Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-14

due to heavier arrivals Of both corn
and oats. Shipments totaled 1,626,7S5
bushels, an increase Of nearly million
bushels If compared with like move
ment Of January 1904.
Grain receipts at Cincinnati for jan
uary amounted to 1,521,S30 bushels
and differed, but little, in the aggre-
gate from those for a like period in
1904, although oat arrivals indicate
gain of approximately 100000 bushels,
and corn shows loss of over 100000
bushels. Total grain shipments for
the month were 730,166 bushels in 1905
and 972,397 bushels in 1904. Grain
show remarkable shrinkage, as COM
pared with similar period of 1904.
Wheat receipts. which amounted to
1,375,049 bushels, were over 100000
bushels lighter than the movement for
the previous year Corn receipts to-
tailed 9S0,1S5 bushels in 1905, being
nearly a million and half bushels
lighter than in 1904. Receipts of grain
at Kansas City for the first month of
the present year totaled 3,249,S00
bushels, in contrast with 6,743,600
bushels in January, 1904.
Eastern trunk line movements of
grain from Chicago and Chicago
points during the first four weeks in
January totaled 11,3S0,000 bushels as
against 9,S90,000 bushels for similar
weeks in 1904. The heaviest ship
ments occurred in the first week of
the month, during which time the rail
roads handled 3,616,000 bushels Of all
kinds of grain. East bound -four with
drawals for similar period amounted
to 475,342 bushels, being about 10000
bushels greater that the movement for
1904. Provision shipments. by a like
comparison, show decided decrease,
being 99,6SS tons in 1905 and 124,645
tons in 1904.
An unusually active interest was
displayed during January relative to
freight rates on grain from interior
primary markets to Atlantic and Gulf
ports. AS a rule, there are no through
published rates on grain from the Mis-
souri, river to the Atlantic seaboard,
but on January 80 the railroads filed
with the Interstate commerce commits
sion and put into effect a rate on corn
from common points on this river to
New York and Boston of 1874 cents,
to Philadelphia 171s cents, and to Bal
timore, Newport News and Norfolk
II cents. On the same date the rail-
roads running to the Gulf reduced the
export corn rate from Kansas City to
Galveston and New Orleans from II
to 1919 cents and from Omaha to the
same Gulf ports from 1S to 1914 cents.
The exports of grain via the Atlantic
ports during January amounted to g.
066,906 bushels and those from the
Gulf ports to 6, 920,213 bushels.
The Cotton Supply.
The total available supply of cotton
for the present year to the end of jan
uary 1 amounted to 9,132 52S bales, as
months in 1904. While the total
available supply for the past five
months exceeds that for a like period
Of the previous season by over $4,000
bales, the percentage Of the total crop
moved is apparently not nearly so large
as it was on January 81, 1904 and this
would seem to indicate that consider
able quantities Of cotton were being
held back bv the farmers, presumably
for more advantageous price. This
apparent fact is further emphasized by
stating that the sight receipts for
January amounted to but 955,s23
bales in contrast with 1S91,644 bales
in December, 2,961,43o bales in Novem-
ber 2,399,32S bales in October, and
1,362,336 bales in September, the
amount Of receipts and the price both
showing, in the main, a st-ady de-
crease for the past three months.
The net overland movement for the
five months to January 1 amounted to
611,SS1 bales, as compared with 616,-
S61 bales for similar months Of the
preceding season, Total export with
drawals for the months under discus
sion amounted to 5,1S6,610 bales, being
over 100000 bales heavier than for the
similar movement of the previous sea-
son. During the present season the
northern mills have taken 1,365,277
bales and the southern mills 1,122,047
bales, indicating decrease in the ac-
tivities of the northern mills but an
increase in those of the south, if COM
parsons are made with last seasons
figures. The total American stocks
on hand January 81, both at port cities
and interior towns, amounted to L.
473,393 bales, as against 1.16S,924
bales on a like date in 1904