports, and 2,523, AZ
bales at Atlantic ports.
The increase in the volume OF grain
trade at the Gulf ports is shown by
comparison of shipments through those
ports to the end of March. At New Or
leans grain shipments, including flour
reduced to bushels, for the first three
months of the year. amounted 20 15,3l6.-
31S bushels, compared with 135, 4SI
bushels for the corresponding period a
year ago. At Galveston the total wheat
shipments for the first quarter of this
year amounted to 1852, 527 bushels. COM
pared with 420.370 bushels for the first
quarter of 1902.
Receipts of naval stores at eleven
Southern markets for the commercial
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