Arizona republican., 1908-07-13

lard, pork, tallow, and stearine, while
 fresh beef, canned meats, dressed hogs and hides show substantial gains over the figures of the preced-
 ing year; while the total shipment
 for the first five months of the year
 were below those of 1907, canned
 meats, 33,773, 100 pounds, were over $, S,000,0 900 pounds in excess of like 1907 | figures
 | Livestock receipts at the four prin-
 cipal Atlantic coast cities, Boston,
 New York, Philadelphia and Balti- more, during May aggregated 70S.15S | head, compared with 771,939 head re- ceived during the previous month and 669,1G head during the same period | in 1907. Of the total receipts dur l ing the month at the four cities named 344,711 head were hogs, 7S,- | 767 calves, S0,532 cattle, and 2O4, ,143 sheep. As compared with May, 19O7 | figures, the receipts of cattle show a heavy decrease while the receipts of the other classes of animals show somewhat larger figures than a year ago. Receipts during the first five
 months of the year, 3,995,755 head, were largely in excess of the cores
  head, the main increase occurring in the case of hogs and sheep, the fig ures for calves and cattle showing but a small growth compared with corresponding 1907 figures.
 Grain and flour receipts at the four cities named for the month, 15,- 190,394 bushels, though almost dou- ble the quantities received during the previous month, were considerably
 below the corresponding 1907 and l 1906 figures of 22,132,371 and 2O,549,- 399 bushels. All the ports in ques- ton as well as the principal classes of breadstuffs are affected by the decline from last years figures. The wheat receipts at these four cities for the month were 5,492,617 bushels, lcompared with 6,307,32 bushels re- ceived during May, 1907; the corn receipts aggregated 995,075 bushels, compared with 3,763,739 bushels re- ceived during May, 1907 while the quantity of flour received. 1,222.0S3 barrels, was also considerably below the corresponding 1907 figures of 1.502, ,46S barrels.
 The export movement from the cor responding customs districts show a similar decline: the decine in the ex- ports of corn from 5,53S,113 bushels in May, 1907, to "A bushels in May, 1905 being even heavier than the de- crease-in the receipts. The quantities of flour and grain received at these four cities during the first five months of the year. 72,642,957 bushels, were likewise considerably below the cor responding 1907 and 1906 figures of 106, ,9S9, ,097 bushels and 10S,236,046 bushels. respectively. The decline in the wheat receipts is the more remark able since the exports from these ports for the five months in question show larger total than a year ago. The corresponding flour exports were like wise slightly larger than during 1907. During the month ending May g. coastwise receipts of southern pine at New York, 24,731,172 feet, were below the figures of the preceding month, as well as May. 1907, figures of 32,707. .S24 feet. There was also a considerable shrinkage from the first five months total of 1162O4.693 feet, when com pared with a like period of 1907. Shipments of redwood lumber from upper California during the month, 30. 202.3 feet, were below the April shipments as well as the correspond ing 1907 and 1906 shipments of 39,627,- 259 and 36,S24451 feet, the principal decrease affecting consignments to San Francisco bay. Figures for the five months of the year, 121.04S,697 feet, were not only much below the unusu- ally high 1907 figures of 1S9,671, ,667 feet. but even below the 1906 figures of 139, ,74S,3O1 feet; shipments to San Francisco bay and southern California showing the heaviest losses.
 Pine and fir arrivals at California points during the month, 1O6.05O,962 feet, show a further improvement over the figures of the earlier months, though being still about 10 per cent below the May, 1907, figures The to- tai of the five months, 404,77S.090 feet, were about 40 per cent below the cor respnding 1907 total, and even less than the 1906 figures of 427,717,241 feet.
 Lumber shipments from Portland, Ore, during the month, 19,211,1S2 feet, while slightly below the figures for the preceding month, compare favor ably with the May, 1907, shipment of 13,SO9,3a4 feet, owing mainly to the heavier export movement during the month. Shipments for the five months of the year. 7S,109,77S feet, were be- low the corresponding 1907 shipments of S2,947 ,355 feet, notwithstanding the figures of exports from 31,974,1S3 feet to 52,446,104 feet during the five months in 1908.
 Anthracite coal shipments from eastern producing territory for the month totaIed 6,OSS,116 gross tons, be- ing the largest monthly total shipped in the history of the trade. Shipments for the five months of the year, 26,- 963,59O tons, are likewise larger than corresponding totals during any earlier years.
 Coal and coke traffic during May over seven eastern cOal-carrying roads. 7,552,424 tons, while showing a slight improvement over the preceding month of 7,4S7, ,076 tons, is nearly 100000
 tons below like figures for the same period in 1907, the increase being en- tiraIv d1Ia to the heavier ShinueOt of