Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-21
LAST YEARS INTERNAL
TRADE MUCH INCREASED
LIVE STOCK RECEIPTS AVERAGE
WITH PREVIOUS PERIODS
Grain Activities Exceed Those of 1905,
and Coal and Coke Shipments
Are Ten Per Cent
Larger

show, in most cases, larger volume
than for the preceding year. In few
instances only, notably the live stock
depression of the last two months of
the year affect the annual totals to
such an extent as to reduce the 1907
figures below the 1906 totals.
Live stock receipts at seven primary
markets during the calendar year are
reported as 4O,21s.455 head, compared
with 40, 727, 657 head and 40,569.249 head
for the years 1906 and 1905. AS COM
pared with the 1906 totals, Chicago,
Omaha, ST. Joseph and st. Paul show
decreases, while Kansasg City, st.
Louis and Sioux City show increases.
The receipts for the year of cattle at
these markets, $3.50, 40 head, compared
favorably with the 1906 and 1906 t1g-
ures of e,373,S25 and s,202,OS3 head.
though Chicago receipts show slight
shrinkage as compared with the figures
for the two preceding years. The re-
ceipts of calves at five principal mar
kets likewise show an increase from
1876, 1893 in 1906 to S34,7S1 for the year
lust ended. The receipts of hogs for
the year, 19,544,617, are also in excess
of the 1906 total, 19,223,792. the only
cities showing smaller receipts for the
year, as compared with the 1906 figures,
being Chicago and Omaha.
The 1907 receipts of sheep, 9,S57,S77
head, are more than a million below
the 1906 totals, the larger markets, es-
pecially Chicago, showing considerable
decreases as compared with last years
totals. The receipts of horses and mules
for the year, 800, 40, also show con-
siderable decline as compared with the
1906 figures of 1920, due chiefly to
smaller receipts at st. Louis and Chi
cago.
Shipments of packing house products
from Chicago for the year, 2,450 .223
pounds, show decline as compared
with both the 1906 and 1905 figures of
2,80S, 754, 0s4 and 2,705, 956,577 pounds, re-
spectively. AS compared with the 1905
totals, all the items included in the
grand total show smaller figures than
those for 1906, the shipments of fresh
beef alone being over 200 million tons
below the 1906 record The shipments
of canned meats during the year, 81
152,1O0 paunds, were below the 1905
as well as the 1906 figures of 150,397 800
and III ,6Ss $50 pounds, respectively.
It should be noted, however. that the
shipments of this article during the
second half of the year, 1881, 800
pounds compare favorably with the
corresponding 1906 figures of 40,562,250
pounds.
Grain Market showines
Grain receipts at fifteen leading in
terror markets during the calendar
year totaled S35,277 POI bushels, COM
pared with 79S,53S,543 bushels in 1906,
the principal markets, in order of their
Importance. being Chicago, Minneapo-
| lis, ST. Louis, Duluth, Kansas City
and Milwaukee, the aggregate receipts
at these six cities constituting almost
| so per cent of the total above stated.
OF the total grain received, wheat con-
stituted 256, 966,752 bushels corn. 271,-
| S91, 735 bushels; oats, 223, 1926, 1876 bushels;
barley, 1908, 91S bushels, and rye, g.
| 459 561 bushels.
Live stock receipts at the four prin-
cipal Atlantic seaboard cities-Boston.
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore
| for tine twelve months or fifty-tWo
weeks of the year. S.7S2. 3S3 head. were
over per cent in excess of the corre-
spending 1906 total. and comprised
4,07O. 800 hogs, 564. 314 calves, 1922, 766
| cattle and 2,924943 sheep. Grain and
flour receipts for the year at these cities
comprised 258 1886, 435 bushels, compared
with 45,200,577 and 227. $50, 294 bushels
received during the calendar years 1906
and 1905. OF the total given for the
| past year New York is credited with
11S,245, 465 bushels, Philadelphia with
81, $50, 426 bushels, Baltimore with 61,-
22S, 653 bushels and Boston with 37,775,-
| S91 bushels.
Coal and coke shipments over seven
leading eastern railroads. 140174. 1913
tons, We're over 10 per cent larger in
volume than in 1906 notwithstanding
the fact that the amount of coke moved
over these roads. 260S5,2S1 tons, is
/ al l,x
| largest relative gain is shown by the
shipments of anthracite coal, 66,61 Jas
gross tons, figure about 100000 tons
In excess of the 1906 total.
The estimated coke production at
Connellsville, including the lower dis
trict, for the fifty-two weeks of the
year, 19,716,273 net tons, is slightly be-
| low the corresponding total for 1906,
10, 909, 165 net tons, the decrease in the
annual total being due to the heavy
curtailment In production which char
acterized the months of November and
December of the past year. The sud
den change in the degree of industrial
activity is seen from the fact that
whereas the average number of idle
ovens for the first half of the year 1907
was zoos, this average for the entire
| year was 4042 and for the week end
| ing December %, 1907, not less than %,
252 ovens.
Anthracite and Iron
| Production of anthracite and coke
pig iron for the year. 25,315,3S gross
| tons, exceeded the corresponding 1906
| total by over half million gross tons
Notwithstanding the fact that produc-
| ton for the last two months of this
year. 1862, 404 gross tons, fell one mil
| lion and a third short of the November
and December output in 1906.
| ShinmaOtS of yellow nine lumber
from eight Southern and Southwestern
states for. the year, $500 NJ feet
compare favorably with the cores
ponding 1906 total of 3,354,6S1 NJ feet
| though the reported November and
December shipments are considerably
lower than the end-year shipments in
1906. The 1907 shipments of redwood
from northern California, 437,515 M
feet, while about 28 million feet larger
than the 1906 shipments, also showed
slackening rate during the last quar-
| ter Of the year, the shipments during
this period falling So million feet short
of the corresponding 1906 figures.
The same is true of pine and fiji re-
! ceipts at California points for the year
l,315,381 NJ feet, which show a gain
of over 123 million feet over the 1906
figures, though the figures for the last
quarter of the year were about ia mil
| lion feet below the corresponding 1906
| figures.
The building trade was the first tc
| feel the unfavorable condition of the
money market, the monthly values OF
| building permits granted in the larger
citias being lower, practically, for every