The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-02
INTERNAL COM MERGE
BUREAU OF STATISTICS HAS
COMPLETED JULY FIGURES.
Considerable Falling Of in Grain Trafic,
but Increases Over a Year Ago
General in other Lines.

WARRINGTON, Sept. 2.-The princi-
pal internal movements ur-
ing July, as reported to the Bureau OF
statistics, Department of Commerce
and Labor, show, or the whole, a larger
volume than the corresponding move
ments of a year ago, the only excep-
ton being the grain receipts at pri-
mary interior markets which are con-
siderably below the July. 1906, figures.
AS with the extraordinary
activity during the earlier part of the
year, the rate of output of some oaslc
Industries. such as anthracite Goa,
coke, and pig iron production. shows a
slight let-up. though the figures Tor
| the month are largely in excess or
those for July, 1906. The ore handlers
strike in the LAX Superior region,
while curtailing iron-ore shipments for
the month, affected but little the vol
ume of Lake traffic as a whole, the
freight onnag shipped during the
month, 11.47S,971 net tons. being the
largest on record and about 10 per
cent. larger than the corresponding
1906 total.
Grain receipts during July at four
teen interior primary markets, 47,l40,-
o65 bushels, are considerably below the
corresponding 1905 and even 1905 fig
ures of 62.SS7,S9 and 35, 900, 495 bushels.
respectively. Smaller receipts for the
month are shown by the more Inn
p~ortant markets. Thus Chicago re-
ports 14,592.540 bushels compared with
22.423,616 bushels received during July.
1906; Kansas City 100000 bushels
compared with $500, 900 bushels, and
st. Louis 5.O0O,911 bushels compared
with 6,997. sos bushels. The more north
/ ern markets, such as Duluth, Mime
| apolis, and Milwaukee,, show normal
gains as compared with 1906 receipts.
Of the total grain receipts for the
month at the cities considered. 1862
491 bushels were wheat, 16,393,0 10
l,624,746 bushels barley. 331 .636 bushels
rye, and 1.426. GAG bushels f1axseed.
The large loss in the receipts of wheat
and oats as compared with 1905 re-
turns is the most noteworthy fact re-
vea1ed by these figures.
The grain receipts at these cities for
the eleven months of the crop period
beginning September /, 755,354,292
bushels, while slightly lower than the
1905 figures, 6 7,26S,100 bushels, are
about 100 million bushels larger than
the 1905 figures, the receipts of wheat,
oats and barley showing slightly lower
figures, while the receipts of corn and
rye show slightly larger figures, as
compared with the 1905 totals.
A0InraC1L6 coal shipments uuTlnS
July from eastern producing regions,
5000, ABS gross tons, while lower than
the figures for the three preceding
months, are, however, in excess of any
July fgures since 1901. Figures for
the seven months of the year., S8,4S7,030
gross tons, are also the largest figures
on record since 1901. Coal and coke
traffic originating on the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company's lines east of Pitts
IN~sA 1,,ri,a- fhA F01tr uynaEC
ending August 3, 1907, aggregated
5,445,145 net tons, being over 10 per
cent. in excess of the corresponding
1906 figures and nearly 80 per cent. in
excess of corresponding 1905 figures,
the gain being due to increased ship
ments of anthracite, coke and chiefly
bituminous coal. Figures for the thir-
ty-one weeks of the year, 34,004,222 net
tons, are nearly 90 per cent. in excess
of the corresponding 1905 figures.
Large increases in the coal and coke
traffic for the month are also shown
by the Norfolk and Western Railway,
the New York Central, the Buffalo. Ro-
chester, and P~ittsburg, and other i'm
portant eastern roads.
Figures of pig iron production for
July, exclusive of small quantities Of
charcoal iron. were 2,259,6S2 gross tons,
while over IL per cent. in excess of the
corresponding 1906 figures. Indicate.
however, a daily rate of production
slightly lower thar that displayed by
the May and June figures of the same
year. Figures for the seven months of
the year, Ia. 1876 gross tons. are over
s per cent. in excess of the correspond
ing 1906 figures. Notable Increases of
output for the seven months are shown
by the Pittsburg and Mahoning valley
districts, the central n northern
Ohio districts. and more particularly
by the works located in the Northwest.
The Southern urnaces show a rather
condition as compared with
the 1906 output.
Reports of building operations for
the month, from ffty-five cities in all
parts of the country, show an aggre-
gate value of building permits granted
of $51, 997, S5S, as compared with $685.
ASSOC for July, 1906, decreased activ-
ity being reported, among others, from
New York, Philadelphia. st. Louis and
San Francisco. The cities in the Mid
die West. including Chicago, Clever
land. Detroit and Milwaukee, on the
whole, show larger totals thar q year
ago. Figures for the seven months OF
the year, $372,SS5,S54, show a loss of
ab~out-twenty million dollars as COM
pared with corresponding 1906 figures.
Increased traffic activity and a better
of the available car supply
is Indicated by the larger number of
cars handled by thirty reporting car
associations, the July figures,
2, ASP, 1853 cars handled, being over 10
per cent. larger than the July, 1906.
totals. while the figures for the seven
months, 16,627,520 cars handled, exceed
the corresponding 1906 totals by about
million cars.
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