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70 THE MARINE REVIEW Iron Ore Traffic on Great Lakes in 1915. IRON ORE SHIPMENTS FROM UPPER LAKE PORTS, GROSS TONS. Escanaba Marquette Ashland 1915. 5,649,289 3,099,589 5,146,772 1914, 3,664,451 1,755,726 3,363,419 1913. 5,399,444 3,137,617, 4,338,230 8,342,793 15,437,419 8,642,942 46,318,804 Superior Duluth Two Harbors . 1915. 459,877 1,158,374 695,865 3,517,258 Cleveland Fairport Ashtabula IRON ORE RECEIPTS AT 1915. South Chicago, Ill..... 4,195,976 East Jordan, Mich Boyne City, Mich Elk Rapids, Mich Milwaukee Indiana Harbor, Gary, Ind. Fruitport, Mich. 187,286 689,226 Cleveland Fairport Ashtabula Conneaut Erie Buffalo 11,309,748 6,318,291 5,610,262 32,021,897 IRON ORE RECEIPTS AT LAKE ERIE 2,421,924 1914. 332,564 773,711 617,363 1,677,988 5,519,698 1,558,134 5,318,788 6,263,480 260,991 2,913,273 166,665 1914. 3,606,587 38,158 50,098 28,437 93,121 661,054 1,631,564 6,109,019 13,788,343 12,331,126 10,075,718 49,070,478 1913, 363,001 1,084,215 687,485 3,709,213 1913. 5,572,866 4 45,028 234,591 455,252 2,365,551 8,701,732 1912, 10,495,577 9,370,969 47,435,777 PORTS, GROSS TONS. 1912. 418,057 1,411,278 540,586 3,771,350 7,914,836 1,801,381 8,158,080 7,839,831 547,067 5,060,642 1911. 4,278,445 2,200,380 2,429,290 9,920,490 6,934,269 6,367,537 32,130,411 1911. 243,292 493,345 223,947 2,937,605 4,584,211 666,365 6,359,131 6,931,278 289,400 2,802,976 37,472,108 25,531,550 LAKE MICHIGAN PORTS, GROSS TONS. 1912. 5,480,105 878 45,000 47,947 138,065 514,748 2,088,327 8,357,070 1911. 3,685,100 36,232 33,000 26,814 109,255 365,312 1,302,745 5,558,458 1910. 13,640,166 8,271,177 42,628,758 1910. 296,412 1,225,202 197,951 2,884,738 6,344,943 1,516,434 9,620,638 6,309,548 942,592 34,042,897 1910. 5,080,679 37,910 50,355 60,857 121,446 287,172 1,775,880 37,785 7,452,084 ERIE DOCKS DEC. 1, GROSS TONS. 1914. 580,600 2,471 483,769 548,097 8,407,905 1913. 349,047 2,472 441,541 694,704 1,930,720 478,014 3,202,807 1,248,032 594,613 319,726 9,261,676 1912. 10,080,798 Average Stay in Port VESSELS OF PITTSBURGH STEAM 1915 1913 hrs. min. Ase Aver. stay lower lake ports 7 46 Aver. stay upper lake ports Aver. time in port receiv- ing and discharging car- PA ee loading record per hour Rate of fastest 1914 hrs. min. leas 9.12 26 30 Gross tons. 7,572 12,222 10,613 in 1 hr, 30 min. 7,075 Buffalo Grain Receipts 1915. 1914. Flour, bbls, 8,429,126 9,100,752 Wheat. sDilieccistawisss 166,670,198 100,442,591 Com. ti Rye ees 17,281,413 14,309,078 Cyatey OG sauce 10,969,616 11,858,666 Parley, Dilscs sos» 13,512,782 13,229,162 Rye, {Bt oa cies 3,787,863 4,268,738 Total, bu. .... 212;221,872 144,108,235 Fl. to wheat, bu. 42,145,630 Flaxseed, bu. 4,036,581 10,127,146 Grand total, bu. 258,404,083 199,739,141 45,503,760 » hrs. min. 21 9 do 2 52 Oberle Gross tons. 7,283 T2237 5,897 in 75 min. 4,718 1912 LOTT. 661,382 2,471 344,371 652,526 9,469,869 SHIP CO. hrs. min. 20. 9 iba Rab 32). -0 Gross tons. 6,796 13,007 10,325 in:2 hr. 35 min. 4,136 LOE 50) 28 19 Gross tons, 6,306 11,159 9,362 in 25 min. 22,469 1910, 433,215 17,728 375,118 630,547 1,638,795 839,970 3,287,816 1,329,997 792,011 452,783 9,797,980 1906 hrs. min. BoB, 222.25 168 cap Gross Average Ore Cargo D. M. & All docks 191 Gross Tons Year stra os OF OAL 1905. OV ee! 1904, piste O44 1903. seo Ose 44 1902. ap Os716 1901, eeiel D090 1900. Acne OV ALY 1899, ASAE SP) 1898. epee Morey Re 1897, Seda DOL 1896.. wee eens Cee e ne renig eee eee Gross Tons 6,101 5,272 5,668 4,899 » 4,459 N. docks only up to 1910, 0-1915, 2,202 February, 1916 erally lower rates prevailing, with the exception of grain. The high rates paid during the closing months of the season sent the average grain rate to a new record. The steamer W. GRANT MorbdEN broke both the wheat and oats carry- ing records on the Great Lakes in 1915. On Oct. 18, Morven carried 476,315 bushels of wheat from Port Arthur to Tiffin and McNicoll. The previous wheat record had been held by Witit1am P. SNYDER Jr., which car- vied 460,000 bushels from Duluth on July 10, 1913. Morven also carried 760,066 bushels of oats from Port Arthur to McNicoll on Dec. 9. The previous record was held by MatrHew ANpbREWS, which carried 605,898 bush- els of oats to Port Colborne in 1914, Morven’s largest cargo of ore during the season was 12,136 gross tons, carried from Escanaba to Point Ed- ward. The record for a single cargo of ore is. still held by H. H. Rogers. which carried 13,333 gross tons from Escanaba to South Chicago. The coal-carrying record still rests with Wi1iaAmM P. -Snyper, which carried 13,847 net tons of coal ‘from Lorain Furnace Shipments ORE FORWARDED TO FURNACES FROM LAKE ERIE DOCKS, MAY 1-DEC. 1. Gross Gross Year Tons.. Year. Tons. DOS os 35,149,412 ne 7 A ae 33,421,251 VOT 22,914,887 hon Rae 23,011,274 TOI Bee 35,747,800 VOLO. oc 29,724,938 SCHOONMAKER an = Alig. 2, nearly equaled it this year by carry- ing 13,559 net tons from Ashtabula to Superior. : The Welland canal was opened for traffic on April 15 and closed Dec. 15. The first vessel which passed through 1913, : but the steamer W. H. Dwyer, upbound, on April 16, and the last was the steamer Caprtiac, downbound, on Dec. 13. The total number of passages through the canal was 2,782, of which 1,394 were up- bound vessels and 1,388 downbound. The total volume. of traffic moved was 3,061,012 tons, the vessel tonnage aggregating 2,855,195 tons.’ The larg- est upbound cargo was carried by the steamer A. M. MarsHatt, consisting of 2,343 tons of coal, while the largest downbound cargo carried was 2,800 tons of soft-coal by Tomer. the canal was Ore Unloading Records The ore and coal-loading and un- loading records on the Great Lakes were not broken in 1915. The best record of the Pittsburgh & Conneaut Dock Co., at Conneaut, O., was made on May 22, when 10,693 tons, railroad $s Wight, of ore was unloaded in four