Arizona republican., 1905-07-10
COTTON AND GRAIN
Movements For The
 Month of May
A Comparison with Operations in Other Months and Oth3r Years. The Traffic in Coal.

Washington, July 9.-Ihe movements Of grain at the more prominent At Iantic and Gulf ports during May of the current year, as indicated by reports received by the department of com merce and labor through its bureau of statistics, show appreciable gains. if entrusted with like movements for May of the preceding year but a de- cided decline from the movement in any of the preceding months of the present year. Comparing the figures of receipts for the month of May 1905, with those of May of the preceding year, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore show considerable gains, while Portland shows but a small in crease. On the Gulf, New Orleans is represented as receiving almost nine times as much grain (wheat, corn and oats) :n 1905 as in 1904.
 At Boston during the month of May SSS,776 bushels of grain were received
 as compared with 644,159 bushels for the corresponding month in 1904.
 Shipments for t!,e month were 1,530,- 258 bushels, q gain of over 100000 bushels, compared with a like move
 ment in 1904. This increase is due to a much heavier withdrawal of wheat, ]
 ward corn movement amounting to over a million bushels. Receipts of grain at this port during the first five months of the current year were g., 110,2S bushels, divided into 767, ,475 bushels of wheat, 6,521,466 bushels of 1 corn. l 569,73 bushels of oats, 237 ,553 bushels of barley, and 14,055 bushels of rye hTe total grain receipts for l similar period in 1904 amounted to G., ! 4O2 229 bushels Of the shipments for ] q similar period in 1905, 892 273 bushels were wheat 6.354, ,866 bushels corn, 1 10O.S22 bushels oats and 293,911 bush ] els barley. making q total of 7,641,672 l bushels. as against 9. 733,144 bushels in ] 1904. The gain in corn withdrawals
 for the present year amounted to near | ly million bushels.
 At New York during the month of
 May 457, 100 bushels of wheat, S27.750 i bushels of corn. 3,296.30O bushels of oats, 3s2, 700 bushels of barley, 329OOO ! bushels of malt, 975 bushels of rye
 and 1S,076 bushels of pease were re-
 ceived, making a total inbound grain | movement for the month of 5,261 901 ] bushels, of which 4,723, ,295 bushels rep l resented a rail and water and rail
 movement and 53S,606 bushels a l through water movement. The total receipts of flour, grain and corn meal
 at New York during the month of May ] 1905, aggregated 1919, 100 bushels, as ! against a corresponding movement in | 1904 of 4.795,324 bushels.
 1 At Philadelphia the total inbound grain movements during May, 19O5 amounted to S74,8S4 bushels, being ap-
 proximately 265,OOO bushels greater | than a similar movement in May, 1904, | ,.V,-
 creased oat movement. Shipments for i the month which were 6O3,152 bushels
 in 1905, were but S4,OOO bushels in 1904, the great increase during month of ! May, 1905, being in the outbound move ment of both corn and oats. For the i five months of the current year re- ! ceipts totaled 5,992,S72 bushels, con i sisting of 274,249 bushels of wheat. B. 1 SO1. .2S7 bushels of corn, and 1,917,336 bushels of oats. The total correspond 1 ing movement in 1904 aggra gated G., | coo 10S bushels, the decrease thus indi- ] cated in the present years arrivals was 1 caused by lighter arrivals Of wheat and 1 corn. The shipments from this city
 for the five months aggregated 3,933,- l TAO bushels in 1905 and 4,15O,37S bush els in 1904
 BaItfmore's grain arrivals during
 @4G1 A0vHb AGeLNAGO S1 NoNlA OA oSAs0oO l bushels, and were nearly twice the cor
 responding arrivals in 1904. Ship
 ments for the month were 8S7,756 ! bushels in 1905 and 315,041 bushels in
 1904. During the five months ending
 May 31, 1905, there were received g.
 294,191 bushels of all grains, as against i S,359, 743 bushels in 1904. In both in
 stances the amount was composed | largely of corn.
 The inbound grain movement at New l Orleans during the month of May, 1905, amounted to 2,706,O00 bushels, being ! almost 1-2 million bushels in excess ! of a similar movement in 1904 and ] over 500OO0 bushels greater than that
 of 1903. Shipments for May of the 1 current year, which were 2S9,44l bush
 els, were 156 65S bushels in 1904 and 1,794.052 bushels in 1903. During the
 drst five months of the present year 4.S0O bushels of wheat, 1922, 800 bushels of corn, and 1,915,000 bushels | of oats were received at New Orleans,
 making a total of 21,142, 500 bushels in 1905, as compared with 6,6SS,94 bush
 els in 1904 and 19,S99,O37 bushels in | 1903. The gain indicated for the pres ent year, as compared with that for
 1904, was almost entirely due to a i much heavier inbound movement of
 corn the increase in this cereal ! amounting to over 15 million bushels | The total of grain shipments from this
 port during the present year to May
 31 was 16.25O,S43 bushels, as compar-
 ed with 5,64O,1SS bushels in 1904 and 1S,1O6,191 bushels in 1908.
 From preliminary returns of grain ! exporas from tho United States the
 exports for the month of May, 1905.
 are given as S,135,19S bushels, of
 which 5,579,042 bushels were exported
 by way of the Atlantic ports 536,271
 bushels by way of the gulf ports, 156,- 511 bushels by way of the northern border lake, and other border ports.
 A similar movement in 1904. which to- taled 2,S16,9O2 bushels, was divided
 into S07 ,149 bushels by way of the At
 lantic ports, 5O3, ,168 bushels by Gulf l ports, 977, ,964 bushels by way of Pa