The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10
United States Internal Com
merce Greatest on Record.
Shipments at Home During 1905
of Enormous Proportions.
BIG GAINS ARE MADE.
Iron, Steel, Grain and Live Stock
Show Large Increases.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Oficials of
the department of commerce and
labor report that the volume of inter
nal commerce of the United States
was larger during 1906 than in any
other year in the history of the coun-
try. That last year would prove TO be
a record breaker in internal COM
merce has been evidenced by the enor-
NOUS increases in the gross earnings
Of nearly all the railroads of the coun-
try which are the arteries through
which this commerce flows, but even
these figures did not suggest the Won
derful increases in all kinds of business
that are shown in the report of the
department of commerce and labor.
The increased activities in the iron,
steel and copper industries were espe-
cially worthy of note. Fuel cOnsump-
ton was strongly augmented, so that
the production and movement of both
coal and coke were increased heavily.
Receipts and shipments of grain and
live stock also presented heavy gains,
while lumber production and ship
ments were far in excess of what they
were in 1904.
At the markets of Chicago. Kansas
City, Omaha, st. Louis. St Joseph and
st. Paul live stock receipts in Deem
Der aggregated 3,251,657 head, of
which T41,736 head were cattle, So, 469
calves, 1.S03.358 hogs, 636, 996 sheep
and 33.09S horses and mules. The
total inbound movement during the
corresponding month in 1904 amount
ed to 3.053,719 head and in 1903 to
3,173.l75 head.
Similar receipts at these markets dur
ing 1905 aggregated IS, POI, PSI head, a
number over $780, 600 head greater than
that for the like period in 1904, and
more than 3,0000 900 head heavier than
that for 1903. The 1905 movement was
divided into 8,S07.816 cattle, 721, 951 calves,
II $780, PAS hogs, TO- 515,677 sheep and 49,
500 horses and mules. AS compared
with the 1904 figures, gains were made
III the arrivals of all i've of the classes
of animals specified. the gain in hog re
ceiptS amounting to over million head.
Total grain receipts at u interior pri-
mary markets during December amount
ed to SO,874,04O bushels, of which %
670,63S bushels were wheat 21,511633
bushels corn, 1907, 206 bushels oats, g.
056, 290 bushels barley and 1,501,271 bush
els rye. Receipts in December a year
earlier were y COO 900 bushels smaller,
the increase in December. 1905, being
caused by arrivals Of wheat, oats, rye
and barley.
During 1905 receipts of grain at these
markets aggrega ted 56Zs624s710 bushels.
in contrast with $50. 851236 bushels IN
1904 The current years arrivals were
divided into 240, 742. $50 bushels of wheat.
223. 857 $50 bushels of corn, 207,S24.201
DuSiiels o. Orls, o. o-9A7 Jus iSl9 VI "a
ley and 10123,755 bushels of rye. Com
pared with the 1904 arrivals. gains were
made in the receipts of all the cereals
except rye. Of the interior market grain
receipts during 1905 Chicago received
200, 675 693 bushels, Minneapolis 137 ,489,
24O bushels, Kansas City 68. 29S. 200 bush
els. st. Louis 60, 703.443 bushels, Duluth
81. 1856 764 bushels Milwaukee 3L149, 100
bushels. Omaha "a. 523. 500 bushels, Pc
oria %. O67 ,420 bushels, Toledo 24,4o0 100
bushels. Louisville 22.602 700 bushels.
Cincinnati 20, 1853, 21S bushels and Detroit
14975.332 bushels. Total flour arrivals
at these markets during December ag-
gregated /, $40. O32 barrels, against 1.540,-
632 barrels in December. 1904. while the
arrivals for the year, which amounted
to 2, 324. 456 barrels in 1905, tOtaled 20
$50 237 barrels in 1904.