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REPORT OF LAKE SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH., FOR SEASONS OF 1938 Total Traffic for Items 1938 Vessel Passages: Steamers Ue ee. Number 9,887 aun Number 495 Unregistered. ......... Number 819 Jotal oe. Number 11,201 Lockages 36... Number 8,622 Tonnage: Registered 623, Net 30,147,671 Hreight) 1 Short tons 40,042,739 Passengers ....5.. 2) umber 41,552 Wood Products: Lumber (22... M. ft. B. M. 9,520 Shingles 22.052. Short tons 23,471 Pulpwood 2... Cords 247,182 Flow Barrels 6,548,330 Wheat (022. Bushels 174,161,741 Grain other than Wheat. Bushels 90,264,301 Copper and: Zine... .. Short tons 42,927 fron Ore 3... Short tons 20,054,598 Structural Steel... Short tons 124,326 Setap iron 9... Short tons 51,503 Coal Sott = 35. Short tons 8,938,442 Coal Hatd Short tons 175,538 alt Short tons 48,459 Petroleum Products ..Short tons 758,419 Stone gg Short tons 390,436 General Mdse. ....... Short tons 893,447 Automobiles -. 7... Number 18,515 *Includes broken stone, gravel and sand. 1939 15,493 493 1,089 17,075 12°599 56,627 ,086 69,850,262 40,501 15,817 38 536 281,830 7,486,620 250,521,698 86,585.835 79,773 46,803,691 169.401 324.917 8,841,838 194,468 53.438 1,012,863 524.841 989,146 22,307 Amount 5,606 Z 2 270 5,874 3,977 26,479,415 29,807,523 1,051 6,297 15,065 34,648 938.290 76,359,957 3,678,466 36,846 26,749,093 45,075 273,414 95,604 18,930 4,979 254,444 134,405. 95,699 3,792 COMMERCE THROUGH CANALS AT AND ONTARIO AND 1939 Per Cent lnc. 57 33 oe 46 88 74 66 64 14 14 44 86 133 36 531 11 10 34 34 11 20 Dec. The United States Canal was opened April 26 and closed December 15, 1939: season, 234 days. The Canadian Canal was opened April 27 and closed December 12, 1939, seaosn, 230 days. Compiled at St. Marys Falls Canal, Michigan, under the direction of Major Homber B. Pettit, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. ISAAC DeYOUNG, General Superintendent. GRAIN SHIPMENTS FROM MANITOWOC, WIS., 1939 To Rese a 107,000 bu ote ll 246,000 bu TO Port Colpotme 0. 260,000 bu WO ee 613,000 bu . Corn . Corn . Corn » Cor Authority: Norris Grain Company, Chicago. Season Port Dock 1939 Escanaba. ........ Ci & NW... 2,531,260 Marquette <3. ..57 DoS. S36 A... 639,622 ES. & 1.2... 3,819,272 Ashland (34..55:. CG & IN. We oes. 3,700,026 Soo jbine =. 20-52... 1,641,913 Superior . 3.2.34. Great Northern ...13,316,479 S00 Line = .2..4....: 697 ,642 Northern Pacific .. 910,892 Daltith 3.2. DOM. & fo Ro... 9,081,476 wo Harbors ....D0 M- & 4. R.... $663 503 Ue SS: Ports 3.... Total io 45,002,085 Michipicoten Algoma Cen... 72. 70,639 Grand VYotal 220... 45,072,724 Increase from Year Ago..25,809,713 Season 1939... 53. . 45,072,724 TBS 19,263,011 1957-23. 62,598 ,836 SOR or rs eee 44,822,023 19355 ee 28,362,368 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF IRON ORE SHIPMENTS FROM UPPER LAKE PORTS FOR SEASONS 1938 AND 1939 Gross Tons--Railroad Weights CUMULATIVE FOR SEASON Percentage Season Percentage of Total 1938 of Votale 5.62 1,077,809 5.60 1.42 178,539 93 8.47 1,154,499 5.99 8.21 1,581,148 8.21 3.64 693,453 3.60 29.54 6,149,654 31.92 1°55 313,475 1.63 2.02 360,359 1.87 20.15 3,920,961 20.35 19.22 3,833,114 19.99 99.84 19,263,011 100.00 16 5 ae 100.00 19,263,011 100.00 133.99 season 1934.2... 22,249,600 1935.22.21 623.899 1932 oe. 3,567,985 19ST ee: 23,467,786 1930-200. 2. 46,582,982 THE LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIAPION, Dec, 12, 1939. December 18, 1939. RECEIPTS (Bushels) From: Wheat Barley Superior 23..5...5 3... 520,600 359,707 SHIPMENTS (Bushels) 'To: Wheat Barley Butlalo 3. 236 1,556,794 475,850 Port Colbotmme 25 290,000 Movites: (0 21520 GOnerieh 6.6.02 94,750 Tol 6 1,556,794 1,133,850 MOVEMENT OF GRAIN BY LAKE AT MILWAUKEE DURING 1939 'otal 880,307 Total 2,032,644 290,000 273,250 94,750 2,690,644 H, A. PLUMB, Secretary. 347