The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-31

DE
OF More Than a Million Short
Tons as Compared with
September Last Year.

/ Lake commerce during September as
! m ensured by the volume of freight
/ shipments between domestic ports on
the Great Lakes aggregated 1890
1 400 short tons compared with H.
SEGA and 12,527,s65 short tons
/ shipped September, 1910. respectively.
! Reports to the bureau of statistics OF
| the department OF commerce and Ia
Dor show smaller monthly figures for
all classes OF merchandise except hard
coal and miscellaneous freight than
those reported year ago. The sea-
son shipments to the end OF September
totaIed 56,214,S26 short tons, as
against 6S,h95, 1853 short tons in 1910
and So, O6O,I53 short tons two years
/ ago. The shipments of iron ore DUR
1 ing the mouth aggregated 5,032,s4S
| long tons, compared with 6, OO96S2
| long tons during September. 1910.
The largest losses are shown by Du-
I Iuth and Ashland, while shipments
l from Superior and Marquette docks
appear to have been larger than last
4 year. The total season shipments of
iron ore to the end, of September are
lsgiven as 24.1O6yS1s. long tons, in6i-
eating a decrease of over 10 million
I tons as compared with the 1910 hip
ments. OF the total iron ore received
during the present season, 19,O19.777
Long tons are credited to Lake Erie
ports and 4,322, $50 long, tons..t Lake
Michigan ports With the exception
of Conneaut and Lorain all the larger
receiving ports show considerable de-
creases from last years figures.
The shipments OF soft coal during
the month. chiefly from Lake Erie,
ports, aggrega ted 2y314, 7S2 short tons,
compared with 9, 45T. 721 short tons re-
ported FOR September, 1910. Over
one-haIf of these shipments proceeded
from Ashtabula and Toledo. The nine
ronths' shipments totaled 12,S2S,S0s
short tons, as against 1887, 7Oi5 short
tons reported last year. Duluth-su-
perior and Milwaukee were the prin-,
cipaI destinations of these, shipments,
taking about two-thirds OF the total
receipts. The September and ninei
months shipments of hard coal. 49,
716 and 3,262, $50 short tops, respec-
lively, mainly from Buffalo, Erie, and
Oswego, were in excess of the cores
ponding 1910 shipments. Practically
all of this coal was destined to Lake.
superior ports, chiefly DuIuth-su-
perior, which are creditedswitl 1,2O9,-I
SOS short tons and to Lake Michigan
ports, chiefly Milwaukee and Chicago
where 1,917,749 short tons were land
ed. a.
Lumber shipments during the
month and season, 142.6S6 and S4$,-
4Cs NJ feet. respectively, show
smaller totals than the year before.
or the total shipped during the nine
months of the present season, 333,O3s
NJ feet proceeded from Lake Superior,
449 ,725 NJ feet from Lake Michigan
ports, and SIS, $50 NJ feet from Lake
Huron ports. The domestic grain
shipments during the month totaled
2O,485,715 bushels. against 21.271.-t
1928 bushels in September. 1910 OF,
the total shipped. 6,O$3,679 bushels
was wheat: 3,75O.726 bushels, corn;
2.22S. S91 bushels. oats; 2,96O97S
bushels, barley; 526,s6T bushels. rye
and 1l4!574 bushels, haXseed. The
season shipments of grain to the end
of september totaled 3,i5OI
bushels, compared with TS.s63d3Sl
bushels repoPted the year before, all
the principal grains except barley and
naxseed showing larger figures.
smaller totals both for the month and
the season are reported for ali the
other enumerated articles, viz: flour.
salt. copper pig iron and iron man
ufactures. The shipments of un-
Chased including package, freight.
both for the month and season, 96s,
367 and 6.277.462 short tons. re-
spectiveIy, show considerable in
creases over the 1910 figures.
The vessel movement in the do
nestle trade during September COM
prised lOh5Sa departures represent
/ ing 14,o25. SOS net tons register, as
against 9.S9T departures and 1919
Ola net tons register in September
l191O, Departures for the nine months
comprised 6O,soO vessels of z9,551,42o
net tons register. as against 59,S3S
vessels of S6y9o7.51!2 net tons regis
ter in 1910. 1t is thus seen that while
/ the number Of active vessels increased
II the combined tonnage of these yes
4 sells decreased, due probably to the
I smaller number of trips made by lar
ger ore-carrying boats.
The freight movement through the
saulte ste. Marie canals for the
month. 7,949.s44 short tons, was
smaller In volume than in September,
1910, and 1903, when S,79O,347 and
/ . y227.1g2 short tons were reported.
The decrease AFFECTS the eastbound
movement only. the westbound tom
nage-composed largely of hard and
/ soft coal-showing large gains over
7 - %,