New-York tribune., 1903-01-17
GREAT LAKES TRAFFIC.
Comparison 7cith the amount Of
Trade at Ocean PORTS

Washington. Jan Is tspeciaD.-A most inter
esting comparison of the shipping of the Great
Lakes and that OF the Atlantic has just been made
public by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics.
Twenty ports the lakes in the last year have
received nearly seventy-two millions of tons Of
freight and cleared about the same amount New
York has received during the same period nine
million tons and cleared practically the same
amount.
For the first eleven months of the year n 40s
vessels were reported arrivals at lake ports. with
net registered tonnage of 71443.517 net tons and
n s9s clearances of 72 099 net tons. These figures
apply exclusively to coastwise trade; that is, 10
trade between domestic ports only. and do not in
cude tonnage employed in the lake trade between
Canada and the United
There twenty individual ports the Great
Lakes having each registered tonnage of arrivals
ranging from 100000 over 100000 tons On
Lake Superior four different ports had combined
tonnage of 14.353972 tons. of which Duluth
is credited with 4971.434 tons: Superior-West Su-
peror 4OS7 159 TONS Two Harbors 3123S53 tons, and
Ashland. 2171546 tons. Lake Michigan has seven
ports which fall within this class aggregating
IS 773.132 tons of arrivals. OF these Milwaukee
stands at the head with 1922 .593 tons. Next in
order comes Chicago with 4S70.63S tons. followed
by Escanaba with 2,914256 tons. whose freight car
goes consist largely of ore shipments TO the manu-
featuring districts of the lower lakes. South Chi
cago has a tonnage of 2295,479 tons, and if in
cluded in that of Chicago the combined tonnage
would exceed the registered tonnage Of any other
lake port by more than 100000 Next in order
on Lake Michigan comes Ludington. with 1.s11.S75
tons; Manitowoc. with .751 500 tons and Frankfort
with 100s. .6S5 tons
The enormous volume of this movement is only
appreciated when compared with similar marine
operations the frontage New-York in
the entire calendar year 1902 is credited with
1882 767 registered of arrivals and S,S5. .291
tons of clearances. London for 1901 had entrances
amounting to 1892 753 tons. and clearances of 722
s92 tons. Hong Kong reported s.626614 tons enter
ing and 3 $40, 40e tons clearing in the year 1890.
The largest group of lake ports within the mill
ion ton class Is be found the lower lakes, be
tween Detroit and Buffalo. nine ports this por
ton Of the lake coast, aggregating a registry of
stands Cleveland with 5Os 565 tons; Buffafo. 4SS0
$50 tons: Ashtabua 2,83S9S7 tons; Conneaut, 2.5l1
SIS tons Detroit. 1886 697 tons; Toledo 1854, ,262
tons; Erie. 154 2S5 tons: Lorain 1117.S40 TONS and
Fairport. 1864. l39 tons.
The twenty ports mentioned above have ag-
gregate tonnage Of 55. .992 S76. 1873 per cent
Of the entire registry reported for the season TO
the end of November. An other ports have a
com bined total of Is 4506E tons 217 per of
the total lake arrivals.
The number of vessels reported arriving at
Chicago to the above date was 6.525; at Milwaukee.
5OS2 at Cleveland. 4.1S7; at Ashtabua, 1737; at
Buffalo 325s: at Duluth 2sS5; at Detroit 1854: at
Escanaba, 2341 at Toledo. 2,313; at SuperfOr-West
Superior. 2.1+ and at Washburn. 2,065.
In the month of October, when the vessel move
rnent at its highest the arrivals reached d
total of vessels of ss27761 tons and the clear
ances total of 10-246 vessels of S.S5S,653 tons