Arizona republican., 1907-10-16
INTERNAL
 COMMERCE A Record of the Volume
 for a Month
Showing Compares We'll With the Corresponding Period a Year Ago.

Washington. oct. 15.-Leading in
 ternal commerce movements during
 August as reported by the bureau of
 statistics, department of commerce
 and labor. on the whole. indicate a
 satisfactory volume of business com
 pared with August. 1906, returns, as well as with the figures for the ear Tier months of the year. The grain
 movement has been larger for the month than q year ago, though the
 larger receipts at interior markets are due, probably, to higher prices prevail ing rather than to larger supplies in producers hands. While the movement of live stock to the packing centers in the middle west was lighter than us ual, the coal shipments, both by rail
 and by lake, show large increases over last years figures. Commercial move
 ments on the Great Lakes, as meas
 ured by the volume of shipments , from the various lake ports for tine
 month, I2.597 ,S66 net tons, were about 15 per cent larger than during August of the preceding year.
 Arrivals of live stock at seven inte-
 rior primary markets during August, 3,130.225 head. show a slight loss as
 compared with 1906 figures of 3.295,- i15 head, but are slightly above the
 August, 1905, figures of 3,077,697 head. Chicago and Omaha showed the larg est losses in receipts for the month,
 while St. Louis and Sioux City show the largest relative gains over the cor responding 1906 figures. The smaller total for the month is due to the smaller receipts of hogs. 1,391.472 head as compared with 1,521, ,6S1 head re- ceived during August, 1906. and of sheep. 776,359 head as compared with S77,169 head. while receipts of cattle. S37,0I2 head, those of calves, S5.06i head. and those of horses and mules, 40,31S head show small gains as com pared with August. 1906, totals. Re- ceipts of all classes of live stock at these cities for, the eight months of the year. 26.495,532 head, compared favorably with corresponding 1906 and 1905 figures of 26.36s.9 .99s head and 25.- l275. 551 head. respectively. Chicago be- | ing practically the only primary mar
 ket showing a loss in receipts as com pared with the corresponding 1906 fig ures Gains for the season are shown III lIlt IttAlHlS OI tdlllt. CdlNtS. anu T hogs. while losses in the season re- ceipts occur under the head of sheep, horses and mules.
 Shipments of packing house pro- ducts from Chicago during August. 202 ,960 pounds. are below the cor responding 1906 and 1905 figures of l21S.619.596 pounds and 265.346.47O
 pounds, the main decreases occurring
 under the heads of fresh beef, lard, and hides. Shipments of canned meats. 9.659.550 pounds. show the largest monthly figures since June.
 1906, being about double the August, 1906, figures, though 2,655.6O pounds short of the August, 1905. shipments. The shipments of cured meats. 69. 566.-
 565 pounds. are over 12 LOGO 900 in eX- cess of the corresponding 1906 figures, though about 10000 GOO pounds below
 the corresponding 1905 shipments. In creased shipments are shown likewise
 for picked beef and dressed hogs
 Figures for the eight months of the
 year, 1,63l, ,O17.527 pounds, are below
 the 1906 and 1905 figures of 1.91O.507.- 19S pounds and 1,679,597.372 pounds respectively: decreases as compared
 with 1906 totals occurring under the
 heads of practically all important
 items. Shipments of canned meats for the season were 50,419.350 pounds as .against s644O.95O pounds shipped dur
 ing the eight months of 1906.
 Grain receipts during August at fif-
 teen interior primary markets. 12.-
 537 .039 bushels. show a slight increase over the August. 1906, receipts of IT,
 3S4.S65 bushels. though being per cent below the corresponding 1905 re- ceipts. Larger receipts are reported
 for St. Louis. Kansas City, Minneap- oils. omaha and Peoria. while smaller receipts for the month are shown for Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland. and Gin cinnati Of the total grain receipts for the month at the 15 cities sonsid- cred. 31.247.541 bushels was wheat. l6.665.46O bushels corn. 21.S23.676 bushels oats, 2.1se.s6S bushels barley. 617. .494 bushels rye. and 5S9. .995 bush els flaxseed. With the exception of cats and flaxseed. gains are shown in the receipts of all classes of grains. the largest gains appearing in the wheat receipts of Kansas City, St. Louis and Minneapolis.
 dl DldGhtlS the twelve months of the crop period
 ending August 31 totaled S3S.s94.6 .631 bushels and are somewhat below the Corresponding 1906 figures of S47,264,-
 TAO bushels, though almost 100 million
 bushels in excess of the 1905 figures. Corn is the only grain for which large increases of receipts are shown in the crop year just ended, Chicago and St. Louis participating chiefly in this gain. The wheat receipts for the season are slightly above the corresponding 1906 figures. the principal gains being shown by Duluth. Omaha and Mil waukee, while Chicago and Minneapo- lis show considerable losses. The re- ceipts of oats for the season were 10' per cent below those for the preceding year, the losses affecting mainly Du- luth, Minneapolis. Peoria. and Chica- go. Barley receipts were also lower for the crop year just ended than for the 1906 period, Chicago. Minneapolis and Detroit accounting for the chief losses. Receipts of rye for the 1907 season were slightly above those for the 1906 period, Milwaukee and Minneapolis showing the largest gains as compared