Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-09

were AZ per cent larger than the Oc-
| tober, 1906, figures. Like shipments FOR
| the ten months of the current season
| 36,953, 435 gross tons-were 10 per cent
| in excess of the corresponding 1905
hipments-Duluth and Superior being
responsible for about so per cent of
the increase in the total
| Shipments of soft coal for the month,
mainly from Lake Erie ports to the
head of the lakes and Milwaukee
| 1,642,612 net tons-were below the fig
ures for the two preceding months,
though IA per cent in excess of the Oc-
| tober, 1906, figures Shipments for the
ten months of the year, 13,2S4,76S net
tons, were about 25 per cent in excess
of the corresponding 1906 figures.
These totals are, however, exclusive
| of the quantity of bunker coal placed
aboard vessels engaged in both do
mestic and foreign commerce on the
Great Lakes. Reports from masters of
vessels engaged in domestic commerce
show the quantity of bunker coal load
ed during October as 278,598 net tons,
or considerably below the October, 1905,
figures. of 30S,675 net tons, while the
quantities of bunker coal loaded on ves-
sells engaged in domestic commerce dur
ing the ten months of the current sea-
-1,766,04S net tons-were slightly
above the corresponding 1906 figures of
1,737,902 net tons.
Much Coal Shipped
The bureau of statistics is also able
to show for the first time, the quanti-
ties of bunker coal loaded at the var
ious lake ports on vessels engaged in
the foreign trade-the total for October
being 25604 net tons. Shipments of
hard coal, mainly from Buffalo, Erie
and Oswego, totaled 542,159 net tons
for the month, compared with 399,233
net tons reported for October, 1906. The
ten months shipments-3,3S7,40 ,405 net
tons, sof which total 81 per cent pro-
ceeded from Buffalo, compare favorably
with the corresponding 1906 figures of
2,455,5S6 net tons.
Wheat shipments for the month,
mainly from Duluth, Superior and Chi
cago-12, ,212,249 bushels-were consid-
erab1y heavier than during the preced-
ing months, as well as during October,
1906 The total for the season-44,-
314,1 1872 bushels-was about A per cent
in excess of the corresponding 1905
total. The corn shipments, practically
all from Chicago, totaled 6,693,962 BUSH
els for the month and 42,464,674 for the
season, compared with 6,312SS0 bush
els and 40,993,354 bushels for the cor
responding 1906 periods.
The barley shipments for the month
-5,1O6,O99 bushels, chiefly from Su-
perior and Milwaukee-show a consid-
erable increase as compared with like
figures for October, 1865, 692, ,62S
bushels; the season figures, 10,3S1,797
bushels, are about II per cent below the
corresponding 1906 total
A large decrease is also shown in the
shipments of oats both for the month
and the season, the latter figures. 49,
1854 bushels, being 81 per cent be-
low the corresponding 1906 figures.
l.
166396 M feet, are about II per cent
below the corresponding 1906 figures
the per cent decline being even larger
in the case of the season shipments,
1929, ,064 M feet compared with 1,542.-
364M feet reported for the ten months
of 1906, all the larger receiving ports.
with the exception of Chicago, report
ing correspondingly smaller arrivals for
the season.
The amounts of package freight both
for the month and the season-S57309 and
5.S91, ,742 net tons-show large increases
over the figures of the preceding month
as we'll as the October, 1906, figures, tho
largest relative increases being shown by
the smaller ports, Ludington, Sandusky
and Grand Haven, though some of the
leading ports, as Buffalo and Chicago,
also show larger figures than for the pre-
ceding season.
Figures of coastwise arrivals at lake
ports during October, 1852. vessels of 49,
142, $50 net tons register, indicate smaller
vessel movement than during the preced-
ing month, though the tonnage of vessels
reported is larger than during September.
The corresponding 1906 movements were
sos vessels of 11,164, 462 net tons. Vessel
arrivals for the ten months of the year,
e5, ,2S1 of S6,572, 4S6 net tons, show a con-
siderable increase in tonnage when COM
pared with the corresponding 1906 figures
of 67,S50 vessels of S0,S66,217 net tons.
About "A per cent of the total tonnage
entered the domestic trade is credited to
Duluth, Chicago, Milwaukee, Superior.
Buffalo and Cleveland, in the order or
their importance.
Freight traffic through the canals at
Sault Ste. Marie and at Ontario, Canada.
during October aggregated S,416,597 net
| TONS being slightly below the preceding
months total of S,532,70 net tons, though
| largely in excess of the October, 1906 and
1905, traffic of 7,201,07S and 6,046,1S7 net tons
! OF the total traffic for the month $685., I4S
net tons represented an eastbound and
| ], ,421, ,149 net tons a westbound movement.
The eastward iron ore movement, 6153.50S
net tons, while about a quarter of a mil
| lion below the September movement, was
?S per cent in excess of the October 19Oi
and 81 per cent larger than the October,
1905, total.
The total quantity OF eastbound iron orc
reported to have passed through the
canals during the present season aggre-
gated 35,036,614 net tons compared with
g ,317, ,915 net tons for the 1906 season and
q, ,S52, ,943 net tons for the 1905 season, while
figures of the westbound soft coal move
rnent were S.6265OO net tons for the present
season, compared with 6,435,056 net tons
end 4,S49, ,791 net tons for the 1906 and 1905
seasons respectively.
A large increase is also shown in the
eastbound season movement of wheat,
the figures for the present season, 70,115.-
s02 bushels being 26 per cent in excess Of
the corresponding 1906 season figures and
81 per cent above the 1905 season figures.
The eastbound movement of other grain
curing the season. 1,643,299 bushels, are
20 per cent below the corresponding 1906
figures, though % per cent larger than the
corresponding 1905 figures. The east
bound lumber traffic through the canals
during the present season. $40, 6S1 200 feet,
shows a decline, both as compared with
the 1906 and 1905 totals of 1872, ,695, 900 and
S2S, 900 feet.
The total number of vessel passages for
the month, 1883. is slightly in excess of
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