Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-10
GREAT LAKES TRAFFIC
SHOWS BIG INCREASE
TWo-THIRos OF TONNAGE GOES
THROUGH "sooD
Few Items Fall Below Previous Stand.
ard-Gain Of Almost one-ThIrd
In Totals for Eight
Months

! WASHINGTON, Oct 9.-Commeroial
movements on the great lakes during All
| gust 1907, as measured by the volume Of
j shipments from the various lake {,orts
attained a total of 1858, ,S66 net tons-the
largest monthly total recorded by the
bureau OF. statistics. department of com
merce and labor, for any summer month.
shipments for the past month are about
| ~ per cent larger in volume than the
shipments for July of this year, over is
per cent larger than the corresponding
i ngures for 1906, and over 33 per cent in
excess OF the 1905 figures. while figures
Tor the eight months of the year. 50.441.-
o4t net tons, are about IA per cent and "a
per cent larger than the corresponding
1906 and 1905 shipments.
| Ine large tonnage of iron ore and coal
moved during the month is responsible
Tor the growth in the total shipments
| recoroeo Tor the month as compared
with August, 1906
The iron ore shipments, mainly from
the Lake Superior ports of Ashland Du-
luth, Marquette, Superior, Two Harbors
and the Lake Michigan port of Escanaba.
aggregated $780, 343 gros tons, compared
with 1888, Az gross tons reported for Au-
gust, 1906, and 6,22S23O gross tons. the
earlier record figure, shipped during
June, 1907. The shipments of iron ore
for the season up to September amounted
to 24,466,231 gross tons. which is over two
and one half million tons in excess of the
corresponding 1906 figures. The favorable
total might have been even larger were
| it, not for the interruption of ore mining
and traffic during July and the still
continuing shortage of the labor supplv
at some of the more important 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 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
preceding month had been engaged in
the carrying of grain and coal resumed
| the transportation of iron ore and could
not afford to incur the delay of loading
coal for the return trip west.
Totals Increase Big
The total shipments for the eight
| months Of the year, 9,7ss,2O9 net tons, are
| over 30 per cent larger than the corre-
| spending 1906 figures. Shipments of hard
coal during the month, mainly from Buff
| falo, 555.S2S tons, were on the other hand,
larger than the July figures and somewhat
below the corresponding August, 1906, fig
ures. though shipments for the eight
|
| cent in excess of like 1905 shipments.
Wheat shipments for the month. mainly
from Duluth, Chicago and Superior, 4,5S1,-
| 4S2 bushels, were about 20 per cent below
| the August, 1906, figures, while the total
for the season, 24,916,711 bushels, was
about Sc per cent in excess of the CORE
| spending 1906 figures.
! Under the general head of grain" the
| largest decrease in shipments is shown by
1 fnr a
| bushels, being about 60 per cent below the
| August 1906 figures, while shipments for
the season, 15,725,9 $3.50 bushels. are also cor
| siderably below the 1906 shipments of 2o,-
079.1S9 bushels.
| Flour shipments for the month"; chiefly
| from Milwaukee. Superior. Chicago and
| Duluth, 1884 net tons, were about l9
per cent below the August, 1906. figures.
while the total for the eight months,
7O6. .4o3 net tons, were slightly above the
| corresponding 1906 total OF the Lake
Erie ports to which the flour is mainly
shipped, Buffalo took by far the largest
share, though considerable quantities or
flour were also handled at Erie, Pa.
Lumber Decreases
| Shipments of lumber during the MONTH
| 1893, ,105, 900 feet, while in excess OF the july
| figures show a smaller total as COM
pared with the corresponding 1906 hgures.
Lumber shipments for the season, ssS, 2bs,
| 900 feet, were about 19 per cent less tha'
| the corresponding 1906 figures.
| The figures of copper shipments, mainly
from upper Michigan mines, SS52 gross
| tons. show a decrease of about bO per
cent, both as compared with the preceu-
| ing months figures as well as the ngures
of August, 1906, and reflect to some ex.
tent the present unsatisfactory state Oh
the copper market. Figures for the cur
| or
about 25 per cent below the correspond
| ing 1906 figures of 74,46S net tons.
| The shipments during the month OF
unclassed or package freight, 925966 net
tons, on the other hand, show consio-
erable increase over August, lSoo, ns
ures of sol ,2S3. larger shipments peins
credited to Milwaukee. Cleveland anu
Sandusky, while shipments from Bunaio,
| Duluth and Sault Ste. Marie show smaller
| figures than year ago. The total lot
the eight months, 4,27S,O1O tons, is about
| is per cent in excess of the correspond
ing 1906 figure.
| About two-thirds OF the total mercnan-
disc tonnage shipped during the mon,n,
| viz: S,544,S33 net tons, passed through tne
| canal of Sault Ste Marie. OF the latter
| figure, 6697 ,s07 net tons represented an
/ eastbound and 1,S74,526 a westpouno moVe
ment AS compared with the ngures "
July traffic the August figures snow az
| Improvement by 1,351,597 net tons, que 81
clusively to the larger figures OF the east.
bound iron ore movement, wnicn hau
fallen off considerably during the pre-
yious month, owing to the strike Oh tne
iron ore workers in the Lake Superior re-
gion. The iron ore movement tnroush 'ile a,'
| canals 6,120S80 net tons, was II per cent ~
excess Of the corresponding 1906 and al
most 80 per cent in excess of the August
| 1905, movement.
/ Eighty Per Cent Coal
| Other important items OF the eas1pouap t
| = 40 s9e bushels: other grain. S.l2S,Ao
bushels; bushels -four, $685. barrels. and lumber;
50 Sss, 900 feet. The decrease OF wheat ,, anu
other grain movements as compared WIN M
| I,,i,r aa,,ras is nlite notable, though tnis