The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-23
COMMERCE ON THE LAKES
INCREASES ONE THIRD

Domestic commerce on the Great lakes
during the calendar year 1909 as meas
ured by The volume of freight shipped
between domestic ports on the Great
lakes. aggregated S0.97i.605 net tons This
tonnage. while about ouc-thlrd larger
Than Tor the year before. is about 300.
tonnage. the largest total in the history
Of the lake trade.
or ihe total domestic lake shipments
for the year i5.0S7 OIL net tons are cred
tied TO ports of Lake Superior. compared
with 2S.253,7Ii net tons shipped from
these ports during 1908, li.i20.09S net
tons to ports on Lake Michigan, compared
with lOoS2.O O56 net tons in 1908; l.510,S79
net tons TO Lake Huron ports. compared
with l.O96.oli net Ions In 1905; 1889. .22l
net tons TO Lake Erie ports compared
with is, ,267 $40 net tons in 1905 and SOS.
9i3 net tons TO Lake Ontario ports COM
pared with 40 90S net tons shipped from
these ports I'm 1908.
The iron ore shipments by lake during
the year, as reported to the bureau, cx-
elusive of about 400 GOo gross tons ex-
ported to Canada, totalod 4o,732.677 gross
tons. compared with 24.939. 1S5 gross tons
In 1908 and I072T9T2 gross tons in 1907
Domestic grain shipments during the
past season totaled llS.2o@.76o bushels. of
which 56.1l4.633 bushels was wheat 2S-
954140 corn. 1T.S2S.71T oats. 14.137, ,662
barley. and .l67 .9SS bushels rye.
As compared with corresponding ship
of wheat and rye show decreases and
those OF other grains slight increases.
over 81 per cent of the annual wheat
shipments proceeded from Duluth and Su-
perlor. The lake shipments for the past
year Of this article from Chicago. J.S55 =
800 bushels were about onc-third below
the average for the preceding five years.
over 81 per cent of the domestic lake
shipments OF corn proceeded from Chi
cago. FlaNseed shipments for the year
9.SS3,432 bushels, were about ~ per cent
below those reported for 1908 and pro-
ceeded practically all from Duluth and
Superior
The lumber shipments for the year.
l,l55, 765 m feet, fell about one-third be-
low the average for the fve-year period
1903 To 1907 Notwithstanding the large
demand for this material in the middle
west and in the east. or the total lum-
Der shipped about 81 per cent proceed
ed from Lake Michigan ports. about 81
per cent from Lake Superior ports, and
the remainder from Lake Huron ports
The shipments Of hard coal. chiefly
from Lake Eric ports. Buffalo, Erie and
Oswego a,6l6.O tons. fell II per cent
short OF corresponding 1908 shipments and
proceeded mainly TO Duluth. Superior.
ments of soft coal, largely from Lake
Eric ports. compare favorably with like
shipments in 1908 of 1S.204. .009 net tons.
II is noteworthy that the average freight
Lake Eric ports, We're higher. those of
soft coal lower than during 1908
large increase is shown In the an
nual movement Of unclassed; ehieiy pack
age freight the total for 1909. 1854 ,003
net tons, exceeding by far any of the
previous yearly totals reported to the
bureau of statistics.
The vessel movement between domes-
tic lake ports as measured by the ag-
gregate outbound vessel tonnage. I03,-
271. .SS5 net tons. was larger than for any
previous year although the number of
vessel departures, 1S l0f. has been cx-
ceedcd during each year between 1905
and 1907.
The total freight tonnage which passed