The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-06-14
O. Il. & N. Time Gard.
Shipping Of the Great Lakes.

treasury bureau Of statistics, coupled
with the report of the officer In charge
of the Sault Ste. Marie canal, there
were received by vessels at the 81 prin-
cipal ports on the great lakes between
April 1, 1900, and the close of the year
n total of 1,266, pa tons Of -four, o.
b34, 256 bushels Of wheat, 70,S05,S01
bushels of corn, 33, 200, 767 bushels Of
oats, 11,526,501 bushels Of barley and
1,S40,S92 bushels of rye. These figures
relate purely to the movements be-
tween United States ports and do not
therefore include the shipments to or
from ports on the Canadian side of the
canals or through the Welland canal.
The great bulk of the grain traffic orig
mated at Chicago and Duluth and had
Buffalo as It's point of destination
The receipts of iron ore by water at
the ports embraced In the bureaus COM
pilation reached a total of 16,268,027
tons, and this may be accepted as about
SIS per cent of the entire movement Of
iron ore both by rail and water. All the
principal ore receiving and shipping
ports are covered by the bureau state
ment OF the 16,26S,O27 tons handled
15,S43,6 S1 tons are shown to have been
shipped from the six ports Of Two Har
bors, Duluth, Escanaba, Ashland, Mar
quette and West Superior, and 49, $685.
600 tons were received at the six ports
of Ashtabula, Cleveland, Conneaut,
South Chicago Buffalo and Erie, a re-
markable eXemplification of the extent
to which the iron ore traffic is concen-
trated.
Many different classes Of commodi
ties, such as provisions, dry goods and
hardware, are reported under the gen
eral head Of unclassified freight. This
movement at the principal lake ports
during the past year reached the ag-
gregate of 3,471, 131 tons. In this traf-
fic the city Of Chicago led with S42, 221
tons. The receipts at other ports were:
Buffalo, GOSSIP tons; Cleveland, 275,-
673 tons; Detroit, 234, 4S2 tons, and
Milwaukee, 325, 124 tons.
In view of the efforts being made by
the owners of the lumber carrying YES
sells on the great lakes to effect a COM
bination with the purpose Of maintain
Ing rates 1t Is perhaps interesting, as
illustrating the scope of this branch of
inland commerce, to note that lumber
shipments were made during the sea-
son from 81 Of the 81 ports the COM
merce Of which the bureau Of stats
tics kept a record, receipts being re-
corded at an equal number of ports.
The total receipts aggregated 2,122, 4O3
thousand feet.
There are strong evidences that the
tariff question will be the great issue OF
the nextlpresidential campaign, and it
Is dlscernible that the whole question
will at that time be fought out on en-
tirely new lines, says New West Trade.
A great revolution has silently but
swiftly taken place. in the status of
American industry during the past few
years. Conditions have changed and
new conditions call for new methods of
treatme IT. The United States has been
transformed from a producer for home
consumption to a producer for world
consumption and this has become true
in the manufactured products as well
as in raw materials The United
States has ceased to be dependent and
defensive commercially and has become
independent and aggressive. Our man
uiacturing industries have. generally
speaking, become self sufficient and sup
porting; they have ceased to fear the
competition of foreigners in the home
markets; and consequently they have
ceased to need the governments foster
ing care. They are now reaching ont
for foreign markets and are competing
with foreign manufacturers in their own
nome markets. We have ceased TO he
lndustrialiy defensive and have become
aggressive and consequently the demand
Is not so much for protection as il is
That no measures shall be instituted to
antagonize foreign markets. The fen
uency Is obvious and the manner in
winch the two great parties shall adapt
themselves to these changed conditions
will be watched with interest