The St. Louis Republic., 1904-01-04
Receipts at Primary Markets in
1908 Frequently Surpassed
Record of Previous Year.
YEARS INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Department of Commerce Pre-
pares Statistics of Movements
of Staple Commodities for
Eleven Months.
The Republic Bureau.

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Washington, Jan. 3.-Reports relating to
the internal commerce of the United
States for eleven months ending with
November. as presented by the Depart
fnent of Commerce and Labor, through
Its bureau of Statistics, show in general
that staple commodities at primary mar
kets for that period held their own. COM
pared with the movements q 1902. Grain
and live stock receipts at leading centers
nave, as rule. reached. If they did not
exceed. last years level.
To the end of November, 1859 3s2 head of
cattle were received at five leading mar
kets. compared with 699i.7lS head for the
corresponding period of 1902. Receipts of
all kinds in the eleven months were g.
1854 head in 1903 and 29.47S4i2 head in
1902. Receipts OF live stock by markets
were as follows for eleven months: Chi
cago. H.146,S20 head: Kansas City. 1896, ,Ss1
read; Omaha, 4,179,952 head: ST. Louis.
3,459.649 head: st. Joseph, 2,712,062 head: st.
Paul, l.759,S4s head; Sioux City, 1,2s7,97i
head. The feeder movement for eleven
months this year from ST. Joseph and
Kansas City reached 1,11s,930 head, COM
pared with 1I1,fS4 head in 1902 and
1SS,463 head in 1901.
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The Western trade in live stock is
generally undergoing one of those read
justments which inevitably form the
sequel to a period of high prices The sup
ply side of the situation has for some
time been working off its finished product
which was put into the process of prepa-
ration for market on the high-priced level
Tor unfinished stock which prevailed dur
ing 1901.
Comparisons Of quotations and of ouan-
tities marketed would seem to indicate
that the cattle trade from the producers
side of the market has not yet succeeded
In finding that new basis in cost of produc-
ton l,tis which corresponds to the level of the
Nevertheless. retail meat prices are ap-
parently slow in receding.
stocks OF cut meats at the five markets
are, however. diminishing. Only five
months ago. July they were Is per cent
Larger Ia than In 1872. whereas on November
WHEAT MOVEMENTS.
Wheat movements continue to be In
fluenced by milling demands. Up to the
close of November Minneapolis was re-
ported az still drawing wheat from winter
wheat territory as far south as Okla
homa. Large quantities of -four have been
going out from Minneapolis to China and
Australia. Total shipments, domestic and
foreign. from Minneapolis in November
1903, were 2.0I3, log barrels. compared with
:, 1872 $50 in 1902. This increase Is not con-
fined to the Northwest but on the North
Pacific Coast as well milling demands
have Kept up the price of wheat TO the
level. which has materially restricted ex-
ports in spite of the lowest ocean grain
rate on record between the Pacific Coast
and Europe.
Meanwhile shipments from the South
ern Hemisphere have. come to the front
worlds market of wheat for the rest of
the crop year.
COTTON SUPPLY
In Southern territory the total supply Of
cotton to the end of November was 6, 49,
7S2 bales. compared with 5,274,765 bales in
1902. OF the former total. ,93 bales
were sight receipts to November No 80. Out
port receipts. 1T.6l7 bales entering into
overland shipments. $4,000 bales for
Southern mill takings direct and 431. 265
ceipts for Southern mill consumption.
Grain shipments from the Gulf ports to
November 30 this year amounted to e..
bushels in 1902. Flour shipments were l.
9i9.5s9 barrels. against S66.A7 barrels in
1902
COAL SHIPMENTS
Anthracite coal shipments during No
vember amounted to 4,091.147 tons. cum
pared with 3,s25642 tons in October end
4,9s4,3 ,3Si tons in November, 1902 For eleven
months this year 551O3.0s4 tons were
shipped, compared with Is 1O1, ,5O9 tons in
1902 and 49,s6o.oo1 tons in 1901. Other coal
shipments were reported as follows:
Pennsylvania Railroad lines east of
Pittsburg and Erie 0orty-seven weeks,
81, .2l2 tons. of which s,56s.S10 IONS were
coke. q, ,2Sl ,2H tons bituminous coal and
3.s29. I65 tons anthracite; Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad reported 4.sS5,M ions OF
coal and coke to the end of October, 1903.
compared with 3,429, ,937 tons In 1902; South
ern Railway shipments for nine months
this year were 2,797. .657 TONS against 2.e72,
541 tons in 1902.
Seven railroads in Ohio reported a coal
tonnage of 1,7S2, 221 tons IN ten mont rs
ending with October, 1903. and i6sS, 57S
tons in 1902. ST. Louis receipts for eley en-
months in 1903 were 5.129277 tons, COM
pared with 4734,420 tons in 1902, and Chi
cago received 9Ss5.336 tons of coal and
coke in ten months. compared With 7,0oS,-
S6S tons in 1902.