Show ENGLAND SENSITIVE great britaina reply to the note of the dutch government offering friendly services toward ending alio war in bouth africa was such an answer as had been expected england mil not brook by foreigners in the with the boers and from an english standpoint that ia the aright thing 0 o do while british prestige ha already buffered because 0 the conflict the tolerating of outride offices though termed friendly would moro thanell else tend to lower the dignity of that nation arom A humanitarian point of view the refusal to accept tho proffered aar alces of peace makara h gunj but when an at i once on nothing but tho of war it acceptable to the nation r some day perhaps the powers will set ditc itc their differences by methods but all countries teach and laud the art of war cry patriotism the battle hero glicr proui pr sui ages war will continua to be a popular way of settling disputes io alio phase of the boer war engliski Engli sli pride is keenly sensitive to any be interpreted as foreign thing may intermeddling in the sanguinary struggle and rather alian submit to arbitration intervention we believe th bit ration cr english people would attempt to fight the combined armies and navies of continental tin europe tho december summary of domestic trade movements of staple commodities as made by the treasury bureau of statistics closes one of the most remarkable years in the history of the development of this country no accumulation of surplus products at interior centers their distribution toward alic seaboard and their withdrawal from domestic trade into the exploit movement are being subjected more completely to measurement year by year the summary of internal commerce issued by alie bureau of statistics slioma that there have been extraordinary tra ordinary gains in most staples and lows in a few but on the conspicuous gainsa over the preceding year the four leading spring wheat markets for the first five months received for instance bushels in contrast with bushels for alie corresponding sp period of the preceding year at four winter wheat markets alie receipts were bushels combar ati with bushels during six months of the crop year of 1900 alie winter wheat section has furnished aksa than half the quantity shipped in the first six month 01 1900 the combined arrivals at the four spring wheat and the four winter wheat markets however shiow a gain of bushels or per cent in 1001 taking minneapolis as the chief center of the production of flour it is shown that alie average output per during 1901 was barrels compared with barrels in 1900 and barrels in 1699 average weekly shipments for these respective years were barrels barrels and barrels average weekly shipments destined for export for these years were barrels barrels and barrels the decrease for 1901 being charged by the milling interests to tho relatively unfavorable rate on flour as compared with wheat taking alie five leading cereals as a basis of comparison the volume of trade at chicago h representative of the entire group of centers of accumulation of grain during 1901 this market is reported as receiving bushels while in 1900 the receipts were bushels a decrease of per cent shipments from that market show a decrease of per cent the trunk line movement of flour from chicago and chicago points eastward averaged oga barrels per week the grain shipments bushels per week and the provision traffic tons per week comparing the trunk line movement with the total shipments from chicago the trunk line movement amounts to 55 per cent of shipments from chicago the livestock trade of the interior was extraordinary in several tho feeding sections of the southwest owing jointly to the decrease in the corn yield and alie high prices for stock precipitated unusually large quantities of live stock especially hogs upon the packing markets in the last quarter of the calendar year the decline in average weights serves to measure the intensity of this influence upon commercial conditions at chicago the average weight of bogs fell from ibs in december 1900 to 20 2 ibs in december 1901 at omaha tho decline was from ibs to ibs and att st joseph from IDS 10 ibs the substitution of wheat for corn in the feeding sections has meanwhile been going on extensively throughout kansas and nebraska ahe nebraska grain dealers association estimating that ten mallm bushels of wheat in that state auit of a crop of fifty million bushels will be consumed for feeding purposes alone aa a actor in traffic operations tho live stock move mit has continued to expand at chicago carloads were in excess of 1000 aln there was 11 gain t cara tho civo western markets rc dived 7 cattle Ull hogs and sheep making a total of head or a gain of head over 1900 ot ano total chicago received head kansas city head head st louis head aind st joseph head on the burcat lakes the reports of the bureau of statistics cover hie entire years navigation tor the first time the operations reported include ports of receipt and points of shipment during the calendar year 1901 by reducing ane total freight to net tons the total quantity of commodities received during the past year amount cd to tons and the total amount to tons the combined total handled in the formoe both receipts and shipments amounting to tons tho tonnage passing through atie sault ste maric canal was net tons compared with tons for the season p 1000 being a gain of tons ar 11 per cent at ahe north atlantic seaports jacho receipts of staple commodities from the inferior fell somewhat short of the mark reached in at boston ew york philadelphia and baltimore was an aggregate of 2008 bushels or 12 per cent compared with 1900 this figure in some cases includes hour and meal reduced to bushels ahe receipts of coal at boston during the year were tons mostly by vessel in territory the cotton brought in 10 sight by the end of tho calendar year was bales the port receipts were alio largest in four years ahe overland shipments were the lowest and southern Sout mill takings were the largest in the history of the trade the first quarter of the crop year shows nat the atlantic states have regained their primacy as geographical sources of cotton production thirty eight per cent of alio receipts have come from their territory 32 per cent from what is known as texan territory and 30 per cent from the gulf states the years shipments of pig iron iron pipe and steel from southern producing districts reached a grand total of tons on the pacific coast the redwood lumber shipments from upper california during 1001 amounted to feet and feet for 1900 another lumber movement on this coast of prime importance is eliat from washington out of which state cars were in 1901 and cars in 1900 the fc hingle shipments were cars in 1901 and cars in 1900 from portland and tacoma last years lumber and shingle shipments by rail considerably exceeded those of tho preceding year shipments of flour from the upper pacific coast from july 3 to december 28 reached a total of barrels portland sending barrels seattle and tacoma barrels for eight months ending december 1001 the shipments from tacoma foreign and coastwise amounted to in value of which 33 per cent or one third wera coastwise shipments in the coal trade the put which readied tons was the largest in the lii story of this industry the gains on alio pennsylvania companas comp anys lines east of pittsburg and erie amounting to nearly a million tons were made in anthracite and coke traffic alone the chesapeake and ohio Il ailway companas comp anys coal tonnage for five months ending november 1901 was tons of which tons reached tidewater for a like period in 1900 the shipments were tons of which tons reached tidewater the coke for 1901 over this line show an increase of 38 per cent over alio tonnage of 1900 the norfolk and western coal and coke tonnage for tho first eleven months of 1901 were tons compared with tons in 1900 the southern railway excluding alto st louis division handled tona during five montha ending november the con wellsville nellsville nells ville coke region produced tons in 1901 with tons in 1900 it took more cars every week of the year 1001 to move the output titan in 1000 the average weekly shipments of 1001 were cars those of 1000 were cars |