Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-13
REPORTS SHOW CONDITIONS
ARE SLIGHTLY IMPROVED
PACKING HOUSE SHIPMENTS
COMPARED
Traffic Activity for Railways Shows
a Change for the Better-Mar-
kets Show an ln-
crease

issued by the bureau Of statistics, of the de-
partment of commerce and labor. While
the volume of leading commercial move
ments in most cases was smaller than a
year ago, the coal, iron and building trades
report better results for the month as COM
pared with the first month of the year. The
traffic activity of the railways for the first
time since last October likewise shows
slight change for the better.
Receipts of live stock at seven interior
primary markets during February, 36so,734
head, show a daily average below that OBJ
tanning for the preceding month. though
being in. excess of the February. 1907 and
1905. figures Of 3,S12,53S and S.S13,OsS head.
All the markets in question show larger re-
ceipts than a year ago, the increases being
especially notable in the cases Of chicago
and st. Paul This increase is due, however,
exclusively to the larger number Of hogs re-
ceived 2311,637 head, compared with
1891, 051 head reported for February, lsof'
Receipts of all classes Of live stock for the
first two months of the year totaleo o.
210.572 head as against 7,176.97S head re-
ported for the corresponding 1907 period.
AS in the case of the February receipts the
larger total is due exclusively to the IN
creased receipts of hogs, the hgureS Tor the
other animals showing smaller totals for the
two months than year ago.
Shipments of packing house products from
Chicago during the month, Zsi'SSz,tof
ments for February, 1907 and 1905, 2OS,-
6O4Sse and 214,274,342 pounds, the princi-
pal increases over last years figures appear
ing under the head OF canned meats: oureu
meats, hides and lard. Shipments for the
first two months of the year. 435,1Sl, ,leO
pounds, are slightly below the corresponding
1907 figures, owing to smaller shipments OF
fresh and picked beef Shipments OF
canned meats for the first two months of
the year. 1452S,525 pounds compare favor
ably with like shipments during the cores
ponding 1907 period, 12,271,2OO POUNDS.
though being so per cent below the canned
meat shipments during the first two months
of 1906
Receipts Show Decline
Grain receipts during February at hfteen
primary markets, 48.22S,76l bushels, snow
a heavy decline both as compared with the
figures of the preceding months as well as
the corresponding 1907 and 1906 figures OF
6l,5474l7 bushels and 5S,402,23S bushels, the
decrease in the total being due mainly 10
the smaller receipts at Chicago, Kansas
City Milwaukee Minneapolis and st. Louis.
Extremely light receipts of corn. 17lo6, 7sS
bushels compared with 2S.025,l36 bushels,
and lower receipts of wheat. l2,46S'oS1
bushels compared with 15,112361 bushels for
February. 1907 account for the smaller
total Grain receipts at the same markets
for the six months of the crop season begin
ming September l, 44234s,675 bushels, were
over thirteen million bushels less than FOR
the six months OF the preceding season and
13 per cent below the 1905-6 season receipts,
the decrease being due mainly to smaller
receipts OF corn and wheat.
Live stock receipts at four principal AT
lantic seacoast cities. Boston. New YORK,
Philadelphia and Baltimore. during the
month or four weeks in February. aggre-
gated S01.562 head compared with eSs'zio
head received during the same period in
1907 OF the total receipts during the
month, at the four cities named. 10000 head
were cattle. 25.219 calves, 462,259 hogs and
223,3S4 sheep, the increase being most not
able in the cases of hogs and sheep. Re-
ceipts for the first two months OF the year,
LTD 74S head. are over half a million IN
excess of like receipts in 19O7-New York
and Boston showing the largest increases
over the 1907 figures.
Grain and -four receipts at the four men
toned cities for the month, aggregated
1s,3s4,55s bushels compared with 1S,602,01
and 1905. The wheat receipts at these -four
cities were 2.256,S67 bushels as against
o.s56,297 bushels recorded for February,
1907. Corn receipts aggregated s.620,327
bushels compared with s,5es,674 bushels.
while the four receipts 1.100,652 barrels
compared with 1,o32,622 barrels received
during February, 1907 The aggregate
grain and flour receipts at these four cities
during the first two months of the year,
S6,5s3,e50 bushels. were below the cores
ponding 1907 and 1906 figures of 40.444,007
and 55S52, 904 bushels, the largest losses
being shown by Boston and Philadelphia.
The aggregate wheat exports from these
points for the first two months. s,171,171
bushels. exceed by far the receipts for the
same period, $500. .616 bushels, being AZ per
cent in excess of wheat exports for the first
two months of 1907. Corn exports from
these four cities during the same period
aggregated s.0036S0 bushels. while the ex-
ports of flour during the same period were
1.4ss622 barrels, making an increase over
the 1907 figures Of almost 80 per cent.
Cotton Receipts Lower
oF for 6rs4 eix
months of the season beginning with Sep
tember /, s,214,s49 bales. we're about II per
cent below the corresponding figures of the
preceding season. 11,053,332 bales. though
1e05-6 figures. The United States census
office reports 11.261.1e3 bales of cotton
gnned for the present season compared with
13, 1905. 265 and 10,725,6o2 bales for the 1906
and 1905-6 seasons. The ratio between
sight receipts and the quantities ginned was
S1.S per cent for the current season as
against sal per cent for the 1867 season,
and 81.s per cent for the 1866 season.
American spinners' takings are given as
2.5s5,S $50 bales compared with 3.401.9S2 and
3.13O.532 bales for the corresponding months
Of the 1907 and 1905 seasons. OF the total
takngs. over So per cent are credited to
southern mills.
Anthracite coal shipments from eastern
producing territory for the month totaled
4503,756 gross tons compared with 4563,-
790 gross tons shipped during February
1907. Shipments during the first two
months of the year, 10,122,095 gross tons,
were over 5000 tons I'm excess OF the cor
responding 1907 figures.
Figures of coal and coke traffic during
February seven leading eastern roads
Including the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany's lines east of Pittsburg and Erie
the Baltimore g. Ohio and the New York
Central railroads S.121.6T0 tons, while about
20 per cent below like February, 1907,
figures show, however, a larger average
daily movement than during the preceding
month, 2s0,05S tons compared with 275,967
daily shipments of bituminous coal and coke.
the average daily February coke shipments
being about 10 per cent heavier than dur
ing the first month of the year.
The estimated coke production at Con-
nellsville, including the lower district during
the four weeks ending February 29, 1888
net tons. while 81 per cent below the cor
slightly larger weekly average than the
production for the first five weeks of the
year The weekly average of idle ovens
for the first nine weeks of the year. 19, 983,
continues larger than the number of active
ovens 1928.
Production Of anthracite and coke pig
iron during the month. 1.0T9,721 gross tons,
February. 1907. output. was, however, in
excess of the January total, the average
daily rate during February being 37.232
tons as compared with 3s.71s tons in Janu-
ary Increases as compared with January
totals are reported, among others for Pitts
burg, the Mahoning Valley and the central
and northern Ohio districts. also the works
located in the southern states.
Building Trade Lively
Activity in the building trade during the
month appears to have been iivelier than