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250 MARINE cahetosl Grain and Flour Shipments by Lake. | From the 1897 Blue Book of American Shipping, Copyrighted. If we reduce flour to bushels of wheat, it is found that the movement of grain eastward by Jake in 1896 aggregated full 300,000,000 bushels, and of this amount Buffalo received 215,352,784 bushels. The following sum- mary show shipments of 299,112, 968 bushels. To this must be added quite a large item of flour. and grain from Gladstone and two or three less important ports that ship odd cargoes of which there is no record, so that there is no question of the total reaching full three hundred millions. Figures representing the Lake Superior movement of grain and flour are those prepared by canal officials at Sault Ste. Marie. They cover ship- ments from all Lake. Superior ports. The Chicago total covers both Chicago and South Chicago and is from the report of Secretary Stone "of the Chicago board of trade. Milwaukee, Voledo and Detroit items are aise from reports of boards of trade. Buches, From Lake Superior ports, including flour as grain ane cick'. 135,118,824 eum SLIT CUO Oar cnet Nee ane ne SA Se Ceo R I Netter pee Se te 122,868,615 wr Milwaukee. © f oe ee Me aceasta: 22,500,000* ". -Toledo fi eteaaass 4 SE Sd PEO, 85 » 11;125,529 Sg - Detroit ce t agestahe fy epee Taber birectat 7,500,000* -*Partly eeinaa ed! 299,112,968 - Although the proportion of this grain and Gif that reaches the | Belhoatd through the Welland and St. Lawrence canal routes makes up a _yery large business, it will be noted that full 70 per cent. of it is transferred at Buffalo for shipment to the coast, via the Erie canal and the several 'railroads running east from that port. A few other Lake Erie ports, notably Sandusky, Fairport and Erie, afford facilities. for the transfer of grain and flour to railways, but their proportion of the business is very small as compared with Buffalo. Thirty-eight elevators in Buffalo have a total storage capacity of 16,650,000 bushels. Three modern elevators now under construction (July, 1897) will increase the grain handling. facili- ties of the port about 25 per cent. . Buffalo also has six transfer towers and eight feels elevators. 1896. 1895. 1894, Wheat, Bushes Re TOES AVN Te 63,256,463 46,218,250 34,869,483 Grain other than wheat, bushels. ...... 27,448,071 8,828,694 1,545,008 mlotalsmlshels ..0.% et. . oss os sees ces 90,704,534 54,546,944 36,414,491 ROMS DATES s Case c cst bras oh wees 8,882,858 8,902,302 8,965,773 Total grain,. ey flour as wheat.135,118,824 99,058,454 81,243,356 1896, 1895. 1894. Aireat ichelet gn ge 13,282,818 13,158,422 15,016,804 Corn, abusheles irae rote EN ae 74,379,206 47,701,850 387,148,717 Oats, BMG MOIS a osc acy co ee es ~. 23,798,409 17,674,346 138,913,761 ssparley, bushelsiejae.. mse ts 0h. car chk 5,451,824 5,248,531 2,868,060 ye bushels _ Se PCS ke oe aoa cs _ 971,603 57,000 28,624 Total ushele BROT Laaoss. even 117,833,860 83,835,149 68,975,966 hioupe barrelsadt.cist Jitigse -aiviaries. 1,006,951 787,512 « 1,630,345 Total grain, including flour as "wheat: 122, 868, 615 - 87,772,709 77,127,691 1896. 1895. 1894. MEO MD ATRC Seri cce care cn ne See 10,384,184 8,971,740 11,488,530 Witteats ibushielsi ed fetirswontiidiess ac. 54,411,207 47,256,005 50,194,130 BAC OEM AMOUSUCIS 502. oa dia cic! k as «ave pe oie, o's 47,811,010 37,579,311 29,078,520 Ante DUSMG Sic Gt css cee cons cece: 40,107,499 92. (281, O71 15,560,230 Sspatleye bushels oe. es ES, 16,697,744 10, 958,229 ~8 625,090 SVE IMAG Ol Sate oc (hors cia) 5 silk wihid so Mae 4,404,354 -- 871, 612 501,195 Total grain, bushels. eeceeeees cress 100,431,814 118,896,428 103,959,165 Flour to grain, bushels as Sart SH 51,920,920 44,858,700 57,442,650 Grand Total, bushels ........0..04. 215,352,734 163,755,128 161,401,815 mes Around the Lakes, Pfohl Bros, have given up the idea of raising the Grand Traverse, _ which sank near Colchester, as she is broken in two. Buffalo fuel docks are still holding to former prices and will not advance the rate above $2 unless the supply gets much shorier than at Sapa The fire in the sion ee Dock Company's planing mill did not aes the plant so that an time will be lost on repair or con- "struction work. : "The million-dollar drawbridge which connects Superior, Wis., and Duuth, Minn., was thrown open to the public July 13, with ones i- ate exercises, Captain James Reid reports that he has raised the Gari 8 inches from her side towards an upright position, ebiel 1S necessary to the : placing of the pontoons for effective work. Cleveland and Toledo naval reserves camped at Johnson's "Jeland this week. They had their own steamer Johnson, and As- a eee Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt inspected the camp. _ A prominent coal dealer says that the head of the lakes coal men - are rae desirous' of sending any coal out of their own territory and - will not unless | the price is such that transactions under present cireum- stances would warrant, They would prefer to make a nominal profit = HI on the sales to their own customers than to make a large profit for one sale to persons that might never buy of them again. J. J. Hill has arranged to build a big dock on St. Louis bay, The contract has been let and work has actually begun. The new dock will be a big one and will employ' a crew of men from now till snow flies. Raymond & Co., owners os the independent oleae Buffalo, will build a 150,000- push storehouse next to their clevaroue This will make the company independent of the canalers, It will be com- pleted in sixty days. 3 The report of the damage nienied Be the Katahdin, which went on the bottom near Detour, some time ago, makes the amount $13,306. There will also be some other charges. This i eee more than was expected. Last week a board of engineer cohicait Col. J. A. satis ~senior, met at Toledo and heard arguments in: fs case of 'the eve Shore bridge at Toledo being an obstruction to navigation, and to determine what changes were necessary.. shy A shipment of pig iron to the Krapp gun' works: at Essen, Ger- many, was made from the Bay Viey furnaces. The barge D, Pp. Dobbins took the iron to Baffalo, where it was placed in Veanal boats for New York and transferred to an ocean steamer. Capt. Minar says that there is only one thing that the Nor rth West needs, and that is a wheel forward to hold her back. | On the up trip she ran from Two Harbors to Daluth, 26 miles, in an hour and thirteen minutes, which is a small fraction more than 214 miles an hour, Grattan & Jennings, of Buffalo, has secured the contract for the building of a large dock at Hast 11th street in New York city. The cost of the dock will be $125,000, and the firm will have five months in which to complete the dock, 'The dock will be constructed of white pine on stone-filled timber cribs. _ The steamer George T. Hope was fined .$1,500 by. Collector of Customs Zehrieng. She was reported by the Calumet, which. is stationed at Chicago. She was fined $500 for having only one pilot, $500 for having an insufficient number of water pails and.$500 for not having her name on her oars and ax handles. There was a collision between the Goodrich Line steamer Virginia and the whaleback Christopher Columbus just as the two big boats were leaving Milwaukee. The force with which the steamers came together crushed one of the Virginia's life boats and tore six awning stanchions from the whaleback. By the barest margin no passengers wére hurt, but there was a panic on each boat. The Canadian supply steamer Lake Michigan went to Buffalo for a lot of soft coal for fuel. Some was taken i in bulk for her own use and the rest was put into bags for the use of the various light-houses in Canadian waters. It shows that if the coal strike has cut the American fleet off from its full amount of fuel supply, the Canadians are still worse off in that direction. Chicago river and harbor are soon to be inspected ie General Wilson, chief of engineers, United States army. The exact date of the ant eeitoaon has not yet been determined. on, but it is expected that General Wilson will reach Chicago in a few days. His purpose is to become thoroughly acquainted with the conditions and require- ments of the river as a navigable waterway. The work of recovering the copper from the steamer Pewabic 18 not progressing as fast as the wreckers could wish for. Last week the amount taken up from the wreck was small. The copper is in m- mense masses and is imbedded in the clay bottom. . Most of the grap- ples from the diving bell were broken in the effort to raise it. One mass weighing several tons, slipped just as it reached the top of the water, and taking a sheer as it dropped, missed the diving belt about a foot. The International Longshoremen's union elected officers 'at their Cleveland convention as follows: President, Chas. Kelly, of Wash- burne, Wis.; first vice president, Frank Foster, Escanaba, Mich.; second vice president, M;. P. Cannon, Achilong: Wis. ; third vice president, Chris Goebels: Cleveland; secretary and treasurer, Harry C. Barter, Detroit. Daniel Keefe, of Chicago and Secretary Barter were appointed a committee to attend the next annual 'meeting of the Lake Carriers' Association in Januar y to represent the union in lixing a scale of wages.