Arizona republican., 1907-06-03

figures for the 1905 season. The net
 overland movement for the first eight
 months of the season, 1.0ss, ,692 bales.
 shows a proportionate increase over
 like movements for 1906 of S62,1 ,11S bales.
 and 1905 of 932,643 bales. American
 spinners' takings, including shipments
 to Canada, for the season were 4,212, ,139
 bales, of which 2,304, ,S02 bales, or 54.7
 per cent, represented the share taken
 by northern mills, and 1907, 337 bales,
 or 45.3 per cent, that taken by south-
 ern mills. the total for 1907 being POS per cent higher than the corresponding
 figures for 1906. and IA per cent high CT than 1905 figures. Exports during the same period amounted to 7,723,7l2
 bales, over 2 million bales in excess of corresponding figures for the 1906 sea- son, and about three-fourths of a mill lion in excess of the 1905 figures. Of the total available supply. 59.9 per cent is shown to have been exported, while 32.7 per cent appears to have been taken by American spinners. Total American stocks at the end of the month were s66.271 bales, slightly above the corresponding figures for 1906.
 Shipments of anthracite coal from eastern producing fields during the month of April aggregated 5,916, ,5s3 gross tons, being in excess not only of the abnormally low April shipments for 1906 of 4sS,203 tons, bur also of April figures for the last seven years. and showing a record monthly shipment with the exception of htat for January, 1903. when 5.964,150 gross tons were shipped. Figures for the first four months of the year. 20.966. .O63 gross tons. are also in excess of like figures for the corresponding periods of pre- ceding years with the exception of 1903.
 Coal and coke traffic originating on the Pennsylvania Railroad company's lines east of Pittsburg and Erie during the four weeks ending April 27. 1907, totaled 4.276.532 short tons, compared with 4.53l.sl6 short tons carried during the preceding four weeks and 4.195,526 during the four weeks ending March 9
 Larger shipments for the month are also shown by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway and short lines, the April, 1907, total, 1,320,S50 tons being larger than the figures for the earlier months as we'll as the corresponding April, 1906. figures; by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. which reports g. 167,949 tons of coal and coke shipped over its system during April. 1907, with 2,113,771 tons shipped during April, 1906; and by the New York Central and Hudson River rail- read, which reports 70O,306 tons ship ped over its lines from the Beech Creek and Tioga districts during April. 1907. compared with only 134,364 tons shipped during April. 1906.
 The estimated coke production at ConnelIsville. including the lower dis of the year aggregated 6.9S6, ,331 net the corresponding 1906 figures; while the number of cars used in shipping the product, 24s.367. is about per cent in excess of that used during the cor period in 1906.
 Pig-iron production during the month, 2.216.55S gross tons. showed an increase of almost per cent over that for the corresponding month of 1906, and for the first four months of the year aggregated S.6s2. .4OS gross tons. or about 6 per cent in excess of that for the corresponding period of 1906
 Building operations during the month in 54 leading cities throughout the country compare favorably in vol tune with those of April. 1906. the re- spective values being $75,947, ,2O9 and s72. .401. PA.
 Some indication of improved traffic is furnished by the larger number of cars handled during the month by 8 reporting car-service as- sociations. the April figures of the cur rent year. 3.017, ,160. being about IS per cent higher that the corresponding 1906 figures of 2.556, 6,330 cars while figures for the first four months compare as follows: 1907, 11,45s.572 cars, and 1906, 10, ,S71 ,964 cars.