Arizona republican., 1905-09-11
THE GRAIN GROWTH
Figures Concerning The
Movements of Cereals
An Improvement Over a Year Ago.
Live Stock Receipts at the Principal
Packing CenterS.

Washington, Sept 10.-Internal
movements of both grain and live stock
during July. as indicated by receipts
and shipments at important primary
markets, reported to the department of
commerce and labor through it's bureau
of statistics, present marked improve
ments, if compared with similar move
ments in 1904. At twelve grain centers
aggregate cereal receipts during the
month were over 10000, 900 bushels
heavier than those for a corresponding
period in 1904 The large wheat crop,
forecast by both government and COM
merciaI estimates, is beginning to be
marketed, and at the four leading win
ter wIeat centers the arrivals during
July exceeded those of 1904 by over g.
500 600 bushels. Eastbound trunk line
movements of grain, as we'll as cereal
receipts at important concentrating
points along the borders of the great
lakes also bear evidence of this i'm
proved condition. No less worthy of
note is the heavy increase in live stock
movements, the receipts at the five
leading markets during July having
been nearly a million head in excess OF
those representing similar arrivals dur
ing the preceding year.
At Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha st.
Louis and St. Joseph, live stock re-
ceipts during the month of July aggre-
gated 2,53S,3O6 head, Of which G04,223
We're cattle; 5S.129, calves; 1,1S6, 265.
hogs; 659, ,S62 sheep, and 29,S27, horses
and mules. A similar total inbound
movement in 1904 amounted to 1854, ,451
head, and in 1903 to 2,62O,O46 head. Dur
ing the first seven months of the cur
rent year 19,77S,4T1 mead Of live stock
were received at these five markets. j
number nearly 1,51O,0O0 head greater
than that for 4 like period in 1904, and
over 100000 head more than that for
| 1908. The present years movement was
| divided into 4,O34, ,O67 cattle, 333. .659
calves, 1O,215,383 hogs, 3,949,62O sheep,
! and 245.742 horses and mules. AS com
! pared with the 1904 figures, gains We're
made in the arrivals of all five of the
/ classes of animals specified TIE num-
Der of cars required to handle the in
bound movement of live stock at these
markets during the first seven months
of 1905 totaled 357.020, as compared
with 343 106 cars in 1904 and 349, 1896
! cars in 1903.
| The aggregate grain receipts at
! twelve important interior primary mar
/ kets during the month of July amount
| ed to 50,805,735 bushels, of which 19.-
977,S0S bushels were wheat, 16,1115. .166
bushels corn, 12,61S,449 bushels oats,
I l. 90 ,lfz DuSHelS DdE46ys anu 1Uts4tU
| bushels rye. A total corresponding in
/ bound movement during a similar
month in 1904 aggregated 3O,672, ,39S
bushels, being over 10000, 900 bushels
/ les than the 1905 arrivals, due to in
/ creases. during the latter year, in the
! receipts of wheat, corn, oats, and bar
! ley; a decrease having occurred in the
| receipts of rye. For the first seven
months of the current year 23,385,917
bushels of grain We're received at these
markets, in contrast with 304 APO, ,531
| bushels in 1904. The current years ar
| rivals were divided into S3,4O2, ,21S
bushels of wheat, 1876 45S592 bushels of
corn, 84,092,5 ,515 bushels of oats, 26,413,
| 337 bushels of barley and 3,019,255
| bushels of rye. AS compared with the
1904 arrivals. gains We're made in the
receipts of wneat, corn and oats. OF
| the interior markets prominently iden-
titled with the receipts of grain, Chi
cagO led, having received 126,242,771
bushels during the first seven months
of the current year. Minneapolis came
second, with 51,751 ,05O bushels, and St
Louis third, with 29.84O,905 bushels
Total flour arrivals during July al