The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
Big LAKE COMMERCE
AUGUST FIGURES IN EXCESS
OF PREVIOUS RECORD.
Iron Ore Shipments Were Particularly
Large-Copper Shows Slight Falling
of-Increased Tonnage of Vessels.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-Commercial
movements on the Great Lakes during
August. 1907, as measured by the volume
Of shipments from the various lake ports
attained a total Of 1851, S66 net tons-the
largest monthly total recorded for any
summer month. Shipments for the past
month are about 10 per cent. larger In
volume thar the shipments for July Of this
year, over Is per cent. larger than the
corresponding figures for 1906. and over SO
per cent. in excess of the 1906 figures,
while figures FOR the eight months of the
year, 50,441, CAT net tons, are about "A per
cent, and "a per cent. larger than the cor
responding 1906 and 1905 shipments. The
large tonnage Of iron ore and coal moved
during the month Is responsible for the
growth in the total shipments recorded
for the month as compared with August.
1906.
The iron ore shipments. mainly from the
Lake Superior ports of Ashland. Duluth.
Marquette. Superior, Two Harbors, and
the Lake Michigan port of Escanaba, ag-
gregated 6.950.343 gross tons, compared
with 1888, 442 gross tons reported for Au-
gust, 1906, and 6,22s, $50 gross tons, the
earlier record figure, shipped during June,
1907. The shipments of iron ore for the
season up to September l amounted to
"a, 466, 231 gross tone, which is over $500, 600
tons in excess Of the corresponding 1905
figures. The favorable total might have
been even larger were 1t not for the inter-
ruption Of ore mining and traffic during
July, and the still continuing shortage of
the labor supply at some of the more inn
portant mines in the Lake Superior
district.
Shipments of soft coal for the month,
mainly from Lake Erie ports, to the head
of the lakes and Milwaukee, 2,045,531 net
tons, while about 7 per cent. larger than
the August, 1906, figures, are, however.
more than half a million tons below the
July shipments. This. decrease is TO be
accounted for mainly by the fact that
many ore freighters which during the pre-
ceding month had been engaged In the
carrying Of grain and coal resumed the
transportation of iron ore and could rot
afford TO incur the delay of loading coal
for the return trip west. The total hip
ments for the eight months of the year.
Q, 79S, 209 net tons, are over 30 per cent.
larger than the corresponding 1905 figures.
Shipments of hard coal during the month,
mainly from Buffalo, Dos. S2S tons. were. on
the other hand, larger than The July
figures and somewhat below the corre-
spending August, 1906 figures, though ship
ments for the eight months. 2,309 ,556 net
tons, are over 40 per cent. In excess of like
1905 shipments.
The figures of copper shipments, mainly
from upper Michigan mines, $3.50 gross
tons, show a decrease of about so per cent.
both as compared with the preceding
months figures as well as the figures of
August. 1906, and reflect to some extent the
present unsatisfactory state OF the copper
market. Figures for the current season,
55.64s net tons shipped, are about Is per
cent. below the corresponding 1906 figures
of IA, 1853 net tons.
The total number of vessel passages
through the canals during Au~gust-3.013-
Ia smaller than the number recorded for
August, 1906 and 1905--3.240 and 3,esS, respec-
tlvely-though the tonnage of the vessels
locked through the canals-6, 1852. 462-is about
II per cent. In excess of the corresponding
1905. and 26 per cent. I'm excess of the cor
responding 1905, figures.
The total freight tonnage which passed
through the canals during the current sea-
son-33. 526, 3SS net tons-is largely In excess
of the corresponding 1906 and 1905 totals
29.954, 27s and 26,164, 799 net tons, respectively
while the corresponding figures of vessel
movements are IL, rs vessels Of "a. f5b, us
| net tons register for the current season, as
| compared with ia, 691 vessels of N,0g7, 44 net
tons for the 1906 season and 13,0T vessels
Of q, 7f0,s16 net tons for the 1905 season.