Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-06


29S,12S pounds, while larger than the
December, 1907. figures, mark however
a decrease as compared with the cor
responding January, 1907. and 1906
shipments of 229,174,790 pounds and
257,534.955 pounds, the main decrease
occurring under the heads of fresh and
picked beef, tallow and stearin, while
shipments of canned beef, T,360,2O[
pounds, were about / 1-3 million
pounds in excess of the January. 1907
shipments tho less than half of the
January, 1906, movement. Shipments OF
cured meats and hides were also larger
than year ago.
Livestock Exports Worry Large.
Live stock receipts at four principal
Atlantic seacoast cities-Boston. New
York. Philadelphia and Baltimore -
during the month of January or the
first five weeks of the year, aggregated
972.1S6 head compared With 71S.5S3
head received during the same period
i'm 1907. OF the total received during
the month at the four cities named,
117,046 were cattle. 541.906 hogs. 3d.,
sos calves, and 2SO636 sheep. The in
creases. as compared with the returns
for January of last year. were particu-
larly heavy in the cases of sheep and
hogs.
Less Flour on the Move.
Grain and flour receipts at the
above named cities for the month ag
gregated 1S,2O9,092 bushels compared
with 21.S41,991 and 32,S30.494 bushels
received at these cities during Janu-
airy Of 1907 and 1906 OF the total
given. Boston is credited with 2.032.SlO
bushels. New York with 7.S33,5SO
bushels, Philadelphia with 3.34o.33O
bushels. and Baltimore with 5.O02.372
bushels, all the cities, with the excep-
ton Of Baltimore, showing consider
ably smaller receipts than a year ago.
Cotton Loses is Per Cent.
Sight receipts of cotton for the five
months of the season beginning Sep
TENDER, S,230,354 bales, We're 16 per
cent below the corresponding figures
for the preceding season, tho about a
quarter of million bales in excess of
the corresponding 1866 season fig
ures. Port receipts during the same
period were 6,252,S26 bales. compared
with 7,31s,599 and 5,7O2,SO5 bales re-
ceived during the 1867 and 1866
seasons. American spinners' talSings
for the first five months OF the season
are given as 2,157.344 bales, of which
Sc per cent are credited to southern
mills. Total American stocks at the
end of January aggregated 1,312.s24
bales. compared with 1,S15,637 bales
and 1,5S9,024 bales at the end of Janu-
airy. 1907 and 1906.
Lumber Falls Way Below.
Shipments of pine lumber from the
Mississippi and Wisconsin valleys for
the month are reported as 47.296,924
feet and mark a slight improvement as
compared with the shipments for the
preceding month, tho being much be-
low the corresponding January, 1907
and 1906, figures of 10S,647,04S and
117,941,373 feet. The shipments of yell
low pine lumber from eight southern
and southwestern states during the
month, 20S.7S9,6s2 feet, while in ex-
cess of the unusually low December
figures, were almost 100 million feet
below the January. 1907. shipments.
Coastwise receipts Of southern pine at
New York during the month ending
January %, 22,916,79O feet, were con-
siderably below the corresponding 1907
and 1906 figures of 31,546,O21 and A.
los, SOC feet.
Shipments of redwood lumber from
Upper California during the month ag-
gregated 16,92S.635 feet, compared with
33.411,576 feet shipped during January,
1907 Arrivals of pine and fir at Cali
fornia points likewise show a consid-
cradle decrease, from 131,614,23S feet in
January. 1907, to S4.7OS,1O7 feet in jan
uary, 1908. The arrivals of pine and
fir at San Francisco Bay during the
month We're 4S,977.926 feet. compared
with 7S,649,549 feet during January,
1907. Domestic lumber shipments from
Portland during the month totaled g.
14945O feet. as against 9,141.572 feet
the total shipments, including exports,
for the month. 17.702,092 feet, were
heavier than the total shipments dur
ing January, 1907, 12,515,569 feet.
Building Operations Curtailed.
Building operations during the month
in Al leading cities likewise show a
considerable reduction, the total value
of building permits issued in these
cities being $16,S7O,91O, against $780,
729,162 during January, 1907.
Much Less Coal and Iron.
January figures of coal and coke
traffic for seven leading eastern coal
carrying roads, S,554,969 tons, show a
20 per cent decrease as compared with
like figures for January, 1907. The
Of bituminous coal during
the month, 6,864,577 tons, were about
"a per cent below those for January,
1907. while the coke shipments, LAG
68S tons. show a decrease of over So
per cent. The anthracite coal traffic
over the Baltimore and Ohio and the
RAILROADS, 543.704 tons, be-
ing less subject to the vicissitudes of
industrial demands, shows the rela-
lively small decrease of 9 per
cent, as compared with the January.
1907, figures. Total anthracite coal
shipments from eastern producing ter
ritory for the month 5.61S,339 tons,
were heavier than during December,
1907, and in excess of January ship
ments of earlier years except those
during January, 1903, when 1864, $50
gross tons were shipped. The estimated
coke production at Connellsville, in
GLIDING the lower district. during the
first five weeks of the year, S39,346 net
tons, was about go per cent below the
1907 total, the number
of idle ovens having increased from an
average of 1888 for the first five weeks
of 1907 to 20.S26, the average figure
for the first five weeks of the present
year The number of cars used in