Arizona republican., 1906-08-18
INTERNAL
 COMMERCE
Trade for First Six Months
 of Year
A Gain in all Lines Over Corresponding Period Last Year.

Washington. D. C.. Aug. l7.-Internal movements curing June and the iifst half of the current calendar year show decided improv vement over cores bonding activities in either 1905 or 1904 according to reDor-s received by the bureau of statistics of the depart ment of commerce and labor.
 Live stock receipts at Chicago, Kan sas City. Omaha. St. Louis. St. Joseph. St. Paul and Sioux City. during June aggreeated 3252,lO6 head being 9,664 ] in excess of those of June 1905, and 232. .665 greater than in June l9o4. Shipments for the same month were i 623.505 head in 19O6 650,305 in l9U5, | | and CLOSET in 1904 During he first six months of the present year live stock receipts at these markets aggre- ! gated 2O.O27O95 head. in contrast with l #19.399.2l5 received during the cores bonding period in 1905, and IS. 6l1,'i4 in 1904 Of the 1906 movement, 6,223. ! G74 head were received at Chicago ! 24l3.701 at Kansas City: 2.692.176, att Omaha: 2261.922 at St. Louis; 1,S22.- BOA at St. Joseph; TAG, 939 at St. Paul; and S66. 6.OT9 at Sioux City. Compared with the preceding year gains occur red at all the markets with the eX-ep- ton of Chicago, St. Paul and Si- ux ] City. Total live stock shipments for ] similar months amounted to 4.T2l,136I head in 1906. 4542.436 head in 1905 and 4.972, OO6 in 1904.
 r Shipments of packing house pro- . ducts from Chicago during June amounted to 279335.73S pounds. against 2342S6, ,S9O pounds in June, 1905. and 213.6SS413 pounds in June | 1904 During the six months period similar withdrawals totaled 1.4T21Sf,- 222 pounds and were 2T2,136,l6V pounds in excess of like movements ,n 1905 and 195.SS96l5 pounds greater than in 1904.
 Grain receipts at fifteen interior primary markets during June totaied 5S. 330 Al bushels. over 10 millions in excess of similar receipts in 1905, and , nearly 11h millions greater than 1904. The total shipments from these mar kets for the same months amounted to 42.41T.33O bushels in 1906. 31,637,6 bushels in 1905, and 34,O93,503 bushels in 1904. For the six-month period similar receipts aggregated 3S6.743.671 bushels. while shipments amounted to 63.0246lO bushels. Both the inbound and outbound movements were heavily in excess of those for corresponding periods in either of the two preceding years Of the receipts wheat consti- tuted 73,25O,O65 bushels; corn 12S,19T.- g37 bushels; oats, 1O4,77S.919 bushels; barley. 271S1.244 bushels; and rye B. ] 935.5O6 bushels.
 Spring wheat receipts at Minneapo- lis. Duluth, Chicago, and Milwaukee from August l. 19O5 to June 30 1906, totaled 156,119.965 bushels, against l39. .553.754 bushels for the correspond ing months in 19O4-O5. and 143.4S2. .325 ! bushels in 19O3-O4. At the winter wheat markets of Toledo, St. Louis
 Detroit and Kansas City. receipts from July 1 to June 90. totaled 65.SO3 ,09- 7 bushels in 1905-O6 57.6OO,S4S busheI: g in 19O4-O5 and 73,177,452 bushels iT v 19O3-04.
 ? East bound trurf line movements O
 grain from Chicago and Chicago June
 tion points during June amounted t'
 6,O11,OO0 bushels in contrast witt = 4.S65O GOO bushels in June 1905, an,
 5.17O,OO0 bushels in 1904. For the six A month period similar shipments aggre gated 69.291, 900 bushels in 1906, 56.
 546.OOO bushels in 1905 and 53.973,OO = bushels in 1904.
 J Grain receipts during June at tn
 ports of Boston, New York, PhiladeI
 phia Baltimore and New Orleans az ne gregated 14.292, SO9 bushels, over tw
 millions in excess of receipts for Jun,
 1905 and more than 21a millions great
 CT than in 1904. During the first half
 1906 similar receipts totaled 147446 % r bushels compared with Il1.OS6. .76 ~ bushels received during the cores
 bonding period in 1905, and S6,79O,41 =. bushels in 1904. As compared with tf
 1905 receipts BaItimore's increase Wa
 greatest, either from relative or aC . tuaI standpomts.
 -, Sight receipts of cotton during Jun
 amounted to 26O.546 bales, again
 475., ,9O3 bales in June 1905, and IA 2
 bales in June 1904. During the fir
 ten months of the present season sim
 lar receipts aggregated 1O,653,949 bal
 less than for like months in 19O4-O 5, but S25,O4I bales greater than in 19O - 04. The net overland movement du 5, ing the same months was 922526. bal $. in 19O5-O6; 1.O57,193 bales in lgO4-C
 adn 909.006 bales in 19O3-O4. Of the d mestic spinners' tak.ngs for the GU
 rent season 2,2S1.161 bales were shi
 ped to northern mills and 262959 bal
 to mills in the south, a total of 4,34- . 12O bales, compared with 4,166,S73 bal . for the corresponding month in 190
 O5, and 3,SS2,S12 bales in 1903-04
 Shipments of anthracite coal fire
 eastern producing regions during Ju nth totaled 5,676.0lS tons against 5.S44.O
 tons in June, 1905, and 5.72S, 795 to
 in June 1904 During the first half
 1905 similar shipments from these I
 gions aggregated 25.334, ,5O2 tons. coi . pared with 3O.716.997 tons shipped dl
 ing the first six months of 1905. a Il. 29.257,2O7 tons in the first half of 19 sH The comparatively small amount sh
 ped in the current year is no doI
 principally due to the strike duri V the spring and early summer. | The estimated production of coke
 ConneIlsv.Ile to June 90, 1906, amour