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MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WASHINGTON
SURVEY OF
CURRENT BUSINESS
COMPILED BY
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS :
BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE
No. 23
: BUREAU OF STANDARDS
JULY
1923
CONTENTS
Pag«.
Page.
Summary for May
Business indicators (diagrams and table)
Wholesale price comparisons (diagram and table)
Comparison of wholesale price index numbers (diagram)
Business conditions in May
Employment in basic industries (diagrams)
Index numbers of production and marketing
Trend of business movements:
Summary of business
Textiles
Metals
Fuel and power
Paper and printing
Rubber and automobiles
Glass and optical goods
Building and construction
Hides and leather
Chemicals, naval stores, and oils
Foodstuffs
1
2
4
6
7
19
21
23
24
25
27
28
29
29
29
32
33
34
Trend of business movements—Continued.
Tobacco
Transportation
Labor
Price index numbers
Distribution movement
Public
finance
Banking and
finance
Foreign exchange and trade
Trade and industry of foreign countries
Monthly data since 1913
Detailed tables:
Cotton
Public utilities
Miscellaneous
World crop production
Imports into the United States
Exports from the United States
Sources of data
37
37
38
38
39
40
40
42
43
45
,..
46
48
50
52
54
55
57
SUMMARY FOR MAY.
Production of commodities continued at the level
attained in March and generally exceeded the ApriJ
output. Several important industries, such as pig
iron, steel ingots, petroleum, and automobiles, again
made new high records. The large production did
not have any appreciable effect upon stocks on hand,
but unfilled orders and sales again declined.
The advance in wholesale prices, which was arrested
in April, turned into an unmistakable decline in May.
Retail food prices remained unchanged, but the cost
of living index advanced over April.
Employment continued to increase in May, and
wages were reported as higher than in April.
53850—23
1
Distribution through wholesale channels was larger
than in April. Retail sales in mail-order houses made
a seasonal decline, but chain-store and departmentstore trade was larger than in April. Bank clearings
and debits to individual accounts also reflected
increased trade. Business failures increased in number, but total liabilities declined. Life insurance
sales were less than in April, and security prices
declined.
The transportation situation shows a surplus of
idle cars in place of the previous shortage, while
car loadings again made a record for this season of
the year.
BUSINESS INDICATORS.
(1913 monthly average=100. See explanation on inside front cover.)
PIG IRON PRODUCTION.
1020
1921
COTTON CONSUMPTION.
BITUMINOUS COAL PRODUCTION.
1992
1.000
900
60C
600
B
400
A
100
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INDEX
^V
40
20
10
10
BANK CLEARINGS OUTSIDE NEW
YORK CITY (VALUES).
EXPORTS (VALUES).
NET FREIGHT TON-MILES.
1920
1922
I92S
800
non
600
400
400
X NUMBERS
V
1
200
\J ^—> y^_
100
90
5 eo
60
40
40
20
10
DEFAULTED LIABILITIES (VALUES).
D
—
600
PRICES OF 25 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
1921
1.000,
1922
I«B
900
600
600
•
100
80
60
40
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8 8
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300
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BO
40
30
20
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BUSINESS INDICATORS.
The following table gives comparative index numbers for a selected list of important business movements. It is believed that this
table will prove useful, because it separates out from the large mass of material a comparatively small number of items which are often
regarded as indicative of business in general.
The table has been divided into two parts, the first containing those items for which index numbers can be calculated, using 1913 as
a base. The second part contains items for which comparable data back to 1913 are not available. This latter group of index numbers
is calculated by letting the 1919 monthly average equal 100. Care should therefore be exercised in comparing the absolute value of the
two sets of data. In either group, however, the upward or downward trend of the index numbers, compared to previous months, does
reflect the present tendency in each item and will give a basis for business judgment.
1922
MONTHLY AVERAGE.
1923
COMMODITY.
1920
1921 ! 1922 Apr.
May. ; June, j July, j Aug. Sept.
Oct. Nov. j Dec.
Jan. Feb. j Mar.
Apr.
May
1913 monthly average =100.
Production:
;
Pig iron •
Steel ingots
!
Copper
Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal
j
j
Crude petroleum
Cotton (consumption) * <
I
Beef
!
Pork
j
Unfilled orders:
Steel Corporation
Stocks:
Crude petroleum
Cotton (mills and warehouses) *«. J
Prices:
j
Wholesale index, all commodities
(Dept. Labor)
Retail food (Dept. Labor)
Retail coal, bitum.—U. S. average
(Dept. Labor)
Farm crops (Dept. Agriculture)l...
Farm live stock (Dept Agriculture).
Business finances:
Defaulted liabilities
Price 25 industrial stocks *
Price 25 railroad stocks *
Banking:
Bank clearings, New York City
Bank clearings, outside N. Y. City..
Commercial paper interest rate
Distribution:
Imports (value)
Exports (value)
Sales, mail-order houses
Transportation:
Freight, net ton-miles
119
135
99
97
116
178
111
121
111
54
64
39
99
87
189
85
109
116
87
114
81
58
85
222
102
121
129
81
115
75
90
128
90
40
216
92
106
105
51
224
103
124
133
92
124
93
1
56
220
106
125
149
170
90
96
86
89
95
98
101
113
109
150
152
183
234
161
225
151
235
128
244
103
249
87
250
83
251
138
253
184
252
191
252
193
226
203
147
153
149
142
143
139
148
139
150
141
155
142
155
139
153
140
154
140
156
145
156
147
156
144
157
142
159
142
159
143
156
143
207
238
168
197
109
107
188
113
111
177
115
115
175
118
118
175
119
119
175
118
119
184
114
112
205
110
109
205
110
110
208
118
105
207
123
104
206
126
106
205 ; 203
134
130
106
107
192
139
107
186
140
105
108
184
67
230
136
64
229
169
75
322
163
74
195
166
76
168
166
74
176
170
77
177
178
82
162
184
83
152
191
83
177
182
76
256
187
74
217
190
74
179 | 213
198
199
78
79
227
195
76
181
186
73
257
275
127
205
212
113
230
229
76
238
213
79
244
228
74
255
234
70
233
223
65
215
225
68
219
234
72
249
266
76
220
245
76
240
258
80
251
289
80
213
230
80
251
271
87
228
261
89
244
271
89
294
331
264
140
181
188
174
154
204
145
154
196
169 i 174 169
149 j 162 145
194 | 174 154
188
146
157
200
151
190
185
179
268
195
184
277
196
166
287
221
162
243
203
148
232
266
165
290
244
157
272
248
154
260
137
105
114
90
102 | 106
i
111
125
144
139 i 132 138 | 119 144
i
,
I
140
94 \ 71 79
117 | 104 112
92 | 98 95
65
2
43
56
103
225
225
219
95
109
103
119
127
131
117
109
101
99
103
135
101
112
113
231
111
141
113
111
136
101
112
114
230
120
134
146
121
131
103
111
117
242
109
124
183
126
153
110
114
126
249
127
125
188
117
138
101
102
106
234
118
107
156
138
160
120
117
117
271
129
117
177
139
156
116
106
107
281
120
119
153
151
167
122
112
116
299
129
117 i 116 114
117
123
125
123
118
6 241 6 243 6 247 •252
142
124
176 156
6 260
103
1919 m o n t h l y average=100.
Production:
Lumber«
100
Building contracts (floor space)
72
Stocks:
Beef
70
Pork
97
Business finances:
Bond prices index (40 issues)
86
Banking:
Debits to individual accounts, outside New York City
114
Federal Reserve, bills discounted... 132
Federal Reserve, total reserves
! 97
Federal Reserve, ratio
87
85
69
114
102
107
125
126
128
132
130
122
111
129
116
124
95
123
100
124
101
96
83
109
83
99
89
131
139
130
138
135
129
43
85
27
70
27
76
24
83
21
94
20
91
20
81
22
67
28
47
40
50
48
68
48
82
42
92
38
102
33
112
27
109
87
107
107
108 I 108 109
111
112
110
107
107 107
106
91
91
122
122
97
28
144
154
94
30
143
156
92
29
143
155
90
21
146
158
94
22
146
156
105
24
147
155
98
34
146
152
98
24
144
154
93
20
145
158
112 I 1 1 2 96
31
33
31
147
146
144
153
152
144
104 j 103
112 i 107
36 | 33
145
145
153
150
116
38
146
152
* Monthly statistics on the movements since January, 1913, or as far back as availablo, are given on pages 47-49 of the December Survey (No. 16).
i Monthly prices are for the 15th of the month indicated.
»Based on the total computed production reported by 5 associations. Includes southern pine, Douglas fir, western pine, North Carolina pine, and Michigan hard
and soft woods. The total production of these associations in 1919 was equal to 11,190,000,000 board feet, compared with a total lumber production for the country of
34,552,000,000 board feet reported by the census.
" Less than 1.
* Yearly figures are monthly averages for the crop year ending July 31 of year indicated.
* Does not include stocks of topped oil or crude oil held at refineries; this omission reduced the January stocks by about 15,000,000 barrels.
COMPARISON OF PRESENT WHOLESALE PRICES WITH PEAK AND PRE-WAR.
(Relative prices 1913-100.)
INDEX NUMBERS
300
400
500
600
WHEAT
CORN
POTATOES
COTTON
COTTON SEED
WOOL
CATTLE. BEEF
HOGS
LAMBS
WHEAT. SPRING
WHEAT. WINTER
CORN. NO. 2
OATS
BARLEY
RYE.
NO. 2
TOBACCO.BURLEY
COTTON. M I D D L I N G
WOOL. OHIO. UNWASHED
CATTLE. STEERS
HOGS. HEAVY
SHEEP. EWES
SHEEP. LAMBS
FLOUR. SPRING
FLOUR. W I N T E R
SUGAR. RAW
SUGAR. GRANULATED
COTTONSEED OIL
BEEF. CARCASS
BEEF. STEER. ROUNDS
PORK. LOINS
COTTON YARN
COTTON. PRINT CLOTH
COTTON. SHEETING
WORSTED YARN
WOMEN'S DRESS GOODS
SUITINGS
SILK. RAW
HIDES. PACKERS
HIDES. CALFSKINS
LEATHER.SOLE
LEATHER. CHROME
BOOTS AND SHOES (BOSTON)
COAL. BITUMINOUS
COAL. ANTHRACITE
COKE
PETROLEUM
PIG IRON. FOUNDRY
PIG IRON. BASIC
STEEL BILLETS. BESSEMER
COPPER
LEAD
• E Z Z 3 PEAK PRICE
PRICE IN MAY 1923
TIN
ZINC
LUMBER. PINE. SOUTHERN
LUMBER. DOUGLAS FIR
BRICK. COMMON. NEW YORK
BRICK. COMMON. CHICAGO!
CEMENT
STEEL BEAMS
V
RUBBER. CRUDE
SULPHURIC ACID
•
DECEMBER
WHOLESALE PRICE COMPARISONS—MAXIMUM PRICE COMPARED TO PRICE IN RECENT MONTHS.
NOTE—Prices to the producer on farm products are from U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economies. All other prices are from V. S.
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, except market price of wool compiled by U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. As far as possible all quotalions represent prices to the producer or at the mill. See diagram on opposite page.
COMMODITIES.
Date and m a x i m u m
relative price.
March,
1923.
April,
1923.
May,
1923.
Relative price.
; crease (—)
in April
from May.
(1913 average-100.)
F a r m products—Average price to p r o d u c e r s :
Wheat
Corn
Potatoes
,
Cotton
Cottonseed
Wool
Cattle,beef
Hogs
Lambs
F a r m products—Market price:
Wheat, No. 1, northern, spring (Chicago)
Wheat, No. 2, red, winter (Chicago)
Corn, contract grades, No. 2, cash (Chicago)
Oats, contract grades, cash (Chicago)
Barley, fair to good, malting (Chicago)
Rye, No. 2, cash (Chicago)
Tobacco, burley, good leaf, dark red (Louisville)
Cotton, middling upland (New York)
Wool, unwashed, fine (Ohio).
Cattle, steers, good to choice, corn fed (Chicago)
Hogs, heavy (Chicago)
Sheep, ewes (Chicago)
Sheep, lambs (Chicago)
Food:
,
Flour, standard patents (Minneapolis)
Flour, winter straights (Kansas City)
I
Sugar, 96° centrifugal (New York)
Sugar, granulated, in barrels (New York)
j
Cottonseed oil, prime summer yellow (New York)
'
Beef, fresh carcass good native steers (Chicago)
!
Beef, fresh steer rounds No. 2 (Chicago)
i
Pork, loins, fresh (Chicago)
Clothing:
Cotton yarns, carded, white, northern, mule spun, 22-1 cones (Boston)
Cotton, print cloth, 27 inches, 64 x 60-7.60 yards to pound (Boston)
l
Cotton, sheeting, brown, 4/4 Ware Shoals L. L. (New York)
Worsted yarns: 2/32's crossbred stock, white, in skein (Boston)
Women's dress goods, storm serge, all-wool, double warp, 50 inches (New York)
Suitings, wool, dyed blue, 55-56 inches, 16-ounce Middlesex (New York)
;
Silk, raw Japanese, Kansai No. 1 (New York)
Hides, green salted, packer's, heavy native steers (Chicago)
Hides, calfskins, No. 1, country, 8 to 15 pounds (Chicago)
Boots and shoes, men's black calf, blucher (Massachusetts)
Boots and shoes, men's dress welt tan calf (St. Louis)
j
Fuels:
j
Coal, bituminous, Pittsburgh, mine run—Kanawha (Cincinnati)
Coal, anthracite, chestnut (New York tidewater)
|
Coke, Connellsville (range of prompt and future) furnace—at ovens
Petroleum, crude, Kansas-Oklahoma—at wells
Metals:
i
Pig iron, foundry No. 2, northern (Pittsburgh)
Pig iron, basic, valley furnace
Steel billets, Bessemer (Pittsburgh)
Copper ingots, electrolytic, early delivery (New York)
Lead, pig, desilvered, for early delivery (New York)
Tin, pig, for early delivery (New York)
Zinc, slab, western, early delivery (New York)
Building materials and miscellaneous:
Lumber, pine, southern, yellow flooring, 1 x 4, " B " and better (Hattiesburg district)
Lumber, Douglas fir, No. 1, common, s 1 s, 1 x 8 x 10 (State of Washington)
Brick, common red, domestic building (New York)
Brick, common building, salmon, run of kiln (Chicago)
Cement, Portland, net without bags to trade, f. o. b. plant (Chicago district)
Steel beams, mill (Pittsburgh)
Rubber, Para Island, fine (New York)
Sulphuric acid, 66* (New York)
•
June, 1920
326
133
135
135
July,
1920
300
120
123
138
June,
July,
May,
July,
May,
July,
Apr.,
1920
1920
1920
1918
1919
1919
1920
706
312
321
344
183
256
239
May, 1920
May, 1920
Sept., 1917 ;
June, 1920
Mar., 1918
Mar., 1918
Mar., 1919
Apr., 1920
Mar., 1920
Mar., 1919
July, 1919
Apr., 1918
Feb., 1920
354
302
331
296
325
451
352
331
350
218
266
319
263
May,
May,
May,
May,
July,
Sept.,
July,
Sept.,
328
363
598
526
374
201
211
254
1920
1917
1920
1920
1919
1920
1920
1919
May, 1920
Apr., 1920
May, 1920
Jan., 1920
Oct., 1918
July, 1920 ,
Jan., 1920 i
Aug. 1919 |
Aug., 1919
Mar., 1920
Aug., 1919
348
478
427
289
292
291
466
283
490
308
292
Sept., 1922
Oct., 1921
Aug., 1920
Mar., 1920
I Percent
I increase
-j (+)orde-
107
123
128
231
237
213
207
213
214
211
223
250
98
94
95
102
100
95
178
180
180
136
133
131
138
134
131
118
118
130
122
123
120
107
106
108
136
130
122
208
208
208
226
240
216
236
232
236
110
109
112
94
98
89
143
153
132
188
183
169
146
145
147
145
146
148
176
208
227
171
201
220
150
163
162
114
112
112
105
111
112
105
100
130
2.9
3.0
5.9
4.9
1.8
6.4
0.0
4.0
2.9
4.4
2.2
2.4
3.2
0.9
9.0
0.0
4.4
1.7
5.7
6.3
18.0
0.6
3.3
0.7
1.8
2.3
0.0
0.0
0.9
26.2
198
203
190
232
238
212
206
208
202
225
225
232
176
184
184
227
227
239
241
237
232
108
105
101
88
88
90
210
209
209
153
153
153
336
201
637
375
222
222
200
292
300
185
198
200
200
211
163
-
200
-
9.1
0.0
18.5
16.4
July, 1917
Sept., 1920
July, 1917
Mar., 1917
June, 1917
May, 1918
June, 1915
346
330
388
230
261
224
386
183
202
200
179
205
197
154
172
173
98
108
99
185
193
168
94
109
95
130
141
121
-
2.4
6.6
1.1
8.3
10.6
7.8
9.0
Feb., 1920
Jan., 1920
Feb., 1920
Oct., 1920
Sept., 1920
June, 1917
Jan., 1913
Feb., 1916
455
407
381
251
195
331
124
250
221
230
224
-
212
236
236
305
305
305
175
178
178
173
173
173
139
146
172
38
36
31
70
70
75
3.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
8.8
5.6
+
+
+
4-
5.0
7.4
3.8
3.1
0.0
5.3
9.1
1.0
2.3
0.0
0.0
COMPARISONS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FOOD PRICE INDEX NUMBERS
WITH INDEX OF ALL COMMODITIES AT WHOLESALE.
(U. S. Department of Labor index numbers. Relative prices 1913=»100.)
1918
1917
1918
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BUSINESS CONDITIONS IN MAY.
The following pages contain a review by principal
industries of the more important statistics shown in
the table on the "Trend of Business Movements"
(page 23). Summaries of production, stocks, sales
and price changes are given also.
COURSE OF PRODUCTION SINCE
RELATIVE PRODUCTION (1919=100).
1923
1922
Maxi- Minimum
1920 ; 1921 j 1922
since
end end aver- aver-1 average. I age. I age. Apr. May. Apr. |May.
of
of
1919. I 1919.
PRODUCTION.
May production in general exceeded April. The
index number of mineral production based on 1919 as
100 rose to over 140, a mark not exceeded since the
end of the war. Animal products came to market at
a greater rate than in May, 1922, with a seasonal
increase over April, while crops were marketed in
smaller quantities than a year ago. Manufacturing
production in May increased over April and was
slightly higher than the March record.
Taking up the individual commodities, there were
40 increases over April, and 11 decreases in production.
New high records were made in the output of crude
petroleum, pig iron, steel ingots, cement, passenger
automobiles, and motor trucks, while high marks
since 1919 were made by silver, redwood lumber, oak
flooring, mechanical wood pulp and newsprint and
book paper, and copper production was the highest
since the present monthly statistics became available
in 1921.
Compared with a year ago, May production figures
showed 42 increases and 9 decreases among the commodities reported on a 1919 base.
RELATION
OF
PRODUCTION,
STOCKS,
AND
UNFILLED
ORDERS.
(Relative monthly average 1920= 100.)
1922
Feb.
1923
Mar. Apr. May.
1
Feb. Mar. Apr. May.
1
1
Stocks
117.8 116 7 109.0 98.7 102 8 102. 5i 95.7 94.0
88.1 99.9 100.8 114.2 109.3 116.9
Production (manufactured)... 81.8 93.
Unfilled orders
41.1 47. 2° 57.6 63.0 93.2 100.5
94. «j 87.4
COMBINED PRODUCTION I N D E X N U M B E R S . 1
Manufacturing (total).. 126., 7
Manufacturing (62 identical commodities)... 122.7
Raw materials, t o t a l . . . 153.4
Minerals
131.7
Animal p r o d u c t s . . . 119,6
Crops
194,6
Forestry
; 127,9
1
81.2|
!
74.0:1 100. 80.9
72.9 98.5 102.8
62.5 113.9 93.3j
79.7 95.4 97.5
49.1;
93.9 112.1
60.61 • 101.6 85.5
102.2
97.8
108.0
99.0;
106.3:
112.6:
109.9i
Apr. May.
1923. 1923.
92.7 106.8j 123. lj 132.2
88.6 100.5 110.0\ 117.6
74.1 95.5 90.5| 97.1
62.5 72.7! 121.1 140.8
106.9 119.6! 111.4 127.3
54.5 86.31 61.0i 55.0
101.7 122. l! 120.4 133.0
For details of individual commodities, see pages 21 and 22.
|
Wheat
flour
Beef products
Pork products
Lamb and mutton
Sugar (meltings)
Oleomargarine
Cottonseed oil
Condensed milk
Butter
Cheese
Icecream
Cora products
j 125
109
152
110
178
126 i
j 203 I
121
201 |
169 !
468 i
135
CLOTHING:
Cotton (consumption) I 130
S l leather
Sole
l
t
h
| 95
1
Boots and shoes
113
82
64
67
58
58
40
26
4
20
64
41
41
38
94
92
107
79
130
51
71
66
129
85
115
103
71
80
88
67
164
47
22
69
116
74
92
78
73
95
111
76
178
44
12
94
178
109
161
87
81
90
127
86
150
62
37
103 ! 79
95
82 ! 80 ' 78
i 98
92
72
97
103
70
95
120
90
115;
92
93
80
104
103
91
76
99
86
111
93
57
63 1
186 J
91
83
97
94
92
60
99
71
121
86
110
90
Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal
Beehive coke
By-product coke
Crude petroleum
Gasoline
Kerosene
Gas and fuel
Lubricating oil
Electric power
121
137
127
3 155
197
191
116
154
I 135
1 145
()
41
11
3 62
112
98
71
93
89
101
122
110
122
117
123
99
146
124
113
103
91
30
79
124
130
83
127
104
105
I
I 42
I 113
146
I 157
I 98
! 140
I 116
122
41
33
106
142
143
97
125
103
111
53
27
121
147
156
89
147
113
118
119
121
94
105
100
54
57
37
47
95
113
99
77
81
98
121
81
103
72
67
88
101
91
115
86
72
90
115
110 I
110
112
153 I
184 ;
188 ;
93:
154 '
129 j
138
I
139
141
110
123 i
140 I
91
112
84
94
96
97
85
96 ! 101 78
91
99
97
104
101
90
106 j 125
96 i 103
99 115
104
67 ! 105 95
88 I 153 158
126
141
155
113
154
153
METALS:
Pig iron
Steel ingots
Copper
Zinc
Silver
Gold (receipts)
152
34
| 150
33 !
I s 116 3 17
127
38 !
.*.. 145
80 !
j 181
79
TOBACCO:
'
Cigars«
128 j 75
Cigarettes«
| 144
64
Manufactured tobacco^ 119 I 50
LUMBER:
Yellow pine
Western pine
!
North Caroline pine...
California white and
sugar pine
California redwood — '
Douglas fir
I
Michigan hardwoods.. \
Michigan softwoods...
Northern hardwoods.. |
Hemlock
i
Oak flooring
!
Maple
flooring
j
131
172
180
20
33
94
121
98
272
187
144
122
120
161
120
343
139
8
57
44
27
28
21
33
42
47
121
122
102
89
82
105
91
106
103
78
109
79
60 1
40
114
129
135
113
117
fi2 63
79
6S
90
81
57
82
78
197
123 226
83 1 114 94
126
174
124
69
87
95
90
217
100
100
131
144
62
49
140
82
304
114
156
138
121
135
128
150
135
123
55
64
69
93
64
77
65
53
109
117
110
105
121
120
119
113
87 102
79 102
89 105
104 : 120
79 107
94 120
111
105
138
102
113
123
108
124
109
105
128
109 !
102 i
138 i
123 ;
136 !
Ill
113
156
142
30
18
104
104
130
133
187
3
193
124
Baths, enamel
267
Lavatories, enamel... 235
Sinks, enamel
214
Buildings (contracted
for)
130
PAPER:
Mechanical wood pulp !
Chemical wood p u l p . .
Newsprint
i
Newspapers (printed). 1
Book paper
Wrapping paper
Paper board
Fine paper
Corrugated p a p e r
boxes*
Solid fiber paper boxes5
BUILDING EQUIPMENT:
146
63
IS
97 I...
FUELS:
Silica brick
Clay fire brick
Face brick
Cement
Glass bottles
jMaxi- Mini-
| miiTH mum 1920 1921 1922
since since aver- aver-! aver! end end of age. age. ; age.
1919. 1919. i
FOODSTUFFS:
STONE, CLAY, AND SAND
PRODUCTS:
(Relative monthly production 1919=100.)
1919.
122
93
98
124
92
106
101
117
119
115
159
197
152
150
116
124
145
112
126
170
129
1S7
81
343
120
156
114
121
131
12S
14S
123
123
65
117
109
109 i 113 156 ; 148
109
87 ; 111 ! 101
13
43
34
361
48
106
37
120 63
117 105
125 122
104 I 69
79
92
144
142
77
144
138
79
87
92
1S7
167
82
99
127
150
170
90
119
133
167
193
89
65
149 ! 120
112 127
1 1 0 I 122
209
195
172
226
222
181
237
235
210
241
200
186
254
226
193
72
69
102
125
128
138
129
114
«32
102
9 ; 89
67
2
93
46
50
30
141
77
143
85
9
10
168
90
31
6
30
TRANSPORT VEHICLES:
Automobiles, passenger
Motortrucks
Locomotives
Ships
254
162
135
79
1 Since November, 1921.
« Less than 1.
» Since Jan. 1,1921.
!
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249 254
142 162
97 107
4
11
4
A s represented b y tax-paid withdrawals.
* Relative to last 6 months of 1919.
• Since July 1,1923.
8
nent, there were 4 increases and 11 decreases, while
the other commodities showed 15 increases over April
and 10 decreases. Stocks of coffee declined to a new
low level since 1919, while petroleum stocks again
made a new high record, as did gasoline stocks for
April, the latest figure reported.
Compared with a year ago, the food commodities
show 8 increases and 7 decreases, while other stocks
made increases in 8 cases and declined in 17 instances.
COMPARISON OP MAY PRODUCTION WITH P R E -
(Average monthly production 1913=100.)
INDEX NUMBERS
300
400
WHEAT FLOUR
BEEF PRODUCTS
PORK PRODUCTS
LAMB AND MUTTON
OLEOMARGARINE
STOCKS OF COMMODITIES SINCE 1919.
ANTHRACITE COAL
(Taken at end of each month.)
BITUMINOUS COAL
BEEHIVE COKE
RELATIVE STOCKS (1919=100).
BY-PRODUCT COKE
s.
CRUDE PETROLEUM
PIG IRON
STEEL-INGOT8
^^
1922
1923
Maxi-i Mini- 1920 1921 1922
mum | mum aver- aver- aversince I since
age. age.
1919. ! 1919.
Apr. May Apr. May
I
i
COPPER
FOODSTUFFS.
ZINC
Beef products
Pork products
Lamb and mutton
Sugar (raw)
Cottonseed oil
Wheat (visible)
Wheat flour
Corn (visible)
Oats (visible)
Butter
Cheese
Eggs
Poultry
Fish2
Coffee
Apples
Rice (domestic)
SILVER
GOLD
CIGARS
<Q MATERIALS AND EQU
OAK FLOORING
CEMENT
BATHS < ENAMEL)
i
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j
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1,
20
38 (
25 j
44 I
8!
28
54
108
16
5I
28
0) !
30 I
17
71
0;
50
!
|
i
|
70
97
183
1.10
110
89
95
174
69
43
85
324
157
107
93
76
622
211
81
99 I 79
82 | 101
70
72
73 ! 72
146
145
181
166
159
159
27
27
70
76
41
25
332
437
33
59
123
120
77
60
769 1,147
210
250
79
6
80
28
114
125
76
82
28
57
89
98
54
172
154
165
24
83
27
285
25
92
58
905
215
20
40
197
58
28
99
18
120
33
112
69
343
39
161
79
711
98
5
36
91
112
17
89
62
194
76
27
109
54
331
29
103
"250
61
15
45
193
86
20
71
16
CLOTHING MATERIALS. !
yyyy/,?™y/yy/.
SINKS(ENAMEL)
|
r
Cotton (total)
yAyy,wywy%v%y/
FUELS.
LOCOMOTIVES
Crude petroleum
Gasoline
Kerosene
Gas and fuel oil
Lubricating oil
136
:
51
91
111
102
92
82
101
104
61
98
85 i 126
75
89
81
85
145
134
134
151
143
223
168
100
172
143
214
189
108
167
147
225
181
106
172
140
66
!
248
283 I
j 153 j
!
178!
162 j
241
248
283
281
91 " 91
165
162
145 ! 140
STOCKS.
There was little change in stocks of commodities in
May except seasonal variations. Among the food
commodities, where the seasonal factor is most promi(Taken at the end of each month.)
RELATIVE STOCKS (1913=100).
Wheat (visible)
Corn (visible)
Oats (visible)
Coffee
Cotton (total)
Crude petroleum
Pig iron (merchant) 1 ...
Zinc
Tin
Oak
flooring
Cement 2
Tobacco
Flaxseed
» Relative to 1914,
127
71
89
89
150
109
38
99
183
258 j
80 j
114 |
33 i
134 i
256 :
270
89
183 !
152 !
84 ;
196 i
127
375 :
91
131;
74
177
315
268
60
161
234
48
89
134
256
87
130
10
1922
173
470
327
55
151
225
59
127
1923
May.
Apr.
j
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!
|
148 I
296 !
129
3 145
132
371
275
55
128
235
44
99
104
261
115
2 Relative to stocks at end of 1913.
Apr.
231
291
126
55
124
252
35
22
194
264
102
3 150
1
3 Apr. 1.
146 I 31
132 !
69 ! 55 i 71
60
24
108 ] 213 i
138 108 ! 24 I 35
247
528 i 122 332 j 232 i 224 ! 269 189 I 352 309
CONSTRUCTION
MATERIALS.
Yellow pine
Michigan hardwoods..
Michigan softwoods...
Oak flooring
Maple flooring
Silica brick
Face brick
Cement^
Baths (enamel)
Lavatories (enamel). .
Sinks (enamel)
Rosin «
Turpentine *
STOCKS OF COMMODITIES COMPARED WITH P R E - W A R .
1922
1920 1921
aver- ! averaverage, i age.
Pig iron (merchant)
Zinc
Tin
3
127
72
105
161
103
103
157
170
50
31
53
104
!
|
j
i
!
|
!
j
129
98
141
234
199
100
182
193
179
I 78
! 89
157
149
126
74
98
159
180
92
178
185
98
55
73
151
80
124
76
94
184
217
87
199
275
143
75
107
127
36
119
113 I 108
77 i 59 i 61
92 ; 81 I 7S
165 I 186
163
196 ! 123 124
101 i 101
91
192 179
188
245 218 192
78
81
113
28
36
56
38
40
82
105
101
126
49 i 59
15
95
121
112
114
104
99
104
118
125
128
97
58
119
103
92
104 ! 79
125 , 117
130
79
121
96
100
PAPER.
May.
148
102
78
55
103
260
45
32
170
298
90
102
59
80
59
55
81
123
79
29
21
34
1 8 3 •• 41
215 I 13
143
108
152
277
222
115
216 I
276 li
301
95
122' |!
Mechanical wood pulp..
Chemical wood pulp
Newsprint (at mills)
Book paper
Wrapping paper
Paper board
Fine paper
OTHER AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTS.
Tobacco (total)
Flaxseed
1
2
143 '
138
175 i
131 lj
130
132 !
112
39
64
71
66
36
70
74
78
63
97
75
48
79
79
: 108
99
i 125
: 115
101
, 117
101
82
92
87
128
80
103
111
!
134 • 92
102 I 117 116 ^ 129
10 i 550 ; 1,242 167 ! 127
1,578
83
5 134
10
Index number less than 1.
* Relative to season beginning Apr. 1,1919.
On 15th of month.
& April 1.
« Relative to stocks at end of 1919.
SALES.
PRICES.
A further decline was noted in sales during May,
A further advance in crop prices to farmers was
with redwood lumber alone among the manufacturers * reported in May, but live-stock prices declined.
goods showing an increase among the indicators on a Wholesale prices made the first decline since last
1919 base. Sales by manufacturers also declined summer. All groups in the wholesale index declined
from May, 1922, in all cases except clay fire brick and except food and house furnishings, which were unoptical goods.
changed from April; while fuels made the greatest
The distribution of goods through retail trade decrease. The regrouping by the Federal Reserve
showed a decline for mail-order houses, but chain- Board of the Department of Labor index shows a
store sales increased, and both classes of stores showed decline in all classes, while the index for international
a considerable gain over the corresponding month comparison declined also. Dun's and Bradstreet's
last year. Postal receipts and newspaper advertising index numbers both declined.
increased in May, while magazine advertising declined.
The retail food index remained unchanged, while the
All of these services made increases over May, 1922. cost of living index of the National Industrial ConSales of stocks and bonds increased in May, while ference Board increased owing to advances in clothing
life insurance sales declined slightly. On the other and shelter. Foreign wholesale prices in general
hand, in comparison with May, 1922, sales of stocks declined slightly.
and bonds declined, while life insurance sales were
Taking up the individual prices shown in the table
higher.
and chart on pages 4 and 5, increases are noted in the
The index of unfilled orders again declined, standing prices to farmers for corn, wool, and lambs. Other farm
at 87.4 on May 31 based on the 1920 average as 100, prices declined, except that for cattle, which was unas against the recent high mark of 100.5.
changed. Market prices of farm products increased
for corn, barley, wool, cattle, and lambs; while wheat,
COMPARISON OF SALES IN DIFFERENT LINES OF BUSINESS.
oats, rye, hogs, and ewes declined. Among the foods,
flour
declined, and meats and sugar rose. Among the
RELATIVE SALES (1919=100).
clothing materials declines were general except for
1922
1928
increases in worsted yarns, suitings, and calfskins,
Maxi- Minimum 1920 1921 1922
while
boots and shoes were unchanged. All fuels
aversince since average.
end of end of age.
May.
Apr.
Apr.
I
May.
except
anthracite declined in price, and declines were
1919. 1919.
general throughout the metals group. Building
INDIVIDUAL
materials showed little change except for a lower
COMMODITIES.
quotation on southern pine lumber. The greatest
Pig iron (merchant)
351
186
97
91
52
14
34
85
30
333
Freight cars
2,125
8
92 I 750 1,575 913 490 110
increases
over April were made by pork, with 26 per
182 169 169 121
104
69 134
Structural steel
199
28
154 215 144 107
53
59 129
Baths, enamel
215
12
cent,
and
wool suitings, sulphuric acid, cattle, and the
188 262 186 133
73
77 156
Lavatories, enamel
262
27
160 222 151 118
65
73 139
Sinks, enamel
\ 222
25
farm
price
of wool, all of which increased slightly
34
43 125
Sanitary pottery
205
7
81
95
54 119 201
Oak
flooring
336
254 260 215 192
23
more
than
5
per cent. The greatest declines occurred
36
63
Maple
flooring
135
84
98 130
17
77
57
77
74 120
Redwood lumber
167
106 158 109 139
21
in
coke,
petroleum,
ewes, and lead—all over 10 per
120
45 j 95
Clay fire brick
j 193
33
89 ' 99 130 103
98
42 I
Leather belting
I 129
35
53
70
55
cent.
Abrasive paper and j
cloth
Fine cotton goods
Paper. 1
Printing
Optical goods »
DISTRIBUTION
MOVEMENT.
151
j 129
i 147
! 168
!
147
40
5
71
106
47
65 105
81 i 81
89 121
121 119
73
91
104
61
106
111
99
102
118
87
71
124
95
77
141
113
123
120
113
147
106
109
122
108
78
164
48
41
87
152
*H9
74
135
73 \ 103
130 1 143
98
155
124
163
111
121
163
102
122 ! 133
163 ! 178
113 ; 116
135
110
91
113
85
97
87 !
108 130
122
114
78
103
108
97
117
87 j 120
116 ! 130
72
105
100
120
55
94
184
102
83
111
163
114
117
145
230
119
Ill
122
I
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Wholesalers 2
Mail-order houses'
Chain stores 1
Postal receipts l
Telephone receipts
1
Telegraph tolls 1
Railroad revenues:
Passenger *
Freight^
Advertising:
Magazine
Newspaper.
114
| 136
: 280
95
114
159
180
126
135
162
144
130
SECURITIES.
Stocks
Bonds
Municipal bonds
(new)1.
Life insurance 1
1
111
26
127
148
114
117
178
489
156
85
V
Items based on value.
- Relative proportion of orders to total transactions.
53850—23
2
121
111
131
87
86
156
151
TEXTILES.
Wool receipts at Boston were slightly less in May
than in April, although domestic wools were received
in larger quantities. Wool receipts were much
greater than a year ago owing to the large receipts of
foreign wool, as domestic grades showed a decline.
Wool consumption increased to 59,682,000 pounds.
Machinery activity in the woolen industry declined,
except looms, which were more active than in April.
Prices of woolens advanced slightly, except dress
goods, which were unchanged.
Cotton consumption of 620,965 bales in May almost
equaled the March high record. Stocks at mills were
slightly higher at the end of May than a year ago, but
warehouse stocks were almost 1,000,000 bales smaller.
Imports of cotton declined in May, and exports were
the smallest since August, 1920. Exports of cotton
COMPARISON OF WHOLESALE PRICES BY GROUPS.
(•'. S. Department of Labor index numbers. Relative prices 1913=100.)
1916
J
M
M
J
1918
1917
S
N
J
M
M
J
S
N
J
M
M
J
1919
S
N
J
M
M
J
S
1920
N
J
M
M
J
1922
1921
S
N
J
M
M
J
S
N
J
M
M
1923
J
S
N
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300
280
260
240
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cloth also declined. Production of fine cotton goods
in the New Bedford district almost attained the high
record made in March, but sales again declined.
Slightly less spindles were active in May than in April,
but spindle activity, both total and per spindle, was
greater. Prices of cotton and its products declined
from May.
STOCKS OF COTTON: NUMBER OF DAY'S SUPPLY AT DAILY RATE
OF CONSUMPTION.
400
350
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EXPORTS AND CONSUMPTION OP COTTON.
/
300
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by the Bureau of the Census for 313 identical firms
representing 389 mills are as follows:
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Production:
All cotton
2,561,996 1,105,440
260,630
All nat. silk..... 944,141
AH others
1,103,448 1 379,162
Total
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Comparative figures compiled by the Bureau of the
Census show the number of garments cut for men's
and boys' ready-to-wear clothing in February, March,
and April, as reported by 335 identical establishments:
MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING.
NUMBER OF GARMENTS
CUT.
KIND.
February. March.
Men's suits, wholly or partly or wool
Men's suits, wholly or partly of mohair, cotton, silk,
linen, etc
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Vlen's separate trousers, wholly or partly of wool
Men's separate trousers, wholly or partly of mohair,
cotton silk, linen etc
Men's overcoats
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Boys' suits and separate uants (all grades)
Boys' overcoats and reefers (all grades)
April.
March.
Total.
Men's.
665,831
675,558
615,643
2,346,313
924,820
996,914
1,008,919
249,093
362,014
o93,S06
658,150
527,025
Women's.
4,26S,047 \ 1,620,026
1,77*,9S1
4,697.630 11,718,421 1.993,323 4,154,745 1,470,526
6,278,871 ! 2,070,7*3 2,791.999 6,25o, 129 ! 2,179,550
4, .560,757 11,648,935 2,014,371 4,114,394 1,393,656
50,591
182,973
264,570
57,113
171,3S6
1,780,674
2,820,259
l,96o,120
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10,902,679 4,638,378
4,412,150
4,619,585
1,745,232 1,957,032
10,729,516 4,382,017 4,015,615
The first report published by the Bureau of the
Census on shipments and unfilled orders of pyroxylin
coated textiles is given below, covering 12 manufacturers with a capacity of 2,174,333 yards.
PYROXYLIN COATED TEXTILES.
April.
871,130
963,400 ; 703,756
148,616
802,264
158,231 I 131,840
874,777 1 730,321
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460.440
155,417
195,381
649,795
744,650
33,S47
12,294
460,S37
119,323
635,0X7
17,733
Shipments
Stocks, end of mo.
Orders
Cancellations
Unfilled orders,
end of mouth...
Women's.
Pyroxylin spread
Shipments filled:
Light goods
Heavy goods
Unfilled orders, 1st of month:
Light goods
Heavy goods
March.
April.
pounds..
3,055,319 I
3,002,415
linear yards..
linear yards..
797,132 i
1,926,700 j
838,135
1,743,598
linear yards..
linear yards..
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3,003,568 !
865,501
2,216,755
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Silk imports increased in May, but apparent consumption declined over 35 per cent. Stocks of raw
silk increased slightly, and the price declined almost
10 per cent.
Imports of burlap increased 10 per cent over April,
but unmanufactured fibers were imported in slightly
less volume.
IRON AND STEEL.
Further increases occurred in the output of both
pig iron and steel ingots in May, both indicators making new high records. In the merchant pig iron field,
production and stocks increased considerably, shipments were about the same, but sales declined over
40 per cent, and unfilled orders were 24 per cent lower
than in April. Bookings of steel castings declined
slightly in May. Exports of iron and steel increased
slightly, imports declined somewhat, and unfilled
orders of the United States Steel Corporation again
fell off. Prices of iron and steel were slightly lower,
on the whole.
PRODUCTION OF PIG IRON AND STEEL INGOTS AND U. S. STEEL
CORPORATION'S UNFILLED ORDERS.
BOOKINGS OF FABRICATED STRUCTURAL STEEL.
Actual
tonnage
booked.
YEAR AND MONTH.
1922.
April
May
June
July
August
September..
October
November.,
December..
1923.
January..
February.
March
April
May
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of capacity.
Computed
total
bookings.
200,588
184,638
168,498
157,631
156,011
146,146
132,450
111,794
138,024
217,500
202,500
182,500
172,500
170,000
160,000
145,000
122,500
150,000
172,415
183,938
218,997
1184,884
2 130,929
187,500
200,000
237,500
202,500
145,000
Reported by 166 firms with a capacity of 228,455 tons.
Reported by 157 firms with a capacity of 225,790 tons.
Shipments of locomotives by manufacturers increased slightly in May in spite of a decline in foreign
shipments. Unfilled orders, on the other hand, declined, although foreign business increased. Orders
for freight cars were considerably less than for several
months past. Sales of stokers increased in May, but
the value of steel furniture shipments declined.
Tubular plumbing sales declined about 35 per cent
from April.
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production. Sales were about 32 per cent larger than
in April, but unfilled orders declined. Stocks increased
slightly, but unsold stocks declined.
Sales of fabricated structural steel declined to 58
per cent of capacity in May. The following figures
compiled by the Bureau of the Census show the total
tonnage booked each month by 175 firms with a
monthly capacity of 229,575 tons, and total sales
computed to a capacity of 250,000 tons per month at
the rate of sales to capacity of the reporting firms.
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NONFERROUS METALS.
Copper production for May rose to 124,785,000
pounds, the highest mark recorded since 1920. Exports of copper declined slightly, and the price of copper
was reduced.
Zinc production made a slight increase in May,
and stocks rose 45 per cent. Receipts at St. Louis
declined, but shipments increased. The price of slab
zinc declined.
Tin stocks declined slightly, with a reduction of 33
per cent in imports. The world visible supply was
about the same as in April, but apparent domestic
consumption decreased.
Receipts and shipments of lead at St. Louis declined from April and were only about half as large
as in May, 1922. The price of lead declined over 10
per cent.
FUELS.
Production of coal and coke increased in May.
The bituminous output at 46,076,000 short tons may
be compared with 42,564,000 short tons produced in
April, and the cumulative total for the first five months
of the year was 38 per cent greater than the corresponding total for 1922. Stocks of anthracite coal
on May 31 amounted to 568,000 long tons as against
1,930,000 at the end of May a year ago.
Exports of coal increased in May, while coke exports
declined. A total of 6,752,000 long tons of bituminous
coal were exported during the first five months of the
year as against 3,700,000 long tons during the same
period of last year. Anthracite exports during this
period were over 100 per cent greater than during
the first five months of 1922. With the exception of
anthracite coal at New York, the wholesale prices of
coal and coke declined in May.
PRODUCTION OF BEEHIVE AND BY-PRODUCT COKE.
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the output in May amounting to 61,962,000 barrels.
Stocks likewise continued to increase, reaching a total
of 273,157,000 barrels. The price of crude petroleum
declined rather sharply, and more oil wells were completed in May than in the preceding month.
PRODUCTION OF BITUMINOUS AND ANTHRACITE COAL.
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Gasoline production in April, according to latest
available figures, amounted to 619,043,000 gallons,
as against 472,920,000 gallons in April, 1922. Stocks
of gasoline continued to accumulate, and at 1,336,418,000 gallons the inventory on April 30 may be
compared with a total of 892,568,000 gallons at the
end of April last year. Consumption of gasoline
during the month totaled 474,188,000 gallons as
against 385,264,000 in April, 1922.
Production figures for kerosene, lubricating oil, and
gas and fuel oil were considerably larger than in April,
1922, while, with the exception of lubricating oil,
stocks at the end of the month were smaller than
those held on April 30 a year ago.
tions on passenger automobiles increased 95 per cent
in 1923 over the first five months of last year.
BUTTONS.
Reports furnished to the Department of Commerce
by the National Association of Button Manufacturers
show the following weekly comparisons regarding
stocks of finished fresh-water pearl buttons and
machinery activity by 17 companies representing 95.2
per cent of the machine capacity of the Association
members.a
BUTTON MANUFACTURING.
STOCK ON HAND
PAPER AND PRINTING.
PER CENT OF
MACHINE
ACTIVITY
(GROSS).
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13,832,294
12,100,792
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13,611,979
11,930,906
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tion for the first five months of 1923 amounted to
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11,976,769 '
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12,040,558
626,944 short tons, exceeding by 11 per cent the pro- February—
13 508 275
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11,997,520
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12,043,674
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total shipments during this period aggregated 625,365
12,108,272
13,564,760
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3
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11,909,903 i
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11,895,817
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13,373,501
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imports and exports of newsprint paper increased in
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50.2
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11,988,674
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12,082,463
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the year were 33 per cent greater, while exports for
48.5
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12,161,789
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this period were 40 per cent less, than the movements, May—
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12,390,540
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Based on reports from 16 firms.
pulp increased over the preceding month and May,
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.
1922.
New books published hy American book manufacThe cost of building continued to rise in May and
turers amounted to 596 titles as compared with 519 in averaged about 2 per cent greater than in April, and
April and 346 in May a year ago. The production for about 115 per cent above the pre-war average.
the first five months of 1923 was 17 per cent greater
The contracts awarded in May for building in 27
than for the same period of 1922.
northeastern States amounted to 60,430,000 square
feet, valued at $374,400,000. The dollar value of
AUTOMOBILES.
building contracts awarded during May was 5 per
The output of automobiles in May showed an in- cent greater than in the preceding month, while the
crease over the preceding month, and at 350,180 the
a The National Association of Button Manufacturers has entered into cooperative
May passenger-car production may be compared with arrangements with the Department of Commerce for the wider distribution of the
compiled and issued by that association. The statistics cover the quant it y
a total of 344,474 cars in April and 232,431 in May, statistics
and price of orders received, quantity of button stocks on hand, and machinery
1922. Truck production increased 14 per cent over activity weekly for fresh-water pearl buttons specified by kind and grade. Persons
April. A total of 1,492,648 passenger cars were desiring to obtain this service may either apply direct to the secretary of the association, 1182 Broadway, New York City, or, if they prefer, may send their names to
produced in the first five months of this year, an t he Survey of Current Business for forwarding to the association. A limited number
increase of 93 per cent over the corresponding period free copies is available for distribution by the association. If the demand for these
becomes greater than the supply, a charge will be made by the association sufficient
of 1922. Correspondingly, internal revenue collec- to cover merely the cost of distribution.
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floor space was 6 per cent less. During the month
contracts for industrial buildings and business buildings, in point of floor space, increased, while all other
classes declined from the preceding month.
Fire losses were 4 per cent greater than in April,
and the total-for the first five months of 1923 at
$187,200,000 may be compared with $168,757,000 for
the same period of last year.
VOLUME OF BUILDING CONTRACTS AWARDED, BY CLASSES.
1919
BUILDING MATERIALS.
1920
1921
1922
1923
The second statistical report of the National Paving
Brick Manufacturers Association 1 covering 24 companies, representing 67 per cent of the tonnage capacity of the paving-brick industry in May and 29
companies representing 66 per cent of the capacity
of the industry for March and April, shows the following figures on No. 1 paving brick:
Production of southern pine, California redwood,
Michigan softwoods and hardwoods, western pine,
and northern pine increased in May, while Douglas
fir and North Carolina pine production declined during the month. Stocks of Michigan hardwoods and
western pine increased in May, while'inventories of
southern pine and Michigan softwoods declined.
PAVING BRICK (NO. 1 SIZE).
Shipments of California redwood, northern pine and
[In thousands of bricks.]
western pine increased, while Douglas fir, Michigan
May.
April.
March.
34, 382
33, 315
softwoods, Michigan hardwoods, and North Carolina Production
26, 209
23, 397
pine declined from April. Prices of lumber declined. Shipments
Stock on hand, end of month
77, 662
80, 170
70. 252
received
31, -475
21, 522
Flooring production, both oak and maple, increased Orders
(Cancellations
2, 158
1,028
in May. Stocks of oak flooring increased over the Unfilled orders, end of month
90, 644
91, 849
91, 752
preceding month, while stocks of maple flooring deThe production of No. 1 and No. 2 paving brick in
clined. Unfilled orders for both species declined May represented 71 per cent of the normal tonnage
during the month.
capacity of the reporting firms as against 77 per cent
Production of clay fire brick increased in May, and in April.
the total of 319,224,000 bricks produced in the first
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The National Paving Brick Manufacturers' Association has entered into a
five months of 1923 was 63 per cent greater than the cooperative
arrangement with the Department of Commerce for the wider disproduction for the corresponding period of a year ago. tribution of the statistics compiled and issued by that association. The statistics
are issued weekly and cover the production, shipments, stocks, new orders, canProduction of silica and face brick also increased in cellations,
and unfilled orders for paving brick, classified by sizes. The distribuMay. With the exception of face brick, which de- tion of unfilled orders and shipments is shown by States and classes of highways.
Persons desiring to obtain this service may either apply direct to the secretary of
clined 7 per cent, brick stocks made an increase of the
association, 830 Engineers Building, Cleveland, Ohio, or, if they prefer, may
less than 1 per cent. Unfilled orders for both clay send their names to the Survey of Current Business for forwarding to the association.
fire and face brick declined during the month, as did A limited number of free copies is available for distribution by the association.
[I there is a large demand for these sheets, a charge will probably be made by the
new orders for clay fire brick.
association to cover the cost of printing and. mailing.
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Cement production and shipments increased while
stocks declined. The total production for the first
five months of the year were 40 per cent greater than
the production in the corresponding period of last
year. Concrete paving contracts let in May were
greater than in April but less than in May a year ago.
PRODUCTION AND STOCKS OF PORTLAND CEMENT.
Exports of vegetable oils declined, but imports
increased from April. Consumption of oleomargarine,
as shown by tax-paid withdrawals, was slightly
higher. Production of cottonseed oil was higher than
a year ago, while stocks of both cottonseed and cottonseed oil remained about the same, and there was no
change in the price of cottonseed oil.
Flaxseed receipts were larger than a year ago, shipments about the same, and stocks smaller. Shipments
of linseed oil and oil cake were considerably higher
than a year ago.
CEREALS.
Shipments of enamel sanitary ware increased, but
new orders and stocks declined for all classes.
Reports from the Tubular Plumbing Goods Association ° show a decline in May, with sales totaling
119,467 pieces, valued at $122,392.
HIDES AND LEATHER.
Imports of hides and skins declined in May, owing
to the decreases in cattle hides and sheepskins. Prices
of hides were irregular.
Production of sole leather was almost as large as in
April, but skivers and oak and union harness showed
a slight increase. Exports of sole leather increased,
but upper leather exports were smaller. Exports of
boots and shoes increased, with prices unchanged.
CHEMICALS, FATS, AND OILS.
Production of acetate of lime and methanol declined
in April, and stocks of wood at chemical plants was
slightly less than in March. Imports of potash declined considerably in May, but nitrate of soda imports
increased. Exports of sulphuric acid, dyes, and fertilizers were all larger than in April. The price of
sulphuric acid increased and essential oil prices were
higher, also. Crude drugs declined in price.
Receipts of turpentine and rosin were considerably
higher in May than a year ago; stocks of turpentine
were much higher, but rosin stocks were lower.
a The Tubular Plumbing Goods Association has completed cooperative arrangements with the Department of Commerce for the wider distribution of the statistics
compiled and issued by that association. These statistics are issued semiweekly
and cover manufacturers' sales, in 3-day intervals, of the classes of goods listed in
the accompanying table. Thefiguresare given in much greater detail in the regular
reports, specifying the quantity subdivided by sizes, which have been sold in
particular States, cities, or territories.
Persons desiring to obtain this service may do so by applying either to the secretary of the association at 25 Broad Street, New York City, or, if they prefer, may
send their names to the Survey of Current Business for forwarding to the association.
If there is a large demand for these sheets, a charge will probably be made by the
association to cover the cost of printing and mailing.
The first monthly report of the Bureau of the Census
on the wheat milling industry shows a total of
32,956,640 bushels ground and 7,227,671 barrels of
wheat flour and 572,783,500 pounds of wheat grain
offal produced by 1,035 mills with a daily capacity of
632,766 barrels* of flour in 24 hours, which produced
76.8 per cent of the total wheat flour output according
to the census of 1921.
Exports of wheat and flour in May increased from
April and were slightly larger than a year ago.
Receipts of wheat declined, but shipments increased,
both being smaller than a year ago. Prices of wheat
and flour declined.
Receipts of corn declined but shipments increased
over April, both being considerably less than in May,
1922. Exports of corn also declined and were only
half as large as a year ago. The price of corn rose
somewhat.
Reports furnished to the Department of Commerce
by the Iowa-Nebraska Canners' Association1 show the
following comparison of unsold stocks of sweet corn
in cases in the 36 canneries of Iowa and Nebraska:
February 15, 1921
November 18, 1921
February 1, 1922
August 1, 1922
November 1, 1922
January 1, 1923
March 1, 1923
April 7, 1923
May 31, 1923
June 14, 1923
], 956, 000
l, 644,000
], 400, 000
519, 600
649, 000
569, 417
291, 209
238, 417
134, 387
119, 999
The visible supply of oats made a seasonal decline
in May but was only 30 per cent as large as a year ago.
Exports declined and the price of oats was reduced
slightly. Exports of barley also declined, but the
price rose slightly. Exports of rye and rye Hour
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The Iowa-Nebraska Canners' Association has entered into cooperative arrange
ments with the Department of Commerce for the wider distribution of trade statistics
collected, compiled, and issued by that association. These statistics cover periodic
reports on acreage planted to sweet com and the production, stocks, and sales of
canned corn. Persons desiring to obtain this service may either apply direct to the
secretary of the association at Marshalltown, Iowa, or, if they prefer, may send their
names to the Survey of Current Business for forwarding to the association. A
limited number of free copies are available for distribution by the secretary of the
association. If the demand for these is greater than the supply, a charge will be,
made by the association sufficient to cover merely the cost of distribution.
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were double the April exports but slightly less than
a year ago. The price of rye declined.
Total grain and flour exports were larger than in
April but less than a year ago. Car loadings of grain
and grain products declined and were less than a
year ago.
OTHER CROPS.
Imports of rice declined in May, but exports increased somewhat. Cold storage holdings of apples
were less tjian a year ago, but car-lot shipments of
both apples and onions increased over May, 1922.
Shipments of potatoes were less than a year ago.
April and also over May, 1922. Exports of unmanufactured tobacco declined, but cigarette exports increased.
WATER TRANSPORTATION.
The opening of the canals for the 1923 season in May
showed larger traffic on both the Sault Ste. Marie and
Erie canals than in May, 1922. Arrivals and departures of vessels in foreign trade at United States
ports showed a large increase over April, the gain
being about equally apportioned as between American
and foreign vessels. Ocean freight rates to Europe
declined slightly in May.
MEATS AND DAIRY PRODUCTS.
RAILROADS.
Movement and slaughter of cattle, hogs, and sheep
were in general in excess of both April, 1923, and May,
1922. Exports of both beef and pork products increased slightly, but beef exports were less than a
year ago, while pork products made a good increase.
Storage holdings of all meats were greater than in
May, 1922, especially pork and lamb. Prices of cattle,
pork, and lambs increased; hogs and ewes declined.
Cold-storage holdings of fish were less than a year
ago. Poultry holdings increased over a year ago, but
receipts were smaller.
Receipts of cheese and eggs were larger in May
than a year ago, w^hile butter receipts were less.
Storage holdings of butter and eggs were less than
a year ago, but cheese holdings increased. Production of milk in the Minneapolis district was considerably larger than a year ago, while exports of
condensed milk made a slight increase.
May witnessed the transformation of the previous
net shortage of freight cars into a net surplus by the
halving of the previous shortage, while surplus more
than doubled. Locomotives in bad order showed a
relative decline, while bad-order cars increased slightly.
Car loadings again increased to make a record for this
season of the year; the increase over the previous
month was due to larger ore shipments.
Railroad operations for April show a slight decline
in both revenue and expense, with income somewhat
smaller than in March.
SHORTAGE, SURPLUS, BAD-ORDER, AND TOTAL LOADINGS
OF FREIGHT CARS.
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Employment in 1,428 United States factories, each
employing 500 or over, showed an increase on May 31,
and at 2,048,000 employees compares with 1,669,000
at the end of May, 1922. Employment reports from
Detroit also show an increase for the month, while in
New York State factories and in Wisconsin factories
the number of employees on the pay roll declined from
the preceding month. Total involuntary unemployment in Pennsylvania was reduced still further, being
estimated at 9,465 on June 1. The total pay roll in
both New York State and Wisconsin factories increased
in May.
Department-store inventories declined during the
month, and at 125, the index on a 1919 base, compares with 114 for a year ago.
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more persons.
DISTRIBUTION MOVEMENT.
Retail sales of the large mail-order houses made the
usual seasonal decline in May, and at $29,261,000 the
May sales compared with a total of $21,855,000 for
the corresponding month of 1922. May sales of 10cent chain stores aggregated $25,696,000, which may
be compared with $23,764,000 in April, $21,540,000 in
May, 1922, and $18,572,000 in May, 1921.
The index of department-store sales as compiled by
the Federal Reserve Board at 126, on a 1919 base,
compares with 117 for April and 115 for May, 1922.
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stood at 83 as against 79 for April and 73 for May of
last year.
Newspaper advertising increased during May, and
at 109,559,000 agate lines may be compared with
97,090,000 lines in May, 1922. The cumulative total
for the first five months of this year amounted to
497,336,000 agate lines, or about 11 per cent greater
than the linage for the corresponding period of 1922.
Postal receipts in 50 selected cities during May
totaled $24,902,000 as against $22,375,000 in May,
1922, and $19,504,000 in May, 1921. Taxes collected
on theater admissions amounted to $6,582,000, which
may be compared with a total of $5,818,000 collected
in May, 1922.
PUBLIC FINANCE.
The total interest-bearing debt on May 31 showed
a 4 per cent decline from the corresponding period of
a year ago. Customs receipts in May declined, but
the total for the first five months of 1923 was 54 per
cent greater than for the corresponding period of a
year ago. For the five months ending May 31
ordinary expenditures amounted to $1,384,993,000,
while ordinary receipts for the same period totaled
$1,505,105,000. The per capita distribution of money
outside of the United States Treasury and the Federal
Reserve System amounted to $42.34 as against $42.04
in April and $40.36 in May, 1922.
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EMPLOYMENT IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES.
(Relative employment 1921 - 100.)
FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS.
TEXTILES AND THEIR PRODUCTS.
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Both debits to individual accounts and bank clearings increased in May in New York City as well as in
the territory outside of New York. Total debits to individual accounts outside New York City for the first
live months of 1923 amounted to $95,237,000,000, an
increase of 16 per cent over the same period of 1922.
In the Federal Reserve banks there was an increase
in discounts and a decline in investments. Note circulation, total reserves, and total deposits increased,
while the reserve ratio declined. Member banks increased their loans, investments, and net demand
deposits. Interest rates on commercial paper at 5.13
per cent showed no change from April, while callmoney rates declined during the month.
responding period of a year ago. Correspondingly the
number of business failures for the first five months
of the year amounted to 8,366, a decline of 28 per
cent from the same period of 1922.
LOANS, DISCOUNTS, AND TOTAL INVESTMENTS OF FEDERAL
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A total of $292,400,000 was disbursed in June in
the form of dividend and interest payments, representing an increase of 2 per cent over a year ago.
The total new life insurance written in May declined but was 25 per cent greater than May, 1922.
The aggregate policy value for the first five months of
1923 amounted to $3,194,870,000, as compared with
$2,590,603,000 for the same period of last year. Of
the classes of new life insurace sold, group insurance
made the greatest percentage increase in 1923 over
the first five months of 1922, and at $106,767,000 the
policy value of this form of insurance increased 52
per cent.
The number of business failures increased in May
while liabilities declined. The total liabilities for the
five months ending May 31 amounted to $230,745,000,
a decline of 31 per cent from the casualties of the cor-
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Now incorporations in May decreased while new
capital issues by corporations increased, the total for
the five months ending May 31 being 17 per cent greater
than the aggregate for the same period a year ago.
Prices of both industrial and railroad stocks declined during May, as did public utility bonds, while
prices of railroad and industrial bonds advanced
slightly. Sales of stocks on the New York Stock
Exchange increased 15 per cent from April, and the
23,106,000 shares sold compare with 28,911,000 shares
in May, 1922. Sales of bonds increased 12 per cent
during the month.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Exchange on London declined in May, while exchange on Japan and on Chile increased during the
month. Exchange on the other important countries
declined in May. The general index of foreign exchange for May at 66 may be compared with 67 for
April and 72 "for May, 1922.
EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM.
400
300
GOLD AND SILVER.
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Domestic gold receipts at the mint in May totaled
J9,866 fine ounces, as against 65,043 ounces in April
and 81,839 ounces in May, 1922. The Rand output
for May increased 6 per cent over the preceding month.
Both imports and exports increased in May. The total
gold exported in the first five months of 1923 amounted
to $21,742,000, representing an increase of 155 per
cent over the corresponding period of 1922. Imports
of silver increased while exports declined in May.
The price of silver both at New York and at London
rose during the month.
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1921
1923
1922
INDEX NUMBERS OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING.
In recent numbers of the Survey there have been
published detailed discussions of certain index numbers of production and marketing dealing particularly
with raw materials. The following tables give the
recent figures for each of these index numbers, compared with the corresponding months of 1922. The
methods of compiling these indices and the weighting
factors used are discussed in detail in the issues of the
Survey referred to. A summary and combined raw
material index number is given on page 7 of this
issue.
INDEX
OF M I N E R A L
PRODUCTION.1
INDEX OP MINERAL PRODUCTION.1
. (Relative production 1919= 100.)
1922
Mar.
Total production
Petroleum
Biruminous coal
Anthracite coal
Iron ore
Copper
Lead
Zinc
Gold
Silver
Total, excluding lead, gold,
and silver .
(Relative production 1909-1913= 100.)
1922
Mar.
Apr.
...
Apr.
116.2
62.5
147.9
131.5
119.3
58. L
113.0
70.1
71.7
88.6
141.6
41.3
0.4
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71.9
107.9
67.6
72.9
87.6
117.3
61.4
1923
May.
72.7
Mar.
Apr.
125.8
121.1
May.
140. 8
178.0
184.4
147.4
122.6
53.7
111.5
121.2 109.8
0.5
31 7
85.9 2 113.4 2110.0
149.8 2 142.7
108.1
129.3 124.0
72.7
65.5
83.1
66.0
129.4
90.2
140.1
196. 5
120.7
116.X
139 h
116.4
151.0
124.1
81.1
144.7
126.4
141.5
71.9
121.4
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For complete table and discussion, see September (No. 13) issue of the Survey.
* Revised.
1923
May.
Mar.
Apr.
80.1
134.7
129.3
153.7
310.5 321.6
257.1
131.8
57.7
119.8
123.6
0.5
112.0
35 6
96.3 a 127.1 33 123.3
119.2
165.1 157.3
116.1 2 206.5 2 198.1
52.7
41.6
41.9
121.1 131.1
84.4
342.8
129.7
119.1
156.8
130 5
166.4
198.3
51.5
135.4
2 142.4
162.8
INDEX
May.
OF M A R K E T I N G S OF A N I M A L
PRODUCTS.1
(Relative marketings 1919=100.)
Total
Petroleum
Bituminous coal
Anthracite coal
Iron ore
Copper
Lead
Zinc
Gold
Silver
„
Total, excluding lead, gold,
and silver
1
120.8
67.8
258.0
141.3
121.7
65.2
124.5
112.1
45.5
82.9
246.9
44.4
0.4
2.1
80.5
119.0
108.0
46.3
82.0
128.1
68.2
81.5
2 136. 3
For complete table and discussion, see May (No. 9) issue of the Survey.
2 Revised.
1922
Total
Wool
Cattle and calves
Hogs
Sheep.
Eggs...
Poultry
Fish
Milk
1
. . . .
Mar.
Apr.
102.5
106.9
61.1
79.0
91.3
64.7
163 9
66.6
107.3
117.9
54.2
71.6
82.1
54.2
245.0
56.5
75.8
115.1
1923
Mar.
Apr.
119.6
113.6
111.4
127.3
93.8
91.5
100.0
74.7
217.8
73.5
87.4
132.4
52.4
73.2
131.8
63.1
178.8
86.6
89.4
122.5
45.5
81.4
115.5
63.9
188.3
62.8
87.1
122.6
59.4
92.6
121.1
79.2
242.8
67.6
88.7
136.1
May.
May.
For complete table and discussion, see June, 1922 (No. 10), issue of the Survey.
22
INDEX OP CROP MARKETINGS. 1
(Relative monthly marketings 1919=100.)
Grand total
Wheat
Oats
Barley
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Rice
Apr.
May.
Mar.
Apr.
Mar.
May.
77.8
54.5
86.3
74 3
61.0
55.0
207.0
64.2
79.6
42.5
81.6
213.6
97.0
49.6
48.6
24.3
35.5
50.7
180.6
92.3
101.5
37.9
114.4
14.9
174.9
69.1
96.4
43.9
92.3
64.9
113.2
69.5
87.6
32.3
100.9
86.8
71.1
53.2
69.8
23.3
59.9
22.5
Total grains
104.9
60.1
111.0
96.5
81.9
57.5
Potatoes (white)
148.2
133.9
216.5
41.6
200.9
327.7
134.1
91.1
232.1
178.3
188.0
211.4
135.4
52.8
339.2
131.6
191.4
71.7
152.7
149.4
187.8
81.2
123.7
466.9
144.8
97.4
192.4
76.7
171.5
310.6
100.8
39.8
296.5
144.5
195.6
60.0
154.3
144.8
147.6
157.6
147.4
117.5
Onions
Celery
Total vegetables
Citrus fruit
25.9
137.8
6.1
Pears
Watermelons
Total fruits
Cotton
Cottonseed
Total cotton products
.
Total miscellaneous
16.8
26.6
114.9
77.4
39.7
22.5
204.6
183.2
180.3
74.8
220.3
26.6
48.3
1,533.5
61.0
64.6
162.3
82.3
72.2
150.3
51.1
18.5
42.2
57.9
35.7
3.8
43.1
16.3
29.0
6.1
6.0
5.5
46.3
36.8
49.9
39.1
25.6
31.2
56.9
23.9
49.8
11.1
54.0
5.6
82.1
14.8
53.8
1.6
49.8
14.6
69.1
27.5
50.7
8.9
67.1
5.2
71.5
11.0
51.1
1.0
84.0
8.1
35.6
24.4
22.8
41.7
30.0
22.3
36.4
Strawberries
Hay
Tobacco
Flaxseed .. .
Cane sugar
43.2
180.2
0.3
120.6
0.2
7.0
351.0 1,925.1
Yellow pine
Western and sugar pine and
white fir
Douglas fir
Redwood
Hemlock
Maple, birch, and beech
Total lumber
Pulp wood
Gum
Distilled wood
Grand total
Apr.
May.
110.3
103.7
46.6
109.1
142.9
57.8
94.6
80.4
114.4
137.7
79.4
80.7
100.4
May.
* 132.2
123.1
93.9
87.1
164.6
65.7
107.2
67.6
61.7
123.5
52.0
195.9
83.7
70.5
163.6
92.2
115.9
74.3
69.4
77.8
45.3
81.7
102.7
72.8
177.5
153.7
177.7
108.6
93.7
87.0
45.1
78.8
120.2
95.6
157.0
a 72.2
*95.7
»60.0
M6.2
115.8
«67.4
107.0
110.0
80.9
149.6
126.0
146.4
»88.2
»62.8
102.7
73.5
115.7
95.3
85.3
104.8
102.5
104.5
105.4
131.2
89.9
92.5
100.4
114.1
126.3
135.4
117.0
122.6
125.9
129.7
90.8
105.2
129.5
119.0
127.3
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79.8
96.5
17.5
81.3
99.5
9.4
90 5
110.4
31.4
139.2
138.2
144.0 3 140.6
97.3
126.5
151.8
149.8
106.7
89.8
92.0
103.3
144.8 3 137.9
147.6
Lumber
Flooring
100.4
146.9
101.7
148.9
120 7
161.9
123 8 3121.7
209.1
221.3
130.1
231.9
Total
108.7
110.1
128.1
141.2 » 137.3
148.3
78.5
107.8
70 7
98.7
70 4
90 5
97.7 3130.1
90.1
114.8
89.4
111.9
96.4
87.8
87.1
3 114.7
105.2
103.2
111.5
115.1
123.2
105.5
102 4
107! 0
117.6
111.2
128 9
114 4
122.8 3 127.0
54.9
117.4
81.1
131.7
127.8
92.0
119.3
124.4
122.9
134.1
137.6
134.1
119.1
114.3
121.0
3 129.5
111.7
120.8
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TEXTILES:
Cotton (consumption)
Wool (consumption)
Total
114.5
:
IRON AND STEEL:
Pig iron.
Steel ingots
Locomotives
Total
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LUMBER:
LEATHER:
Sole leather
Boots and shoes
Total
PAPER AND PRINTING:
W ood pulp
Paper
Printing (paper purchases).
Consumption by printers
(newspaper printing)
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145.8
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CHEMICALS, ETC.:
77.9
127.8
61,1
57.2
74.8
124.0
20.4
98.0
80.6
138.4
10.8
177.0
135.9
153.0
52.2
67.4
135.3
151.8
33.9
113.8
140.1
153.7
16.9
204.8
105.9
100.3
114.3
131.0
130.8
136.6
85.4
67.0
99.9
89.2
79.0
138.1
103.6
82.0
167.0
92.9
96.6
90.0
79.0
147.7 3 169.8
100.0
169.8
193.9
81.7
97.4
110.8
102.4
111.0
119.1
Copper smelting and refining
Zinc smelting and refining
Enamel ware .
Lead
29.0
69.4
178.7
113.0
32.6
66.7
200.8
107.9
83.5
71.7
214.2
108.1
3 122.8 3 111.6
122.5
127.4
225. f
198.6
149.8 3 142.7
96.4
123.8
215.2
151.0
Total metals, except iron
and steel
115.4
114.2
135.9
3167.5 3 151.3
154.9
107.9
89.8
82.1
88.8
85.1
78.0
101.4
96.6
103.9
103.1
63.5
113.9
96.3
90.4
106.4
102.8
98.3
125.5
90.3
83.1
100.3
90.5
97.7
109.6
Coke
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Petroleum products
Cottonseed oil
Turpentine and rosin
Total
Mar.
Apr.
May.
121.9
124.6
110.5
120.1
140.2
126.0
184.7
87.3
85.6
* 110.5
139.8
175.1
80.9
119.6
169.1
146.4
139.9
71.0
110.7
191.7
141.3
198.6
»85.3
•121.2
101.7
120.7
123.8
109.7
53.6
83.7
107.3
96.7
63.3
117.2
177.7
64.4
108.1
64.3
132.1
111.8
113.0
119.9
128.5
206.5
128.9
99.3
101.7
122.1
119.9
120.4 |
133.0
STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS:
Brick.
Glass bottles
Cement
Total
METALS, EXCEPT IRON AND
STEEL:
3130.1
TOBACCO:
Manufactured tobacco and
snufl
Cigars
Cigarettes
1
For complete table and discussion see August, 1922 (No. 12), issue of the Survey
* Revised.
»Partly estimated.
Apr.
126.7
Total..
1923
Mar.
Mar.
106.8
Meats
Wheat flour
Sugar meltings
Ice cream
Butter
Cheese
Condensed milk
Glucose and starch
Oleomargarine (production)
Rice
(Relative monthly production 1919=*100.)
1922
May.
92.7
Total
PRODUCTION.1
Apr.
96.7
Total index
FOODSTUFFS:
* For complete table and discussion, see July, 1922 (No. 11), issue of the Survey.
I N D E X OP F O R E S T R Y
1923
1922
1923
1922
Mar.
PRODUCTION.1
I N D E X N U M B E R S OF MANUFACTURING
Total
MISCELLANEOUS:
1
Shipbuilding
Automobiles...
Rubber tires
1.8
9.8
6
105.0
124.3
133.5
112.0
155.
135.
71
214.6
193.1
11.1
232.2
178.0
235.6
221.3
Total.. ..
70.6
81.2
93.
130.5
134.7
144.3
4.4
For complete table and discussion, see January, 1923 (No. 17) issue of the Survey.
* Subject to revision; partly estimated.
«Revised.
23
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS.
The following table contains a summary of the monthly figures, designed to show the trend in important industrial and commercial
movements. The numerical data for the latest months are given and in addition index numbers for the last four months and for two
corresponding months of a year ago. In many lines the figures do not lend themselves readily to statistical uniformity, due to lateneas
of their publication or publication at other than monthly intervals; therefore the following explanations of the various headings are offered
to make clear such distinctions and in general to facilitate the use of the table:
April, 1923.—This column gives the April figures corresponding to those for May shown in the next column—in other words, cover
the previous month, and in some cases, where indicated by a footnote, refer to the previous quarter; that is, ending December
31, 1922.
May, 1923.—In this column are given the figures covering the month of May, or, as in the case of stocks, etc., the situation on May
31 or June 1. In a few cases (usually where returns are reported quarterly only), the figures are for the quarter ending March
31 or the condition on that date. Where this column is left blank, no figures for May were available at the time of going to
press (July 7).
Corresponding month, April, 1922, or May, 1922.—Thefiguresin this column present the situation exactly a year previous to those
in the "May, 1923," column (that is, generally May, 1922), but where no figures are available for May, 1923, the April, 1922,
figures have been inserted in this column for comparison with the April, 1923, figures. In the case of quarterly figures, this column
shows the corresponding quarter of 1922.
Cumulative total through latest month.—These columns set forth, for those items that can properly be cumulated, the cumulative total
for the first five months of the calendar years 1922 and 1923, respectively, except where the May, 1923, figures are lacking, in
which case the cumulative total for four months in each year is given.
Percentage increase (+) or decrease ( —) cumulative, 1923 from 1922.—This column shows the per cent by which the cumulated total
for the five months ending May, 1923, is greater (+) or less ( —) than the total for the corresponding period ending May, 1922.
Base year or period.—For purposes of comparison with a previous more or less normal period, all items, so far as possible, are related
to such a period by index numbers. The period taken for each item, called the base, is the monthly average of the year or period
stated in this column. Wherever possible, the year 1913 is taken as a base, and if no pre-war figures are available, 1919 is usually
taken to avoid using a war year as a basis. In some cases it will be noted that figures were not available prior to 1920 or even
1921, and that sometimes a month, or an average of a few months, has to be used rather than a year's average. Also, for some
industries, 1919 would not be a proper base on account of extraordinary conditions in the industry and therefore some more
representative year has been chosen.
Index numbers.—In order to visualize the trend of each movement, index or relative numbers are given for the last four months and
for two corresponding months of a year ago. These index numbers are computed by allowing the monthly average for the base
period, usually 1913 or 1919, to equal 100. If the movement fora current month is greater than the base the index number will
be greater than 100. If the converse is true the index number will be less than 100. The difference between 100 and any index
number gives at once the per cent increase or decrease compared with the base period. Index numbers may also be used to
compute the approximate per cent increase or decrease from one month to the next.
Percentage increase (+) or decrease ( —) May from April.—The last column shows the per cent increase or decrease of the figure for the
last month com pared with the preceding month.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
April,
|1923.
May,
1923.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
j Per_ j centage
;| increase
CUMULATIVE TOTAL I ( + )
THROUGH
' or deLATEST MONTH.
.! crease
! (-)
;i cumu' lative
! 1923
1922
1923
from
1922.
!
INDEX NUMBERS.
BASE
YEAR
i
!
OR
I
1922
Per: centage
•; increase
1923
! (V
_
PERIOD. |
; "
I
or dei crease
I; Apr. May.! Feb. Mar. Apr. i May. "\ ( - )
! May
j from
I1 Apr.
SUMMARY OF BUSINESS.
Department of Commerce Indexes.
Manufacturing:
Total, 62 identical
commodities
weighted index
Total, 70 identical
commodities
weighted index
Raw materials:
Minerals, 9 commodities
weighted index
Crop marketings, 26
commodities
weighted index
Animal products, 9
commodities
weighted index
Forestry, 13 commodities
weighted index
Total raw materials
(above groups)
weighted index
Stocks and unfilled orders:
Stocks, 31 commodities
weighted index
Unfilled orders, 8
commodities
weighted index
Federal Reserve Hoard Indexes.
Agriculture, 14 commodities
weighted index
Minerals, 7 commodities...weighted index
Manufacturing, 34
commodities
weighted index
22 basic commodities
weighted index
no..
1919
88.6 100.5 101.4 114.9 110.0 117.6
4 6.9
no..
1919
92.7 106.8 109.7 127.1 123.1 132.2
+7.4
no..
1919
62.5 i 72.7 106.5 125.8 121.1 140.8
+16.3
no..
1919
54.5
no..
1919
no..
86.3
73.4
74.3
55.5
-9.0
106.9 119.6
95.4 113.6 111.4 127.3
+14.3
1919
101.7 J122.1
95.9 119.9 120.4 133.0
+10.5
no..
1919
i 74.1
no..
1919
117.2 106.1 110.5 110.2 102.9 101.1 i ~1.7
no..
1920
no..
no..
1919
no..
no..
1919
95.5 \ 87.4 i 98.2
1
1919
1913
57.6
61.0
63.0 ' 93.2 100.5
90.5
'
97.1
+7.3
!
94.6
87.4 j
-7.0
57.4 | 82.6 ;' 73.3 77.7 70.0 70.3 j +1.4
58.6 ! 67.9 116.6 134.3 127.4 136.9 I +7.5
:
i
84.7 | 98.1 | 99.5 ,112.7 102.7 111.7 I 4 8.8
; 85.3 I 92.1'<1120.1 |125.1 123.8 127.2 j +2.7
24
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. F or
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
April,
1923.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
May,
1923.
I N D E X NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
1922
1923
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1922
Percentage
increase
1923
or decrease
Apr. May.
Feb. Mar. Apr. May.
May
from
Apr.
TEXTILES.
Wool.
Consumption by textile mills,
grease equivalent
Receipts at Boston:
thous. of lbs..
Foreign
thous. of lbs
Total
thous. of lbs.
Imports, unmanufactured
thous. of lbs.. |
Machinery activity:
|
Looms, wide
per ct. of hours active..
Looms, narrow
per ct. of hours active.. |
Looms,
I
carpet and rug.. .per ct. of hours active.. j
Sets of cards
per ct. of hours active..
Combs
per ct. of hours active..
Spinning spindlesWoolen
per ct. of hours active.. i
Worsted
per ct. of hours active.. j
Looms and spindles:
'
Woolen spindles, .per ct. of active to total..;
Worsted spindles.per ct. of active to total..
Wide looms
per ct. of active to total.. |
Narrow looms
per ct. of active to total.. |
Carpet looms
per ct. of active to total..;
Prices:
j
Raw wool to producer,
j
all grades
dolls, per l b . . j
Unwashed,fine Ohio,Boston.dolls, per l b . .
Worsted yarn
dolls, per l b . .
Wool dress goods
dolls. per yd..
Men's suitings
dolls, per yd..
56,411
59,682
52,533
261,529
300,216 + 14.8
1921
96
119
131
8,109
45,477
53,586
77,047
10,586
42,797
53,383
47,173
16,717
24,255
40,972
32,956-
64,503
102,741
167,244
165,001
40,745
223,425
264,170
301,350
- 36.8
+117. 5
+ 58.0
+ 82.6
1913
1913
1913
1913
72
465
182
308
124
460
218
261
44
69
775 1,046
344
250
504
451
91.3
84.4
62.4
55.2
1921
1921
85
84
116
116
135
134
130
131
133 4 2.0
132 4 - 0 . 8
82.5
127.3
119.8
85.7
101.4
112.6
75.5
89.7
79.2
1921
1921
1921
146
121
82
160
133
105
170
145
132
161
178
134
167
3.9
142 - 20.3
126 - 6.0
102.0
109.5
99.9
103.6
88.6
65.3
1921
1921
118
76
123
132
117
137
125
142 j 139 134 126 -
2.1
5.4
90
94
87
85
90
94
87
85
87
67
63
65
78
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
108
84
81
88
116
112
91
85
89
115
113
123
112
118
125
117
127
116
118
128
117
127
118
116
126
117
127
118
116
128 4-
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.6
.417
.52
1.800
1. 035
3. 690
.290
.41
1.350
.815
3.060
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
149
173
167
145
184
174
186
174
145
198
211
236
225
176
227
223
232
225
184
227
235
232
225
184
227
250
236
232
184
239
89.5 |
83. 7
.392
.51
1. 750
1.035
3. 510
142
128
135 4-
5.7
60
79 4- 30.5
862 811 - 5.9
286 ! 285 - 0.4
609 | 373- 38.8
+ 6.4
4-2.0
4-2.9
0.0
4- 5.1
Cotton.
Consumption by textile mills *
bales..
Stocks, end of month: *
Mills
thous. of bales..
Warehouses
thous. of bales..
World visible supply
(American)
thous. of bales..
Total domestic ginned
thous. of bales..
Imports, unmanufactured •
bales..
Exports, unmanufactured *
bales..
Manufactured goods:
Cotton cloth exports
thous. of sq. y d s . .
Fabric consump. by tire mfrs.thous. of lbs..
Elastic webbing sales
thous. of y d s . .
Fine cotton goods:
Production
pieces..
Sales
pieces..
Machinery activity, spindles:
Active
thousands..
Total activity
mills, of hours..
Activity per spindle
hours..
Prices:
Raw cotton to producer
dolls, per l b . .
Raw cotton, New York
dolls, p e r l b . .
Cotton yarn
dolls, per l b . .
Print cloth
dolls, per y d . .
Sheeting
.dolls, per y d . .
577,396
1,889
1,966
1,813
3,995
37,008
262,753
44,741
12,509
16,181 '
020.965 | 495,337
1,621
1,580
2,457,641
2,998,765
103
1,420
2,559 !
4- 7,5
- 14.2
90 - 19.0
1913
1913
109
182
106
145
159
151
135
140
112
110
134
74
82
97
112
71
65
136
327
49
75
115
262
44
59
97
183
36
46
80
116
22
139
129
76
163
152
87
177
93
132
203
117
120
187
110
- 18. S
192 4- 3.0
111 4- 0.6
96 I 99
61 i 78
104
86
130
99
110
48
128 4- 10.2
41 - 10. 1
1,432 |;
3,001
3,280 j
4,612 ;
23,593
14,320 j 186,246
160,368 ; 469,397 2,343,440
285,424 + 53.3
1,574,424 - 32.8
1913
1914
1913
1913
60,448
10,161
12,758
224,213
42,634
59,652
8.3
205,605 61,824 + 45.0
78,076 + 30.9
1913
1921
1919
378,974
347,368
1,803,164
1,372,499
2,213,182 + 22.7
1,776,741 4- 29.5
1919
1919
36,335
12,888
16,286
120
4-
7.3
17.9
30.4
39.0
I
423,201
215,503
491,660
180,914
35,516
8,787
236
35,390
9,309
249
.269
.290
.495
.097
.129
163,100
31,641 |
7,493
203
.250 ;;
.187
..
.277
.208
..
.471 :
.073 |
.124 j
.370
..
.064
..
.093
!..
176,956
+
8.5
1913
104
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
133
142
141
173
148
105
117
! 156 231
I 163 226
| 149 197
j 185 232
I 151 206
117 I
237
240
203
238
208
224
226
200
229
210
117 - 0.4
4 5.0
4- 5..
213
216
190
212
202
-4.8
- 4.5
-4.8
- 7.6
-3.9
25
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
April,
1923.
May,
1923.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
1922
(
v
1923
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
3,383,100
3,038
3,852,000
70,200
+ 4.2
- 7.2
+ 27.9
- 9.3
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
Percentg
increase
1923
1922
or decrease
y
from
Apr.
Apr. ! May. Feb. Mar. Apr. May.
TEXTILES—Continued.
Knit Underwear.
Production
doz.. 674,100
367
Orders received
thous. of doz..
Shipments
doz.. 654,300
11,700
Cancellations
doz..
UnQUed orders, end of month.. .thous. of doz..
2,162
667,800 3,248,100
758.700
815
3,274
443
644,400 I! 500,400 3,012,300
15,300 |
18,900
78,300
1,937 \
1,316
1920
» 1920
11920
1 1920
U920
110
407
117
46
320
113
807
109
39
262
1913
2 1920
1920
1913
108
140
38
179
164
187
41
1913
1913
110
53
165
77
106
116
114
128
+
12.6
497
554
364
439
+
20.7
182
189
143
140
-
1.5
20
22
23
31
511
432
430
386
180
216
146
172
+
17.6
203
188
214
137
-
35.8
+
4.6
+ 30.8
-
10.4
Silk.
Imports, raw
Consumption, raw
Stocks, raw, end of month.
Prices, raw, Japanese, N. Y
thous. of lbs..
bales..
bales..
dolls, per l b . .
B u r l a p a n d Fiber.
Imports:
Burlap
thous. of lbs..
Fiber (unmanufactured)
long tons..
4,170
38,193
28,657
9.310
4,904 h 4,662
24,509 j- 33,284
29,962 ; | 20,826
8.42S ii 7.203
19,549
140,131
58,135 11 56,007
28,392 11 22,120
203,573
98,280
25,964 + 32.8
167,128 + 19.3
87
77
56
58
241
237
256
232
-9.5
141
156
171
92
104
99
+ 10.1
I- 4.6
I
52,825
29,752
275,118 + 35.1
161,830 + 64.7
METALS.
Iron a n d Steel.
Iron ore movement
thous. of short tons..
Production:
Pig iron
thous. of long tons..
Steel ingots (prorated).thous. of long tons..
Merchant pig iron:
Production
thous. of long tons..
Sales^..,
.thous. of long tons..
Shipments
.,
thous. of long tons..
Unfilled orders
thous. of long tons..
Stocks, merchant
furnaces
thous. of long tons..
Stocks, steel plants
thous. of long tons..
Lake Superior iron ore: f
Stocks:
Total
thous. of tons..
At furnaces
thous. of tons..
On Lake Erie docks
thous. of tons..
Consumption
thous. of tons..
Steel castings:
Total bookings
short tons..
Railroad specialities
short tons.. I
Miscellaneous bookings
short tons..
Exports (comparable)
thous. of long tons.. j
Exports (total)
thous. of long tons..
Imports
thous. of long tons..'.
Unfilled orders, U. S. Steel Corp.,
end of month
thous. of long tons..
Foundry production, Ohio.. per ct. of normal..
Wholesale prices:
Pig iron—
Foundry No. 2,
Northern
dolls, per long ton..
Basic,
Valley furnace.. .dolls, per long ton.. j
Steel billets, Bessemer, dolls, per long ton..
Iron and steel
dolls, per long ton..
Composite pig iron
dolls, per long ton..
Composite steel
.dolls, per 100 lbs..
Composite finished steel.dolls, per 100 lbs..
Structural steel beams...dolls.-per 100 lbs..
4
+316.5
1913
75
17
3,868 i
4,205 \
2,307
3,223
9,690
12,914 !
16,160 + 66.8
19,531 + 51.2
1013
1913
600 |
129 !
515 !
1,171
2,172
1,620
2,532 4-116. 2
2,461 + 13.3
2,415 + 49.1
1,256 I
250
387
408
1,421
1914
1914
1914
1914
340 |
69
334
131
1914
1914
23,025
19,683 i 18,865
14,825 | 14,786 j 16,532
4,858 ! 4,347 || 6,493
5,582
3,294 | 3,294
14,413 j - 40.0
1919
1919
1919
1919
76 !
,i 82
|| 81
11 86
!
| 76 ! 82 !|
100 82
83
101
82
97
116 136
!+ 88.8
|+ 59.8
+ 125.2
- 19.4
- 13.8
!
+445.7
1920
1920
1920
1913
1919
1913
114 | 117 |i
176 ! 161 Ij
88 j|
81 ] 82 ;|
119 j 137
87 |l
70
136 217
150 288
127 170
59
48
98
80
252 394
3,548 |
3,948 !
i
533 j
220 I
514 |
1,643 |
265
67
90,968
39,610
51,358
141
179
76
89,493 '
; 38,788 i
' 50,705
158
;
205
i
75 !
\
77,600
42,796
34,804
188 |
231
23
24,019 !
272,696 |
151,806 I
120,890 I
804 |
939 !
81 I
514,782
242,531
272,251
648
809
442
81
115
90 I
128 !
117
138
138
160
151 + 9.0
167 i+ 6.5
I; 65 66 || 115 133
:| 240 117 jj 209 279
I 114 123 j| 130 159
j 114 109 i| 116 147
59 | 44 |
82 | 69 I
158
39
155
96
+
|+
I-
12.6
41.4
0.2
23.6
32
45
35
36
|+ 28.3
+ 3.0
65
62
! - 4.2
67
66 I -
0.3
60
53 I -
10.5
139
j -
41.0
138
135
149
146
130
128
62
69
106
121
288
281
123
| - 1.6
! - 2.1
- 1.3
| + 12.1
+ 14.5
-1.3
7,289 |
79.90 ;
6,981 I
81.12 i
5,254
49.48
1913
1921
86 ; 89 j 123125
234 ! 239 j 327 402
386
118 |— 4.2
392 + 1.5
32.77
31.97 I
25.76
1913
142 i 161 i
202
205
200
31.00
45.00
47.01
31.44
2.99
2.81
2.60
29.00 |i
44.60 |j
47.37 !
30.84 ;
3.03 ij
2.79 I
2.60 1
24.60
34.00
36.49
23.91
2.18
2.11
1.60
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
136 I 167
114 j 132
131 | 139 i
135
! 155
126 127
125 | 127
106 '
99 !
205
211
197
172
175
171
179
197
204
165
174
173
180
200
176
168
172
i Six months' average, July to December, inclusive.
53850—23
6,081
1,460
i
183
179
154
162
181
158
157
139
163
169
146
172
«Eleven months' average, February to December, inclusive.
-2.4
!
I- 6.5
jj - 0.9
i;+ 0.8
|!- 1.9
jj + 1.3
;|- 0.7
jI
0.0
26
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
April,
1928.
May,
1928.
Corresponding
month;
April
or May,
1922.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
(
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
v
or decrease
BASE
YEAR
OR
Percentage
increase
1923
1922
or decrease
PERIOD.
(-)
1922
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
1923
Apr. May.
Feb. Mar. Apr. May.
May
from
Apr.
METALS—Continued.
Finished Iron and Steel.
Sheets, blue, black, and galvanized:
Production
short tons..
Shipments
short tons..
Sales
; . . .short tons..
Unfilled orders
short tons..
Total stocks
short tons..
Unsold stocks
short tons..
Steel barrels:
Shipments
barrels..
Production
per ct. of capacity..
Unfilled orders
barrels..
Structural steel:
Sales (prorated).,
short tons..
Sales
perct. of capacity..
254,808
253,563
183,904
577,969
140,044
24,470
260,006
218,743
778,535
1,292,728
278,059
212,748
730,139
1,284,970
889,165
242,624
176,200
551,139
364,075
141,781
94,853
23,397
22,177
245,125
50.1
556,801
234,440
225,372
46.3
42.2
493,098
410,477
202,500
81
142,500
202,500
58
81
+ 66.0
+ 76.0
1,257,740 + 41.5
397
139
127
180
79
132
521
163
167
231
90
122
520
149
147
131
84
125
438
152
162
172
80
127
419
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
108
103
188
57
91
611
128
124
125
53
85
+
+
+
+
-
2.0
9.7
31.9
4.6
1.2
4.4
785,108
1,134,151
+ 44.5
1921
1921
2 1921
179
207
149
201
243
178
173
236
257
227
276
267
219
288
237
209 - 4.4
266 - 7.6
210 - 11.4
823,100
970,000
+ 17.8
1913
1913
228
174
212
161
209
159
251
190
212
162
149 - 29.6
116 - 2 8 . 4
+373.0
+626.1
62 - 34.7
1920
1920
1920
23 I
4 9 | 178
18 i 12
92
245
15
71
183
18
78 + 97
207
13.4
11 - 37.5
- 13.2
1920
1920
1920
1913
47
58
24
300
47
56
29
174
168
239
18
74
175
248
24
405
167
236
22
93
163
229
24
21
1920
18
19
24
23
21
13 - 37 8
24.8
1919
10
6
6
7
11
4 - 59.0
755
+ 39.8
+ 53.9
7,405 + 43.7
1919
61
404,696
1919
118 | 116
1919
117
55
126
144
51
131
188
71
162
167
83 + 16.2
191 + 17.8
166 - 0.9
Iron a n d Steel P r o d u c t s .
Locomotives:
ShipmentsTotal
number..
Domestic
number..
Foreign.
number..
Unfilled o r d e r s Total
number..
Domestic
number..
Foreign.
number..
Freight cars: Orders, domestic
number..
Ship construction:
Vessel under
construction.
thous. of gross tons..
New vessels
completed
thous. of gross tons..
Stokers:
Sales
number..
Sales
horsepower..
Steel furniture, shipments
thous. of dolls..
Agricultural pumps:
Shipments—Total
thous. of dolls..
Pitcher, hand, etc
number..
Power pumps
number..
Tubular plumbing sales:
Quantity
number of pieces..
Value
dollars..
217
201
16
238
70
248
1,173
228
54
153
1,111
10
16
95
2,204
2,111
2,150
621
2,045
497
105
124
9,800
2,200
18,250
241
150
221
39
16
21
167
85,339
1,520
194
143
540
100,513
61,391
262,954
1,506
1,056
5,153
610,531
62,290
3,271
696,468
57,653
4,258
576,957
185,724
189,747
119,467
122,392
Copper a n d Brass.
Copper:
Production
thous. of lbs.. 117,914
Exports
thous. of lbs.. I 64,353
Wholesale price, electrolytic.. dolls, per l b . . j
. 169
Brass faucets:
j
Orders received
number of pieces.. | 566,558
Orders shipped
number of pieces..! 703,457
124,785
59,010
.156
87,250
153
75,690
115
-
53 I
116
+
-
2.5
3.1
12 9
77.6
+ 14.1
- 7.4
+ 30.2
52,893
3,291
- 35 7
- 35.5
92,048 j 294,643
62,891 | 319,881
. 132 !
579,247 | + 9 6 . 6
1913
313,125 | j - 2.1
1913
1913
75
100
80
90
101
71
84
119
91
108
116 I 122+ 5.8
91 | 84 - 8 . 3
108 ! 99 - 7 . 7
512,395
681,483
- 9.6
- 3.1
Zinc
Production
Stocks, end of month
Receipts, St. Louis
Shipments, St. Louis
Price, slab, prime western
..thous. of lbs., j
..thous. of lbs., j
..thous. of lbs..|
..thous. of lbs..
dolls, per l b . . |
93,732
17,952
28,851
17,498
.077
94,694
54,838
26,038
80,818
26,055
27,066
20,048
24,643
.071
.055
* Eleven months' average, February to December, inclusive.
251,352
93,219
122,463
463,408 + 84.4
113,174 ',+ 21.4
87,779 j - 28.3
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
127 |
57 j
46!
90
147
95
27
99
98 ' 40
50
87
94 \ 130 !
169
25
128
79
141
162 ; 164 + 0.8
22 ! 32 + 45.0
104 i
62 !
94 ! -
9. 7
71 11+ 14.6
133 ; 121 I I -
7.8
27
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously i n the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at t h e end of this bulletin, f o r
items marked with a dagger (+) detailed tables were given in the J u n e n u m b e r (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of t h e SURVEY ( N O .
21).
April,
1923«
Mav,
1928
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922
Per- ;
cent-age
ncrease
(+)
or de- '
crease ;
(-) i
curau- i
lative i
1923 :
from <
1922.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
1922
1923
INDEX NUMBERS.
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD,
j
1
j
i
1922
Percentage
increase
1923
(+)
or decrease
(-)
May
from
Apr.
Apr.
May.
148
104
Ill
220
194
170
-
12.4
110
89
• 130
192
176
118
-
32.9
Feb.
Mar. Apr. May.
METALS—Continued.
Tin.
I
Stocks end of month
Imports
long tons
3,577
3,132
1,921
• thous. of lbs
16,802
11,272
8,490
...
-
Wholesale price pig tin
463
dolls per lb
428
1913
53,197
72,033
+ 35.4
i
1913
68
69
94
109
103
95
- 7 . 6
1913
I
178
185
203
199
179
179
+ 0.3
+ 38.7
1913
1
137
130
169
181
185
165
-
10 9
67,546
-
22.5
1913
282
372
215
271
301
192
-
36 1
32,281
-
18.5
1913
70
124
62
91
78
61
1913
116
126
185
193
188
168
-
10 8
8.3
1913
309
World visible supply f
loncr tons
22 116
22 187
22 910
Domestic consumption t
long tons
6,775
6,035
4,740
10,518
20,344
87,114
10,856
39,590
23,255
32,254
Lead.
Receipts St. Louis
thous. of lbs .
16,470
Shipments, St. Louis
thous. of lbs .
6,814
5,304 i
Wholesale price, pig, desilverized, dolls, per l b . .
.083
.074
.055
-22.2
FUEL AND POWER.
Coal and Coke.
|
Production:
Bituminous coal
thous. of short tons..
42,504
46,076
20,501
165,025
227,730
+ 38.0
1913
|
40
51
106
117
107
116
+
Anthracite coal
thous. of short tons..
8,0(33
8,573
35
21,838
42,022
4- 92.4
1913
|
117
106
112
thous of short tons
1,776
1 829
432
2,737
8,314 i +203. S
1913
(3)
15
102
Beehive coke
(3)
19
53
62
63
65
By-product coke
thous. of short tons..
3,206
3,32S
2,537
10,599
15,700
+ 48.1
1913
210
240
205
307
303
314
+ 6.3
+ 3.0
+ 3.8
mills, of kw. hours..
4,473
4,630
3,824
18,513
22,910
+ 23.8
1919
111
118
133
146
138
143
thous. of long tons..
327
568
1 930
1921
104
72
4
6
12
21
Bituminous
thous. of long tons .
1,385
2,249 i
340
3,700
6,752
+ 82.5
1909-13
65
31
73
111
120
205
Anthracite
thous. of long t o n s . .
422
446 !
61
9G4
1,954
+ 102.7
1909-13
38
21
115
139
147
155
+ 62.4
+ 5.7
Coke
thous. of long t o n s . .
202
163
22
137
612
+340.7
1909-13
38
30
97
134
277
223
- 19.3
dolls, per short t o n . .
4 89
4 39
4 70
1913
164
214
222
222
222
200
— 10.2
dolls, per short t o n . .
2 79
2 66
3 10
1913
182
252
292
258
227
216
- 4 . 7
dolls, per long t o n . .
10. 62
10.63
1913
201
200
200
200
+ 0.1
5.15
6.00
1913
183
(*)
246
200
0.31
292
300
259
211
-
8 84
8 81
8 68
1913
182
180
224
207
184
183 ! -
0.3
13 67
13.67
13 14
1913
189
189
214
203
196
196
0.0
281
252
299
260
I
Public-utility
electric power
Storage, anthracite
+ 3.5
+ 73.7
Exports:
Wholesale prices:
Bituminous—
Kanawha, f. o. b .
Cincinnati
Mine average
Anthracite, chestnut,
N Y
Co1re Connellsville
dolls per short ton
(<)
18.4
Retail prices:
Bituminous, Chicago, .dolls, per short t o n . .
Anthracite, chestnut,
New York
dolls, per short t o u . .
Petroleum.
Crude petroleum:
Production
Storks end of m o n t h
thous. of b b l s . .
thous of bbls
Stocks, end of m o n t h
days' supply..
Consumption
thous of bbls
5S,133
5 264 627
6
61,962
5
273 157
46,456
221,080
270,107
+ 24.6
143
149
158
55 698
56,674
48,571
221,178
277,583
1913
216
224
234
271
1913
225
235
243
247
1919
149
136
124
120
123
128
+ 25.5
1913
188
223
228
264
255
260
+
+
',+
+
247 093
6.6
3.2
4.2
1.8
. .
thous. of bbls .
4 905
4,581
14,018
64,855
27,421
-
57.7
1913
786
945
294
394
335
309
- 7 . 7
Shipments from Mexico
thous. of b b l s . .
12,682
12,297
18,587
89,740
60,336
-
32.8
1913
S64
861
471
612
599
570
-
3.0
Price, Kansas-Oklahoma...dolls, per bbl._
1 825
1 525
2 250
1913
241
241
185
198
195
163
-
16.4
Oil wells completed
1,521
1,871
1,511
6,570
6,942
+ 5.7
1913
91
95
69
78
96
118
+ 23.0
+ 33.5
+ 29.9
1919
1 143
156
172
191
188
192
1919
189
182
218
223
214
232
2,319,530 !+ 28.1
1919
135
174
130
151
176
203
+ 2.0
+ 8.4
+ 19.4
1919
189
181
239
267
2S3
281
-
Imports
number..
Gasoline:
Production
thous. of a als .
619 043
631,705
513,659
2,301,703
3,073,924
Exports
thous. of gals..
05,055
71,153
55,824
254,671
330,787
Domestic consumption
thous. of gals..
487,837
582,554 j 499,242
1,810,856
Stocks, end of month
thous. of gals.. 1 336 418 1,328,533 i 856,607
0.6
Kerosene oil:
Production
thous. of gals..
181,948
189,177
173,824
Stocks
thous. of gals..
273 005
272,672
318,890
Production
thous. of gals..
976,760
966,166
936,742
Stocks
thous. of gals. - 1,272,978 1,246,662
1,321,438
881,555
954,648
+ 8.3
1919
97
89
92
98
93
97
+ 4.0
1919
108
106
91
94
91
91
-
1919
125
147
142
153
154
152 | -
1.1
1919
167
172
166
163
165
162
-
2.1
1919
103
113
110
129
129
149
1919
1 147
140
148
146
145
140
0.1
Gas and fue oil:
4,196,687
4,805,762
+ 14.5
Lubricating oil:
Production
thous. of gals. -
90,693
105,363
79,848
Stocks
thous. of gals..
234,700
226,2S9
220,293
•Index number less than 1.
« No quotation.
6
6
369,021
451,377
+ 22.1
1+ 16.2
-
Does not include stocks of topped oil held at refinories; this omission reduced the January stocks by about 15,000,000 barrels.
Revised.
3.6
28
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
N U M E R I C A L DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the J u n e number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY ( N O .
21).
April,
1923.
Mav,
1923.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
I N D E X NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
{
V
or decrease
(-)
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
1922
1923
060,318
606,531
700,082
5.2
036,091
4.9
Percentage
increase
1928
1922
(+)
or decrease
(-)
May
Feb. Mar. Apr, May. from
Apr.
Apr.
May.
1919
122
138
86
103
128
150
+ 21.4
1919
105
119
92
100
104
123
+ 19.0
PAPER AND PRINTING.
u
.
,
Wood Pulp.
Mechanics :
Production
short
Consumption and shipment.. .short
Stocks, end of month
short
Imports
short
Chemical:
Production
short
Consumption and shipment.. .short
Stocks, end of month
short
Imports
short
tons..
tons..
tons..
tons..
154,708
124,915
89,180
17, ISC
187,908
148,598
120,234
17,668
tons..
tons..
tons..
tons..
175,291
171,601
55,2C4
70,401
116,719
118,023
111,712
1,475
107,197
144,C42
182,S67
1919
104
119
38
39
58
82
11,626
115,900 i 120,230 + 82.4
1909-13
72
71
169
153
104
107
+
2.8
183,591
181,253
49,229
72,932
K4,497
787,015
908,944 + 15.4
784,922 | 890,080 + 14.2
1919
93
102
109
118
109
114
+
4.7
1919
96
105
110
117
107
113
+
5.0
1919
99
92
95
96
103
92
-
10.9
51,058
327,142
439,011 i|+ 34.4
1909-13
255
202
383
322
270
2SG | +
3.0
138,868
136,979
115,143
1,496
129,950
130,043
81,352
2,576
562,912
562,065
401,624
12,085
626,944
625,365
535,678
7,218
121 !|+ 19.0
119 ||+ 16.1
629 !|+ 3.1
168,095
49,586
+ 41.5
Newsprint Paper.
Production
short tons..
Shipments
short tons..
Imports
short tons..
Exports
short tons.. I
Stocks, end of month:
I
Total
short tons.. j
At mills
short tons..
Jobbers
short tons..
Publishers
short tons..
In transit to publishers
short tons..
Consumption
short tons..
Prices:
Contract, domestic
dolls, per 100 lbs..
Contract, Canadian
dolls, per 100 lbs..
Spot market, domestic. .dolls, per 100 lbs..!
Book:
Other Paper.
Production
short tons..!
Stocks
short tons..'
Paperboard:
|
Production
short tons.. j
Stocks
short tons.. I
Wrapping:
I
Production
short tons.. I
Stocks
short tons..!
Fine:
i
Production
short tons..
Stocks
short tons.. |
Total, all grades (including newsprint):
Production
short tons..!
Stocks
short tons.. i
Exports (total printing)
short tons..
Book publication:
|
American manufacture
number..!
Imported books
number.. j
Paper Boxes.
+
+
+
-
11.4
11.3
33.4
40.3
1919
113
100
113
102
1919
100
113
100
115
103
1913
422
444
489
613
610
1913
93
72
33
55
41
256, S21
20,832
8, 737
176,347
50,905
190,558
3.827
3.791
3.852
3.726
3.777
3.957
3.541
1919
3.501
3.548
93,390
36,871
97,221
40,614
82,574
39,491
179,744
52,300
199,939
56,107
176,790
65,702
78,559
43,403
85,348
44,015
71,494
70,906
331,023
32,507
37,889
35,196
40,957
30,129
36,985
140,963
605,490
230,181
2,535
659,025
245,872
2,629
596
216,438
1919
93
95
113
108
106
112
24,7S1
1919
104
104
97
84
79
87
5,438
1919
65
63
90
89
96
101
+
5.1
150,443
35,776
174,670
1919
98
97
111
107
107
114
+
6.6
827,240
373,844
473,281 + 26.6
7
7
640,019
589,971 2,126,444
285,729
17,004
3,893
346
46
917,315 + 10.9
2,672
467
787,187 + 23.0
411,199 + 24.2
170,170 + 20.7
7
2,543,432 + 19.6
12,785 -
24.8
3,127 + 17.0
436 - 6.6
+
6.0
+ 10.4
1919
74
87
134
133
121
124
+
2.5
1919
124
123
116
134
138
134
-
2.5
95
100
101
103
100
- 2 . 6
1919
96
96
104
103
104
103
- 0 . 4
1919
83
83
90
90
92
+ 2.7
1919
92
108
126
123
128
+
1919
118
125
199
117
128
+ 10.2
1919
101
109
122
111
1919
128
121
116
123 + 11.2
103 | + 7.3
!
1919
106
124
135
150 I
136
148
1919
125
130
79 !
79
8.6
1.4
1919
96
105
113
123
113
123
S.3
1919
97
100
108
100
103
111
8.1
1919
102
114
119
128
119
120
110
(7) i
117
1919
96
103
1919
29
25
15
20 I
16
17
88
6.8
3.7
64
73
14.8
45
43
4.3
156
148
175
162
5.3
7.3
4.7
111
101
8.3
123
119
3.1
1913
74
43
78
1913
58
22
43
|
I
101 I
4.1
42 i
Corrugated board:
Production (Container
120,972
510,528
785,447 + 53.8
Club)
thous. of sq. ft.. 166,644 157,734
»1919
109
137
151
113
41,156
173,359
Production (Nat'l Ass'n)..thous. of sq. ft.. 135,539 125,640
1922
710,965 +310.1
184
45
53
215
86
82
64
Machinery activity
per cent of normal..
Solid fiber board:
Production (Container
56,287
Club)
thous. of sq. ft..
51,616
44,154
255,055
283,153 + 11.0
1919
109
112
103
27,116
Production (Nat'l Ass'n)..thous. of sq. ft..
26,282
8,809
61,762
144,914 + 134.6
1922
67
117
164
Machinery activity—per cent of normal..
78
76
74
Folding boxes:
Production
per cent of capacity..
66.1
61.8
69.4
1921
151
121
151
148
'I
New orders
per cent of capacity..
70.0
53.3
1921
134
186
154
146
1
Six months' average, July to December, inclusive.
T
Incomplete returns from manufacturers of paper board made the compilation of a March figure impossible. The total is not shown because
the cumulative total for 1922, for purposes of comparison, exclude March.
1.4
II
242,331
18,876
8,314
165,455
49,686
195,510
519
92
42 !!+
2.6
144
146
135 j
111 [
6.2
24.0
of this omission and
29
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in i iie SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. 1 or
items marked with a dagger (j) detailed tables were given in the June number (.No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21)
Anril,
1923.
May,
1923.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922."
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
1922
1923
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase!
(+)
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
19^3
from
1922.
1922
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
Percentage
increase
1923
(+)
Apr. May. [ Feb. Mar. Apr. May.
or decrease
: (-;
i
A
Pr-
PAPER AND PRINTING—Continued.
Other Paper Products.
Labels:
New orders
per cent of capacity..
Rope paper sacks: Shipments, .index number..
Abrasive paper and cloth:
Domestic sales
reams..
Foreign sales
reams..
14.6 !
86.4 !
117,413 i 101,408
9,631 I 12,370
82.0
76,364 !
6,8S5|
340,475
33,118
504,342 + 48.1
52,902 + 59.7
1921
«1921
192
96
1919
1919
107
84
186 ; 20S 242
103 ' 105 130 j
,
129
112
154 I
113
126 I
75
214 ; 195 ii122 ; 135 :!+
j
Jj
172 ! 149 ij105 I 135 :!+
8.9
10.7
13.6
28.4
Printing.
Activity, weighted
Crude:
index number..
Sept.,'20'•
88
95 ! 94
97 \ 99
::-
3.1
RTTBBEK.
Imports
thous. of lbs..
Consumption by tire mfrs... thous. of lbs..
Wholesale price, Para, N. Y . .dolls, per lb..
Tires:
ProductionPneumatic
thousands..
Solid
thousands..
Inner tubes
thousands..
Domestic shipments—
Pneumatic
thousands..
Solid
thousands..
Inner tubes
thousands..
Stocks, end of month—
Pneumatic
thousands..
Solid
thousands..
Inner tubes
thousands..
AUTOMOBILES.
Production:
Passenger cars
number..
Trucks
number..
Shipments:
By railroad
carloads..
Driveaways
number of machines..
By boat
number of machines..
Internal-revenue taxes collected on:
Passenger automobiles and
motor cycles
thous. of dolls..
Automobile trucks and
wagons
thous. of dolls..
Automobile accessories and
parts
thous. of dolls..
80,107 i! 35,727
47,671 | 29,068 I
.171
.249
69,447
38,348
.274
264,105
119,613
358,978
+35.9
196,035 + 63- 9
1913
1921
1913
; 449 I 370 I 625 717 : 719 i 830 ;j+ 15.3
; 135 j 162 191
232 | 214 ! 266 ij+ 24.3
!; 21 | 22 38
36 • 34 i 31 i|- 9.1
; 132 150 ! 177 213 i 195 | 201 jj+ 3.4
! 132 ! 163 213 226 ! 202 ! 219 | ; + 8.5
!• 117 ! 132 ; 179 216 189 191 + 1.4
3,539
71
4,260
3,660 !
77 jl
4,318 ji
2,722 i
58 I
2,971
11,908
233
13,579
17,410 + 46.2
387 + 66.1
21,444 + 57.9
1921
1921
1921
2,976
72
3,536
2,75S
67;;
3,414 |
2,639
61
2,939
9,959
231
10,951
14,640 + 47.0
341 + 47.6
17,528 + 60.1
1921
1921
1921
110 138 j 136 174 I 156
I 119 [ 138 j 144 175 i 165
102 i 12S ;| 131 167 154
261
8,394
6,907
268
9,292
5,523
171
7,190
1921
1921
1921
130 i 131 124
: 75 74
117
!; 158 I 157 148
;.
344,474
• 37, 527
6
350, ISO
42,983
6
«44,977
59,522
6 4,869
46,075
60,550
12,050
5,621
12,079
6
713
1,216
j ;!
232,431 | 773, 470 1,491,434 + 92.8
156,295 + 76.6
23,788 i 88,502
1919
143
1919
85
206,799 + 62.2
256,355 + 198.9
20,469 + 82.0
1920
|j
1920
j;
1920
ii
39,389 + 94.7
1920
« 33,416 • 127,496
e 28,827 ; 85, 777
6 7, 406
11, 249
6,834 ;
981
20,229
3,053
4,163
+ 36.4
145 !|- 7.3
153 ;i- 8.2
149 j;'- 3.5
135 j 144 ' 164 + 13.5
115 113 116 I + 2.7
169 : 184 : 203 ! -f- 10.7
83
254 + 1.6
162 | + 14.5
171
73 j 109
63 ! 158 !
19
212 ; 215 ! 220 i + 2. 4
160
152 i 154 ! + 1.7
41 ! 104 256 i| + 147.5
168 Ii
90 ii
184 231 ! 249
131 i 142
50 ! 160 |
57 I
116 ! 81
1920
58 i 78
i
56
173 I + 114.9
;
i!
57 ; 56 i 96 !j+ 70.5
3,394
3,504
2,684 |
11,725 j
16,995 + 44.9
82
1920
63
1919
79 I 82 ;' 82
79 ! 80
82 ii+ 3.2
GLASS AND OPTICAL GOODS.
Bottles, production
index number..
Illuminating glassware:
Net orders
per ct. of capacity..
Actual production
per ct. of capacity..
Shipments billed
per ct. of capacity..
Spectacle frames and mountings:
Sales (shipments)
index number..
Unfilled orders (value)
index number..
52.4
55.7
54.8
58.3
56.6
51.3
45.5 |.
45.3 j.
41.1 L
M921
9 1921
9 1921
:i
79
90
—
107 123 |j 188 151
143 159 ;+ 11.2
154 , 156 ;j+ 1.3
120 * 125 || 154 143
152 , 154 ! 144 | j - 6.5
115
!
• i1
1919
257
44
259 j! 351 439
454 i 445 j 92 i 97 j 99 +
37 |! 93
1913
1913
1913
1914
168
172
165
152
173
176
167
157
1913
1.1
2.0
2.1
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION.
Building Costs.
Building materials:
Frame house, 6-room
Brick house, 6-room
Building costs
Concrete factory costs
index
index
index
index
number..
number..
number..
number..
•Revised.
»Twelve months' average, May, 1921, to April, 1922
8
Twelve months' average, July, 1921, to June, 1922.
53850—23
5
198
201
205
197
209
209
214
197
i
!
j
;
206
209 ,
217 ,
204 ,
212
214
221
204
|,+ 2.9
j + 2.4
|,+ 1.8
l! 0.0
30
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
I
| Per! cfentage
increase
CUMULATIVE TOTAL : ( + )
THROUGH
or deLATEST MONTH.
,; crease
(-)
, cumui lative
1922
1923
! from
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found ai the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the juiie number (.No. 221).
i'or detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
-i).
April,
19*23.
May,
11)28.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
If
INDEX NUMBERS.
UASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1923
1922
Apr.
Percentage
tn! crease
(+)
ordecreas c
(-)
May
Apr. ; May.from
Apr.
May. || Feb. ! Mar.
: 1922.
I
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION—
Continued.
Construction and Losses.
Building volume
index number..
Contracts awarded, floor space:
Business buildings
thous. of sq. ft..
Industrial buildings
thous. of sq. ft..
Residential buildings
thous. of sq. ft..
Educational buildings
thous. of sq. ft..
Hospitals and institutions, thous. of sq. ft..
Public buildings
thous. of sq. ft..
Social and recreational
buildings
thous. of sq. ft..
Religious and memorial
buildings
thous. of sq. ft..
Grand total
thous. of sq. ft..
Contracts awarded, value:
Business buildings
thous. of dolls..
Industrial buildings
thous. of dolls..
Residential buildings
thous. of dolls..
Educational buildings
thous. of dolls..
Hospitals and institutions.thous. of dolls..
Public buildings
thous. of dolls..
Public works and utilities, thous. of dolls..
Social and recreational
buildings
thous. of dolls..
Religious and memorial
buildings
thous. of dolls..
Grand total
thous. of dolls..
Southern construction
thous. of dolls.
Fire losses
thous. of dolls.
1913
150
179
105
195
160 ! 171 1 +
1919 '
113
40
157
380
235
145
76
40
157
112
322 i 208
320 j! 188
64
279 ||
107
60
195
214
318
159
103 j
47 I
194 j
305 ]
jj
188 ji
107
130 i 137 | 138 :!+ 0.4
I;
143
201
139
1919
1919
1919
1919
1919
1,736
1,743
1,270 :
64,527 |
1,062
60,430
1,952
59,639
4,923 :
230,064 ;
107
47
.0
1919
113
4,252 - 13.6
270,435 \,+ 17.5
1919
246
1919
125 |
204,505 [- 10.7
158,966 j + 54.5
689,2S6 I; + 26. 1
118,732
22,684 - 32.0
6,729 - 9.5
235,910 ; + 2.1
1919
174 i 170 ' 92
57 j 56
64
440 jj
128 !'
45,322 ! 53,133 ji
24,913
47,557
163,476 l 148,773
35,822 | 24,346
5,015 ;
3,996
1,431 ;
1,461
60,926
76,284
11,609
8,931
357,475
62.045
32,638
57,515 j 228,920 ;
23,893 i 102,903;
140,933 I 546,418 !
120,396 |
32,925
33,351 |
8,437
7,425 !
2,506
230,993 !
63,81
1919
1919
187 |
199
1919
!
369 i
331;
1919
202 ;
258
1919
123 j
224
1919
180
153
11,638
20,260 I
48,102'
46,834 1 - 2.6
1919
134 !
6,947
11,966 \
33,383 ;
28,089
- 15.9
1919
265
374,400 j| 362,590 ! 1,353,182 ! 1,512,664 + 11.8
52,993 i 150,458 | 198,987 + 32.3
1919
1
164 j 169 !
34,016 I
29,869 i
168,757 |
1921
106 :+ 2.1
69 |+ 47.2
170 - L IS. 4
206 |- 32.5
183 '; 138 I- 24.4
153 ! 156 ! - 18.2
286 ; 239 |- 16.4
138 ! 129 ||- 6.3
134
130
S7 ! 58
143 232 231
222 226 ! 360
ISO
154
152
133
71
128
102
146
72
1
157 + 17.2
111 + 90.9
210 |- 9 . 0
244 - 32.0
122 |- 20.3
131! + 2.1
182 ! + 25.2
125 133 167
167 + 0.2
383 I| 107
197
222 - 22.2
107 165 , 166 174
4.7
193 ! 212 i 1 3 1
2 4 1 • 225
138 ! 133 ; 191 184 ! 146
152 | + 4.2
+ 10.9
1919
2,250,697 ;+ 8.6
1917
94 !
1917
So i
187,200
291,
6.9
Lumber.
Southern pine:
Production (computed)
M ft. b. m.
428,471
478,576
477,898 2,073,300
Stocks,end of mo (computed1!.M ft. b. m. 1.056,358 1.010,591 1,111.878 i
Price, ltB"
and better
dolls, per M ft. b. m..
51.69
53.53 :
42.48
Douglas fir:
Production (computed)
M ft. b. m.. 539,871 ; 521,070 I; 464,686 2,043,185
Shipments (computed)
M ft. b. m . . 568,074 ; 534,972 || 487,518 1,972,006
Price, No. 1 common.dolls, per M ft. b. m . .
21. 50 I
21. 50 |j
13. 50 :
California redwood:
47,855
67,938
Production (computed)
Mft. b. m . .
63,162
229,179
52,744
57,326
Shipments (computed)
Mft. b. m . .
52,378 ; 204,366
55,336
Orders received (computed).. .M ft. b. m . .
43,347
62,945 !
232,. 791
California white pine:
Production
M ft. b. m . .
144,244
91,929
60,951 ; 117,035
Shipments
M ft. b. m . .
54,414
37,878 ; 149.115
68,019
Stocks
M ft. b. m . . 328,640 405,835
223,196
Michigan softwood:
Production
M ft. b. m . .
5,505 I
9,180 j
30, 628
9,832 ! 35, 609
Shipments
M ft. b. m . .
9,551 '
10,949 I
9,546 i
Stocks, end of month
M ft. b. m . .
42,980 i 41,100
48,807 \
Michigan hardwood:
Production
M ft. b. m . .
13,047 ; 18,281
67,042
14,479 !
Shipments
Mft. b. m . .
15,538 | 13,253
51, 297
11,806
Stocks, end of month
M ft. b. m.. 100,329 | 102,970
130,444 •.
j
i
Western pine:
Production (computed)
M ft. b. m . . 6 175,232 ! 193,251
160,087 | 411,960
Shipments (computed)
M ft. b. m . . •131,040 | 150,765
162,776
583,474
778,475 I.
Stocks,end of mo. (computed).M ft. b. m.. • 779,652 j 824,482
I
• Revised.
113
81 i
i
94
101
77
114
81
113 + 11.7
1913
180 • 184 I
2,404,442 I/ + 17.7
1917
121
!
2,676,597 ; + 35.7
1917
136
;
1913
12o ' 147
212 | 236 ! 236 | 236 i
256,537 '+ 11.9
1918
126
117
160 i 128
267,405 ',+ 30.8
1918
126 j 183 !
185
216 i 185
292,641 jj + 25.7
191S
1 4 8 • 219 |
208 i 233 ;
326,432 lj + 178.9
1918
270,003 !!+ 85.1
1918
103 ' 119 !: 139
1918
108 ;
1917
51 j
57 i
1917
46 !
54 '
1917
47 I
46
18.4
1917
48 |
5 2 jj
49.2
1917
34 ;
38 ;
1917
57
5 8 j:.
1917
99 ;
36 i
221 230 232
224 i -
3. 4
133 i; 116 148 155 I 149 - 3 . 5
151 ; 149 I 182 : 176 I 166 j - 5. 8
116 ;! 43
84 I; 139
0. 0
181 + 42.0
201 + 8.7
151 193 + 27.7
75 i 175 274 + 56.9
176 | 171 213 + 25.0
126 ! 124 153 + 23.5
i
33, 465 j + 9.3
40,004 j + 12.3
i
I
79, 374
76, 552
+
: 615,912 .+ 49.5
672,021 1 + 15.2
1917
1920
120
91 !
I;
146
147
32
33
46
56
43
47
35
!
52
54
46
54 I 114
106 j 131
87 j 84
32
62
40
53 + 66.8
54 - 12.8
39 - 4.4
47 | 66 + 40.1
49 I 42 - 14.7
45! 46 + 2.6
160
119
88
177 + 10.3
137 + 15.1
93 + 58
31
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE—Items marked With an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or ate repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
Will be found at the end of this bulletin. Fot
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the Jline number (No; 22),
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21);
Correspond5ing
month,
April
or May,
1922.
April,
1923.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase,
(+)
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1922
Percentage
increase
1923
(+)
or decrease
ft
Apr. May. Feb. Mar. Apr. May
1922
1923
62,990
57,890
252,840
231,630
240,170 - 5 . 0
261,660 + 13.0
1919
1919
158
156
68,252
58,428
196,273
195,148
230,971 + 17.7
239,602 + 22.7
1920
1920
129
97
18,115
9,986
61,775
38,420
59,815 + 15.5
65,568 ! + 70.7
1920
1920
140
138
24,793
21,913
79,084
68,762
28.9
35.6
1913
75 |
24,11?
1913
78 I
45,700
40,366
29,404
27,228
123,161
103,803
180,711 + 46.7
147,472 + 42.1
1913
1913
104
109
155
173 j
161
107
110
114
160 !
159
703,277
686,636
1913
76
85
1921
90.5
58.2
from
Apr.
AND C O N S T R U C T I O N Continued.
Lumbef— Continued*
Ndrth Carolina pine:
Production (computed)
M ft. b. rii..
Shipments (computed)........M ft. b. m . .
Northern pine:
Lumber—
PfOductiOn. . . . . . . , „ . . , . . , .M ft. b. ffl..
Shipments
. . . . . . . . . . . . M ft. b. m . .
LathPVoductiOn
. . . . . . . . . . . . M ft. b ; ffi..
ghipments;
M ft. b. m.
Ndrthern hemlock:
Production
M ft. b. m.
Shipments
Mft. b. m.
Northern hardwood:
...Mft. b. m..
Production
...Mft. b. m.
Shipments
Exports:
Planks, scantling, joists.... ...Mft. b. m.
Composite lumber prices (1st of following
month):
Hardwoods
dolls, per M ft. b. m.
Softwoods
dolls, per Mft. b. m.
Flooring.
Oak flooring:
.Mff. b . m . .
Production
.Mft. b. m..
Shipments
.Mft. b . m . .
Orders booked
.Mft. b.m..
Stocks, end of month
Unfilled orders, end of month.. M. ft. b. m..
Maple flooring:
Production
M ft. b. m . .
Shipments
M ft. b. m . .
Orders booked
M ft. b. m . .
Stocks, end of month
M ft. b. m . .
Unfilled orders,end of month..M ft. b. m . .
Furniture:
Shipments
value, average per firm..
Unfilled orders.. .value, average per firm..
101,904
93,193
141,630
152,927
135,953
49.86
36.62
49.26
36.27
39.10
30.76
30,706
32,068
25,298
23,749
57,356
34,636 I
32,009 ;
22,677 !
26,816 j
49,548 j
21,914
25,251
30,608
23,534
40,417
98,717
101,593
113,707
11,401
15,181
19,060
10,924
36,722
12,069 j 610,031
12,999 i 613,725
19,131 | «30,215
8,034 | 618,387
34,578 | 625,109
49,039
51,245
59,768
37,153
64,540
40.390 :
53,840 j
20,900
20,944
127,522
67,242 !
66,299 |
53,086 |
107,352 ;
46,794
44,120
152,259
51,041
45,300
16,684 '
17,995 i
42,297 |
12,233
10,704
37,845
44,427 |
26,057
60,939 \
57,3(3
29,421 !
i
20.00 !
8,79 !
29,264
C3,S67
47,572
29,202
93,540 |
-
2.4
1920
149,472 j!+ 51.4
148,234 |+ 45.9
151,211 ; + 33.0
155
180
120
152
180
212
153
168
84
96
105
124
117
101
171
111 I
271
129 147 -
184 + 48.9
102 + 18.8
124 196
226
226
72
79
+ 58.2
+ 0.3
+ 8.0
93. 6 [116.2 120.2 J119. 3 117.9 62.0 I 72.8 74.5 I 73.8 73.1 ' -
306
417
16.9
12.2
1.2
1.0
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
298
370
491
296
4G2
328
420
501
261
557
1919
1919
1919
1919
1919
94
88
217
98
48
100 I 113
96
116
165
196
113
130
105
66
187,695 + 47.2
1920
1920
58
IS
195,670
182,616
319,224 !i+ 63.1
312,990 | + 71.4
207,153
351,076
1919
1919
1919
1919
1919
82
76
108
89
42
111
92
105
87
110
131
99
48 |
131 !
139
115
193
126
127
129
114
130
129
133 + 4.0
131 + 1.6
114 + 0.7
103 - 20.3
115 - 11.0
1919
1919
1919
70
75
87
87 | 103
76 j 103
91 | 109
119
127
107
99
103
101
119
128
101
1919
1919
1919
o 1920
199
118
171
188
173
209
102 ! 147 !
208 i 217 I
186
226 I
98 i 1G0 !
1913
1913
255
173
302
177
305
177
61,076 |+ 24.5
68,132 |+ 33.0
77,793 11-I- 30.2
67
21
548
281
785
83
51
483
582
C49
281
908
j
j
j
j
460
534
414
2C4
791
519
533
372
298
683
+ 12.8
- 0.2
10.4
+ 12.9
- 13.6
123 114
120 + 5.9
129 i 128 110 - 14.4
150 ! 123 124 + 0.4
57 - 20.5
129
77
90 - 5.8
111
105 ;
100
42
+ 8.7
- 16.6
Brick.
Clay fire brick (computed):
64,647
Production
thousands..
65,276
Shipments
thousands..
Stocks, end of month
thousands.. 157,685
66,613
New orders
thousands..
Unfilled orders
thousands.. 120,564
gilica brick (computed):
13,981
Production
thousands..
14,363
Shipments
thousands..
42,242
Stocks, end of month
thousands..
Face brick (32 identical plants):
23,515
Production
thousands..
65,447
Stocks, in sheds and kilns
thousands..
67,371
Unfilled orders
thousands..
Shipments
thousands.. j 26,423
Prices:
|
20.00
Common red, New York, .dolls, per thous..
8,79
Common salmon, Chicago.dolls, per thous..
e Revised,
158,8G4 I
44,535 I
76,310 j + 71.8
78,861 ij + 77.1
j
19.81
8.73
+ 09.5
!
+ 19.3
+ 25.3
+ 0.1
!
108,737 •+ 16.2
• !
86,2C3 :
us
110,975
+ 28. G
|
*Q Ten months' average, March to December, inclusive.
150
192
245
189
305
305
175
178
1G7
179
208
211
305
178
+
\\!|i+
10.8
6.9
14.9
11.3
0.0
0. \\
32
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
Ar>ril,
1923.
May,
1928.
Peri centage
increase
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
(+)
or deTHROUGH
crease
LATEST MONTH.
(-)
• cumui lative
1923
1922
192S
from
1922.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
[I
INDEX NUMBERS.
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1922
1923
Apr. May. Feb. Mar. ; Apr. May.
Percent
age
increase
(+)
or decrease
(-)
May
from
Apr.
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION—
Continued.
Cement.
Production
thous. of bbls..
Shipments
thous. of bbls..
Stocks, end of month
thous. of bbls..
Price, Portland
dolls, per b b l . .
Concrete paving contracts:
Total
thous. of sq. y d s . .
Roads
thous. of sq. y d s . .
Sanitary Ware.
Baths, enamel:
Orders shipped
S tooks
Orders received
Lavatories, enamel:
Orders shipped
Stocks
Orders received
Sinks, enamel:
Orders shipped
Stocks
Orders received
Miscellaneous enamel:
Orders shipped
Stocks
Orders received
Unfilled orders:*
Baths
Small ware
J
35,673
34,559
49,938 + 40.0
48,919 + 41.6
1913
1913
1913
1913
120
116
129
148
146
172
115
148
105
81
120
173
129 I 148
140 I 175
116
102
173
173
10,852
8,271
37,788
30,408
31,713 I - 16.1
30.4
21,149
1919
1919
255
265
244
241
141
138
128
109
105
132
212 + 28.0
175 + 31.8
82,100
47,694
150,475
320,473
432,374 i|+ 32.4
429,410 J
554,788 |:+ 29.2
1919
1919
1919
226
143
154
237
113
215
240
95
186
267
100
167
241
81
144
254 |j + 5.7
78 | | - 4.5
107 - 25.9
91,704
103,242
50,429 j 39,481
13G,587
98,272
107,708 I
433,930
474,407 !|+ 9.3
192,546 !
575,732
709,700 j | + 23.3
1919
1919
1919
222
75
188
235
50
262
182
40
212
229
36
201
200
36
186
220 + 12.6
28 - 21.7
133 - 28.1
97,834
50,628
132,830
109,377
440,583 I
533,211 | j + 19.4
587,485
749,346 !i + 27.6
1919
1919
1919
181
107
100
200
82
222
182
48
190
210
49
109
179
40
151
193 + 7.4
38 i - 4 . 4
118 - 21.9
219,235
261,232 ||+ 19.2
1919
1919
1919
174
107
153
178
97
192
158
62
180
199
68
1G1
182
67
148
195 + 7.0
60 - 11.1
144 - 2.4
1921
1921
164
159
358 j 714
338 I 771
732
818
749
851
701 - 6 . 4
825 - 3.1
75
25
85
106
71
I i 114 120 147
j I 49 46 62
I 159 I 148 209
|| 71 j 105 83
i2l
125 ] 153 155
140
72
183
119
146
87
88
85
70
88
90
90
70
11,359
12,954
11,463
1.75
12,910
14,257
10,144
1.75
11,176
12,749
12,893
7,370
4,550
9,431
5,997
number..
number..
number..
83,281
34,308
100,644
88,005
32,771
74,585
number..
number..
number..
number..
number..
number..
105,076
48,378
103,781
1.50 i
!
78,002 j
||
102,747
195,533 I
168
193
90
173
+
-I[_
j|
13.7
10.1
H.8
o.O
i
number..
number..
number..
51,618
53,594
61,827
55,234
47,050
60,354
50,044 I
77,788
80,341
n u m b e r . . 305,731
286,078
number.. 1,100,340 1,006,772
H I D E S A N D LEATHER.
Hides.
Imports:
Total hides and skins
Calf skins
Cattle hides
Goat skins
Sheep skins
Stocks, end of month:
Total hides and skins
Cattle hides
Calf and kip skins
Sheep and lamb skins
Prices:
Green salted, packer's heavy
native steers
Calfskins, country No. 1
thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
of lbs..
of lbs..
of l b s . .
of l b s . .
of l b s . .
63, 200
4,234
40,024
6,839
8,182
of l b s . . 373,023
of lbs., j 300,392
of lbs..! 49,444
of l b s . .
23,187
j
j
dolls, per l b . . !
.188
dolls, per l b . .
. 166
60,151
4,890
35, 150
9,783
7,703
38,118 I 163,420 j
11,582 I
2,624 I
19,907 1 90,383 I
7,228
33,937 i
6,375 j
20,179 1
283,125
20,196
167,196
39,946
39,972
jj+
;;+
;!+
;!+
j:+
73.2
74.4
85.0
17.7
98.1
380; 839 i 339,977
261,935 \
305, 218
52, 637 ; 50,187 \
22, 984 : 27,855
.187 j
.171
.146
.134
Leather.
Production:
Sole leather
thous. of bks., bends, sides. .j6l ,680,810 1,677, 676 ' Bl,357,147 7,422,632 8,160,373
38,706
Skivers
doz.J 12
1238,706
39, 478
Oak and union harness
stuffed sides. J 12 32,801 136, 530
Finished sole and belting
thous. of lbs. J 28,998 ! 29, 772
22,576 !
121,953 j 142,328 + 16.7
Finished upper
thous. of sq. ft..! 80,936
82, 164
67,275
356,344 ! 414,054 + 16.2
Stocks, end of month:
j
Sole and belting
thous. of lbs.. j 164,851 ! 165, 862
196,639 .
Upper
thous. of sq. ft..' 391,665 | 395, 660
452,651 !.
1909-13
1909-13 j
1909-13 I
1909-13
1909-13
1921
1921
1921
1921
80
79
80
90
1913
1913
73
89
39
104
88
79 j
77
86
85
108
1919
1919
1919
1921
1921
72 I 72
107 107
99
95
87
115 116
1921
1921
103
113
!
77 I
105
91
159 ! 181
117 ] 122
99 I 116
135 ! 153
102 I!
85 I
107 I
92 i
102
+
+
-
4.8
15.5
12.2
43.0
5.8
+ 2.1
+ 1.6
+ 6.5
- 0.9
101 - 0.5
90 + 3.0
90
- 0 2
+ 2.0
112 i 115 + 2.8
i
113 ! 116 + 1.7
140 I 142 + 2.5
166 i
169
85
86 + 0.6
93 I 94 + 1.0
« Revised.
11
Eight months" average, May t o December, inclusive.
11
Not exactly compa'able with monthly figures prior to July, 1922. The index numbers have been computed by chain relatives and take account of the percentage variation rather than th.2 absolute variation in figures , and hence show the trend of the movement irrespective of the change in the number of firms reporting.
33
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY ( N O .
21).
April,
1923.
May,
1923.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
1922
1923
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase,
(+)
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1922
Percentage
increase
1923
(+)
or decrease
Apr. May.
Feb.
Mar. Apr. May.
May
from
Apr.
100
100
4-0.8
— 1.4
H I D E S AND LEATHER—Continued.
Leather—Continued.
Stocks, in process of tanning:
Sole and belting
thous. of l b s . .
Upper
thous. of sq. ft..
Exports:
Sole
thous. of l b s . .
Upper
thous. of sq. ft..
111,084
164,116
161,846
1,071
7,341
6,174
111,983
1,710
99,609
164,434
1921
1921
2,450
7,981
6,977
32,635
7,186 + 3.0
32,577 - 0 . 2
1913
1913
373
615
1,364
2,274
1,975 4- 44.8
3,645
60.3
1919
1919
132,100
2,145
159,565 4- 20.8
3,189
48.7
1919
1913
90
104
90
100
100
100
100
101
4- 59.7
- 15.9
Leather Products.
Belting sales:
Quantity
thous. of l b s . .
Amount
thous. of dolls..
Boots and shoes:
Production
thous. of pairs..
Exports
thous. of pairs..
Wholesale p r i c e s Men's black calf,
blucher
dolls, per pair..
Men's dress welt,
tan calf, St. Louis.. .dolls, per pair..
Women's black kid, Goodyear welt, St. Louis...dolls, per pair..
495
923
70
31,868
759
30,816
788
26,227
515
6.50
6.50
6.50
1913
209
4.85
4.85
4.60
1913
4.25
4.25
4.15
110
65
130
73
115
90
3.3
112 94 4 - 3 . 8
209
210
209
209
209
0.0
145
145
153
153
153
153
0.0
1913
140
138
142
142
142
142
0.0
1920
1920
1920
1920
61
65
58
106
128
131
120
91
112
116
109
105
114
122
112
95
1909-13
1909-13
118
60
149
81
200
105
281
119
228
CHEMICALS.
Production:
Acetate of lime
thous. of l b s . .
Methanol
gate..
Consumption, wood, carbonized
cords..
Stocks, wood, at chemical plants
cords..
Imports:
Potash
long tons..
Nitrate of soda
long tons..
Exports:
Sulphuric acid
thous. of lbs..
Dyes and dyestuils
thous. of dolls..
Total fertilizer
long tons..
Price index numbers:
Crude drugs
index number..
Essential oils
index number..
Drugs and
Pharmaceuticals
index number..
Chemicals
weighted index number..
Price, sulphuric acid 66°
N. Y
dolls, per 100 l b s . .
13,575
738,059 [
82,869
53,373
1,877,398
200,673
43,775
7,390
416,112
59,582 4- 78.5
3,276,193 4-74.5
363,427 + 81.1
746,626
25,077
10,005
98,577
107,329
369
906
574
579
98,236
104,641
.71
.75
12,585
64,130
97,777
146,103
97,579
522,406
2,148
307
158,149
6,497
2,146
430,693
3,372 - 48.1
2,658 4- 23.9
433,488 4 - 0 . 6
- 0 . 2
4-257.6
1909-13
1909-13
1909-13
47 - 60.
249 4- a9
71
114
324 350
148 4-145.5
60
1,194 1,061 1,784 2,034 1,985 2,000 4 - 0 . 9
70
87
101 4 - 6 . 5
84
153
95
1914
1914
177
177
135
239
125
253
128
253
134
244 - 3 . 6
137 4 - 2 . 2
1914
1914
117
158
116
159
132
176
133
178
132
180
132
180
0.0
1913
84
70
70
71
75
4-5.6
107
49
224
+109.8
+ 19.0
0.0
NAVAL S T O R E S .
Turpentine (3 principal ports):
Net receipts
Stocks
Rosin (3 principal ports):
Net receipts
Stocks
barrels..
barrels..
16,267
34,130
15,312
18,224
barrels..
barrels..
65,058
105,626
202,391
211,063
thous. of l b s . .
thous. of lbs..
5,661
3,144
64,452
thous. of l b s . .
thous. of lbs..
18,033
28,659
4,601
55,393
93,019
251,823
294,845
333,740
4- 13.2
1919
1919
79,698
3,373
65,851
40,556
310,552
29,874 - 26.3
311,140 4- 0.2
18,454
13,930
12,765
60,687
70,796
78,384 4- 29.2
96,564 4- 36.4
72,068 4- 30.1
1919
1919
188
15
94
104
127
166
126
83
141
87
111
116
101
189 + 62.4
105 + 4.3
1913
1913
16
301
12
308
23
256
18
229
19
301
11 - 44.5
373 + 23.7
1913
1913
115
115
115
108
154
166
171
166
154
152
156
F A T S AND OILS.
Total vegetable oils:
Exports
Imports
Oleomargarine:
Production
Consumption
18,606
+
2.3
u
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
>JOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
Mav,
1923.
Arjril,
1923.
21).
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
Correspond-
ing
•IXlOIllil,
A rvril
April
or May,
1922.
I N D E X NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
1922
(+)
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
age
inBASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1922
1923
crease
(+)
1923
from
1922.
1923
Percent-
Feb.
Apr. May.
or decrease
(-)
May
Mar. Apr. May. from
Apr.
FATS AND OILS—Continued.
Cottonseed.
Cottonseed stocks
Cottonseed oil:
Stocks
Production
Price, New York
tons..
64,752
23,098
23,380
thous. of lbs..
thous. of lbs..
dolls, per lb..
37,484
24,196
40,356
20,176
304,342
.117
.117
23,704
12,858
.117
486
398
290
1,251
1,919
55
238
87
434
547
368,397
1919
9
5
59
31
13
5
1919
33
25
87
63
39
25
— 35.4
1919
22
12
91
56
37
18
-50.0
1913
158
162
150
163
162
162
0.0
+ 53.4
1913
27
4
33
7
52
42
1913
21
4
31
_j_ 26.0
5
23
+ 21.0
-
64.3
Flaxseed.
Receipts:
Minneapolis
thous. of bushs
Duluth
thous. of bushs
Shipments:
Minneapolis
thous. of bushs
Duluth
thous. of bushs
Stocks:
Minneapolis
thous. of bushs
Duluth
thous. of bushs..
Linseed oil:
Shipments from Minneapolis, thous. of lbs..
Linseed-oil cake:
Shipments from Minneapolis, thous. of lbs..
s
— 18.1
!
|
+332. 7
I
62
29
45
465
353
— 24.1
1913
26
163
147
542
634
+ 17.0
1913
9
60
68
1913
9
14
81
1913
8,661
9,845
7,952
34,358
45,041
+ 31.1
1913
15,930
10,011
4,452
48,995
72,091
+ 47.1
1913
14,396
14,267
67,853
29,070
25,474
64,855
60,032
-
1913
86
120
102
1913
173
132
264
+ 13.8
+ 6.7
1919
50
92
69
69
70
1919
54
128
54
68
63
+ 41.2
— 36.0
5 3 : - 23.6
i n + 76.6
+ 14.1
43,230 + 5.9
1914
81
97
109
92
117
1C9
85
103
106
29 i
!
52
4
!
53 2
13
37
3
22
6
29
3
7
3
1
1
40
52
55
53
57
65
+ 13.7
14
15 ;
44
51
53
33
- 37.2
90
86
249
231
121
148
34
40
2
4
V /
19
1 C
1
Oft i
£0 j
+523 1
+566. 7
I I + 55.6
FOODSTUFFS.
Wheat.
Exports, including flour thous. of bushs..
10,195
Visible supply
thous. of bushs . 118,861
Receipts, principal markets... thous. of bushs..
21,901
Shipments, prin. markets
thous. of bushs..
12,567
Wheat flour:
Production
thous. of bbls..
8,969
Consumption
thous. of bbls..
8,427
7,457
Stocks
thous. of bbls..
Prices:
1.253
No. 1, northern, Chicago. .dotts. per bush..
1.320
No. 2, red winter, Chicago.dolls, per bush.. |
Flour, standard patents,
Minneapolis
dolls, per b b l . .
6.956
Flour, winter straights,
Kansas City
dolls, per bbl.
5.744
76,029
16,742
22,191
105,078
73,164
119,622
44,282
46,835
50,516
78,055
7.4
i
11,378
8,641
8,073
7,245
5,700
83 ;
!
1919
1919
85
89
60
58
98
82
+ 26.9
+ 2.5
79
1.446
1.356
1913
152
158
136
133
137
131
1.289
1913
141
138
138
134
134
131
— 4.2
— 2.3
6.720
8.060
1913
178
176
146
145
152
147
— 3.4
5.675
6.675
1913
176
174
145
146
149
148
-
5,632
5,358
446
268
211
184
8,598
11,306
31,170
27,083
23,691
4,705
1913
24,472
1913
470
371
356
372
127
133
291 i io2
181
209
175
268 | 187
112 1 127
182
1.200
1.2
Corn.
Exports, including meal
thous. of bushs..
Visible supply
thous. of bushs
Receipts, principal markets...thous. of bushs..
Shipments, prin. markets
thous. of bushs..
Grindings (starch, glucose).. .thous. of bushs..
Prices, contract grades,
No. 2, Chicago
dolls, per bush..
16,976
10,663
14,274
16,187
5,270
6,084
.793
.809
94,750
183,097
120,836
26, 726
35,036
122, 706
- 33.0
- 29.2
28,x66 ,+ 5.4
1919
97
85,605
1919
136
1913
100
i
1913
.618
8
Index number less than one.
j
16,867
13,454
21,932
13,514
1,175
1,069
19,594
47,950
3,104
78,499 |
i
.466
.451
8,856 i
87,547
*>&l
+ 11.5
- 48.3
.403
94
99 I 1 1 8
45
94
77
1913
321
275
1 "*Q
1913
67
103
32
! io7
122
21
32
28
FiQ !
Dy i
CQ
on
oy
1913
1,806
708
365
2,933 I
1 015
.670
.673
.679
12,728
3 739
14,031 + 10.2
4_
K *>
3 937 ; T^
0,0
118
127
130
+
2.0
i
1913
i
2,500
142
-4.9
— 64.9
113
71 - 37.2
161
183 + 13.4
126 j 145 + 15.4
I
i
j
Other Grains.
Oats:
Receipts, prin. markets... thous. of bushs..
Visible supply
thous. of bushs..
Exports, including meal, .thous. of bushs..
Prices, contract grades,
Chicago
dolls. per bush..
Barley:
Receipts, prin. markets... thous. of bushs..
Exports
thous. of bushs
Price, fair to good, malting,
Chicago
dolls, per bush..
- 63.0
|
1913
iyio
1913
i
I
102
109
107
90 |
138
29 ;
38 i
AQ !
oy |
106
82
126 1
39
- 20.2
— 38.4
9.0
35 -
65
7g
124 i 1 2 0
— 3.2
20
- 27.8
48 4
28
4.a
4o
107
or
108 |+
0.4
35
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued,
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
April,
1923.
May,
1923.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
I PerIcentage
(increase
i <+>
! or dei crease
I (-)
j ciixnuI lative
1923
I from
! 1922.
1922
1923
12,091 i
12,753 j
18,335 l|+ 51.6
17,676 || + 38.6
INDEX NUMBERS.
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1922
Percentage
increase
1923
(+)
or decrease
(-)
May
Apr. M a y . i Feb, Mar. Apr. Mav. from
Apr.
FOODSTUFFS—Continued.
Other Grains—Continued.
Rye:
Receipts, prin. markets...thous. ofbushs.J
Exports, including flour, .thous. of bushs.. I
Price, No. 2, Chicago
dolls, per bush..!
I
4,022
2,226
.853
2,388 |
4,639 j
.777 j
4,564
5,491 j
1.056
1913
1913
1913
367
110 353
2,545 3,543 3,854
136
164 166
284 I 289 185 -40.6
892 ! 1,436 2,993 + 108.4
130 ! 134 122 - 8.9
Total Grains.
Total grain exports, incl. flour, thous. of bushs..
Car loadings of grain and grain products, .cars..
19,936
38,259
Other Crops.
Rice:
Receipts at mills
thous. of bbls..
529
Shipments, total from mills..thous. of lbs..
70,774
Shipments, through New
Orleans
thous. of lbs..
31,549
Stocks, end of m o n t h Domestic, at mills and
dealers
thous. of lbs.. 157,505
Imports
thous. of lbs..
7,072
Exports
thous. of lbs.. 33,193
Apples:
Cold-storage holdings.
thous. of bbls..
1,070
Car-lot shipments
carloads..
2,699
Potatoes, car-lot shipments
carloads.. 6 21,728
Onions, car-lot shipments
carloads..
6 1,335
Citrus fruit, car-lot shipments
carloads..
9,962
105
105
96
124 |+ 29.5
- 12.1
65
107
87
116
22 11- 74.1
92 - 20.9
121 81
124
- 35. 7
25,827
33,622
35,183
42,186
184,953 !
121,262 - 34.4
1913
1919
137
56,004
91
48,181
3,662 ;
406,235 |
2,406 - 34.3
349,955 j - 13.9
1919
1919
20,272
20,020
130,415 i
138,013 + 5.8
1919
63
116,979
2,453
35,140
97,242
8,610
31,284
31,769
204,235
28,445 - 10.5
183,914
1919
1919
1919
165
36
135
120 i; 251 215
22
63 j| 29
100 I 106 111
277
1,529
15,124
2,514
9,731
314
1,140
6 20,275
«2,2S6
6,205
14,733 j
92,474 ;
8,915 |
38,393|
+ C3.0
-3.4
- 3 . 9
+ 33.1
1919
1919
1919
1919
1919
54
26
134
178
137
18
17
135
131
115
1,900
716
300
1,173
1,878
780
359
1,086
8,014 |
3,233 ;
1,352 |
4,727 j
8,374
4.5
3,15S
2.3
1,222 - 9.6
5,16(3 -I- 9.3
1919
1919
1919
1919
72
63
53
79
91
87 I 63
82 |j 4 8
95 |j 76
1913
1919
1913
106
80
101
li
124 !| 107
94 I 83
141 j; 84
1919
27
24,018
89,299
8,509
51,103
174
84
170
141
108 ! 106
79 !
;
|!
!i
|!
!;
223
92
90
80
179
194 j 144 |j- 25.7
52 | 18 j|- 65.3106
112 |+. 5.9
133
79
153
81
205
62
40
145
77
185
73
62
81
45
53
84
95
16 I - 74.1
22 |_ 43.3
101 - 30.4
f S8.3
180 - 2,3
Cattle a n d Beef.
Cattle movement, primary markets:
Receipts
thousands..
Shipments, total
thousands..
Shipments, stocker and feeder.thousands..
Slaughter
thousands..
Beef products:
Inspected slaughter product, thous. of lbs..
Apparent consumption
thous. of lbs..
Exports
thous. of lbs..
Cold- storage holdings
(1st of following month).. .thous. of lbs..
Prices, Chicago:
Cattle, corn-fed
dolls, per 100 lbs..
Beef, fresh native steers.dolls, per 100lbs..
Beef, steer rounds, No. 2.dolls, per 100 lbs.
1,670
573
233
1,080
408,228
408,046
12,149
442,368
442,334
13,647
427,393
418,682
19,145
78,535
64,922
50,852
1,916,823 2,047,596 ! + 6.8
1,880,247 i 2,034,037 |j+ 8.2
72,201 j 04,892 | - 10.1
j!
42
64
1913
1913
1913
9.538
14.50
14.60
8.615
14.50
15.10
4,524
1,443
67
3,072
3,737
1,149
70
« 2,572
18,106
6,511
289
11,588
739,251
608,134
165,272
644,495
475,985
99,440
3,010,352
2,134,309
579,661
991,167
7.450
101 |;
112
110
+
+
+
+
13.8
25.0
28.8
8.6
117
119 129 i+ 8.4
89 ! 91 I 99 |+ 8.4
111 ! 89 I 100 !|+ 12.3
38
33
27 | - 17.3
110 109
112
111
106
112
111
|!
112 j+ 5.8
112 j! 0.0
112 + 0.7
132
143
92
128
116
117
101
115
121
121
89
121
153 I 153!+ 0.2
171 I 217+ 26.9
200 201 + 0.0
112
24 1:
9.015
14.50
14.50
93
80
68
103
112 |i 114
110 I1 105
Hogs a n d P o r k .
Hog movement, primary markets:
Receipts, primary markets
thousands.,
4,318
Shipments, primary markets. .thousands..
1,393
Shipments, stocker and feeder.thousands..
76
Slaughter
thousands..
2,924
Pork products:
Inspected slaughter p r o d u c . thous. of lbs.. 737,545
Apparent consumption
thous. of lbs.. 479,352
Exports
thous. of lbs.. 164,288
Cold-storage holdings (1st of
following month)
thous. of lbs.. 1,025,322
Prices:
Hogs, heavy, Cliicago.. .dolls, per 100 lbs..
7.965
Pork, loins, fresh,
Chicago
dolls, per 100lbs..
15.30
• Revised.
19,30
23,504
8,095
342
15,444
30.1
24.3
18.3
33.3
1919
1919
1919
1919
75
79
3,993,319 j + 32.7
2,746,828 + 28.7
874,641 + 50.9
1913
1919
1913
759,454
+
+
+
+
100
120
96
140
93
85
101
111
105
145
110
133
156
170
175
121
200
177
208
226
1919
76
83
92
102
10.425
1913
122
125 i 9 4
23.80
1913
159
160
105
95
100
103
+ 4.8
+ 3.6
- 11.8
+ 5.1
109 I- 3.3
S9 -
0.5
130 + 20.1
36
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
N U M E R I C A L ]XVTA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
A r»ril
April,
1923.
VfoTT
jvia\»
1923.
21).
Corresponding
:
month
April :
or Mav,
1922.'
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
(+ ) !
or decrease
(-)
1922
1923
:
Percent-
j
age
in-
BASE
YEAR
1922
!
1923
OR
PERIOD.
cumulative
1923 ;
from I
Apr.
May.
Feb.
1922. ;
crease
(+)
or decrease
(-)
Mav
Mar. ! Apr. May.! from
Apr.
FOODSTUFFS—Continued.
Sheep and Mutton.
Sheep movement, primary markets:
Receipts, primary markets
thousands..
Shipments, primary markets..thousands..
Shipments, stocker and feeder, .thousands..
Slaughter
thousands .!
Lamb and mutton:
Inspected slaughter produc. .thous. of lbs..
Cold-storage holdings
(1st of following month)... thous. of lbs..
Prices:
Sheep, ewes, Chicago
dolls, per 100 lbs..
Sheep, lambs, Chicago...dolls, per 100lbs..
1,447 j
584
82 j
1,794
1,692
909
832
7,673 +
3,514 - 2
752 +
4 I.^s -f-
7,019
3,G17
216
145
737
855
888
852
3,9%
37,726
37,482
33,226
104,450 '
o.7;
1919
54
.8
2.0
3.9
1919
47
192,023 + 16.8 !
1919
17
75 ;
69 |
25 j
1919
64
81
67
63
53
20
76
1913
56
63
66
75
60
53
29
81
+ 24.0
+ 55. 7
37 + 103. 4
84 + 3.9
72
72 ' -
69
54
- 20.6
— 18.5
+ 0.7
64
48
14
79
75
0.6
1
6 5,774 :
4,582
2,310
1919
7,5C5
6.1G9 :
13.144
5.900
12. 475
1913
13.055
25
27
68
79
149
126
143
153
161
132
170
160
188
183
168
169
76
28
87
67
89
87
89
1919
28
44
27
17
20
+ 1.8
+ 14. 4
1919
57
73
119
S7
63
68
+
1919
76
58
171
143
112
86
23
J
1913
!
Fish.
j
6 10,590
15,392
6 12,117
thous. of lbs..
12,446
thous. of lbs..
« 74,562
Total catch, prin. fishing ports...thous. of lbs..
Cold-storage holdings, 15th of mo.thous. of lbs..
15,120
15,168
17,076
81,902 ;
13,392
14,552
76,812
57,240
38,602
6
05,502 - 20.0 '
1919
Poultry.
Receipts at 5 markets
Cold-storage holdings
(1st of following month)
110,346 '+ 43.7
7.6
• 23 2
Dairy Products.
Condensed and evaporated milk:
Exports
thous. of lbs..
18,176
Receipts at 5 markets:
Butter
thous. of lbs..
48,699
16,410
Cheese
thous. of lbs..
2,237
Eggs
thous. of cases..
Cold-storage holdings (1st of following mo.):
Creamery butter
thous. of lbs..
3,248
American cheese
thous. of lbs.. 814,065
6
Case eggs
thous. of cases..
3,737
Wholesale prices at 5 markets:
.445
Butter
dolls, per l b . .
Cheese
dolls, per l b . .
.216
Fluid milk:
Receipts14,714
Boston (including cream).thous. of qts..
Greater New York
thous. of cans..
2,297
Production—Minneapolis
thous. of qts..
18,154
16,143 '• 15,711
103,254
77,311 - 25.1
1919
34
22
18
2S
26
65,330
18,982 1
2,884 ;
237,097
71,155
9,276
253,223 4- 6.8
76,427 + 7.4
9,123 — 1.6
1919
93
97
245
150
89
110
106
116
77
96
101
218
86
179
188
9,907
17,490
7,884
68,893
18,809
2,587
1919
1
+ 34. 2
+ 15. 7
243 : -f. 28. 9
142
1916-20
7
23
16
9
6
1916-20
29
42
56
39
38
8,OoO
1916-20
126
218
12
101
.360
1919
61
61
75
1919
59
56
83
SO
82
.175
78
70
1919
110
125
100
115
113
131
1913
144
166
134
153
154
170
192
226
216
254
254
16,287
2,479
16,114
72,419
10,802
71,342
74,283 + 2.6
11,314 + 4.7
88,296 + 23.8
1919
:
(3)
+ 205.0
+ 24.4
214 + 111.0
18
47
70 '• — 6 . 3
72 i+ 3.2
+ 15.9
+ 11.0
2S7 + 13.1
Sugar.
I
Raw:
Imports
long tons .
Meltings, 7 ports
long tons..
Stocks at refineries, end of
month
long tons..
Refined:
Exports
long tons..
Cane, domestic:
Receipts at New Orleans
long tons..
Prices:
Wholesale, 96° centrifugal,
N. Y
dolls, p e r l b . .
Wholesale, refined, N. Y
dolls, p e r l b . .
Retail, average 51 cities
index number
Cuban movement:
Receipts at Cuban ports
long tons..
Exports....
long tons
Stocks
long tons..
11.2
117
13,202
15,481
.417 i
.223
17,051
2,550 i
20,526
1919
-
486,421
367,891
446,678
474,169 ' 577,330
327,081
315,680
391,741
39,324
2,254,911
2,351,973
1,823,674 — 19.1
2,065,098 — 12.2
271,890
43,679 j 146,454
1913
269
254
140
329
223
209
—
6.1
1919
164
178 i 105
157
150
146
—
2.5
1919
332
285
130
298
343
331
—
3.5
501,594
148,791 — 70.3
1909-13
14,236
37,692 + 164.8
1913
7
7
114
122
122
116
218
158
155
168
896
663
1,187
.078
.079
.094
.041
1913
.053
1913
.092
1913
563,325
461,321
756,155
325,987 1 555,852 2,843,998
399,020
565,350 1,910,027
669,543 1,043,420
• Index number less than one.
2,934,258 + 3.2
2 291 944 + 20.0
1919
1919
1919
997 1,071 1,332 1,479 '!+ n. I
4,149 4,959
«Revised.
123
120
174
162
I
26.0
9
4
6
4
176
171
158
208
223
227
201
215
220
185
193
+
+
204 +
207
146
71
261
171
99 j -
199
142
123 • j — 1 3 . 5
101
117
104 1 - 1 1 . 5
1.3
2.2
5.7
j!
42.1
37
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed taApril.
bles were given in the June number (No. 22).
1923.
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
'-'I).
"
:
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
ncrease
(+)
or decrease
(-)
1922
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
Percrnlage
increase
(4-)
or dc1
crease
1923
Apr. May. 1 Feb. Mar. Apr. May.
May
from
Apr.
1922
1923
544, 880
627, 948 + 15.2
1909-13
133
161
174
232
151
4,572|
j
3,187 - 3 0 . 3
1913
1913
1913
76
55
86
75
61
80
63
58
93
59
64
77
52
55
27
46 - 10.7
44 - 2 0 . 0
31 ;+ 16.0
1913
108
170
71
86
120
211
117
153
69
54
69
91 -
1909-13
68
68
65
51
52
66 j + 25. 5
1913
1913
79
266
90
355
80
357
91
389
84
363
1913
85
97
88
99
92
1909-13
1913
1919
130
481
6
127
567
2
85
394
43
101
485
28
129
550
5
92 - 28.7
582 ;+ 5.8
1 - 81.0
1913
208
208
208
208
208
208 ;
274
162
257
334
174
284
33
42
526
205
384
641
212
476
753
278
537
+ 47.1
1015
1915
1915
1013
1913
824 + 9.4
249 - 10.6
555 4- 3.4
107
62
-
10.8
1919
651
790
60S
682
690
24,109 + 5.4
9,909 - 9 . 6
14,201 + 19.2
1913
1913
1913
184
184
75
123
244
SO
87
130
72
107
160
88
105
165
84
134 + 27.7
217 + 31.4
105 ' + 25. 1
24,125 + 5.2
9,866 - 11.1
14,257 + 20.4
1913
1913
1913
109
191
77
92
115
210 I 127
78
70
104
145
88
109
163
88
132 + 21. 1
204 :+ 24.7
104 + 18.4
1920
1920
27.3
25.4
27.9
25.7
21.8 23.1
21. 1 21.9
22.6
22.6
22.3 - 1.3
22.1 - 2 . 2
1919
115
311
196
85
259
161
3
6
8
4
5
7
6
4
7
19 + 230.7
5 + 38.8
17 + 139.3
2
9
3
6
10
7
178
923
334
162
697
285
73
420
146
16 :- 78.7
271 - 35.4
67 - 53.9
FOODSTUFFS—Continued.
Coffee.
Imports
thous. of l b s . .
Visible supply (1st of following mo.):
.. .thous. of bags..
World
...thous. of bags..
United States
...thous. of bags..
Receipts, total, Brazil
Clearances:
Total, Brazil, for world .. .thous. of bags..
Total, Brazil, for U. S. .. .thous. of bags..
114,073
90,416
122 093
6,104
5,451
8 872
146
765
1,033 |
826
257 !
298
679 [
679
703 i
5,161
4,926
212 |
356
337 i
2,294 I
2,690 !'+ 17.3
4,309 |
5,406
-
4.6
120 - 20.7
0. 0
4.6
Tea.
Imports
thous. of lbs..
5,634
29,840
28,050 : | -
6.0
TOBACCO.
Consumption (tax-paid withdrawals):
533
576
569
2,490
2,749 + 10.4
Large cigars
millions..
4,601
18,522
25,282 + 36.5
4,711 ; 5,555
Small cigarettes
millions..
Manufactured tobacco
34,055
36,361
35,846
172,013
176,568 + 2.6
and snuff
thous. of lbs..
Exports:
40,590
28,946
39,844
171,415
169,569 1.1
Unmanufactured leaf.
thous. of lbs..
Cigarettes
thousands.. 1,063,237 1,124,735 1,094,728 4,605,242 4,794,894 + 4.1
4,309
819
1,338 180,413
120,215-33.4
Sales at loose-leaf warehouses
thous. of lbs..
Price, wholesale, Burley good leaf,
dark red, Louisville
...dolls, per 100lbs..
-7.50
27.50
27.50
91 + 8.1
429 + 17.9
98
+6 8
0.0
TRANSPORTATION—WATER.
Cargo Traffic.
Panama Canal:
In American vessels.. .thous. of long
In British vessels
thous. of long
Total cargo traffic
thous. of long
Sault Ste. Marie Canal.... thous. of short
New York State canals.. .thous. of short
Mississippi River:
Government barge line
tons..
tons..
tons..
tons..
tons..
1,373
510
2,187
tons..
60,202
1,502
456
2,262
10,645
231
609
319
1,159
3,317
157
2,307
1,457
4,810
3,956
157
5,777
2,138
9,545
10,645
231
56,871
235,471
210,155
-4-150.4
4- 46.7
+ 98.4
4-169.1
Vessels in Foreign Trade.
Entered in United States ports:
Total
thous.
American
thous.
Foreign
thous.
Cleared from United States ports:
Total
thous.
American
thous.
Foreign
thous.
of net tons..
of net tons..
of net tons..
4,676
1,936
2,740 |
5,969
2,543
3,427
2,601 |
22,872
10,960
11,912 !
of net tons..
of net tons..
of net tons..
4,890
2,042 !
2,848 j
5,920
2,547
3,372
5,175 I
2,621 !
2,554
22,934 ,
11,098
11,837
5,471
2,870
Index of Ocean Freight Rates.
United States Atlantic t o United Kingdom, weighted index number..
All Europe
weighted index number..
TRANSPORTATION—RAIL.
Freight Cars.
Surplus (daily av. last week of month):
Box
number..
Coal
number..
Total
number..
Shortage (daily av. last week of month):
Box
number..
Coal
number..
Total
number..
4,654 : 15,670
3,953
2,849
13,556 ; 32,443
13,940
17,634
2,974
11,392 j
35,282 j 16,277 j
69,714
195,439
305,198
1,094
423
1,714
1919
1919
1919
1919
1919
38
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have I
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed I
tables covering back figures for these items I
will be four.dat the end of this bulletin. For I
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed ta- j
bles were given in the June number (No. 22). ; Aprils
1923.
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
•21).
ii
ii Per! centapei
1
increase
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
\\ (+)
; or de; crease
1
(-)
cumulative
1923
! from
1922.
BASE
YEAR
OR
I N D E X NUMBERS.
1922
:
,
;
PERIOD. I
1
1922
Apr.
May.
Percentago
increase
1923
(+)
, or decrease
(->
May
Fob. Mar. | Apr. MHV. frcrh
Apr.
TRANSPORTATION-RAIL-Conttnued. |
Freight Cars—Continued.
!
Locomotives in bad order:
i
Freight
perct. to number in use..
23.7
Passenger
per ct. to number in use. J
23. 2
Bad order cars, total (1st of following
:
month)
:
number..; 210,505
Car loadings (weekly average):
j
Total
cars.. ! «941,792
Grain and grain products
cars.. | e 38,259
Live stock
cars.. 631,634
C oal
cars.. j 6176,555
Forest products
cars.. j «76,966
Ore
cars.. j e20,169
Merchandise and miscellaneous
cars.. j 6 82,287
Freight carried
mills, of ton-miles.
38,298
23.1
25.8
26.1
1919
1919
94
101
95
23.2
211,766
340,822
1913
212
217
139
978,341
33,622
31,169
179,904
75,697
61,631
782,670
1919
1919
29,550
1919
579,004
540,546
39,598
27,855
141,133
91
84
82
: 41
99
j
26
!
110
90
98
108
90
47
107
49
114
102
106
42,186
404,965
319,615
85,531
1,534,563
547,282
449,443
2,139,184
354,509
62,147
4.45
1,714,301
181
149
176
196
103
185
138
420,656
225
153
175: 210
207 ' 230
65 140
86 , 72
113
177
154 157
124
112 127
218
153
205
222
139
126 1
154
129
229 +
156 ;+
215; +
231 j +
150 +
123 -
11,936
163
145
163
185
83
78
180
119
107
101
105
96
128
116
125
120
131
119
126
125
131
118
127
128
131 + 0.4
117 — 1. 1
124 J - 2 . 4
130 i + 1.2
257
270
261 i +
82,794
1919
60,714
1919
18,384
1919
1919
187,399
+32.8
1913
1,883,057 + 22.7
436,294 + 7.2
2,554,789 ;+ 19.4
1913
2,027,267 + 18.3
356,501 + 30.6
1913
;
j
94
92
87
93 I
94 !
137
143
85
-
2. r»
88 I
0. 0
139 j+
jj
0.6
122 + no
86 - 12.1
96 : 9 5 i - 1.5
100 ; 102 : + 1.9
135 133 j - 1 . 6
54 165 '+205.6
123 123 |- TT. 6
140 145 i + 3.4
114
105
97 ! 95 i
105 | 105
117 132
36
28
105 118
119 143
117
106,
98 j
Railroad Operations.
Revenue:
Freight
thous. of dolls.
Passengers
thous. of dolls.
Total, operating
thous. of dolls.
Operating expense
thous. of dolls.
Net operating income
thous. of dolls.
Per cent on valuation
per cent.
Receipts per ton-mile
index number.
Pullman passengers carried
thousands.
LABOR.
Number employed:
United States (1,428 firms) thousands.
New York State
thousands.
Wisconsin
index number.
Detroit
thousands..
Total pay roll:
i
New York State
thous. of dolls.. j
Wisconsin
index number.. ]
Av. weekly earnings:
j
Wisconsin
index number.
New York Statef
dollars..|
Unemployment, Pennsylvania (1st of
following month)
number..
Employment agency operations:
Workers registered
number..
Jobs registered
number..
Workers placed
number..
Average applicants per job
number..
Immigration
number..
E migration
number.. j
386,136
87,872
523,167
404,058
83,201
6.50
89,938
89,999
6.33
406,938
272,938
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
2,682
2,670 !
2,562
2,040
2,048 i
1,669
1921
566
560 i
482
1914
227
230 I
170
1920
104
100
102
85
11,857
1914
194
200
241
257
1915
193
206
262
264
1915
210
207
210
216
12,991
+
8.8
1913
1915
15,276
15,484 ii
4.9
2.4
4.6
4.1
8.2
2.4
129 j - 0 . 4
280 ! +
1.4
3.7
+
221 +
7.1
2.3
27.63
24. 59
1914
190
194
197 j,
27.00
11,605
9,465
167,405 ;
1921
82
63;
7
6
4
178,158
200,692
143,582
0.89
65,135
219,682
is 1921
0.92
1.21
66,854
36,880
130,861
16,334
23,147
93,813
130
186
177
70
31
45
87
144
135
61
33
13,763
105
138
128
76
25
49
84
153
143
55
45
21
172
152
51
55
27
203
179
53
56
32
115
115
118
130
134
106
139
107
140 +
105 -
0.7
1913
129
137
132
138
1913
171
1913
194
1913
113
156
124
1 175
237,722
169,314
262,025 ! 1,086,416 , 946,792
217,382 I 726,967 ' 943,666
702,S64
166,757 j 585,184
- 12.9
+ 29.8
+ 20.1
is 1921
13 1921
is 1921
262,332 +100.5
61,073 - 34.9
1013
1913
197
17
212 , 227
216
4 - 18.4
88 ! 109 + 23.3
+ 18.5
+ 17.0
+
3.4
+
2.6
+ 18.7
PRICE INDEX NUMBERS.
Farm prices:
Crops (15th of month)
index
Live stock (15th of month), index
Wholesale prices:
Department of Labor—
Farm products
index
Food, etc
index
Cloths and clothing... .index
Fuel and lighting
index
Metals and metal
products
index
Building material
index
Chemicals and drugs...index
House-furnish, goods. .index
1913
number
number
1913
i
j
number.. i
number. J
number.
number..;
j
number.
number.
number.
number.
• Revised.
118 ; 107
1.9
1
1913
1913
1913
1913
13 July to December,
142 ;
141
175 ' 199
216 i 212
143
141
143
201
206
144
205
200
139 144
201 190 -
1.4
0.0
2.0
5.0
119
149
154
204
136
187
152 202 134 !187
1.3
1.0
1.5
139
160 , 192 I 198
132 . 135
122
176 | 184 1 185
0.0
39
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
Corresponding
month,
April
or May.
1922.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
PRICE INDEX NUMBERS—Continued.
Wholesale prices—Continued.
Department of Labor—Continued.
Miscellaneous
.index number
All commodities
index number.
Fed. Reserve Bd. (Dept. Labor prices)—
Total raw products
index number
Agricultural prod..index number
Animal products. .index number..
Forest products.. .index number.
Mineral products..index number
Producer's goods
index number
Consumer's goods
index number
All commodities
index number
Federal Reserve Board I n d e x Goods imported
index number
Goods exported
index number.
All commodities
index number
Dun's
(1st of following month) .index number,
Bradstreet's
(1st of following month) .index number
Retail prices, food
index number
Cost of living:
National Industrial Conference B o a r d Food
index number
Shelter
index number.
Clothing
index number
Fuel and light
index number
Sundries
index number
All items weighted
index number.
Foreign wholesale prices:
United KingdomBritish Board Trade., .index number
London Economist
index number
U. S. Fed. Res. Bd....index number
FranceGen. Stat. Bureau
index number
U. S. Fed. Res. Bd
index number.
Italy (Bachi)
index number
Sweden
index number
Switzerland
index number
CanadaCanadian Dept. Labor.index number
U. S. Fed. Res. Bd
index number
Australia.
index number
India (Calcutta)
index number..!
JapanBank of Japan
index number
U. S. Fed. Res. Bd....index number.. I
317
302
524
164
161
|
Sj
!
ij
!j
I
422 I 424
355 i 373
582 ! 586
158 I 162.
181 186
166 ( 167
154 J| 152 | 155
155 | 161 : 163
187 ! 180 j 181
j
DISTRIBUTION MOVEMENT.
Mail-order houses, total sales.. thous. of dolls
thous. of dolls
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Montgomery Ward & Co...thous. of dolls
thous. of dolls
Chain stores, total sales 14
thous. of dolls
F. W. Wool worth Co
.thous. of dolls
S. S. Kresge Co
thous. of dolls
McCrory Stores Corp
S. H. Kress & Co
. .thous. of dolls
thous. of dolls
J. C. Penney Co
«Revised
223
296
1,849 :1,283 1,994
" Includes F . W. Woolworth, S. S. Kresge, McCrory Stores Corp., and S. H. Kress Co., only.
196 j
199
+
1.5
185
187
+
1.1
40
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
April,
1928.
May,
1923.
(+)
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
ncrease
1922
1923
27,943
4,097
29,056
4,371
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1923
from
1922.
1922
; PerI crentI age
| in|crease
1923
or deI crease
Apr. May.
Feb. Mar.
Apr. May.
May
from
I Apr.
DISTRIBUTION MOVEMENT—Con.
Chain stores—Continued.
United Cigar Stores Co
thous. of dolls..
Owl Drug Co
thous. of dolls..
Music (4 chains)
index number..
Grocery (21 chains)
index number..
Drug (8 chains)
index number..
Cigar (3 chains)
index number..
Shoe (5 chains)
index number..
Total department-store sales
(306 stores)
weighted index number..
Total department-store stocks
(265 stores)
weighted index number..
American Wholesale Corporation,
total sales
thous. of dolls..
Wholesale trade:
Hardware
weighted index number..
Shoes
weighted index number..
Dry goods
weighted index number..
Groceries
weighted index number..
Drugs
weighted index number..
Meat packing
weighted index number..
Total
weighted index number..
Candy sales by manufacturers, .thous. of dolls..
Magazine advertising
(for following month)
thous. of lines..
Newspaper advertising
thous. of lines..
Postal receipts
thous. of dolls..
Internal-revenue taxes collected on
theater admissions
thous. of dolls..
5,775 i
849 |
6,402
908
6,226
848
1913
244
253
209
1913
254
261
253
1919
79
81
88
1919
139
138
159
1919
121
123
125
1919
125
129
110
1919
156
127 j.
1919
113
115
1919
117.6
71
14.1 | 114.9
255
288
96
188
145
135
146
234 | 260 + 10.9
261
279 i[+ 6.9
122
99
105 j| +
6. 1
164
177 ||+ 7.9
135
141 i|+
125
137 ' +
122
140
+ 14.8
117
126
7.7
125.0 128.5 125.3
4.4
9.6
-
2.5
-
7.3
I
1,836
1,702
1,750
11,022
12,636 + 14.6
1913
154
174
128
181
134
125
i
31,080
2,270
2,108
108,836
109,559
24,374
24,902
6,051
24,783
161,848
1,644 |
97,090
6
22,375
^9,201
449,999
110,165
5,818
29,862
31,073
6,582 ':
6
1919
84.6
1919
65.1
1919
74.6
92.7 ! 82.0 108.8 111.3 117.0
60.5 ; 56.3 81.6 62.3 67.8
79.0 ! 100.8 113.0 87.6 86.6
1919
66.2
74.1 | 74.9
1919
93.6
96.6 ! 106.3
1919
48.3
58.2
56.8
1919
65.8
72.6
76.1
2.9
1920
58
62
81
15 11,807 + 28.3
497,336 + 10.5
125,163 + 13.6
1913
150
134
164
1919
117
116
100
1919
121
122
126
+ 7.1
1920
166,516 +
31,976
5.1
8.8
1.1
80.7 79.9 81.0
120.1 105.6 107.1
63.3 60.3 73.3
86.0 79.0 82.8
78
82
78
1.0
1.0
21.6
4.8
0.0
188
125
152
185
172
130
133
131 |+
135 +
7.1
0.7
2.2
92
83
!+
8.8
89
88
SS '•- 0.6
202
197 |i~ 2.5
-
PUBLIC FINANCE.
I1. S. interest-bearing debt
mills,
Liberty and Victory Loans and
War Saving securities
mills,
Customs receipts
thous.
Ordinary receipts
thous.
Ordinary expenditures
thous.
Money held outside U . S . Treasury
and Federal Reserve System
Total
mills,
Per capita
of dolls..
22,327
22,185 j
of
of
of
of
16,084
53,736
52,417 |
dolls..
dolls..
dolls..
dolls..
of dolls..
dollars..
23,130
15,289
1919
;
3,5,578 |
170,573
241,830
211,118
206,376 | 1,321,706
301,848
286,966 !
237,961 - 1,219,930
262,982 + 54.2
1,505,105 + 13.9
1,388,993 + 13.5
4,668
4,706
4,418
42.04
42.34
40.36
20,478
20,704
21,654
98,376
104,829
18,732
20,367 !
17,148
82,368
95,237
1919
1913
1913
1913
91
92
89
78
89
89
127
134
328
342
327
401
350 j|- 12.7
426
418
429
531
504 ij- 4.9
71
-
4.9
1919
1919
89
+ 6.6
+ 15.6
1919
1919
102
106
93
111
101
102
1.1
94
98
96
112
107
116
8.7
+ 4.7
+ 24.6
1913
1913
238 ! 244
213
251
228
244
213 | 228
230
271
261
271 '+ 3.8
1919
1919
1919
1919
1919
1919
26 I 24
31
36
33
110 | 122
96
85 j
79
96 :;+ o.8
92 !+ 0.7
BANKING AND FINANCE.
Banking.
Debits to individual accounts:
New York City
mills, of dolls..
Outside New York City... .mills, of dolls..
Bank clearings:
New York City
mills, of dolls..
Outside New York City
mills, of dolls..
Federal Reserve Banks:
Bills discounted
mills, of dolls..
Total investments
mills, of dolls..
Notes in circulation
mills, of dolls..
Total reserves
mills, of dolls..
Total deposits
mills, of dolls. -I
Reserve ratio
per cent.
Federal Reserve member banks:
Total loans and discounts, .mills, of dolls.
Total investments
mills, of dolls.
Net demand deposits
mills, n* dolls.
«Revised.
18,010
19,212
19,215 i
89,330
93,552
15,005
15,581
13,131 |
61,013
76,012
637
468
731
447
+
6.7
|
471
722
2,223
2,250
2,141 i
3,179
3,195
3,130
1,909
1,952 I
1,870
77.0
76.1
78.0
11,839
11,840
10,906
4,634
4,465
4,122
11,156
11,172 i
11,049 j
-Ji.
1921
1921
1919
85 ' 85
82
86
143
146
145
95 J 97
101
102
99
156 I 155
152
150
153
82 j
143
145
91
91
99
99
115
123
139
140
138
101
104
109
105
105
Cumulative (or six-months period, January to June, inclusive.
38
+ 11.8
4.5
1.2
146 1+ 0.5
101 1+ 2.3
152 0.7
76 ; 86 |+
99
0.0
139 + 0.7
106 , + 0.1
41
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (f) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
CorrespondApril,
1923.
May,
1923.
ing
month,
April
or Mav,
1922
1922.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
(+)
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
1923
from
1922.
1923
1922
Apr.
Percentage
increase
(+)
or decrease
1923
May.
Apr.
(-)
May
from
Apr.
May
Feb.
Mar.
150
80
164
87
155 I
151
89 I
89
108
105
111
109
109
119
109
102
109
109
117
114
111
352
118
112
118
115
120
127
120
112
120
124
130
127
130
332
118
112
119
115
120
128
122
111
121
123
125
129
132
333
119
120
113
114
119 I
119
228
164
215
282
251 i 264
176
250 I 210
BANKING AND FINANCE—Continued.
Banking—Continued.
Interest rates:
New York call loans
percent..
4.94
4.80
3.97
Commercial paper, 60-90 days
per cent..
5.13
4.25
5.13
Saving deposits (bal. to credit of depositors):
Total, 11 Fed. Res.dists. ".thous. of dolls.. 6,314,793 6,365,941 5,747,535
Boston dist
thous. of dolls.. 1,173,515 1,178,188 1,091,620
New York dist
...thous. of dolls.. 1,820,182 1,825,584 1, 701,562
Philadelphia dist.. ...thous. of dolls.. 453,217
423,582
455,808
...thous. of dolls.. 418,287
Cleveland dist
421,667
377,299
...thous. of dolls.. 290,706
Richmond dist
268, 659
293, 716
thous. of dolls.. 183,251
Atlanta dist
160,156
184,937
...thous. of dolls.. 838, 895
Chicago dist
849,428
758,091
thous. of dolls.. 126,920
St. Louis dist
124,273
114,341
Minneapolis dist
thous. of dolls..
87,989
78,241
88,246
Kansas City dist
thous. of dolls..
90,046
100,026
99,078
Dallas dist
thous. of dolls..
59, 594
50,983
58, 495
San Francisco dist
thous. of dolls.. 890,921
909,004
747,296
U. S. Postal Savings
thous. of dolls.. 132, 255
139,959
131,685
Life I n s u r a n c e .
Policies, new:
Ordinary
thous. of policies..
Industrial
thous. of policies..
Group
number of policies..
Total insurance
thous. of policies..
Amount of new insurance:
Ordinary
thous. of dolls..
Industrial
thous. of dolls..
Group
thous. of dolls..
Total insurance
thous. of dolls..
1913
1913
108
+ 17.5
+ 17.6
+ 83.5
1913
1913
218
4,416 '•>+ 1 7 . 7
1913
161
186
195
169
767
901
797
624
2,987
3,514
88
99
61
231
991
793
3,753
485,874
511,963
429,236
1,924,535
208,105
162,326
125,084
595,804
33,199
30,086
9,962
70,263
727,179
704,376
564, 282
2,590,603
79 I
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1921
1920
1920
1920
1920
1913
950
1,137
137
424
+
+
106,767 +
3,194,870 +
105
111
110
109
117
108
102
107
110
116
113
110
358
151
116 I
117
121
122
129 I
130
125 j
126
112 I
121 I
123 I
129 I
131 j
-
0.8
0.4
0.3
0.6
0.8
1.0
0.9
1.3
2.1
0.3
1.0
1.9
2.0
0.4
113
119
123
130
133
132 I
135
333 !
331
2.8
0.0
+ 4.8
- 16.1
+ 12.5
250 I 218 - 12.8
22.2
23.5
52.0
23.3
1913
1913
1913
- 28.2
- 31.2
1913
1913
162
322
147
195
113
179
126
114 |
+
0.7
213
227 !
-
20.3
+
7.7
1913
164
194
191
252 I 171
+
+
15 146,530 +
is 39,695 +
2.9
3.3
1.4
3.6
1913
1913
1913
1913
73
67
83
94
112
120
117
65
126 !
94
83
44
148
93
2,352,381
735, 720
1913
j 310
326
jj 237 241
111,687 689
|j 300 305
315 411
369
388
401
221 266
313
687 1,374 2,298 |2,082
393 I 380
291 377
+ 5.4
- 22.0
- 9.4
- 3.1
Business Finances.
Business failures:
Firms
number..
Liabilities
thous. of dolls.
Total dividend and interest payments
(for following month)
thous. of dolls.
Dividend payments (for following mo.):
Total
thous. of dolls..
Indust. and misc.corp
thous. of dolls..
Steam railroads
thous. of dolls..
Street railways
thous. of dolls..
New capital issues:
Corporations
thous. of dolls..
Corporate issues:
Stocks
thous. of dolls..
Bonds and notes
thous. of dolls..
Total corporate securities—
New capital
thous. of doll«k.
Refunding
thous. of dolls..
New corporate bond issues: f
Railroads—
New capital
thous. of dolls..
Refunding
thous. of dolls..
Public utilities—
New capital
thous. of dolls..
Refunding
thous. of dolls..
i
Revised.
1,520
1,530
1,960
11,644
8,366
51,492
41,022
44,403
335,474
230,745
253,425
292,400
6 287,100
5
l,705,136 iH,836,525
52,923
60,300
6 58,900
i 5 483,277
i 5 497,075
26,950
36,900
« 36,100
15 257,725
15 266,250
20,975
21,100
e 20,650
15144,576
5,000
2,300
274,425
348, 220
117,802
168,817
30,582
98,532
171,126
245,862
40,757
166,583
6
197
+ 15.4
76 !
86
70 I
96
85 1
102 i
85
+ 13.9
+ 36.9
+ 0.6
47
- 54.0
254
+ 26.9
- 74.0
+ 1.4
2,150
15 38,327
400,700
1, 542,031
1,806,966
+ 17.2
1913
325
292
173
229 I 200
+• 2.9
110
167
90
113
34
1,237,107
31
196
132
1,202,660
1920
1920
72
264,274
147
107
108
301,783
61,024
1,118,825
1,335,541
120
307
103
124
109
330,678
1920
1920
109
310,800
+ 19.4
+ 6.4
134
35,128
236
191
74 - 32.2
164 - 13.8
37,061
None.
36,157
2,170
19, 543
None.
304,633
212,875
1919
1919
1,248
407
392
338
677 I
446 I
26,073
- 30.1
- 64.7
235
73,771
435 74
28,860
31,800
36,053
16,823
126,888
222,369
242,618
109,443
1919
1919
483
60
296
79,583
+ 9.1
+ 37.5
653
15, 746
278
672
370 + 34.2
356 - 47.1
Exclusive of St. Louis district.
1
263 L,301
562 333
169
341
Cumulative for six-month period, January to June, inclusive.
2.4
42
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
May,
1928.
April,
1928.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Percentage
increase
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
1922
1928
144,545
38,855
145,315
3,897,490
301,901
70,213
114,147
3,934,709
or decrease
(-)
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
BASE
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
Percentage]
in-iq
crease
1923
1922
( }
t
or decrease
Apr. May.
Feb.
May
from
Apr.
Mar. Apr. M a y .
BANKING AND FINANCE-Continued.
Business Finances—Continued.
New corporate bond issues—Continued.
Industrial corporationsNew capital
thous. of dolls..
40,273
Refunding
thous. of dolls..
3,872
Southern bond issues
thous. of dolls..
25,400
New incorporations
thous. of dolls.. 1,006,258
Telephone earnings:
Total operating revenue.. .thous. of dolls..
43,952
Total operating income... .thous. of dolls..
10,212
Telegraph earnings:
Commercial telegraph tolls, thous. of dolls..
8,788
Telegraph and cable operating
revenue
thous. of dolls..
10,842
Operating income
thous. of dolls..
1,499
17,179
10,685
29,865
817,230
33,418
18,757
29,176
938,195
154,632
34,564
40,058
9,272
4-108.9
j!+ 80.7
; ; - 21.4
+ 1.0
1919
358
315 I 296
433
1919
529
616
27
1922
68
111
77
1913
460
545
407
172,434 | + 11.5
44,640 !+ 29.2
1913
305
305 j 315
1913
250
243 : 362
299
275
113 |! 108 j 126
116
121 +
4.4
100
116
107
112
3.J
86
108
92
93
+ 1.8
199
195
78
76
9,177
8,620
38,904 !
44,682 ,+ 14.9
1919
102
11,266
1,518
10,882
49,510 !
55,031 |+ 11.2
1919
97
108
2,008
6,851 I
8,166 | + 19.2
1919
78
123 !
113.46 I
63.04 i
108.18
60.73
96.84
62.92
1913
163
1913
96.48
94.11
97.56
1921
291
380
162
- 57.3
411 1,133
97
113
+176.0
584
- 18.8
474
+ 17.6
335
Stocks a n d Bonds.
Stock prices, closing:
25 industrial, average
dolls, per share..
25 railroads, average
dolls, per share..
Combined index (103
stocks)
dolls, per share..
Stock sales,
N. Y. Stock Exchange
thous. of shares..
Bond sales:
Miscellaneous
thous. of dolls..
Liberty-Victory
thous. of dolls..
Total
thous. of dolls..
Bond prices:
Highest-grade rails.p. ct. of par, 4% bond..
Second-grade rails..p. ct. of par, 4% bond..
Public utility
p. ct. of par, 4% bond..
Industrial
p. ct. of par, 4% bond..
Comb, price index.p. ct. of par, 4% bond.,
G Liberty bonds
p. ct. of par value..
10 Foreign government
and city
p. ct. of par value..
Combined index (G7
bonds)
p. ct. of par value..
Gold a n d Silver.
Gold:
Domestic receipts at mint fine ounces..
Rand output
thous. of ounces.,
Imports
thous. of dolls..
Exports
thous. of dolls.,
Silver:
Production
thous. of fine oz.
Imports
thous. of dolls.
Exports
thous. of dolls.
Price at New York
dolls, per fine oz.
Price at London...pence per standard oz.
166 11 198
76 |
79
186 j73
4.7
-3.7
74
115
i
20,136 !
23,106
!
176,042 | 166,736
28,911
113,092
229,460
1,110,237
97,633
144,967
858,782
236,993 ! 264,369
374,427
1,969,019
60,351 I
81.55
67.48
66.52
71.44
71.29
98.88
I
|
|
|
101.48 i
93.81 I
111 -
117 | 114
2.5
111
111,999 j i
1.5
j - 15.3
1913
41S
ji
440
328 i 373 ; 291
i
;
1919
371
1919
77
1919
145
1915
94
94 I
94 i 90
1915
96
96 I1
92 |
72.25
71.71
9a 81
84.80
72.83
68.65
74.42
74.72
100.11
101.37
102.71
82.58
67.73
93.97 !
939,859
362,029 !- 57.8
1,301,888 !- 33.9
96.79 I.
334
322 ; 262 I 274 ' 248 I 234
61 !
122
93 l!
26 i
28 I
81
85 !
1915
90
1915
104
1915
96
1921
107
106
97
107
1921
111
111
1921
112
113 | 110
j 109
77
-
5.6
+ 61.8
+ 11.6
91
92
1.3
90!
0.4
90 | 90
101 ! 102
93
0.2
106 ! 106 | 103
0.0
109
0.0
93 | 91
105 j 102
96
106
25 ' 41
+ 14.7
93
1.1
0.6
110 i 110
109 i 110 ! 110 ;
0.0
I
65,043 j
744
9,188;
655 j
79,866
787
46,156
824
81,839
366,763
351,112
1,781
3,761
1913
8,994
110,036
3,407
8,544
- 4.3
+ 111.2
112,498 + 2.2
21,742 + 154.5
1913
630
6,835
4,258
20,399
29,480
74
5,512
28,547
22,252
1913
161
3,499 j
5,677
26,157
+ 44.5
-22.1
21,679 - 17.1
1913
4,460
|
44
44
48
55 I'
49 ;
70
86 |j
96 ! 104 ! 101
1913
j 231
1913
I! 2 1
169 !j 158 i 300
44 ;'
18 i 136
76 jl
85
:i
127
42
6,616
3,549
4,336
.669
32.346
1913
98
.670 •!
.712
1913
111
119 | 108
32.611 j
36.023
1913
124
131 'l 112
4.66
4.63 ;
.070
.067
.050
.048
.058
.057
00004
.00002
.392
.391
4.45
.091
.053
.084
.003
.387
.258
.192
Parval.
Parval.
Parval.
Parval.
Parval.
Parval.
Parval.
Parval.
.474
.288
Par val.
Par val.
184
109 'I
54
+ 22.8
107 !+ 5.8
173
869
+402.4
9
11
+ 25.8
+ 3.3
+ 25.7
90 ; 83 ' 67 - 19.3
113 | 112 ! 112 + 0.1
117 : 117
118 + 0.8
110 ; 119 ! 123
155
119 i 149
F O R E I G N EXCHANGE B A T E S .
Europe:
England
France
I taly
Belgium
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
Switzerland
Asia:
Japan
India
dolls, per £ sterling.
dolls, per franc.
dolls. per lire.
dolls, per franc.
dolls, per mark.
dolls, per guilder.
dolls, per krone.
dolls, per franc.
dolls, per yen.
dolls, per rupee.
.266
. 182 ;
.180
.487
.491
.314
.311
91
|| 48
|| 28
|| 44
||
1
|] 94
jl 97
!| 101
91 ;
47 j
27
44
1
96
96
100
95
59
96 ;
96
97
32
33
35
25
25
26 \
28
28
30
0.02 jj 0.02 | 0.02 0.01
98 | 98 ' 98
99
99 ! 99
97
90
95 s 93
97 ;
65
98 ;
64
- 0.6
- 4.6
; - 4.0
1.7
- 50.0
- 0.3
0.0
I ' - 1.1
i+ 0.8
64 i -
0.6
43
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL ^DATA.
NOTE.—Items marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items marked with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the June number (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY (NO.
21).
April,
1923.
VTflv
May,
1923.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922.
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
1922
1923
Percentage
increase
(+) :
or decrease
(-)
cumulative ;
1923 :
from
1922.
INDEX NUMBERS.
BASE
YEAR
1922
Percentji age
! increase
: (+)
j or de: crease
!- (-)
1923
OR
i
PERIOD.
Feb. Mar. Apr. May.! iToZ.
Apr.
Apr. May.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES—Con.
Americas:
Canada
dolls per Canadian doll
Argentina
dolls per gold peso
Brazil
. .
dolls per milreis
Chile
dolls per paper peso
General index foreign exch . index number
.980
.832
.106
.123
.979
.817
.104
. 128
Par
Par
Par
Par
Par
.988
.824
.137
. 119
val.
val.
val.
val.
val.
98
99
99
98
84
42
85
42
87
35
87
34
58
72
01
61
C3
72
G7
6o
67
128
132
125
108
160
174
U. S. FOREIGN TRADE.
.thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
thous.
of dolls..
of dolls..
of dolls
of dolls
of dolls..
33
67
—
|—
I —
+
—
0.1
1.8
1.9
1.9
1.5
j
|
Exports by Grand Divisions.
Europe:
Total
France
Germany
Italy.
.
United Kingdom
North America:
Total
Canada
South America:
Total
Argentina
Asia and Oceania:
Total
Japan
Africa, total
G rand total .
98
85
32
66
66
98
8G
156,405 ! 138,541
22,306
20,524
26,290
22,968
11,416
9,914
58,460
48,414
168,754
20,117
« 26,107
9,473
74,486
810,059
95,080
138,535
41,962
337,888
808,989
100,382
124,817
63,375
325,644
-0.1
+ 5.6
-9.9
+ 51.0
-3.6
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
135
157
106
89
144
83
85
90
' 168
163 |
196
220
147
151
145 i
129
119
98 ; - 17. 2
208 ! + 13. 2
197 + 22. 8
thous. of dolls..
thous. of dolls..
91,827
53,799
103,971
66,086
71,050
44,288
333,428
200,090
439,757 + 31.9
266,934 + 33. 4
1913
1913
142
142
149 i
181
183
129
132
132
[
160
160
thous. of dolls..
thous. of dolls..
22,834
9,289
22,509
10,276
18,158
8,064
81,664
35,895
110,547 + 35.4
47,660 + 32.8
1913
1913
150
149
171
1S8
187
184
176
213
199
203
thous. of dolls
thous. of dolls..
thous. of dolls..
thous. of dolls..
47,539
18,939
7,122
325,727
46,791
43,074
19,889
•15,936
4,838 !
6,534
316,649
307,569
335
454
274
of dolls..
of dolls
of dolls..
of dolls.
of doll*5
105,855
13,730
13,642
7,309
41,364
102,278
12,300
12,762
5,769 ;
44,039
73,949
11,591
8,520
5,584
25,439
365,016
57,668
42,774
22,453
128,218
thous. of dolls..
thous. of dolls
103,346
36,249
105,520 i
36,282
71,718
28,249
thous. of dolls..
thous. of dolls..
46,422
15,052
49,401
16,875
33,032
6,082
100,314
26,4S0
8,294
364,230
107,091
33,113
8,954
372,545
69,831
29,693
4,287
252,817
+ 1.7
-6.1
+ 10.9 :
+ 9.5
1913
1913
1913
1913
+
+
+
+
+
43.1
14.4
53.5
75. 2
58. 8
322,506
120,846
127,573
26,671 j
237,007
241,131
99,635
93,498
23,329
25,862
1,485,487 1,626,285
111 - 11.4
160 - 8.0
78 - 12.4
147
172
242
249 !
271
270
164
308
271
339
204
186
245
154
149
148
165
157
1913
1013
1913
1913
1913
91
93
103
125
168
147
100
89
133
119
OS
144
98
239
472,105 + 46.4
164,123 + 35.8
232,326 + 82.1
67,941 + 154.1
1
151
-31.2
184 - 1.4
224 ! + 10.6
1,
i
270
3S2
201
153
364
'.—
+
-
1.6
5.0
32. 1
2.8
Imports by Grand Divisions.
K urope:
Total
France
Germany
Italv
.
..
United Kingdom
North America:
Total
Canada
South America:
Total
Argentina
Asia and Oceania:
Total
Japan
Africa total
Grand total
.. .thous.
. thous.
thous.
thous.
thous
j
522,512
65.961
65,665
39.337
203.5fiQ
142
10G
83
125
194
- 3.4
- 10.4
— ti. 5
- 21. 1
+ 6.5
55
56
78
121
98
112
155
218
159
1S3
1913
1913
195
221
232
356
318
180
239
239
276
306
325 +
306 +
1913
1913
139
208
200
252
323
285
508
634
281
706
299 !+ 6.4
792 + 12. 1
56.0
25.2
72.8
52.5
1913
1913
1913
1913
223
265
360
349
396
546
145
169
331
302
472
203
126
139 !
131
140
166
178
!
154
16S
108 i 1 1 4
125 , 121
118
118
132
133 j 134
133
112
131
105
139
97
144
119
127 j 150 , 163
129
1
89
i
thous.
thous.
thous
thous.
of dolls..
of dolls .
of dolls
of dolls..
486,816
312,003
148.200
118,400
31,900
55,110
1,158,946 1,767,663
+
+
+
+
230
327
217
267
2.1
0. 1
3S1
407 + 6.S
321 ; 402 ! + 25.1
419
244
!
453 + 8.0
249 + 2.3
TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.
United Kingdom.
Imports (values):
Total
..
thous of £
Food, drink, tobacco..thous. of £
Raw material
thous. of £
Manufactured articles, thous. of £
Exports (values):
Total
thous. of £
Food, drink, tobacco..thous. of £
Raw material
thous. of £
Manufactured articles, thous. of £
Reexports (values):
Total
thous. of £
Food, drink, tobacco..thous. of £
Raw material
thous. of £
Manufactured articles, thous. of £
• Revised.
j
sterling .
sterling..
sterling..
sterling..
86,417
41,772
22,939
21,446
89,479 i
43,631
23,741
21,562
88,814
43,075
25,358
20,207
403,117
194,662 !
113,642 !
93,764
449,453
210,668
131,439
105,403
+ 11.5
+ 8.2 !
+ 15.7 i
+ 12. 4 | :
1913
1913
1913
1913
sterling..
sterling..
sterling..
sterling..
62,871
3,224
11,717
46,922
71,555
3,177
14,005
52,801
58,045
3,045
8,757
45,073
299,616
14,941
38,499
240,993
319.166
15,275
56,128
243,117
+ 6. 5 |
1
+ 2.2 !
!+ 45.8 i j
+ 0.9
1913
1913
1913
1913
127
111
sterling..
sterling..
sterling..
sterling..
12,429
1,592
8,618
2,207
11,773
2,187
7,069
2,507 !
+
+
-
1913
1913
1913
1913
101 ;
91
,i
135 ! 140 +
173 ; ISO +
9S ,
163
117
240
154
3.5
4.5
' + 3.5
+ 05
,
,+ 13.8
- 1.5
,+ 19.6
+ 12.5
129
165
132
102
'+
!|+
101
i
8,965
2,152
4,548
2,264
46,952 1
11,615
23,605
11,720
52,909
8,405
33,703
10,765
12.7
27.6
42.8
28.1
175
88
1
88
1
199
201
131
129
134
137
98
108
100
136
162
98
123
120
85
92
122
105
162
82
76
90
5.3
37.4
18.0
13.6
44
TREND OF BUSINESS MOVEMENTS—Continued.
NUMERICAL
N O T E . — I t e m s marked with an asterisk (*) have
not been published previously in the SURVEY
or are repeated for special reasons; detailed
tables covering back figures for these items
will be found at the end of this bulletin. For
items m a r k e d with a dagger (t) detailed tables were given in the J u n e n u m b e r (No. 22).
For detailed tables covering other items, see
the last quarterly issue of the SURVEY ( N O .
21).
DATA.
Corresponding
month,
April
or May,
1922."
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
THROUGH
LATEST MONTH.
Percentage
increase
(+)
or decrease
(-)
1922
cumulative
1923
from
1922.
192.3
INDEX
NUMBERS.
1922
Percentage
I in|crease
1923
YEAR
OR
PERIOD.
! or decrease
;| Apr.
May. ; F e b .
I M~ay
Mar.
Apr.
May. j from
| Aor.
93 ;
91
86
65
59
77
89
94 !
TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF FOREIGN
COUNTRIES—Continued.
United Kingdom—Continued.
Exports of key commodities (quantities):
Cotton piece goods
thous. of sq. yds..
Woolen and
worsted tissuas
thous. of sq. yds..
Iron and steel
thous. of long tons..
Coal
thous. of long tons..
Production:
Pig iron
thous. of long tons..
Steel ingots
thous. of long tons..
Coal
thous. of metric tons..
Stocks, zinc
short tons..
316,736
410,381
341,959
1,540,476 i 1,808,601 + 17.4
1920
82 |
92
111 jl+ 29.6
j
12,982
388
6,841
16,561
425
7,684
1,387
714
821
« 26,609
1,906
13,791
13,492
652
749
21,603
16,585
273 i
5,057
408
462
19,466
5,979
73,452
1,305
22,390
1,780
2,162
101,059
84,007 ! + 14.4
1920
64
75 |
1,854 :' + 42.1
1913
63
66
33, 255 '+ 48. 5
1913
67
83 ;
117 ; 112
3,111
+ 74.8
1913
46
48 j|
3,704
+ 71.3
1913
63
72
120,391
+ 19.1
1913
75
16 80
" 1920
27
23
1
126
161
64
111 |
74 i
;
75 | + 27.6
103 | | +
9.5
126 jj + 12.3
76
84 | | +
9.5
126 ! 117
128 !!+
9.6
93 I 115 !
4 :
89 lie 109 |j+ 23.2
5
7 ji+ 37.4
Belgium.
Production:
Zinc
Pig iron
short tons..
thous. of metric tons..
172
Canada.
Total trade:
68,181
Imports
thous. of dolls..
Exports
thous. of dolLs..
54,328
Exports of key commodities (quantities):
Canned salmon
thous. of pounds..
1,979
Cheese
thous. of pounds..
610
Wheat
thous. of bushs..
5,143
Production:
Pig iron
thous. of long tons..
84
Steel ingots
thous. of long tons..
93
Bank clearings
mills, of dolls..
1,218
Bond issues:
Ciovt. and provincial
thous. of dolls..
10,500
Municipal
thous. of dolls..
4,493
Corporation
thous. of dolls..
3,225
Employment:
Applications
number..
44,082
Vacancies
number..
42,393
PlacementsRegular
number..
24,047
Casual
number
Newsprint paper:
Production
short tons.. 100,742
Shipments
short tons.. 100,874
12,338
Stocks
short tons..
78,378
Exports (total printing)
short tons..
Business failures:
j
231
Firms
number.. |
4,386
Liabilities
thous. of dolls..!
30,844
Building contracts awarded
thous. of dolls..
9,733 i
114
46,593
418
65,841 ,j + 41.3
+ 57.4
1913
658
1920
57 I
185;
178
82 !
83
174 i -
2.2
66,121
70,459
298,965
258,060
377,721 | + 26.3
1913
85
118 i 117
164
122
151 ||+ 23.6
76;049
332,445
+ 28.8
1913
104
224 ! 187
248
173
242 |l+ 40.0
3,655
2,676
11,932
1,089
3,156
14,207
7,131
13,997
33,694
13,103 + 83.7
7,418 - 47.0
40,558 + 20.4
1913
62
168
129
113
208 |l+ 84.7
1913
24
3
1913
170
85
79
102
104
1,470
23
16
1,442
165
143
6,319
1913
27
1913
18
54
102 i
107
120 ||+ 11.8
1913
186
133
149
157
190 : + 20. 7
118,000
17,925
6,475
141,620
33,594
26,838
26,075 ! - 81.0
56,997 + 69.7
48,406 + 80.4
39,432
36,452
161,154
112,678
21,779
7,391
84,265
110,252
109,075
13,478
98,901
94,502
94,812
8,375
75,783
247
2,662
40,697
6 259
'4,908
34,827
16,688
9,812
1,859
4,376
11,782
8,491
1,461
3,627
5,920
2,800
5,550
1,800
336 1 + 103.6
381 +160.4
6,163 : - 2.5
5
21 ; |+338. 7
61
142 ! +132.0
77 I 100
121 | + 21.4
4 I
141
none
161
237
1913
186
123
266
113
47
1913
105
272
423
90
52
164,899 + 2.3
138,547 + 23.0
1920
95
110 |
91
106
1920
91
104 j
77
79
106
60,547
34,693
66,604 + 10.0
51,404 + 48.2
1920
71
85
1920
112
140
39
235
192
135
423,918
509,087 + 20.1
500,572 ;+ 16.6
429,339
1913
49;
79
1919
124
140
137
158
150
164 | +
9.4
1919
122
140
134
154
149
161 | +
8.1
1919
69
66
85
100
98
107 |;+
9.2
370,862
457,913 | + 23.5
1919
111
137 i 153
206 !
142
179 \\ + 20.2
1,327
1,418 i+ 6.9
1913
136
175 ||
215
186
152
163 | +
-
11.2
1913
317
423 j
397
370 j
316
192 | - 39.3
1913
92
109
42
62 ;
96
127 | + 31.9
206
194 !— 6. 1
i!
6.9
26,747
23,745
96,832
114,649
+ 18.4
82,910
32,181
18,683
31,139
- 2 . 4
1913
219
137
212
+ 8.1
+ 50.5
+ 126.3
1913
22
54
28
12 !
17
62 I+ 273. 2
1913
35
29
118
62 1
27
36 i+ 35.3
1913
68
109
187
222
188
131 i ! - 30.3
214
200
286 j 329
229
-
30.4
247
357
549 ! 659
385
-
41.7
Argentina.
firain shipments:
Wheat
thous. of b u s h s . .
«17,773
Corn
thous. of b u s h s . .
6 2,629
Oats
thous. of b u s h s . .
6 1,374
Flaxseed
thous. of b u s h s . .
6,280
Wheat
thous. of b u s h s . .
8,510
Flaxseed
thous. of b u s b s . .
4,800
84,977 j
29,765 j
12,416
13,759 j
217
Visible supply:
« Revised.
18
Five weeks, other months cover four.
1913
1914
17
385
Nine months' average, April to December, inclusive.
45
BRADSTREET'S WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX.1
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
MONTH.
Relative to 1913.
!
:
|
I
January...
February.
March
April......
May
June
July
August.
103
96
103
96
102
96
100
95
94
94
September.
October
November.
December..
Yearly average.
99
105
104
106
119
149
195
201
221
137
123
121
151
196
191
227
134
124
123
153
196
187
226
129
126
128
158
200
188
225
123
125
106
106
107
107
128
164
205
187
225
117
127
127
168
206
196
216
115
129
125
174
208
205
210
116
131
124
178
207
217
204
120
131
128
181
207
211
195
131
184
206
212
184
139
185
205
216
170
148
191
206
219
148
120
121
123
123
131
136
145
150
128
170
203
203
97
94
9S
95
99
106
99
100
100
96
100
9S
106
108
113
116
1OO
O7
1O7
204
123
132
1919
1920
1921
1922
i
i Computed from Bradstreet's index using the 1913 monthly average of $9.2115 as 100.
SALES OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY.
GROSS REVENUE FROM SALES BY CENTRAL STATIONS.1
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
MONTH.
Thousands of dollars.
$28,700
$31,800 j
$34,400
$38,100
$43,100
$59,200
$68,400
$73,700
$85,300
$99,400
February
27,300
30,200 !
29,500
35,400
40,500
54,500
59,500
70,400
80,400
90,800
March
24,800
27,400 |
28,800
32,600
41,200
54, 300
50,800
70,100
79,300
90,500
April
24,600
27,200 |
28,700
32,000
42,600
53,200
56,300
08,200
77,800
83,700
82,000
January
May
23,400
25,800
|
27,400
32,700
40,100
53,900
54,600
66,500
76,100
June
23,300
25,400 I
27,400
32,500
42,700
52, 500
53,800
68,600
73,700
81,800
July
24,500
26,800 j
27,000
31,700
37,900
51,300
54,900
70,200
73,500
81,500
August
23,000
25,000
27,900
32,800
12,800
53,800
55,700
72,600
76,000
86,100
September
October
November
Pecember
24,400
27,400
29,600
31,200
26,200
29,100
34,200
45, SIX)
53, 400
57,800
75,700
80,500
92,200
28,200 :
31,500
37, P00
40, 500
54,600
62,100
78,300
84,700
98,100
30,000
34,000
W , 300
53, 900
60, 200
67,700
82,200
90,500
105,300
32,800
35, .500
59,000
l>4, 400
73,400
S6,4O0
95,000
110,500
26,017
28,067
30,100
35,458 | 14,925
60,083
73,575
81,067
91,825
Yearly average
*
|
I
55,442
i
i
I
1
Gross revenue received from the sale of electrical energy as reported by the Electrical IVorld and represents the total receipts from the sale of electricity computed to
100 per cent of the industry on the basis of the percentage which the reporting companies bear to the installed central-station rating of the country.
4G
COTTON.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Based on data from Government sources.
[Base year in bold-faced type; numerical data on opposite page.]
YEAR AND MONTH.
Production
(crop
estimate).4
STOCKS, END OF MONTH.
BeGin- , celpts
nings.t
into
sight.
!
, Lm- j Ex' ports.
ports,
I
Relative to 1909-1913
average.
1909-1913 monthly average.
1913 monthly average
1914 monthly average
1915 monthly average
1916 monthly average
1917 monthly average
1918 monthly
1919 monthly
1920 monthly
1921 monthly
1922 monthly
average.
average.
average.
average.
average.
100
Con-
Relative to 1913.
I Total
[domestic
;! ginned.
Mills.
i Relative
to 1914.
Relative to 1913.
Warehouses.
ElseStocks
where
un(com- Sinned.7
puted).*
World
visible.*
Relative to 1914.
Relative
to 1913.
100
2 1OO
1OO
123
100
86
- 1OO
124
2 101
2 105
97
1OO
86
SO
104
166
96
97
171
100
97
99
88
S8
99
158
81
111
161
127
87
87
80
114
55
117
141
92
92
77
92
47
113
88
88
87
144
75
100
103
103
78
246
71
01
62
86
114
74
76
75
82
152
70
43
102
118
117
66
138
49
134
52
50
92
44
70
52
C6
55
48
08
05
51
17
63
52
28
109
100
100
100
100
100
177
248
123
144
182
166
77
112
140
153
116
69
89
139
111
153
146
83
91
177
108
192
234
86
116
111
155
119
174
164
95
131
85
205
88
255
2€3
112
148
102
165
106
213
152
45
104
83
76
252
94
47
68
82
262
99
91
244
85
227
91
96
82
105
1921.
January...
February.
March
April
May
June
July
August.
September.
October
November.
December..
156
321
332
312
379
99
298
328
145
98
285
286
143
205
95
269
231
216
182
89
244
192
144
85
158
83
211
161
58
97
149
75
197
159
281
120
127
!
151
133
54
220
98
31
73
101
184
83
245
205
190
50
346
168
154
120
103
242
104
283
343
50
146
50
92
147
253
93
109
240
123
301
279
13
149
64
22
127
300
106
219
129
296
200
4
149
1922.
I
January...
February.
March
April
76
207
65
109
197
124
263
175
140
40
270
47
98
181
US
239
157
126
295
<>3
108
159
116
213
118
116
74
82
92
134
109
182
83
110
May
June
July
August.
51
71
65
103
112
106
145
60
97
42
62
08
106
88
99
111
34
83
33
42
51
95
09
91
85
12
•to
37
85
September..
October....
November.
December..
!
87
76
45
71
38
109
70
76
81
284
116
•23
51
103
125
79
7>
395
194
132
110
111
197
7S
109
179
244
118
120
26
126
337
84
109
92
31
334
183
83
219
72
103
24C
231
60
118
193
128
238
195
15
125
175
143
231
117
5
123
52
1923.
January...
February.
March
April
MayJune..
July..
72
518
127
154
148
19S
83
109
34
327
49
118
136
150
159
74
88
38
262
44
129
115
151
135
33
75
25
183
36
120
97
140
112
13
59
31
116
22
129
80
120
90
46
66
30
112
100
70
36
See footnotes on opposite page also.
» Except receipts into sight, compiled by New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and world visible supply of American cotton, compiled by Commercial and Financial Chronicle.
Production estimates from U. 8. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics; imports and exports from U. 8. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce; consumption and domestic stocks from U. 8. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Linters are not included in the statistics in this table,
except in the exports. It should be noted that the monthly averages of stocks (except visible supply) and consumption are based on the crop year ending July 31 of
the year stated, while for ginnings the average is for the crop grownI n the year stated. Other averages are based on the calendar years.
' These figures are for fiscal years ending June 30 of the year given; those following are for calendar years.
i All bales are running bales counting round as half bales, except for imports which are given in equivalent 500-pound bales.
47
COTTON
NUMERICAL DATA.
From Government sources.1
[Base year in bold-faced type; index numbers on opposite page.]
S T O C K S , E N D OF MONTH.
Production
YEAR AND MONTH.
Ginnings.5
(crop estimate).4
Receipts
into sight. Imports.
Exports.
Consumption.
Total
domestic
ginned.
Mills.
Warehouses.
Stocks
unginned.7
Elsewhere
(computed). 6
World
visible.*
Bales.3
I1
1909-13 mo. av
1,077,758
13,033,235
1913 mo. av
14,156,486
1,203,092
a 20,309
a 727,048
482,194
1,346,275
1,761,029
1914 mo. av
16,134,930
1,325,487
1,035,730
a 20,558
«763,775
468,840
4,125,050
1,305,575
1,766,241
1,053,233
1915 mo. av
11,191,820
922,348
1,256,604
33,798
696,583
466,447
7,054,911
1,326,773
3,116,900
1916 mo. av
11,499,930
946,993
1,186,402
32,064
585,810
533,134
6,650,295
1917 mo. av
11,302,375
937,354
959,945
23,103
401,570
565,709
5,799,680
1,704,731
1,890,108
1918 mo. av
12,040,532
992,207
930,820
18,781
342,696
547,207
5,724,746
1,500,619
1919 mo. av
11,420,763
943,794
1,050,988
29,226
546,432
480,495
7,301,170
1,454,170
3,094,382
2,666,879
3,256,082
2,611,238 ,
3,275,139
4,448,002
3,197,001
1,748,565
2,047,505
2,690,708
1,218,872
1,841,476
3,470,325
2,756,811
2,689,271
1,534,856
2,204,884
2,826,666
3,382,971
2,463,863
2,287,925
3,601,306
1920 mo. av
13,439,603
1,105,914
940,762
49,999
513,261
534,978
6,374,867
1,595,339
3,056,972
1,722,556
2,542,491
4,063,364
!
1921 mo. av
7,958,641
664,815
1,036,637
23,137
540,435
407,723
8,437,245
1,181,390
4,484,135
2,771,712
2,983,776
4,588,^29
i
1922 mo. av
9,964,000
810,754
984,931
30,953
510,814
492,485
6,788,292
1,430,645
3,755,328
1,602,318
1,198,281
3,230,285
460,094
1,228,320
1,256,228
4,821,886
1921.
24,024
605,381
366,463
10,402,402
1,263,961
5,645,482
3,492,959
793 739
28,055
493,426
395,115
10,816,949
1 327 155
5,503,139
3,986,655
4,670 831
March
589 856
27,282
375,180
438,218
10 046,779
1 336 542
5 252,852
3,457,385
4 475,521
April
607 218
18,731
319,933
409,247
9,350,944
1 315 706
5 026 894
3 008,344 '
4,434 379
May
845 725
10 542
477 389
440 714
8 456 753
1 280 723
4 738 267
2 437 763
6 668 667
659,900
9,849
495,590
461,917
7,526,072
1,203,364
4,300,386
2,022,322
4,454,124
607 788
3 452
598 962
410 142
6 534 360
1 111 147
3 723 213
1 700 000
4 108 428
620- 214
5 631
423 491
467 059
6 140 788
1 006 066
3 463 964
1 676 758 ', 7 491 991
3,723 986
January
1 256 228
February
!
!
i June
July
8,433,000
August
8 203 000
485 787
i September
7,037,000
2,434,605
1,179,916
6,362
532,839
484,718
7,593,912
1,118,045
4,312,135
2,163,732 !
5,057,386
3,944,690
1 October
6,537 000
3,725,962
2,016,263
31,269
874,510
494,317
9,995,040
1 398 138
4,984,831
3,612,071
1,331,424
4,519,489
1
November
6,537,000
993,607
1,763,850
51,440
648,695
527,940
9,886,499
1,655,359
5,292,941
2,938,199
337,817
4,622,596
December
7,953,641
242,395
1,526,858
61,006
639,825
510,925
9,047,675
1 738 138
5,206,663
2,102,874
95,422
4,617,751
65 326
4,322,285
1922.
!
January
30 096
914 329
42 093
475,910
526 698
8 137 761
1 668 668
4 621 708
1 847,385
February
65 326
478 213
54,761
338,440
472 336
7 464,650
1 595 242
4 214,862
1,654,552
3,890 580
!
536,624
59,957
519,761
6,556,720
1 557 023
3 752 258
1,247,439
3,592,532
1
443 759
15 115
461,484
598,209
443 509
5 546 080
1 461 340
3 213 483
871 257
3 398 909
March
608 951
14,320
469,397
495,337
4,611 822
1 420 428
2 559 451
631,943
3,000 680
!
506,575
491,079
509 218
392 922
373,742
458,002
1 330 903
1 218 388
1 488,165
356,612
125,000
2,567 689
2,839 88S
546,895
273,308
527,404
3,640,993
2,831,553
2,C04,940
1 953,478
1
12 662
8,587
14,481
1 024,994
1,549,789
330,157
8,911,877
1,597,056
1,393,812
9 4,628
368,890
495,344
5,153,804
1,065,117
3,217,639
871,048
5,846,042
2,228,591
Mav
!
11 065 000
July
August
11,400,000
817,171
September
10,575,000
3,065,835 |
October
10 135 000
4 256 833 ;
2,331,478
26,816
798,664
533 950
8,145,448
1 379 770
4 329 902
2,435,776
1,589 209
3,637,150
November
December
10,135,00Q
1,178,305
2,155,597
49,550
858,337
577,561
7,976,767
1,721,425
4,198,095
410,904
3,876,414
9,964,000
280,763
1,510,011
68,525
607,853
527,945
7,232,140
1,921,295
4,074,945
2,057,247
1,235,900
130,141
3,811,650
76,447
3,359,121
i
:
i
1923.
January
53,694
872,132
105,215
473,436
610 375
3 481 689
877,025
76,447 ]
410, 188
66,329
359,657
566,921
6,345,319
5,602,870
1 986 605
Februarv....
2 021,903
2 804,494
776,473
2,733,781
March
452 817
53 ''19
318 210
623 105 '
4 760 129
2 034 535
2 377 799
347 795
April
30") 058
37,068
262,753
577,306
3,995,324
1 889 218
1 966 441
139,665
2 335 063
1,812,705
May
374,977
23,593
160,368
020 965 i 3 279,112
1
1 621 2S0 I 579 606
13 367
214 851 '
542 166
1 345 066
i
June.
July
1 232,888
79,016
1,432,114
1,108,674
II, 40.',000
l!
See footnotes on opposite page also.
« The yearly figures represent the latest revised estimates of total production for the year (not a monthly average). The monthly figures show the current estimates
of total production as reported each month.
&
Figures for September include first 25 days of the month only; remaining 5 days are included with October. January figures cover the first 16 days of the month,
and February figures cover all ginnings of the crop made after Jan. 16.
6
Computed from figures on ginnings, imports, reexports, exports (excluding linters), consumption, and mill and warehouse stocks, and corrected at the end of each
crop year by reports to the Bureau of the Census.
7
Computed from total crop and ginnings to date. September figures are as of Sept. 25, January as of Jan. 16; otherwise as of last day of the month.
1
These figures represent world visible supply of American cotton.
• Covers first 21 days only, during which period the old tariff law was in effect; remaining 9 days included with October,
48
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
INDEX NUMBERS.
Based on data from Government and non-Government sources.1
[Base year in bold-faced type; numerical data on opposite page.]
TELEPHONE
COMPANIES.
YEAR AND MONTH.
TeleCom- graph
Total
Net
and Operat- Gross
operat- operat- mercial cable
teleing in- earning
ings.
graph operatcome.
reveing
tolls.
nues.
revecome.
nue.
i
Relative to 1919.
1913 mo
1914 mo
1915 mo
1916 mo
av
av
av
av
100 '
Gross
revenue,
central
station
sales.
Net
earnings.
Sf
Relative to 1913.
ELECTRICAL
ENERGY.
GAS AND
ELECTRIC
COMPANIES.
TELEGRAPH
COMPANIES.
FUEL CONSUMPTION BY
PUBLIC UTILITY
PLANTS.
Coal.
1OO
1OO
100
105
111
112
125
129
lTTl 7 m o a v
142
127
1918 mo. av . .
1919 mo av .
1920 mo. a v . . .
1921 mo. av
1922 mo av . . .
154
125
83
188
138
1OO
231
146
120
276
204
306
239
By
fuels.
Relative to 1919.
1OO
;
:
1OO
108 i
108
110
116 !'i
121
125
136
105
135
121
173
84
78
150
121
213
1OO
1OO
173
134
231
1OO
116
88
209
141
283
106
106
103
77
215
166
312
111
105
104
225
184
353
76
power.
i
103
78
Total.
Gas.
Oil.
Relative to 1913.
104
PRODUCTION
OF ELECTRICAL
ENERGY.
1OO
106
100
ill
102
123
118
125
109
95
1OO
1OO
119 !
115
112
90
109
111
97
119
127
1OO
113
108
j
1
I
1921.
January
February. . .
March
April
262
173
108
104
42
237
179
328
102
97
96
109
253
181
98
94
37
217
168
309
90
85
82
98
271
213
112
107
93
222
172
'
305
90
92
87
105
110
98
111
277
232
103
101
75
215
108
i
299
83
92
104
100
107
83
93
112
101
109
96
83
99
116
100
100
100
84
111
108
101
101
101
88
125
131
105
99
109
|
98
101
I
May
June
July
August
278
223
280
218
109
275
184
103
99
278
193
108
105
;
September...
October
November
December
275
219
110
107
i
112
289
220
110
108
86
287
220
99
98
80
288
172
104
104
111
;
107
;
102
70
212
101
105
88
204
147
50
198
137
283
283
78
198
131
292
!
293
I
203
!
217
225
241
150
170
i
193
210
!
309
88
128
133
114
91
128
326
94
128
128
110
93
120
348
95
124
124
112
100
120
365
99
129
110
118
109
123
1922.
January
February....
March
April
291
241
220
ss
54
|
224
202
i
102
100
!
231 ;
201
I
97
78
!
223
196
123
i
222
220
UK
282
218
01
300
244
107
305
250
102
May
June
July . . .
August
305
243
113
307
246
115
108 I
109
304
217
108
103
309
231
120
113
September...
October
November....
December .
312
245
122
319
273
126
317
236
324
!
04
:
j
JM
120
92
117
106
124
349
89
108
90
107
100
111
348
93
103
90
118
121
116
322
84
89
104
111
122
104
315
84
124
118
135
107
85
93
100
118
130
111
119
128
114
128
215
166
314
83
210
147
313
!
88
110
131
146
119
214
132
331
;
96
142
171
126
123
127
114
128
220
160
354
99
148
175
125
116
130
117
129
238
171
377
112
142
159
134
111
147
114
108
100
247
215
405
115
135
134
136
112
150
249
116
107
138
257
218
425
123
142
108
142
326
266
118
j
110
120
270
257
451
122
136
118
147
133
155
315
362
108
i
100
86
«250
«239
422
111
127
102
133
121
141
338
299
126
116
108
»257
»253
115
125
127
146
143
148
335
275
116
!
107
92
101
107
129
138
147
133
109
155
143
156
135
!
|
i
!
158
J923.
January..
February
March
April
May
121
112
93
420
412
i
!
j
!
101
j
July
1
See footnotes on opposite page also.
Telephone earnings are the combined reports of 13 largest telephone companies, and telegraph earnings are the combined reports of the Western Union and Posta I
Telegraph Cos., as reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission; gas and electric earnings are the combined reports to the U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census, of 73 companies or systems operating gas, electric light, heat, power and traction services and comprising most of the large companies in the United States. Gross
earnings are in general the gross operating revenues, while net earnings in general represent the gross less operating expenses and taxes, but owing to a lack of uniformity
i p the accounts of individual companies, it has not beep possible to secure tEese actual items for each company, and in such cases the nearest comparable figures have been
1
49
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
NUMERICAL DATA.
Data from Government and non-Government sources.1
[Base year in bold-faced type; index numbers on opposite page.]
TELEPHONE
COMPANIES.
YEAR AND MONTH.
TELEGRAPH
COMPANIES.
GAS AND
ELECTRIC
COMPANIES.
ELECTRICALENERGY.
Gross
Net
earnearnings, i ings.
Gross
revenue
central- i Coal.
station \ j
sales.
TeleNet
Com- graph
Operand
Total opermer- cable
operatcial operat-| ating
ining rev- ating
graph
inenues, come.
ing
tolls.
revenue.
FUEL CONSUMPTION
BY PUBLIC UTILITY
PLANTS.
Short
tons.
Thousands of dollars.
1913 mo. av.
1914 mo. av.
1915 mo. av.
1916 mo. av.
1917 mo. av.
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
mo.
mo.
mo.
mo.
mo.
$13,132 $3,710
13,722 3,709
14,527 4,139
16,452 4,785
18,700 4,700 $5,898
av.
av.
av.
av.
av.
1921.
January
February
March
April
4,649
5,104
5,415
7,573
20,225
24,635
30,320
36,265
40,204
$7,674
1,282
8,477
i 6,287
! 7,596 10,095 1,636
|| 9,113 11,698 1,438
|! 8,043 10,371 1,265
1,697
10,608
8,435
10,480
9,457
10,772
10,163
j
!
|
i
689
599
1,524
1,228
69,546 18,167
63,820 | 17,067
65,325 ; 17,457
63,245 16,981
85,300 '; 2,984,154
80,400 2,629,563
79,300 2,641,588
77,800 2,416,579
36,560
36,743
36,160
36,566
8,275
8,084
6,829 j
7,178
8,123
8,283
7,805
8,239
10,315
10,601
9,989
10,615
!
I
I
|
1,251
1,434
816
1,270
62,163
59,905
58,212
58,098
76,100
73,700
73,500
76,000
September
October
November
December
36,067 8,132
] 37,905 8,168 :
j 37,657 | 8,172
\ 37,871
8,333
8,371
7,526
7,884
10,812
10,913
9,857
10,486
| 1,835
I 1,409
1,311
j 1,815
59,702
15,182
63,753 17,240
66,004 i 19,514
70,800 I 21,232
1932.
January
February
March
April
|
7,451
6,950
8,117
7,766
9,586
8,932
10,302
9,808
1,042
883
1,643
1,275
70,899 22,246
65,661 20,500
67,725 ! 20,360
65,581
19,886
99,400
90,800
90,500
83,700
8,149
8,073
9,070
9,272
16,284
14,873
13,926
13,267
j
40,059
40,252
39,889
40,572
9,013 I
9,137 |
8,055 ;
8,585 |
8,620
8,744
8,198
9,079
10,882
10,967
10,363
11,381
2,008
2,101
1,364
1,944
65,295 j 18,364
63,259 j 16,834
61,612
14,S67
62,974
13,353
September
October
November
December
40,930
41,936
41,691
42,489
9,092 j:
10,125 !
8,767 !
9,246
9,261
9,564
8,678
8,796
11,521
11,820
10,885
10,850
2,090
2,109
1,636
2,265
64,484
69,866
72,539
75,502
May..
June.
July..
j
i
'
\
|
By water By fuels.
power.
Thousands of kilowatt hours.
16,255
17,325
21,771
22,106
897,088 1,707,413
781,436 ! 1,464,682
848,866 1,548,664
843,193 1,853,783
3,541,493
3,178,624
3,394,987
3,239,784
1,217,158
1,345,809
1,245,000
1,437,587
2,026,245
1,
1,196,616
1,345,507
1,308,272
2,198,804
1,982,008
2,049,480
1,931,512
2,283,764
2,194,130
2,537,652
853,380
916,088
1,026,568
1,149,935 '
1,994,126
2,068,248
1,929,148
2,329,609
3,269,127 1,327,497 1,941,630
3,244,093 ! I 1,215,972 2,028,121
3,269,709
1,224,813 2,044,896
3,410,701 1,199,995 2,206,706
80,500 2,586,033
84,700 | 2,758,774
90,500 2,777,483
95,000 2,902,987
1,179,250
1,181,457
1,145,922
1,191,752
2,381,628
2,279,880
2,212,562
1,962,781
3,687,609
3, 574,339
3,639,393
3,819,692
1,101,576
1,137,123
1,217,833
1,322,101
2,586,033
2,437,216
2,421,560
2,497,591
2,953,540
2,593,259
2,722,146
2, 456, 592
1,108,413
995,826
949,952
824,097
1,633,907
1,599,967
1,598,961
1,850,180
3,805,748
3,467,846
3,820,812
3,596, 520
1,293,439
1,220,922
1,467,832
1,488,305
2,512,309
2,246,924
2,352,980
2,108,215
; 2,212,847 I
2,344,788
2,606,783 |
'' 3,056,137 |
3,823,591
3,835, 430
3,871,324
4,074,908
1,646,074
1,587,943
1,556,956
1,494,766
2,176,917 |
2,247,487
2,314,368 j
2,580,142
i!
May
June
July
August
1923.
January
February
March....
April
M cubic
feet.
55,442
60,083 I 2, *25, OH
f2), 833 j 1,783,833 j| 3,243,403
73,575 3,093,655 | 1,093,559 2,058,509 3,629,573
81,066 2,631,107 i 1,001,245 1,977,710 3,439,130
91,825 2,849,397 1,099,444 2,264,511 3,975,237
8,183
7,412
8,535
7,823
38,183
j 36,998
! 39,393
40,058
Barrels.
Total.
44,119 I 12,232
50,734 13,609
61,342 ; 14,311
63,252 | 16,812
66,199 18,612
6,434
6,706
7,896
8,599
I
J
!
|
Gas.
$29,369 810,132 $26,017
28,067
j 30,716 I 10,478
30,100
| 31,592 i 11,112
' 35,479 \ 12,657
35,458*
39,508 j 12,304
$1,711
44,925
i
34,394 i
33,206!
| 35,650 |
I 36,398 I
May
June
July
August..
Oil.
PRODUCTION OF
ELECTRICAL ENERGY.
2,415,263
2,434,349
2,453,945
2,572,569
j
82,000
81,800
81,500
86,100
92,200
98,100
| 105,300
I 110,500
85(5,173
2,471,123
|
919,960
2,486,099
i
2, 563,580 1,010,117
j 2,816,678
1,311,945
!
! 2,898,986 1,361,387
j 3,275,204 : 1,308,836
3,357,966 ' 1,239,693
3,597,590 j 1,306,930
1,358,292 | 2,690,912
1,352,495 2,979,910
1,366,554 3,047,073
1,416,860 3,194,586 |
3,125,059
2,833,831
2,383,280
1,928,396
j 4,049,204
! 4,332,405
•[ 4,413,627
|! 4,611,446
2,096,496
1,823,411
2,271,937
2,297,450
4,753,826
4,324,278
4,727,964
4,473,472
1,620,311
1, 467,343
1, 719,362
1,783,652
3,133,515
2,856,568
3,008,602 j
2,689.820 |
999,705 2,766,262
4,630,473
1,901,400
2,729,073 [
]l
42,841
41,317
44,324
43,952
9,879
13,447
11 102
10,21?
8,986
8,166
9,565
8,788
11,130
10,094 !
11,699
10,842
1,961
79,442
1,413 , * 73,569
1,775 2 75,385
1,499
9,177
11,266
1,518
25,998 117,400 | 3,556,807 | 1,255,973
24,171 109,800 | 3,248,979 1,165,769
2
25,616 t 109,200 | 3,351,167 | 1,151,107
107,200 { 2,967,707
980,689
2
! 2,943,242 |
i
See footnote on opposite page also.
taken. Also in some cases the figures for prior years do not cover exactly the same subsidiaries owing to acquisitions, consolidations, etc., but these differences are not
believed to be great in the aggregate. Gross revenue received from the sale of electrical energy as reported by the Electrical World represents the total receipts from # the
sale of electricity computed to 100 per cent of the industry on the basis of the percentage which the reporting companies bear to the installed central station rating of the
country.
Fuel consumption by public utility plants and production of electric power from U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey.
8
One company missing.
50
MISCELLANEOUS.
(A) INDEX NUMBERS AND (B) NUMERICAL DATA.
Data from Government and non-Government sources.
[Base year in bold-faced type.]
AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION, i
STOCKS OF
CRUDE PETROLEUM.'
Total
for
comYEAR AND MONTH.
parison.
Fall
River
mill
dividends*
Total (quarPasat
terly)
senreger.
fineries.
Rela- Relative to tive to
1913.
Relative to
1919.
1913.
SANITARY
ENAMEL
WARE.*
SmallTrucks, Baths. ware.
Relative to
1921.
Relative to
1919.
STOCKS OF CRUDE
PETROLEUM.*
Total
for
comparison.
At tank
farms
At
and pipe refinerlines
ies.
(as reported.)
m o . average.,
mo. average,
mo. average,
mo. average,
mo. average,
mo. average.
100
118
139
138
122
1919 mo. average.
1920 mo. average.
1921 mo. average.
1922 mo. average.
105
127
152
234
100
114
138
221
108
107
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1920.
January
February...
March
.
April
100
59
55
114
203
291
1,958
2,115
6,167
7,500
10,680
18,938
138,138
156,930
127,616
194,642
26,364
26,837
12,020
20,269
165,347
193,433
231,520
222,433
29,420
31,276
36,031
39,342
209,433
179,433
171,347
171,348
35,308
30,276
28,420
28,419
3,633
142,347
87,347
1,521
47,086
21,420
19,420
14,85.6
7,856
4,831
7,830
13,328
18,070
23
28
41
72
145,914
103,886
5 5,682
13,526
100
114
93
141
100
110,026
133,115
159,237
245,673
14,935
16,954
20,651
32,932
1,221
2,521
779
762
88
120
112
112,874
13,201
90
140
119
111,981
13,501
14,346
15,146
91
106
96
105
101
235
486
150
147
448
105
56
144,5£6
128,201
102
45
• 100
6 100
76
335
312
168
137
111,144
161
149
110,732
152
134
110,653
130
115
113,029
2,325
May
June
July
August..
105
103
108
108
108
114
124
108
113,815
110
120
124
108
115,699
15,331
16,172
17,086
17,961
September..
October
November..
December...
128
126
103
81
130
129
63
74
133
143
136
142
134,360
136,285
139,234
142,442
18,830
19,238
21,374
21,261
120
141
31
18
126
150
49
30
133
142
94
51
125,589
132,222
139,499
146,399
21,064
22,412
21,147
21,055
43,086
68,088
936 i 130,263
176,439
177,438
150,263
165,574
167,705
1921.
January
February...
March
April
502
700
293
180
45
56
34
30
141
128
148
139
128
69
155
141
109
54
Baths.
Small-
Number.
38,458
45,307
68,218
124,46£
145,066
77,199
$519
306
285
593
1,054
1,512
101,962
123,709
33
49
SANITARY
ENAMEL
WARE,
UNFILLED
ORDERS/
B.—NUMERICAL DATA.
28
90
PassenTrucks.
ger.
Thousands of
dollars.
Thousands of barrels.
A.—INDEX NUMBERS.
Fall
River
mill
dividends •
(quarterly).
AUTOMOBILE
PRODUCTION.^
2,605
•40,816
136,614
403,5£6
18,070
14,328
10,766
13,080
43,668
51,344
47,357
42,218
169,467
173,151
145,166
123,202
13,648
12,813
10,010
8,307
43,375
39,412
30,763
29,987
117,101
119,087
93,168
93,744
i
May
June
July....
August..
September..
October
November.
December..
148
161
128
120
41
162
110 |
121
50
165
120 !
105
52
98
49
77
38
51
32 i
143
166
170
177
146 |L
178 j | 130
107
126
116
103
131
134
112
95
155,267
162,463
168,821
169,682
20,816
21,009
19,116
16,374
104
97
74
73
91
92
72
73
172,874
174,149
178,260
185,623
17,991
18,404
21,856
26,562
See footnotes on opposite page.
767
742
144,669
134,734
106,042
673 ,j 70,690
|
,
i
I
|
;
j
!
j
51
MISCELLANEOUS—Continued.
(A) INDEX NUMBERS AND (B) NUMERICAL DATA—Continued.
SANITARY
STOCKS OF
AUTOMOCRUDE PEENAMEL
BILE PROTROLEUM.* i Fall
DUCTION.'
WARE.*
River \
j mill !
diviTotal Total ;dends
(quar- Pasfor
at
terly). sen- Trucks.; Baths, Small, comware.
YEAR AND MONTH. ; pari- finerger.
son.
ies.
| Rela- Rela- | Relative to tive to I tive to
j 1913.
1919.
I 1913.
Relative to
1921.
Relative to
1919.
STOCKS OF CRUDE
PETROLEUM.*
I Fall
River
j mill
! divi- 3
At tank
| dends
farms
! (quarAt
and pipe refinerterly).
lines
Total
for
compari- | (as reson.
ported).
ies.
1922.
January
February
March
April
May
June....
July
August..
September...
October
November...
December
1923.
January
February
March
April
May..
June..
205
59
36
105 •
199
178 j
79
50
106
211
210 |
219 ;
235
238 ;
244
242 ;
211
125 ;
89
!
208,851
;
30,636
81,693
9,416
26,580
109,171
13,195
|
31,298
152,959
19,761
197,216
22,342
42,908
43,368
45,868
66,743
232,431 I 23,788
263,027 I 25,984
224,770
21,837
248,122
24,467
146,129
177,197
191,038
175,791
436,787 |
486,331
557,488
508,005
187,661 |
216,099 j
215,284 !
207,269 |
19,188
21,512
21,683
20,050
183,343
176,047
188,023
202,912
513,113
512,286
'600,466
640,440
223,706 j
254,650
318,424
344,474
19,377
21,815
34,593
37,527
248,627
291,549
298,953
305,731
829,235
997,126
1,056,942
1,100,340
350,180
42,983
286,078 1,066,772
111
75
112
107
221,588 !
143
85
164 !
159
235,962
168
£0
358 :
338
247,093
190
99:
434 |
376
255,817
|
35,476
236
162
83
468
431
261,395
'
35,287
180
93
431
393
262,707 ,
:
34,030
251
136
73
449 ;
397
156
82
431 I
396
156
S2 ,
461
465
252
225
219
219 j
226
150
76
497
495
263,761
265,073 :
265,017 !
264,578
33,615
32,766
| 32,765
| 33,805
251
200 ;
162
73
609 j
642
247
188
184
S3
714
771
732;
S18
126
'.
255
208 '!
260
210
!.
267
211
!.
136
143
231
131
249
142
250
162
749 .
701
650
36,178
228 '
252
$1,097
32,752
256
125
Number.
;
196,228
100
249
253
Smallware.
B.—NUMERICAL DATA.
187
225
SANITARY
ENAMEL
WARE,
UNFILLED
ORDERS .4
Passen,-!
; Trucks. Baths.
ger.
! Thouj sands of
I dollars.
Thousands of barrels.
A.—INDEX NUMBERS.
AUTOMOBILE
PRODUCTION.1
I
|i
:|
!!
851
263, 23o
258, 781
267, 209
272, 616
252,961
255,385
258,738
264,627
29,914
28,113
31,133
31, 343
825
279,877
273,157
31,511 I
647
654
707
128,811
114,967
138,374
206,084
741 !.
1
Yearly figures of automobile production through 1921 from the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; monthly figures from January, 1920, through June, 1921,
estimated by the Cleveland Trust Company on the basis of shipments; beginning with July, 1921, current production compiled by the U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau
of the Census, from reports of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, to which are added reports from outside manufacturers, representing practically 100% of the
total2 production of the industry.
Stocks of crude petroleum included in "Total for Comparison'5 are from the U. 5. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, and include pipe-line stocks and tank
farm stocks, producers' stocks in California, and stocks of Mexican petroleum held by importers. Beginning with January, 1923, topped oil and imported oil at refineries
have not been reported by the Geological Survey, but the imported stocks reported by the Bureau of Mines have been added to the Geological Survey figures to compensate
for the exclusion of the latter. This change in the method of computation reduced the January, 1923, total from 264,675,000 to 203,235,000 barrels, an almost negligible ( ifference. Beginning with January, 1923, the Geological Survey total of stocks, pipe-line tank farm producers' stocks in California, and imyoitfd cil held cutsice refneiies
are given in the separate column, headed "As reported." Total at refineries is from U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, and includes both imported and domestic oil.
3
Dividends paid each quarter by Fall River textile mills obtained from Bradstrcets.
* Unfilled orders of sanitary enamel ware compiled by the En-.inid Sanitary Ware Manufacturers' Association, said to represent about 9S per cent of the total output
of this
industry in the United States.
6
6 months average, July to December, inclusive.
6
8 months' average, May to December, inclusive.
52
WORLD PRODUCTION OF COTTON.*
1
!
Country
World total.
Peru.
United
States.
Mexico.
India.
June.
August.
August.
November.
j
New crop available
Brazil.
Egypt.
September. September.
Thousands of bales (478 pounds net).
Normal consumption (1909-1913).
1915
1916
1917
13,033
16,135
11,192
11,450
11,302
193
108
95
103
135
3,584
4,356
3,126
3,756
3,390
322
387
282
281
345
1,453
1,337
980
1,048
1,304
1918..
1919.
1920..
1921..
12,041
11,421
13,440
7,954
203
199
188
126
3,324
3,735
339
384
451
612
1,155
1,251
902
9,762
1115
* 4,348
553
1,015
1909-1913 average.
1914
1922, latest estimates.
1923, latest estimates.
1
17,795
From private sources.
4,850
3,013
21922 acreage 12,496,000 compared w i t h 11,976,000 in 1921.
WORLD PRODUCTION OF WHEAT*
World total.
Country
New crop available
Argentina.
Australia.
India.
United
States.
Spain.
Italy.
France.
January.
January.
March.
July.
August.
August.
August.
August.
August.
Germany. Rumania. Canada.
September.
Millions of bushels.
Normal consumption
(1900-1913)
1909-1913 average
1914 .
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921.
.
64
37
301
531
136
236
361
221
34
116
3,577
3,586
157
114
85
103
351
312
687
130
116
183
317
283
152
87
49
4,199
12,609
169
173
25
80
179
152
377
323
282
197
161
394
263
184
172
214
170
115
76
46
146
370
280
377
250
181
128
109
366
402
» 2,288
1
12,804
. .
12,743
12,868
13,069
.
1922, latest estimates
13,113
192S lrit^st flStlTTlfltP^
1
i
189
891
1,026
636
139
152
170
171
177
223
146
142
205
135
*110
182
«86
«80
•83
«108
»18
»66
*70
«76
189
193
263
301
«76
«83
400
300
637
143
140
921
968
833
814
136
129
139
145
170
141
194
226
*187
«237
«323
862
125
162
«243
835
183
89
78
234
« New boundaries.
Russia excluded. No accurate statistics are available.
• Excludes Alsace-Lorraine.
* Former kingdom, Bessarabia and Bukowina.
• Excludes Dobruja.
* Data compiled by U. S. Department of A griculture, Bureau of A gricultural Economics, and corrected monthly in accordance with latest available information received
that department or by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Countries are placed in the order in which crops are harvested.
53
WORLD PRODUCTION OF CANE SUGAR AND FLAXSEED.*
FLAXSEED.
CANE S U G A R .
Brazil.
Java,
Hawaii.
Cuba.
YEAR.
World
total.
May.
Oct.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Dec.
Jan.
Dec.
Thousands of short tons.
9,971
11,293
12,776
13,442
14,508
13,324
13,799
13,656
14,698
1,514
1,054
1,797
2,009
1,960
1,478
1,473
1,579
1,858
311
247
139
311
246
284
122
176
<328
»38
344
486
413
493
440
496
580
676
567
646
593
645
577
600
556
522
522
363
346
484
503
454
406
485
490
408
2,295
2,967
3,437
3,442
3,957
4,597
4,209
4,408
*4,476
2,614
2,757
2,950
3,058
3,708
2,617
3,361
2,826
2,911
1922 latest estimates
1923 latest estimates
14,857
1,993
<295
»532
«592
«393
»4,183
* 3,347
2
Louisiana and Texas.
8
Exports.
i
Apr.
Aug.
Aug.
Thousands of bushels.
1909-1913 average
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1
United
States.
Argentlna.
India.
World
total.
110,992
94,559
103,287
82,151
41,063
61,821
61,692
87,964
83,288
From private sources.
31,989
36,928
45,040
39,289
4,032
19,588
30,775
42,038
50,470
19,870
15,448
15,880
19,040
21,040
20,600
9,400
16,760
10,800
19,505
13,749
14,030
14,296
9,164
13,369
7,256
10,774
8,029
12,040
7,175
10,62S
8.. 260
5,935
6,055
5,473
7,998
4,112
32,272
44,000
17,360
12,238
3,685
« Louisiana and Texas.
WORLD PRODUCTION OF BEET SUGAR *
World
totaU
United
States.
Ger- CzechoNethermany. slovakia. Russia. Poland. lands.
Belgium.
France.
Italy.
Denmark. Sweden, i
Spain.
YEAR.
Thousands of short tons.
1909-1913 averace
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
;
.......
1922 latest estimates
1923 latest estimates .
8 432
8,331
6,056
5, sos
610
2,296
1,017
1,726
722
2,721
1,004
1,879
374
1,678
812
1,824
239
264
821
1,721
805
1,457
293
2S6
5,208
765
1,726
5S4
1,134
263
215
4 592
761
1,484
6SS
318
249
3 490
726
SOS
559
86
4 997
l,0S9
1,212
770
5,499
< 1,074
1,429
720
25 618
1,635
;
»799
246
276
759
209
116
128
154
316
215
334
166
112
168
170
120
150
166
117
143
140
140
204
160
139
124
151
136
221
162
154
149
144
182
78
121
120
169
156
141
106
263
152
171
185
91
149
141
55
195
314
268
370
150
104
168
181
55 j
198
421
325
<315
244
80
158
259
291
»172
2 102
»79
"217
279
»292
3 291
!
4
«302
496
3
i Crops in all countries here given are harvested beginning in September.
* From private sources.
3 Includes Ukraine: data from private sources.
« Refined sugar in terms of raw on the basis of 95 per cent of the raw.
WORLD PRODUCTION OF RICE.*
Country
World total.
New crop available..
India.
Apr.
Spain.
stated.
Apr.
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Japan.
Nov.
s£
p
Indies.
P'nes-
Dec
Dec.
Millions of pounds (cleaned).
Normal consumption (1919-1913)..
1909-1913.
1914
1915
1916
1917.
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922 latest estimates..
1923 latest estimates..
110,780
102,986
114,500
112,300
122,000
97,400
117,200
90,777
120,797
67,891
375
518
72,950
61,022
73,526
77,932
81,198
55,218
71,613
62,793
74,437
5.53
81
542
237
487
692
607
634
472
481
657
804
1,135
965
1,072
1,166
1,446
1,045
646
741
763
708
716
712
662
997
641
297
337
320
329
322
282
412
394
356
14,602
14,009
17,909
17,569
18,360
17,143
17,184
19,106
19,849
17,336
3,323
3,465
7,051
6,430
5,669
1,124
1,404
1,109
1,289
1,745
2,210
1,977
2,127
2,560
74,222
*33
1,166
»633
373
19,067
6,451
2,517
7,349
7,826
1
Java and Madura.
* Acreage about half of normal: Summer crop only given.
* 1922 acreage 296,500 compared with 286,400 acres in 1921.
* Data compiled by U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and corrected monthly in accordance with latest available information received
by that department or by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Countries are placed in the order in which crops are harvested.
54
IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES.
(A)
INDEX NUMBERS AND (B) NUMERICAL DATA.
From Government sources.1
[Base year in bold-faced type.]
Total.
YEAR ANP MONTH.
1913 m o . average..
100
1914 m o . average..
100
Crude Foodstuffs Food- ManuManumafacin
facstuffs
terials crude
tures
tures
partly
for
Misfor
condiready
or
use
cellation
for
wholly further
in
neous.
use hi ; conand
manumanu- food
manu-\ sumpfacfacfac- I tion.
anitured. turlng.
turing. mals.
O n rip Food- i Foodstufls
mateVials i snt u f f s
#«». 11 «=«
crude partly or
in manu- condition wholly
facturin^ and food manufacturing. a n l m a l s # tactured.
Total.
Manufactures Manufor
Misfurther factures
ready j cellause in
for con- j neous.
manu- sumption.
facturing.
Relative to 1913.
Thousands of dollars.
A.—INDEX NUMBERS.
B.—NUMERICAL DATA.
100
99 i
100
100
100
100
100
106
129
81
99
118
1915 m o . average..
99
115
110
138
77
71
92
1916 mo. average..
133
167 ,
118
171
123
84
134
1917 m o . average..
165
209 |
175
177
159
94
120
1918 m o . average..
169
202 j
156
200
191
98
91
1919 m o . average..
218
277 ;
247
280
179
119
179
$149,3
!! $50,462
149,130
49,790
57,991
148,216
84,132
199,303
105,682
246,039
1920 m o . average..
295
290 |
261
625
236
212
213
1921 m o . average..
140
138
186
101
150
136
1922 mo. average..
174
141 I
192 I
149
196
162
161
127
252,609
325,367
439,950
209,085
259,379
January...
February..
March
April
140
125
156
194
114
149
120
208,814
130
146
148
230
102
130
145
214,525
169
161
160
313
110
162
197
251,989
170
164
188
308
113
155
96
254,571
May....
June
July....
August -
137
131
71
204,911
92
145
87
185,680
120
126
93
152
47
178,637
130
142
216
129
100
164
150
135
145
104
104
103
85
124
89
145
176
194,768
|
September
120
121
90
111
93
157
253
179,283
I
October
126
118
127
145
98
150
161
188,028
November
141
130
107
155
136
211,027
December
159
180
178
154
113
149
156
237,373
January..
February
March
April
145
164
149
158
107
145
87
217,195
144
160
121
168
120
144
99
215,743
171
172
156
218
151
174
146
256,178
145
138
140
197
131
148
81
217,073
May....
June
July....
August.
169
174
170
211
140
169
83
252, 817
174
181
142
226
164
170
66
260,391
169
173
150
144
70
252.128
219
122
233
257
171
188
171
162
158
281,413
$18,413
19,561
20,242
21,678
32,144
$16,518
21,378
22,770
28,226
29,287
$28,355
23,006
21,748
34,822
45,124
$34,401 $1,234
1,459
33,936
24,335 | 1,130
28,798 • 1,648
1,476
32,327
101,760
139,521
146,073
71,090
96,811
28,795
45,441
48,136
25,331
27,485
33,114
46,308
103,179
30,737
32,357
54,080
50, S60
66,835
2S, 669
45, 854
33,742
41,028
73,094
51,577
55,304
63,047
73, 673
81,417
82,535
28,740
27,334
29,454
34,528
32,017
32,339
28,940
31,257
31,976
51,187
65,868
68,085
63,760
71,525
26,717
19,143
19,215
18,522
60,813
59, 460
70,030
94,016
16,588
23,326
20,338
32,707
82,639
80,971
86,910
69,804
27, 498
25,900
22,370
27, 762
28,756
36,014
25,711
1,117
2,210
2,633
1,681
1,568
1921.
1,485
44,798
1,791
55,781
2,426
53,445
1,189
24,096
26,039
26,263
25,171
51,710
872
1,076
583
2,176
2C>, 324
27,707
30,398
32,083
53, 073
51, 665
53, 365
51, 171
3,118
40, 811
49, 375
59, 880
50, 820
1,075
32,482
30,272
34,041
42,820
37,252
31,264
34,785
39,595
26,170
37,346
46,471
27,596
38,511
48,398
22,489
42,405
48, 431
58,208
58,439
49,464
55,858
37,988
51,653
50,898
35,648
21,328
16,465
27,005
18, 46r>
23,883
26,20")
2o,473
50,009
52,351
49,879
1,987
1,682
1,924
1922.
September..
October
November..
December..
87,877
91,146
87,298
110,286
1,224
1,797
1,004
1,028
818
861
1,944
18,769
24,023
41,026
37,465
30,324
65,685
32,650
32,319
56,195
31,228
26,539
57,194
54,038
71,952
58,866
52,655
139,205
28,569
28,596
398,178
144,655
38,300
87
364,230
142,442
32,856
31,265
38,579
71,024
60,628
65,240
55,332
73,048
64,821
63,929
52,320
69,830
62,400
1,695
127,558
40
373,244
59,893
73,774
05,320
495
153
172
102
145
145
157
334
228,795
231
272
203
184
232
209
185
b45,083
195
219
177
196
198
171
95
291,906
196
246
170
161
202
153
142
293, 464
86,818
137, 378
110,705
124,091
January
| February...
March.
April..
221
276
155
230
186
137
329,903
203
253
155
234
195
152
83
303,413
267
287
208
430
258
203
107
244
282
178
367
229
181
May.....
June.....
July...,.
August.,
250
4,121
2,279
1,171
1,757
1923.
1
287
157
363
260
190
Data from U. S, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
144,924
28,839
1,029
1,322
1,073
55
EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES.
(A) INDEX NUMBERS AND (B) NUMERICAL DATA.
From Government sources.1
[Base year in bold-faced type.]
Manufac- i
tures I
for I c e l l a " i
con|neous.|
sump- i
tion.
j YEAR AND MONTH.
TotaI
«
Crude
materials
for use
in manufacturing.
Foodstuffs
in crude
condition
and food
animals.
ManuFood- factures Manufor
stuffs
Mispartly or further factures
cellaready
use in
wholly
for
conneous.
manu- manufactured. factur- sumption
ing.
Relative to 1913.
Thousands of dollars.
A.—INDEX NUMBERS.
B.—NUMERICAL DATA.
1913 mo. average..
1914 mo. average..
1915 mo. average..
1916 mo. average..
100
100
85
278
!
172,675
143
1,514
|
291,104
221
1,162
!
451,887
1917 m o . average. .
252
641
|i
513,934
1918 m o . average..
247
233
503,990
1919 m o . average..
317
160
645,818
1920 m o . average..
330
145
673,402
1921 m o . average..
179
97
1922 m o . average..
154
$204,024
$64,017
40,938
47,280
60,118
65,061
$14,121
$27,023
22,939
25,727
38,470
45,880
35,107
54,003
42,406
67,228
$65,120 | $676
27,949
39,641
76,022
109,835
53,243
| 1,877
109,584
j 10,238
218,780
; 7,857
225,066
|
4,337
i
313,766
79,432
134,178
155,902
81,997
81,780
45,620
56,530
76,498
57,687
38,196
642,363
473,693
369, 463
339,915
112,356
85,164
69,164
57, 459
75,452
60,748
52,712
50,105
322,468
329, 774
314,204
365,560
74,416
74,030
75,890
69,483
319,299
337,121
289,577
291,297
68,391
121,322
88,545
89,950
274,633
246,357
323,452
310,959
117,152
163,551
93,080
55,805
49,020
87,773
76,854
79,909
33,270
36,480
172,437
213,625
267,032
135,497
107,698
; 1,577
j 1,079
! 980
654
; 592
85,428
299,077
218,283
157,646
142,653
1,136
50,808
68,915
45,271
32,618
28,270
59,302
62,779
58, 522
105,871
47,991
52,639
57,929
66,607
49,948
26,873
26,095
25,064
90,560
113,168
95,495
98,042
251
67,869
40,205
30,052
28,737
62,936
91,296
08,323
95, .'38
98,370
512
38,282
28,295
28,129
33,260
35,145
72,838
55,895
73,001
79,511
31,054
43,019
27,799
45,164
34,507 | 58,899
31,174 I 47,372
35,143
32,193
43,632
37,969
91,810
84,684
112,765
113,876
307,569
327,198
296,651
296,272
64,374
70,219
60,024
47, 873
34,151
41,000
41,958
61, 340
50,369
55, 485
49,226
46,072
40,422
39,086
35,676
35,709
112,161
121,284
109,544
104,872
418
307, 457
366,177
374,544
339,352
66,619
133,703
144,329
113,350
55,142
40,798
33,615
25,764
43,231
47,919
51, 471
49,620
35,566
32,943
33,593
35,879
106,542
110,177
110,532
113,937
357
330,894
302,106
333,332
318,357
102,074
77,322
79,916
71,136
24,201
27,169
19,364
17,741
50,741
49,747
55,025
50,776
43,264
39, 406
45,877
49,987
109,722
107,775
132,361
128,241
316,649
53,302
25,997
49,130
50,090
130,848
364,911
!
j
!
'
1921.
January...
February..
March
April
315
232
181
167
168
May....
June
July....
August.
158
37
162
42
154
40
179
73
September
October
November
December
156
76
165
166
142
108
143
120
133
114
83
63,325
56,554
48,018
41,449
902
769
559
284
273
494
1,123
732
813
1922.
January —
February...
March
April
May
June
July
August...
September..
October
November..
December..
135
114
121
92
159
96
152
156
151
160 :
145
145 !
101
110
94
75
66
1S3
33
60
151
53
179
94
184
149
166
119
769
022
648
1,058
124
222
407
637
1,005
803
1923.
January..
February.
March
April
162
May....
June —
July....
August.
155
148
163
156
168 ; 132
166
102
203 ; 117
197 ! 70
45
\ Data from U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
891
688
788
476
302
57
SOURCES OF DATA.
DATE OF PUBLICATION.
I.—REPORTS PROM GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, FEDERAL, STATE, AND FOREIGN.
AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH'S BUREAU OF CENSUS AND STATISTICS.
BANK OF JAPAN
BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE
CANADIAN DEPARTMENT OF LABOR..
CANADIAN DEPARTMENT OF
AND COMMERCE.
TRADE
FEDERAL FARM LOAN BOARD
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO
FEDERAL
LAND.
FEDERAL
FEDERAL
CITY.
FEDERAL
YORK.
RESERVE BANK OF CLEVERESERVE BANK OF DALLAS. .
RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS
RESERVE
BANK
OF
NEW
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICH^
MOND.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN
FRANCISCO.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD..
Price index for Australia
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Second week of month.
Prile index for Japan
Price index for United Kingdom
Price index for Canada
Employment in Canadian trade-unions
Operations of Canadian employment service...
Foreign trade of Canada.
Canadian railroad operations
Canadian iron and steel production
Agricultural loans by land banks
Wholesale trade
Savings deposits in First Fed. Res. Dist..
Savings deposits in Seventh Fed. Res. Dist-.
Agricultural pumps
Savings deposits in Fourth Fed. Res. Dist..
Federal Reserve Bulletin
British Board of Trade Journal
Labour Gazette (Canadian)
Employment
Employment
Foreign trade of Canada
Operating Revenues, etc., of Railways *
Second week of month.
Monthly.
Semimonthly.
Semimonthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Not published
Business Conditions..
Monthly Review
Business Conditions..
Business Conditions..
Business Review
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Wholesale trade
Wholesale trade
Foreign exchange rates and index
Business Conditions..
Business Conditions..
Monthly.
Monthly.
Federal Reserve Bulletin and daily statement.*
Res. Dist.J Monthly Review
Res. Dist.. Business and Financial Conditions
Business and Financial Conditions
Res. Dist.. Business and Agricultural Conditions
Business and Agricultural Conditions
i
Res Dist.. Business Conditions
Business Conditions
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Federal Reserve Bulletin and weekly press
releases.*
Federal Reserve Bulletin and weekly press
I Condition of Federal reserve banks.
releases.*
Federal Reserve Bulletin and weekly press
Condition of reporting member banks.
Savings deposits in Second Fed.
Savings deposits in Third Fed.
Wholesale trade
Savings deposits in Fifth Fed.
Wholesale trade
Savings deposits in Twelfth Fed.
Wholesale trade
Foreign exchange index numbers
Debits to individual accounts
j Money held outside U. S. Treasury and Fed- Federal Reserve Bulletin.
j eral reserve system to July 1,1922.
Federal Reserve Bulletin
i Wholesale price index numbers
i Department store trade: in cooperation with
Federal Reserve Bulletin
: National Retail Dry Goods Association.
I Index numbers of department store, mailFederal Reserve Bulletin
order, and chain store trade.
Barley and rye receipts
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Sales of loose leaf tobacco
Index of ocean freight rates
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Federal Reserve Bulletin
I Index numbers of production
Federal Reserve Bulletin
I Wholesale trade
Bulletin dela Statisque Generate...
LABOR AND Price index for France
FRENCH MINISTRY OF
SOCIAL WELFARE.
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
INDIAN DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS. .
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
MASSACHUSETTS
DEPARTMENT
OF
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR.
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC WORKS.
PANAMA CANAL
PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREBUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—
B U R E A U OF A G R I C U L T U R A L
ECONOMICS.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREFOREST SERVICE.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF THE CENSUS,
Employment in Illinois
Price index for India
Railway revenues and expenses
Telephone operating revenue and income
Telegraph operations and income
Express operations and income
Milk receipts at Boston
j The Employment Bulletin
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Preliminary statement of operations of
Class I roads.
Not published
Not published
Not published
Not published
Daily and monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly
Monthly..
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly (second week of month).
Sunday newspapers and monthly.
Friday morning newspapers and
monthly.
Friday afternoon newspapers and
monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
| Monthly.
Monthly.
j Monthly.
I Monthly.
I Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Second week of month.
Monthly.
New York State factory employment and Labor Market Bulletin and press releases * Monthly.
earnings.
New York State canal traffic
j Annual report
j Yearly.
Panama Canal traffic
Unemployment in Pennsylvania
Beef, pork, and lamb production
The Panama Canal Record
; Semimonthly report *
! Market Reporter 2
i Last weekly Issue of month.
| Semimonthly.
Last weekly issue of month or first
of next month.
Monthly Crop Reporter 8
Monthly.
Prices of farm products to producer.
First weekly issue of month.
Market Reporter '
Wool stocks in dealers' hands
a
Monthly Crop Reporter and press Releases about 1st of month (cotton)
Crop production
and 10th ("other crops).
releases.*
Fourth weeKly issue of month.
Market Reporter»
i Cold-storage holdings and fish frozen
Third weekly issue of month.
Market Reporter *
I Movement of cattle, hogs, and sheep
Weekly.
Receipts of butter, cheese, eggs, and poultry.. Market Reporter»
Quarterly.
! Production of dairy products
Market Reporter a*
Third weekly issue of month.
Market Reporter
Car lot shipments of fruits and vegetables
Monthly.
Monthly Crop Reporter *
Farm labor, wages, supply, etc
Weekly.
World crop production
Foreign crops and markets *
Annually.
Market Reporter *
: Live stock on farms
Production of Lumber, Lath, and Shingles. Yearly.
Total lumber production from 1913 ta 1920
Pulp wood consumption and wood-pulp Yearly.
Wood pulp production, 1914 and 1916
production.
Semimonthly during season.
Preliminary report on ginnings *
Cotton ginned
Preliminary report on cotton consumed... 15th of montn.
Cotton consumed and on hand
Reports on wool machinery and on cotton 20th of month.
Active textile machinery
spindles.*
First week of month.
Leather, hides, and shoes, production and Census of hides, skins, and leather *
stocks.
Preliminary report on cottonseed
18th of month.
I Cottonseed and cottonseed oil
Press release *
•
I Hosiery statistics
Press release *
! Men's and boys' clothing
Press release *
Malleable castings
i Wheat flour production from May, 1923
j Press release *
i Pyroxylin coated textiles
I Press release *
! Stokers, sales from January, 1923
i Press release *
• Multigraphed or mimeographed sheets.
i This is not necessarily the source of the figures published in the SURVEY as many of them are obtained direct from the compilers prior to publication in the respective journals. This column and the right-hand column have been added to assist readers in obtaining current statistics between publication datw of the SURVEY
> Beginning Jan. 7,1922, combined into new publication called, Weather, Crops, and Markets, issued weekly.
58
SOURCES OF DATA—Continued.
CURRENT PUBLICATION.
DATE OF PUBLICATION.
I.-REPORTS FROM GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, FEDERAL, STATE, AND FOREIGN-Continued.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF THE CENSUS—Contd.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF FISHERIES.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
COMMERCE.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF STANDARDS.
U. S. GRAIN CORPORATION
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORBUREAU OF MINES.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORGEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR—
U. S. PATENT OFFICE.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR—EMPLOYMENT SERVICE.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR—BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR—BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.
U. S. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT
U. S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT
U. S. TREASURY
DEPARTMENTBUREAU OF THE MINT.
U. S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT—BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE.
U. S. WAR DEPARTMENT—ENGINEER
CORPS.
U. S. WAR DEPARTMENT—MISSISSIPPI
WARRIOR SERVICE.
WAR FINANCE CORPORATION
WISCONSIN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. .
Stocks of tobacco held.
Wool consumption and stocks
Production indexes of raw mateiials and
manufactures.
Fats and oils, production, consumption, and
stocks.
Fabricated structural steel sales from April,
1922.
Automobile production from July, 1921
Sugar statistics
Steel castings sales
Steel furniture shipments
Earnings of public utilities
Plumbing goods price index
Fish catch at principalfishingports
All imports and exports
Statement on stocks of leaf tobacco..
Press release
Survey of Current Business..
Statistics of fats and oils *.
Press release *
Press release *
Press release *
Press release *
Press release *
Survey of Current Business.
Survey of Current Business.
Monthly statement
Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce.
(Part I.) i
Tonnage of vessels, entered and cleared in Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce.
United States foreign trade.
i (Part II.)
Data on trade, employment and coal and iron j Various foreign sources
production of foreign countries.
!
Wholesale price of wool
[ Wholesale Prices
Warehouse stocks of rice
| Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce.
(Part II.)
Vessels under construction and vessels com- i Commerce Reports
pleted.
I
Building material price indices
i Not published
No longer published..
Wheatflourproduction, prior to July, 1920
Refined petroleum products, production, etc.. Refinery Statistics *..
Portland cement, production, etc
Report on Portland cement output *
Coal and coke production
Weekly report on production of coal *
Preliminary statistics on petroleum *
Crude petroleum, production, etc
Electric power production
Production of electric power *
Consumption of fuel by public utility plants. Production of electric power *
Annual figures on nonferrous metal produc- Mineral Resources
tion.
Patents granted
Not published..
Number on pay roll—United States factories., Industrial Survey *
Employment agency operations
Report of Activities of State and Municipal Employment Agencies.
Not published
Immigration and emigration statistics
Wholesale prices of commodities, including Wholesale Prices of Commodities..
farm products, food, clothing, metals, etc.
Monthly Labor Review
Wholesale price index
Monthly Labor Review
Retail price index of foods
Monthly Labor Review
Retail coal prices
Postal Savings News Bulletin
United States postal savings
Statement of Postal Receipts *
Postal receipts...
Daily
Statement of the U. S. Treasury...
vjuveiiXLucut
ueub,
icueipbo
auu
uiauuiae
Government debt, receipts and disbursements. Federal
Reserve Bulletin
Money in circulation from July 1,1922..
Not
published
Domestic receipts of gold at mint
Oleomargarine production
Not published
Consumption of manufactured tobacco, snuff, Statement of tax-paid products *
cigars, cigarettes, and oleomargarine.
Internal Revenue taxes on specified articles.. Classified collections of Internal Revenue.
Monthly statistical report
Iron ore movement
Monthly statistical report
Sault Ste. Marie Canal traffic
Not published
Barge traffic on Mississippi River
Agricultural loans
Not published in form used
Wisconsin factory earnings and employment. Bulletin on Wisconsin labor market *
Quarterly (one month after end of
quarter).
Quarterly*
Monthly.
Quarterly (one month after end of
quarter).
15th of month.
20th of month.
20th of month.
20th of month.
20th of month.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Last week of month.
Middle of next month.
Yearly.
Monthly.
First weekly issue of month (MOD
days).
Second week of month.
20th of month.
Second or third weekly issue of month
(Saturdays).
25th of month.
End of month.
End of month.
Annually.
First week of month.
Every 4 or 5 weeks.
Monthly.
Monthly.
Monthly.
12th of month.
7th of month.
Last day of month.
Monthly.
First week of month.
25th of month.
Monthly during season.
Monthly during season.
15th of month.
II.—REPORTS FROM TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS.
(Excluding individualfirmsreporting data to be combined with other firms or trade associations.)
Construction trade papers.
Building costs
*
Not published
Sale of abrasive paper and cloth
Corn ground into starch, glucose, etc
Not published.
Copper production
Not published
Silver production
Not published
Zinc production in Belgium
Not published
Zinc stocks in United Kingdom
Not published
AMERICAN FACE BRICK ASSOCIATION.. Face brick production, stocks, etc
Not published
AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE Steel ingot production
Press release to trade papers *
7th of month.
AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE
Gasoline and Kerosene Consumption by Special statement
States.
AMERICAN PIG IRON ASSOCIATION
Merchant pig iron production, etc
Not published
AMERICAN
RAILWAY
ASSOCIATION Freight car surplus
Weekly.
Car Surplusages and Shortages *..
(Car Service Division).
Weekly.
Freight car shortage
, Car Surplusages and Shortages *..
Weekly.
Car ladings
Information Bulletin *
Third week of month.
Bad-order cars
Information Bulletin *
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TSLE- Stockholders in the company
Financial papers
Quarterly.
GRAPH Co.
AMERICAN WALNUT MANUFACTURERS' Walnut lumber and logs
, Not published.
ASSOCIATION.
AMERICAN WRITING PAPER COMPANY. Purchases and sales of paper
Not published
AMERICAN ZINC INSTITUTE
15th of month.
Production and stocks of zinc
Press release to trade papers *.
* Multigraphed or mimeographed sheets.
i Imports and exports of gold and silver in Part II.
ABERTHAW CONSTRUCTION CO
ABRASIVE PAPER AND CLOTH MANUFACTURERS' EXCHANGE.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION OF PRODUCTION FROM CORN.
AMERICAN BUREAU OF METAL STATISTICS.
59
SOURCES OF DATA—Continued.
DATE OF PUBLICATION.
CUBBENT PUBLICATION.
II.—REPORTS FROM TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS—Continued.
(Excluding individual firms reporting data to be combined with other firms or trade associations.)
ANTHRACITE BUREAU OF INFORMATION
ASSOCIATION
OF LIFE
INSURANCE
PRESIDENTS.
BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
BRIDGE BUILDERS AND STRUCTURAL
SOCIETY.
BUREAU OF RAILWAY ECONOMICS
CALIFORNIA REDWOOD ASSOCIATION...
CALIFORNIA WHITE AND SUGAR PINE
ASSOCIATION.
CHICAGO BOARD OF T R A D E .
CLEVELAND TRUST CO
CONTAINER CLUB
CREDIT CLEARING HOUSE
DAIRYMEN'S LEAGUE COOPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION, INC.
F. W. DODGE CO
,
EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION OF DETROIT.
ENAMELED SANITARY MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION.
FEDERATION OF IRON AND STEEL
MANUFACTURERS (British).
|
FINE COTTON GOODS EXCHANGE
j
ILLUMINATING GLASSWARE GUILD
IOWA-NEBRASKA CANNERS' ASSOCIA- ;
TION.
i
JACKSONVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
KNIT
GOODS
MANUFACTURES
OF i
AMERICA.
j
LEATHER BELTING EXCHANGE
MAPLE FLOORING
MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
i
MCLEAN BUILDING REPORTS, LTD
;
MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE OF ST. LOUIS. .;
MICHIGAN HARDWOOD MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.
I
MINNEAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE . j
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF CASE GOODS j
ASSOCIATION.
|
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
OF BRASS ;
MANUFACTURERS.
i
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUTTON \
MANUFACTURERS.
\
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHAIR MANUFACTURERS.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORRUGATED AND FIBER BOX MANUFACTURERS.
;
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
OF FARM !
EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS.
i
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
OF STEEL ;
FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS.
j
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET AND ;
T I N PLATE MANUFACTURERS.
|
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
OF
WOOL
MANUFACTURERS.
NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
NATIONAL BOTTLE MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
BOARD.
NATIONAL PAVING BRICK MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.
NATIONAL RETAIL DRY GOODS ASSOCIATION.
NATIONAL WOOD CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION.
N E W ORLEANS BOARD OF TRADE
N E W ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE
NEWS PRINT SERVICE BUREAU
N E W YORK COFFEE AND SUGAR E X CHANGE.
N E W YORK METAL EXCHANGE
N E W YORK TRUST COMPANY
NORTH CAROLINA PINE ASSOCIATION..
NORTHERN HEMLOCK AND HARDWOOD
MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.
NORTHERN PINE
MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
OAK FLOORING MANUFACTURERS' A S SOCIATION.
OHIO FOUNDRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION...
OPTICAL MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CO
PENSACOLA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..
PHILADELPHIA MILK EXCHANGE
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
PULLMAN COMPANY
REFRACTORIES MANUFACTURERS' A S SOCIATION.
RICE MILLERS' ASSOCIATION
ROPE PAPER SACK MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
Anthracite shipments and stocks..
New life insurance business
Statement of anthracite shipments *
Not published
Receipts cf wool at Boston
!
Fabricated structural steel sales before April, !
1924.
i
Number of tons carried 1 mile
I
Average receipts per ton-mile
Passengers carried 1 mile
!
Railway employment
j
Locomotives in bad order
Per cent of earnings on valuation
Redwood lumber production, etc
Sugar pine lumber production, etc
Trade papers
No longer published..
Summary of operating statistics.
Not published
Summary of operating statistics.
Not published
Not published
Not published
Not published
Not published
Wheat, corn and oats, receipts, etc
Automobile production, monthly January, \
1920, to June, 1921.
Production of paper box board
Credit conditions
Milk deliveries to milk plants
|
Trade papers
Not published currently..
Not published.
Credit,..
Not published
Building statistics—Contracts awarded.
Detroit factory employment
Enameled sanitary ware
Statement on Building Statistics.
Weekly press release
,
Not published
,
British iron and steel production
j Daily.
! Monthly.
I Monthly.
Daily.
| Weekly.
Monthly.
Second week of month.
| Trade papers..
Trade papers
Fine cotton goods production and sales
Illuminating glassware production, orders, etc. Not published....
Canned corn stocks and sales
Weekly report*..
Monthly report (not published)
Not published
Canadian Building Review
Receipts and shipments at St. Louis
Not published
Not published
I
Monthly.
, j 3d of month.
Monthly statements
Not published in form used.
Brass stopcocks, orders and shipments
Not published
Button stocks, activity, etc
Weekly.
Weekly report
Chair shipments and unfilled orders
Not published In form used.
Production of paper-box board
Not published
Business conditions
Reserve).
Not published
Agricultural pumps
Steel furniture shipments
(Chicago
Federal
Monthly.
Not published
Sheet-metal production and stocks
1913 figures for active textile machinery
Weekly.
Weekly.
Monthly.
Naval Stores Review..
Monthly report *
Turpentine and rosin receipts
Knit underwear production, etc
Sales of leather belting
Maple flooring production, etc
Canadian building contracts
Receipts and shipments of lead and zinc
Mississippi River traffic
Hardwood and softwood lumber, production
and shipments.
Linseed oil and oil-cake shipments
Unfilled orders and shipments of furniture
, No longer published..
Production and shipments of passenger cars
and trucks.
Glass bottle production index
Traffic bulletin * (production figures not
published).
Not published
Second week of month.
Cost of living
Monthly press release
21st of month.
Paving-brick production, etc
Monthly report
Department store trade {see Federal Reserve
Board).
Production of wood alcohol and acetate of lime
N ot published
Rice distribution through New Orleans..
Cotton receipts into sight
Canadian newsprint production, etc
Coffee receipts, stocks, etc
Monthly
Monthly
Monthly
Monthly
Stocks of tin
Indexes of stock and bond prices
North Carolina pine, production, etc
Hemlock and hardwood lumber production,
etc.
Northern pine lumber and lath
Trade papers
The Index
Not published
Not published
Oak flooring, production, etc
Not published
Ohio foundry iron production
Spectacle frames and mountings, sales, etc
Stockholders in the company
Turpentine and rosin receipts
Milk receipts at Philadelphia
Cement paving contracts
Pullman passenger traffic
Fire-clay brick production, etc
Silica brick production, etc
Rice receipts, stocks, etc
Shipments of rope paper sacks
Monthly report * (not published)
NotpubUshed
Financial papers
Naval Stores Review
Not published
Concrete Highway Magazine
NotpubUshed
Not pubUshed
N ot pubUshed
Monthly report
NotpubUshed
• Multigraphed or mimeographed sheets.
15th of month.
Federal Reserve Bulletin..
report
report
bulletin....
statement..
Monthly.
First week of month.
First week of month.
First week of month.
First week of month.
Monthly.
NotpubUshed
Quarterly.
Weekly.
Monthly.
(50
SOURCES OF DATA—Continued.
CURRENT PUBLICATION.
DATE OF PUBLICATION.
II.—REPORTS FROM TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS—Continued.
(Excluding individual firms reporting data to be combined with other firms or trade associations.)
RUBBER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
SANITARY POTTERS' ASSOCIATION
SAVANNAH BOARD OF TRADE
SAVINGS BANKS ASSOCIATION OF STATE
Automobile tires, tubes, and raw material
Sanitary potters orders
Turpentine and rosin receipts
Savings banks deposits in Now York State
Monthly reports (not published)
Not published
Naval Stores Review
Not published
Raw silk consumption, etc
Furniture shipments and unfilled orders
Monthly press release to trade papers *
Not published in form used
Weekly.
OF N E W YORK.
SILK ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
SOUTHERN FURNITURE MANUFAC-
othofmonth.
TURERS' ASSOCIATION.
SOUTHERN PINE ASSOCIATION
Yellow pine production and stocks
STEEL BARREL MANUFACTURERS' AS- Steel barrel shipments
Not published in form used
Monthly reports* (not published)
SOCIATIOX.
STEEL FOUNDERS' SOCIETY
STOKER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.
Sales of steel castings
Sales of stokers through December, 1922
Not published
No longer published
Sales of fabricated structural steel
Leather production through May, 1922
Tubular plumbing sales
*
Not published
Not published
Semiweekly reports
'
STRUCTURAL STEEL SOCIETY
TANNERS' COUNCIL
TUBULAR PLUMBING GOODS ASSOCIATION.
TWIN CITY MILK PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION.
:
Milk production, Minnesota
Not published
UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA
Unfilled orders
Earnings
Stockholders
Wages of common labor
Printing activity
Pressrelease*
Press release *
Financial papers
Special reports *
Typothetae Bulletin
\VEST COAST LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIA-
Douglas fir lumber production, etc
Not published
U. S. STEEL CORPORATION
10th of month.
Monthly.
Quarterly.
Occasionally.
Monthly.
TION.
WEBBING
MANUFACTURERS'
E X - Sales of elastic webbing
Notpublished
CHANGE.
WESTERN
i
PINE
MANUFACTURERS'
Western pine lumber production, etc
Notpublished
:
ASSOCIATION.
DATE OF PUBLICATION.
in.—REPORTS FROM TECHNICAL PERIODICALS.
AMERICAN METAL MARKET..
T H E ANNALIST
T H E BOND B U Y E R .
BRADSTREET'3
BULLETIN DE LA STATISTIQUE GENERALE
CHEMICAL AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING.
COAL AGE
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL CHRONICLE
Dow, JONES & Co. (WALL STREET JOURNAL).
DUN'S R E V I E W .
F.LECTRICAL WORLD
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS
ENGINEERING NEWS RECORD.
FINANCIAL POST
FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG
HAY TRADE JOURNAL
IRON AGE
IRON TRADE REVIEW
LONDON ECONOMIST
LUMBER
MANUFACTURERS' RECORD
MILK REPORTER
MODERN MILLER
NAVAL STORES REVIEW
NEUE ZURICHER ZEITUNG
N E W YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE
N E W YORK EVENING POST
NORTHWESTERN MILLER
OIL, PAINT, AND DRUG R E P O R T E R . . .
OIL TRADE JOURNAL
PRINTERS' I N K
PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY
RUSSELL'S COMMERCIAL NEWS
STATISTICAL SUGAR TRADE JOURNAL,
SVENSK HANDELSTIDNING
...; Composite pig iron and steel prices
. . . New York stock sales
New York closing stock prices
Foreign exchange rates, 1914 to 1918
. . . State and municipal bond issues
Municipalbond yields
Visible supply of wheat and corn
Bank clearings, United States and Canada
Price index
Business failures, Canada
Fall River mill dividends
Price index for France
Chemical price index
Mine price of bituminous coal
Cotton (visible supply)
Interest rates
Mail order and chain store sales
New corporate securities
. . . . New York bond sales
New York bond prices
Mexican petroleum shipments
Business failures
Price index
Sales of electrical energy
Rand gold production!.'
Silver prices
. . . . Construction cost and volume index
Canadian bond issues
Price index for Germany
Hay receipts
. . . . Pis-iron production
Composite finished steel price
Iron and steel prices
Railway freight car orders
Price index for United Kingdom
Price indices of lumber
Southern construction
Southern bond issues
. . . . Milk receipts at Greater New York
Argentine visible supply of wheat and corn
Turpentine and rosin, receipts and stocks
Price index for Switzerland
Dividend and interest payments
New capital issues
New corporations
Fire losses
Newspaper advertising
. . . . Flaxseed, receipts, etc
Argentine grain shipments
Wheat Hour production for 1917
. . . . Price indices of drugs, oils, etc
Argentine shipments and supply of flaxseed
Mexican petroleum shipments
Magazine advertising
Book production
Wheat flour production, from July, 1920
Sugar stocks, receipts, meltings, and Cuban statistics
Price index for Sweden
* Multigraphed or mimeographed.
O
i First or second week of month (daily).
First weekly issue of month (Mondays).
Weekly (Mondays).
Weekly (Mondays).
First weekly issue of month (Saturadys).
First weekly issue of month (Saturdays).
Weekly (Saturdays).
First weekly issue of month (Saturdays).
Second weekly issue of month (Saturdays).
First weekly issue of month (Saturdays).
Quarterly.
Monthly.
Weekly (Wednesdays).
Weekly (Thursdays).
Weekly (Saturdays).
Weekly (Saturdays).
Second or third weekly issue of month (Saturdays)
Last issue of month.
First week of month (daily).
First week of month (daily).
j 20th of month (daily).
First weekly issue of month (Saturdays).
First weekly issue or month (Saturdays).
Monthly.
Second weekly issue of month (Saturdays).
Second weekly issue of month (Saturdays).
First weekly issue of month.
Weekly (Thursdays).
Monthly.
Weekly (Fridays).
First weekly issue of month (Thursdays).
Weekly (Thursdays).
Weekly (Thursdays).
First weekly issue of month (Thursdays).
10th of month.
First weekly issue of month (Fridays).
Monthly.
Monthly.
Weekly.
Weekly.
Weekly (Saturdays).
First week of month (daily).
First week of month (daily).
First week of month (daily).
10th of month (daily).
Not published.
Weekly (Wednesdays).
Weekly (Wednesdays).
Weekly (Mondays).
Weekly (Mondays).
10th of month (monthly).
Second week of month.
Third week of month.
Weekly compilation (daily).
! Weekly (Fridays).
!
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