Arizona republican., 1903-09-07
INTERNAL CONGRESS
A Satisfactory Showing so
 Far is Made
General Growth in Interior, Lake and Coast rWise Trade-Some Freight Figures.

United States, as reflected by the ! July report of the department of com | merce and Ia Dor, through it's bureau of l tatistics, are quite satisfactory. Re l ceiptS of live stock at five markets this l year to the end of July amounted to i 17,734,S47 head. Last year. 17,232 004 head were reported to the correspond | ing date, and 1S.599, ,383 head in 1901. In 1901 total of S47,976 cars Of stock ar rived at the same five markets, 305,419 cars in 1902. and 341, ,SO2 cars in 1903. The total receipts of stock for this year were divided as follows: At Chi cago S.577,S47 head in 170,565 cars; at Kansas City 2,65O,337 head in 54,21O cars; at Omaha 2,731, ,45S head in 49, 225 cars; at St. Louis 2.0O1. .945 head in ST. 173 cars: at St. Joseph 1,173,260 head in 30.O29 cars. July receipts of cattl. at Chicago this year were the heaviest since 1892, with the single exception of those of July 1901. The increase in na- tives as compared with range and Texan stocks was characteristic 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 19O1 there was .97 ,345 pounds of cut | meats reported on hand. In 1902 the corresponding reserve was 209,SS9, ,0S7 pounds. compared with 262, ,43S, 40 pounds in 1903.
 Backwardness of the season is re- l fiected in the figures of wheat receipts during July, the first month oi the new crop year. At the four winter wheat markets of Kansas City. St. Louis. Toledo and Detroit. 1134416S | 1NrrcI I,n1r
 compared with 11,695,OS bushels in July. 1903.
 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 mill ion tons. In July, 1901, there were re- l ported 7004.GS5 net tons of freight. against 1.5S2,S4S net tons in 1902 and 1,S1e,410 ne. tons in 1903. For the first seven months of the current year. 26- 323,513 tons Of cCastwise traffic were reported, compared with 25.71S.S25 tons last year and 1S,S91.257 tons in the preceding year, in which navigation opened unusually late. The amount of registered tonnage arriving on the 1 Great Lakes in coastwise trade for the. season to July 21st. 1902, was 35. .OS9. .S76
 net tons, and 35,S7O,6SS net tons in 1905. Registered tonnage by the way of Sault Ste. Marie canal in 1902. to the same date, totalled 15.003, 729 tons, com pared with 13,a22.5 .5o6 tons in 19GS This decrease is partly explained by the
 tendency in freight-carrying capacity of through steamers to increase at q
 mere rapid rate than their registered
 tonnage.
 Grain receipts at the North Atlantic seaboard to July 31 last year were Ill., 536.2S? bushels compared with 143, ,439. $40
 bushels this year.
 Receipts at New York for seven
 months ending July were 56, ,626. .63O
 bushels in 1902 and 71.416, ,469 bushels
 in 1903; at Boston 15.617. .322 bushels in
 1902 compared with 1S, ,6S2. 9S7 bushels in
 1903; at Philadelphia 19,1g3. .SO4 bushels
 in 1902 in contrast with 22,951, ,972 bush
 els in 1903: at Baltimore 20. .O9S 533
 bushels in 1902 and 3O,3S7,912 bushels
 in 1903.
 At the Atlantic sea aboard the coast wise coal movement for the first six
 months of the year credited New York
 with 9,315.191 tons shipped to coastwise destina tions; Philadelphia. 2.74S.S54
 tons. Baltimore SOP PA tons: Newport News S96,264 tors; Norfolk 929. i34 tons. The total shipments during June from
 these five points were 2,14756e tons. and for six months ending June, 14.- '41.9S1 tons. Receipts at Boston for
 seven months ending July. 1902. were
 2,1oO,o2I tons. compared with 3959. 366 tons for the same period in 1905 Re
 ceipts of cotton at United States ports to July 31st being Il months of the cotton crop year, were 7.5494SS bales , in 1901 compared with 7.542.2S4 bales | lac
 of which 4.G90,016 bales were received at , gulf ports. The exhausted condition of the supply in first hands is 'indi-
 cated by the receipt of only 2S, ,2S3 bales
 at United States ports in July. com pared with 57.221 bales in 1902. and 17S.-
 231 bales in 1901. The extraordinary rise
 in price to q scarcity level, has, among
 other things, caused the shipping to New Orleans of 2,400 bales of cotton
 during July from New York. 1899 bales
 from Boston and 2,Q79 bales of Ameri- Q can cotton from Bremen, Germany . The New Orleans rice report for the year ending July 31, 1903, gives 1,79S. .53l
 sacks of rough rice as comprising the
 years supply. and 2,575,25O pockets of clean rice. compared with 1,607 6S2 pock- - cts in 1901, and 1,1646 61c pockets in 1900 f Among special movements char = acteristic of certain trade centers may : be mentioned shipments of manufact
 ured tobacco at Louisville, which, fol = five months in 19U2 amounted to 19612- |. 012 pounds, compared with 22,0S6.25; Q pounds in the corresponding period ot 70 1903. Zinc and spelter shipments at St
 Louis in 1902 were 1,436, III slabs com.
 pared with 1,46S, 401 slabs in 1902. Grain
 shipments at Galveston for sever
 months of 1902 were 1,S75,SS6 bushels O compared with 1O.4SO,7O2 bushels fol
 the same period of 1903; at New Or
 leans ?,1S1,c47 bushels In 1902, and 22,. A 312.524 bushels in 1903.
 Q On the Pacific coast the redwood