The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-22
FOREIGN IMPORTS AT NEW YORK FOR THE
MONTH OF NOVEMBER.

WAREHOUSES. S374SS0 1850 5,6l9SIa
THE LUMBER TRADE OF 1874.
The report of the inspector general Of lum-
Der for the Saginaw district of Michigan
shows that there were sold, shipped and in
spected under the state law governing the
inspection of pine lumber for that district,
during the season Of 1874, 4 total of 2lS SOL :
81 feet. Destinations: New York. los 327.
All feet; Ohio, o.. 2l7 94l: Illinois, q 264 1856
Pennsylvania, Il $40 397; Michigan, S.lO7.-
O53; Connecticut, $40 l59; Canada, lis, 22l:
total, 2lS, SOL ,9i4 feet. The amount inspected
and shipped during the season of 1873 was 2l3, :
5l1, 973 feet, an increase of over 1000 900 feet
Notwithstanding the continued complaints
of the lumbermen OF depression unknown
for years. The logg-rs have gone to the
woods in full force, and, with an ordinary
amount of show, will put in logs equal in
amount TO the crop of 1872 and 1873.
The financial result of the past season
Is summed up follows: Those who have
sawed largely of bill stuff have held their
own and made money. Those who have
sawed principally of piece stuff, and sold on
the market, have lost their stumpape
Reports from the Ottawa district, Canada,
show that 81 500, 900 feet of sawn lumber
has been made this year, of which 12O, 500, 900
are sold, besides saw-lOgs enough to make
10000. 900 feet. There will be much stock
on the market next spring as this year.
This. taken IN connection with the fact
lately noted, that all the North river towns
were cleared of stock just before the close of
navigation by New York dealers TO fill con-
tracts made tor new buildings to be erected
this winter and next spring, would seem to
show that there has been no such depression
I'm the lumber trade as has been reported,
wLaIe the prospects no.. next year are GER
'a]niy much improved,
THE GRAIN TRADE OF CHICAGO.
From the annual report of the Chicago
grain inspector it appears that "the total
number of bushels inspected, into and out
of store during the year, was l32, S99 272, and
the total expense of the department during
the year was $50, ll2 "a. This year, as last,
much of the wheat which was graded No. 2,
No. 3 and rejected, was so graded merely by
reason of it's being in adirty condition; other
wise rejected would have been graded No. 8,
No. 3 as No. 2, and No. as No. l. If farm
ers and country dealers would clean their
grain properly before sending it to market,
they would find it to their advantage, as the
difference in the price of the grades would
more than compensate them for the extra
labor expended upon it. "Plugging" cars
or canal boats-which is mixing grain for
the purpose of deception-is a practice
which shippers to this market would also
lind to their advantage 10 discontinue,
as the inspection rules make il the
duty of an inspector to grade the whole car
or canal boat as being OF the lowest grade
found therein" What the inspector, Har-
per, says OF s"'pIugging" might have been as
well said to Chicago shippers as to those
west of Chicago, aud we look in vain
through his report for an allusion to the
mixing of No. 8 with No. 2 Chicago in that
market and shipping 1t to New York as
No. p which was proved to have been
done in the early fall.