Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-22
FREIGHT gY RAIL FROM THE
PACIFIC.
New York Railroad Gazette. 7

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Pacific coast through freight ship
nents eastward In September were the
largest reported for any month this
year, amounting to 30,l70 tons,of which
3sSs tong. or - per cent. went over the
Central, and 10. 24S tons, or 81 per cent,
over the Southern Pacific line. The
| shipments for the month made an aver
age of b13 tons, or about 81 small car
loads daily. For the nine months end
Tug with September, the total shipments
were loo, 40 tons, of which the Central
racine carried 80 and the Southern Pa
cine "A per cent. Thus the total ship
ments for the nine months made up an
average traffic of 3S5 tons a day. of
which about 2l5 tons went over the
Central and 10 tons over the Southern
line, furnishing enough to make up a
daily train for each line. but not A heavy
train for either.
But four items of freight furnished
over 10000 tons each-sugar, of which
Io,Ol4. tons were carried; wool. IO.G40
tons; canned salmon. 10.559 tons, and
other canned goods, l0,4l8 tons. These
articles we're followed by ripe fruit with
9,U6 tons; tea with S302 tons, and wine
with 6374 tons. Wheat appears for the
1rst time this year in September, when
Ab3 tons are reported; previously this
year only one carload had been shipped.
The canned salmon, which was the
third Item OF freight in amount and
formed about 10 per cent. of all the
shipments Il very likely to 90 by the
Northern Pacific hereafter, as nearly all
II 1t comes from tae cannerIes along
the Columbia river.
About three-foarths of all the ship
ments are the products of the apricul-
ture and the fisheries of the Pacific
coast, the exceptions being chiefly the
sugar, which is imported fron the Ha-
waiian Islands, and the tea. rice and
silk, Of which latter article $40 tons are
reported-the most valuable of all the
freight, if not the greatest in bulk.
As compared with the corresponding
period of last year, the total shipments
show decrease of q ,403 tons, or IL per
cent. This is due partly to very light
shipments of barley this year, and part
iy to the experimental shipments of
wheat and flour made over the Southern
Pacific in the early months of 1892,
which were not continued.
Law OFFENDERs. night u.
). Marshal Hopkins arrived in New Ia
coma Wit three prisoners en- route to
the U. s. Penitentiary on McNeil
Island. They were sentenced at the re-
cent term of court at Port Townsend,
and go up for terms varying from six
months to two years. Two of the pris-
oners were convicted of smuggling
Cinnamon across from British Colum-
bia, and the third goes up for selling
liquor to Indians. Marshal Hopkins
took his men from here to Steilacoom
by wagon, returning this morning with
James Aulo. who is under indictment
fer defrauding the revenue as whole
sale liquor dealer, aud who will be tried
at this term of court. Last night
five prisoners, John Morrison, Felix
Taylor. M. X. Coffman, G. l.. Trimble
and John Santch, were brought over
from the Island, and are now in the
County Jail awaiting trial. These men
are all accu sed of selling liquor to In
dians at Puyallup, and were bound over
by the U. s. Commissioner at that
place.-Neps.