Arizona republican., 1904-03-14
Internal Commerce of the
 Country in January
LESSENED GRAIN VOLUME
In All the Other Products of the Country, Except Authracite Coal, There Was a Sharp Increase in Comparison With January, 1903.

statement of the internal commerce of the United States. issued by the de- pertinent of commerce and labor, through it's bureau of statistics, has ju;t been made public.
 Thirty-eight car service associations report 2,135,9S1 cars handled during January 1904, compared with 2,372, ,461 cars in January. 1903.
 At five western live stock markets a total of 3,O2S,350 head of stock was re ceived in January, 1901. compared with 2974,o2 head last year, and 2,75S, ,793' head in the preceding year. Of this total, 1,540711 head were marketed at Chicago. 457,6o4 head at Kansas City, 417.2I6 head at Omaha, 374, ,554 hsad at St. Louis and 23S,265 head at St. Jo- seph.
 Receipts or wheat at tight primary markets of Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Duluth. Chicago, Toledo, St. Louis, De- troit and Kansas City for the crop year to the end of January. 1904. amounted to 165, 33S, ,297 bushels, as compared with 1s9.S1O,7 720 bushels last year and 174.- 4SS.76 bushels in the preceding year.
 During the month of January, 1924 the movement of grain and faxseed on 
 amourting to 1,64S.6S2 bushels. com pared with 613,594 bushels last year snd 77OS17 bushels in 1902. The total freight receipts on the lakes during January were 225.S42 tons, compared with 179,O19 tons a year ago and 193,O17 tons in 1902
 At the North Atlantic seq board five ports during the month of January, 1904. received 14,325. 1885 bushels of grain including flour reduced to bushels. Last year for the corresponding month 22,- 1h3.S31 bushels were received. Of the total reported for January this year, ! Portland was credited with 9S3,401 bushels; Poston, 2,OS6, ,O99 bushels; New York. 5,OS5,C bushels Philadelphia, 2,50S467 bushels. and Baltimore, B. 22S bushels. In every case these | receipts were lighter than in January, ! 1903
 Coastwise trade at Atlantic and Cuff ports give shipping arrivals at Boston for January, 1904, es 495 vessels, with registry of 675.623 gross tons. Of these arrivals. 400 were coastwisa, 303 were from southern ports, 97 from east ern ports and 95 were foreign arrival of 2l4, 1886 gross tons. At New York i where registered tonnage is not report ! cd in the coastwise trade the total cr- 1 rivals in January included 674 vessels, ] of which 3.S were coasting vesse.s and 296 foreign arrivals. At Philadelphia out of 221 vessels reaching that port, 143 were engaged in the domestic trade and 1S in foreign trade.
 Shipments of lumber from Charles ] ton, s. c. (to domestic destinationsl i from September 1, 1905, to January %, 1 1904. amounted to 15.54S.144 feet, the | major portion of which was shipped to | New York city. This total in 19O2-3 was 29.4S2.542 feet.
 | The years shipping business at | Brunswick, Ga, during 1903, where val- ues are regularly reported, amounted l to S2a.176,932, including receipts and shipments-s16.9 .946, ,9SO comprising ship ments and s12,S29.952 receipts. Domest'c e ! coastwise shipments were valued ct ST. l 916.57e and foreign shipments at SS,4So, l 404. Arriv9ds of vessels at Galveston, | Tex. for 1909 included 700 vessels of the registered tonnage of 1,727.S72 tons. 1 In southern territory receipts of cot | ton for the first five months of the crop year show that 5.992. .616 bales were sent to seaports of which 3.995, 1S4 bales, or i two-thirds of the total port receipts, arrived at gulf ports the other Gne- l third having been received at Atlantic ports.
 Galveston continues to laold first rank among seaboard receiving points in southern territory, receipts to the end of January, 1904. being 2.O3O9T3 bales oi cotton, compared with 1,56S.SO9 bales re- ceived at New Orleans. Savannah re- ceived 1.001.931 bales. Norfolk ranks next with more than one third of 1,00O,- coo bales, derived largely from the CaroliRas.
 Receipts of grain at New Orleans fo. the calendar year 1903 amounted tC 90,421.0S9 bushels, including flour re- duced to bushels. Tn 1902 receipts were 25,04+,936 bushels, indicating a gain oi about 20 per cent.
 Lumber receipts at San Francisco ir January, 1904. totaled 57.737,OOO feet compared with 42, OO0 fleet in Jan- uary, 1903
 Receipts of coal for the same month were as follows: Seventy onetbousand
 one hundred and two tons in 1904, 5l,-
 162 tons in 1903, and S5.491 tons in 1902
 Shipments of flour from Portland
 Seattle and Tacoma to Oriental points during the seven months ending witf
 January 190S-4, were 1.766,096 barrels
 in contrast with 1,065,352 barrels 1T
 1902-3
 The port of Eureka, Cal, report:
 shipments during 1903 to the value o
 st.64e610, of which $3,S45, ,3O6 represent
 ed shipments to domestic ports. Commercial movements by rivers an(
 canals have generally been impeded b!
 ice during January, 1904, to an unusua
 extent. On the Monongahela 161, ,53 tons of traffic were reported for Jan
 uary, 1904, compared with 912.793 tors {
 year ago. At the Davis Island Dan January tonnage was the lightest T
 three years, being 137.324 tons. Tn contrary wes the case at Louisville
 where the tonnage passing both rivel :, and falls was the highest in three
 years. Fourteen rivers and canals re port 9. combined tonnage much smaller
 then for any other of the two preceding
 years. The river at Cairo has beer