Arizona republican., 1906-02-12
INTERIOR
 COMMERCE A Collection of Figures for the Last Year
Great Advance in Volume OfFBusi- ness Over Any Precedenting Year in the COuntry's History.


 largest for any corresponding twelve month period in tke history of the country, according to reports received by the department of commerce and labor through it's bureau of statistics. The greatly increased activities in the iron, steel and copper Industries were particualrly worthy of note, having caused iron production, according to reliable commercial sources, to advance 10 per cent. and copper nearly 15 per cent, over similar production in 1904. As natural consequence, fuel con- sumption was strongly augmented, so that the production and movement of both coal and coke were heavily in- creased. Other movements of import ant staples, such as the receipts and shipments of grain and I've stock also presented, in the aggregate, heavy gains, while lumber production and shipments in practically all sections Vl the country, including the Southern and Gsuf states. the Mississippi and Wiscons.n valleys an1 he Pacific slope We're far in excess jf what they were iu 1904. Add to thase facts that the value Of imports ard exports dug ing 1905 showed q combined advance of s31S, 2]0, ,956, and some idea may be obtained of the scope of the increase in cOmmeI ~lal activities which seems to have meated the whole industI ial fabric of the country. Under such cir cumstaEces 1t is not remarkable that nearly aII the great railroads should report marked improvement in both gross a:iI net earnings.
 At the markets of Chicago. Kansas ! City. Omaha. St. Louis. St. Joseph and St. Paul live stock receipts during C1c month Of December aggregated 3,25I,- e51 head. of which 741,736 head were Fcattle. 26,469 calves 1,8O335S hogs 636. 995 sheep. and 33.O9S horses and mules TEa similar total inbound movement during a corresponding month tn 1904 amounted to 2.O53.719 head. and in 1903 to 3175.175 head. Similar receipts at these mark cts during the year 1905 aggregated 3S 2O1, ,261 head. a number over 12 IT. illion head greater than that for the i liIse n9Fi6e iast9Q4. ana more than 2 million Fad Heavier than that fo.
 1903. TEe 1903 movement was divided 1 into 8 SO7, SIG cattle, -721. .95I calves. IT, 69O,24S hogs. iO,515,G77 sheep, and 465. = 569 horses and mules. As compared with the 1904 figures. gains were made i in the arrivals CS all five of the classes of animals specified, the gain
 in hog receipts amounting to over q
 million head.
 1 The total grain receipts at twelve ! important interior primary marke. s
 during the month of December amount | ed to S0,S74 ,C4O bushels of which 23.-
 670, ,63S bushels were wheat, 27,57I 635 | bushels corn 19,074 .206 bushels oats, 9,O56, ,290 bushels barley, and 1,5O1. .271 bushels rye. A total corresponding in ! bound movement at these cities during l the similar month in 1904 aggregated ! 6S, S95, ,5SO bushels, being over 12.OOO. 900
 bushels less than the 1905 receipts, due 1 to increases in the latter year in arriy- als of wheat, oats. rye and barley. During 1905 receipts of grain at these
 markets aggregated 762. .624,710 bushels, in contrast with 1851, ,236 bushels in 1904 The current years arrivals were divided into 24O.742.4SO bushels nf wheat. 223,S57,36 bushels of corn, POT ,S24,201 bushels of oats, S0, | 076,914 bushels of barley, and 10,123, 755 bushels of rye. As compar-
 ed 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 re- ceived 260,67 ,693 bushels; Minneapolis 37,3S9,24O bushels; Kansas City, 6S. 29S.200 bushels; St. Louis, 60, 703, ,443
 
 Milwaukee, 37,749,1OO bushels; Omaha,
 34, ,523 500 bushels; Peoria, 29,067, APO bushels; Toledo, 24,40O,1O bushels; Louisville. 22.6O2, TOO bushels: Cincin-
 natl, 20, ,353,21S bushels, and Detroit, 4,975, ,332 bushels. Total flour arrivals
 at these markets during December az gregated 1,610,O32 barrels as against 1,540.63 barrels in December, 1904.
 while the arrivals for the year, which amounted to 21.234,456 barrels in 1905, | totaled 2O,5sO,23 barrels in 1904
 Receipts of wheat at the four spring wheat markets of Minneapolis, Milwau- kee, Duluth and Chicago, from Aug. |, 1905, to and including December 30, 1905, aggregated 103, S93, 414 bushels, as 1 against similar total receipts in 1904
 of 94,601,973 bushels and in 1903 nf 99.300,135 bushels. As compared with the 1904 figures, gains were made at the markets of Duluth and Minnepalis, Chicago and Milwaukee having sus-
 tained losses. At the winter wheat
 markets of Toledo, St. Louis, Detroit,
 and Kansas City, the receipts of wheat from July 1 to December 30, 1905, amounted to 5O,974,1 ,161 bushels, being nearly 6 million bushels in excess of corresponding movements in 1902, and a little over 500,000 bushels heavier
 than those for 1903. Increases occur | red at Toledo. St. Louis, and Kansas City during 1905 as compared with similar movements in 1904.
 The eastbound trunk-line movements | of grain from Chicago and Chicago points during the month of December amounted to 12,219,O00 bushels, and were nearly million bushels heavier than like movements in 1904 and con- siderably over million bushels in ex- | cess of those of 1903. During the twelve months of 1905, IF, ,22O bushels | of grain were shipped eastward over the trunk lines from Chicago and Chi cago points, as compared with simi-