The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-07
INTERNAL COMMERCE
MOVEMENT DECLINES
Receipts of Five Leading Live
Stock Markets Show Hogs a
Million Head Short.
FEW GAINS IN FIRST QUARTER.
" beat Record Surpasses Two Pre-
:!ou> Years. But Flour Move
ment Falls Below Average
Reduction in Meats.
FEW GAINS IN FIRST QUARTER.


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Washington. June S-The internal CON-
meTee movements for the frst-thiri of the
| current year are Just announced by the
Treasury Bureau Of statistics.
The FIVE leading livestock markets Of the
interior. to- the first four months Of 1853
sepor: receipts Of Io.oss769 head. as com
pared with lH-222,5ls head in the same months
Of lel2. and lo26s. $40 head in 1901
1t appears that there has been a con-
! iinuous decline in quantity. the chief loss
IN the receipts Of hogs. the four months
figures for the five markets considered
being 6o09.l.s head in 1871. 5.ss5lss head IL
1902 and SOS. is head in 1913
Thus far this year receipts Of hogs have
been almost a million head short OF the
receipts in the first third of 1851. Gains
hare been made in the receipts Of cattle
and sheep Wheat receipts at eight mar
kets TO the end of April are reported as
Il ,22S.s2 bushels
To the corresponding date las. year re-
oeipts were 2s+,I $50 and in 1871 only 49,
1882 bushels Minneapolis has received
this season T..i7i2o bushels. or more than
half the total receipts al the four spring
wheat markets Of Minneapolis. Milwaukee,
Duluth and Chicago
The -four trade at Minneapolis has been
subject TO changes peculiarly unfavorabl-
TO the regular movement of this commodity.
During the fourth week Of April shipment
sunk To less than one-third OF the weekly
shipment during the preceding three weeks.
The export movement from this narSac
during the first week OF April was l5l So
barrels: the second week 1856 barrels. ne
third week to 5o.l5J barrels and in the week
ending with May il was only .. 81 bar
No such extraordinary change marked the
movement OF -four in either OF the preceding
two years to this season. \ similar con-
clifton prevailed at Chicaso
Provision shipments 10 May were !t.-
3e5 tons this year compared with +55, oG9
tons last year and 3,6.6i2 tons in 1851. Stocks
of cut meats at the FIVE markets reporting
pounds. compared with "a. $500 pounds on
April 81 1902 a reduction of i1.2 per cent.
On the Great Lakes during April, 200, 1SS
erlt points reporting. compared with 3.2se,-
Sil tons in April. 1872 and 33s.l3 tons were
reported as received this year. compared
with S.S27.e5a tons last year and $3.50 in
the same month OF 1901 The total freight
passing through the Saut Ste. Marie canals
in April. This year. was l.55l.s5S net tons.
f fSEPa's1 with 2''a''s'' net tons IN April
II the North Atlantic seaboard the re-
ceipts Of grain at Boston. New York. Phil
adelphia and Baltimore in the four months
ending with April, this year. were 1882
bushels, including -four reduced TO bushels.
The total fo- the corresponding period OF
1899 was 63023. lss bushels
The first eight months OF the cotton year
show that ot I00iS.lGS bales. sight receipts.
$50 So bales were port receipts. Overland
receipts rerted 1r16 C.S bales. and Southern
mill takiuss eGualed $500 bales OF these
receipts 3.Sl.5I3 bales were derived from the
Atlantic States. 239..;Ss bales from the
Gulf States and 2.31.052 bales from, Texas.
The grain trade at the Gulf ports and
Galveston indicates marked gains over last
season Four months OF 1865 show. st New
Orleans. IS5;l.25D bushels received. in ls12.
4.lal. az: at Galveston. S59S.iS1 bushels
compared with .s4.S22 bushels.
Shipments Of oranges and lemons from
Southern California by rail In the first
cwenty-six weeks Of 1913 reached 1888 cars;
last year l2.e3I cars. and in the same weeks
Of 1901. 1889 cars.