Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-03

wa, Iowa.
Entered as second class matter October
y, 1908. at the postoff!ce. ottumwa, Iowa,
1879
GAIN IN INTERNAL-TRADE.
Internal-trade movements for Febru
airy and two-month period show in
the aggregate marked gains over cor.
responding activities in either Of the
two Immediately preceding years, &C.
cording to reposts received by the de-
partment of commerce and labor,
through its Bureau of Statistics.
Total receipts of grain at Is interior
primary markets during February
amounted to 57,659,23S bushels, com.
pared with 45,411,546 for February
1905, and 56,943,264 for February, 1904
OF the movement for the second
month of the current year, 1886, 10s
bushels were wheat, 21,S26,530 corn,
14,759,192 oats, 6,412925 barley, and
704,483 rye. During the first two
months of 1905 grain receipts at these
cities aggregated 129,761,974 bushels,
more than 2S,O0U,000 in excess of the
corresponding movement of 1905, and
over 100000 greater than that of
1904. OF this total 37,13S,87S bushels
were received at Chicago, 3,944,5S7 at
Cincinnati, 1,91S,316 at Cleveland, g.
6SS,500 at Detroit, 6,029,S29 at Duluth,
1.637,375, at Indianapolis, 1881, 800 at
Kansas City, 1,18S,000 at Little Rock,
3,770,162 at Louisville, S,434,260 at
Milwaukee, 23,540,300 at Minneapolis,
7,915,700 at Omoha, 5,309,SO0Nat Peoria,
10, 556,058 at st. Louis, and 2,309,20
at Toledo. Shipments of grain from
these fifteen markets during the
month of February amounted to 49,
550,9S0 bushels in 1906, 26,645, 1888 in
1905, and 33,565,297 in 1904 Similar
shipments for two-month period were
88,061 ,0SO, 63,O41,S50, and 69,192, 500
bushels, respectively Of the 1906 to-
tai, wheat constituted 12,452,748 bush
ers; corn, 31,503,7S2; oats, 35,302,326;
barley, 7,469,689 and rye, 1,332,535.
Aggregate receipts of live stock at
the markets of Chicago, Kansas City,
Omaha, st. Louis, st. Joseph, and st.
Paul during February amounted to g.
101,454 head, against 2,S32,S4S in Feb
ruary, 1905, and 3,215,99S in February,
1904. During the first two months Of
the current year similar receipts to.
tailed 6,753,708 head, 432,O44 more than
during the corresponding period in
1905, and 60,640sin excess of the same
months in 1904, and consisted of 1884,
692 cattle, 6S,837 calves, 3,566,931 hogs,
1,624,11S sheep, and 109,130 horses and
mules. OF the total Of all classes, g.
956,860 head were received at Chicago,
! 1888 400 at Kansas City, 3,465 at
Omaha, 768,222 at st. Louis, 615,164 at
st. Joseph, and 296,5S8 at st. Paul
Compared with the corresponding re-
ceipts in 1905, gains were made at all
of the markets specified with the ex.
ception of st. Paul, where a slight loss
occurred
At Chicago the receipts Of packing
house products during February
amounted to 68,176,684 pounds in 1906,
59,0O7,372 in 1905, and 46,274,66S in
1904, while shipments for the same
months were 212,267,S72, 191, 122,27O,
and 214,S9S,447 pounds, respectively.
Receipts during January and February
combined were 142,458,663 pounds,
compared with 1U3, 958,671 during the
corresponding period in 1905, and 49,.
629,S6S in 1904 Shipments which ag-
gregated 463,255,657 pounds during
January and February were 86,8S6, GAL
pounds in excess of those for the same
months of 1905, and 21,660,287 pounds
greater than for 1904
Receipts of wheat at the spring
wheat markets of Minneapolis, Mil
waukee, Duluth, and Chicago from
August l., 1905, to February %, 1906,
amounted to 127,929,531 bushels, COM
pared with ia ,OS7, 406 received during
the corresponding months in 19O4-5
and 11S,250,S50 in 1904. OF the pres
ent seasons movement, 71,SO1, $40
bushels were received at Minneapolis;
5,78S,630, at Milwaukee; ,32,255,42O, at
Duluth, and 18,083,941, at Chicago. At
the winter-wheat markets of Toledo,
st. Louis, Detroit, and Kansas City
wheat receipts from July 1, 1905, to
February %, 1906, aggregated 5S,041,-
sos bushels, S,491,3 O2 greater than the
corresponding movement in 19O4-5, but
1851, 107 below that for 1904. Tole-
do received 4,410,200 bushels, st. Lou
is, 1S,210,000; Detroit, 1,844,695, and
Kansas City, 39,576,800,
Anthracite coal shipments from east
ern producing regions during Febru-
airy amounted to 4,712,099 tons, 789, 498
tons more than in February, 1905, and
S85,830 tons greater than in February,
1904. Similar movements for the first
two months of 1906 aggregated l0,17O,-
1873 tons, and were heavier than cores
ponding movements in any Of the six
years, with the exception of
1903, in which the shipments were H.
O35,558 tons.
The estimated production Of coke at
Ccnnellsville during nine weeks end
ing March 8 amounted to 2,548.O85.
tons, 251,168 tons more than for the
weeks in 1905 and l.
D33,544 in excess of that for the first
nine weeks of 1904. The movement of
This commodity from Connellsville for
the same period was handled by 1877
1913 cars, 1925 Of which were destined
o Pittsburg and the river, 71,809 to
points west of Pittsburg, and 17,S0S to
points east of Connellsville. The to-
al movement for the corresponding
weeks in 1905 EMPLOYED 115026 c.rc