The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-12-05
AXE
Shipments Fall Below Aver
age on account Of Less
Coal and Ore Activity.

as measured BY the aggregate ship
ments Of MERCHANDISE between dol
nestle lake ports, totaled 10t15S.-
4T2 short tons, compared with tO,-f
6.49 s2S7 short tons shipped duringl
October. $780,. and IL. on s.212
short tons shipped during October,
1903. The smaller tonnage for the
month was due mainly to the lighter
movement OF coal and iron ore.
shipments OF grain. lumber and un-
classed freight were heavier than
year ago. The merchandise toni
mage shipped during the ten months
of the present year as reported toi
the bureau Of statistics OF the de-
partment Of commerce and labor az
Rregated 81, 46s, 299 short tons and
was almost 10 per cent less than IN
1910, though only about two and
one-half million tons short OF the
1909 record. Iron ore shipments
daring the month totaled 1870, S'F5
long tons, Of which almost 30 per
cent proceeded from Duluth-5uper-
Ifor and Troy harbors- The ship
meuts for the ten months OF the
present season totaled 2S,777:693
long tons, compared with 39'O42'-
I571 and $3.50 1888 long tons ship
ned during the ten months OF 1910
and 1903, respectively. OF the to-
tai iron ore receipts for the season
%, o46,219 long tons or Is per
cent are credited to Lake Erie ports
and 5uS4,61s long tons to Lake
Michigan ports. "A considerable
decline In iron ore receipts is shown
tor all the important ports with the
exception OF Conneaut, which re
ports an increase of half million
tons, and noratn. the season receipts
of which closely approximate thos"
Iof a year ago,
month, 2,1s2,S4 short tons, were
on a lower scale than in October
1910, when asst ia short tons
were shipped. The shipments for
the ten months OF the present year,
IA. SO, 65l3 short tons, OF which
over one-half proceeded from ASH
tubula and Toledo, likewise fell
short of the 1910 shipments OF 49,
PSI ys19 short tons. Over 95 per
Ger cent of this coal moved to Lake
Superior and Lake zIzIchigan desti-
nations, the principal receiving
ports, Duluth, Superior and MIL
waukee claiming about 81 per cent
| OF the total receipts Of this article.
october shipments OF hard coal
1853 ys61 short tons, likewise pro-
ceeded on smaller scale than In
1870, though the ten months hg-I
ures. 1922 ,741 short tons. are
larger than those Of year ago. The
main destinations OF this coal were
Duluth, Superior. Milwaukee and
Chicago, the quantities unloaded at
Lake Michigan ports exceeding by
far those received at Lake Superior
destinations.
Shipments of lumber during Oeto-
Der, 159, 1866 feet, were heavier than
for any other month OF the year
and exceeded by more than twenty
million feet the corresponding 1910
shipments. The ten months ship
iments, :, OO2,7T feet, were below
the 1910 record, all the larger re-
ceiving ports including Chicago.
North Tonawanda, Frankfort, Bufa-l
Ito and Huntington reporting smaller
transactions than last year.
J Grain shipments during the month
aggregated 19,27O,7o7 bushels, COM
pared with 17761.4 97 bushels ship
! ped during October. 1910, ana 26.-I
24s.237 bushels shipped In octo-
Der, 1909. The ten months ship
ments, r13, O83, 1857 bushels, show a
larger gain over the correspondence
1sos and 1910 flgures. OF the total
forwarded during the ten monts Of
the persent season, '32,8o4,52S
bushels was wheat: 45,S1sJ5s7
bushels corn: 24,4oo.445 bushels
oats; ,7.7oO,O42 bushels barley; l.
446.O3s bushels rye: and t1,4141222
bushels fiaxseed. The gain In the
total over last years movement OF
barley decreased by more than three
million bushels; the shipments OF
fiaxseed show further decline from
the abnormaIly low figure Of the
preceding year. The four shipments
for the month and season. 161, 1872
and e3S,346 short tons OF ten bar
rels each, respectively, were below
those of year ago, Buffalo and