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the summer vessels in good condition and ready for the season’s business. oe ok * OATS serving the Michigan fruit belt are expected to carry a heavy volume of business this year, according to present indications as to the fruit yield. Last year proved to be an unusually heavy year in fruit shipping. The 1926 season was ordinance which would authorize work to proceed on the Lake Calumet har- bor project. These amendments are demanded by the Illinois state water- ways superintendent. Before a_ per- mit will be issued by the state for the harbor, the city must agree to dredge the channel itself, the Nickel Plate railroad paying $600,000 in eash for a belt railroad right-of-way ly told the Western Society of Engi- neers that $3,400,000 will restore the levels of the Great Lakes to the de- sired point. He maintained that such an expenditure would do away largely with fluctuation in lake levels. The money would be spent on con- structing submerged rock sills in the St. Clair and Niagara rivers to re- tard the outflow. 20 to 25 per cent ahead of the usual ee average year. and land for a switchyard. Several minor amendments also are asked. ae * * * BY Eo HE harbors committee of the | Gee COL. ‘G. B. PILLSBURY, Chicago city council is taking up engineer in charge of the lake proposed amendments to the survey in the Detroit district, recent- TEAMSHIP companies on_ the Great Lakes have compiled their summer passenger and freight sched- ules which go into effect: by the end the of June. Ocean Freight Rates Per 100 Pounds Unless Otherwise Stated Quotations Corrected to June 18, 1927 on Future Loadings NOTE: FREIGHT RATES STEADY WITH BUT SLIGHT CHANGE . New York Cotton Genera cargo {tFinished REMARKS _ From North Pacific Lumber to Grain Provisions (H. D.) Flour cu. ft. 100 lbs. steel Freight Offered Ports to Per m. t. Liverpool...... 2s Odt $0.60 $0.40 0722 $0.50 $0.90 $8 .OOT *** Poor SaniFrancisco, ove. saa $4.50 to 5.00 London. s5)s.65 2s Odt 0.60 0.40 0.22 0.50 0.90 8.00T *** Poor South California. ....... 4.50 to 5.00 Oslo nea srs $0.18 0.45 0.50 0.30 0.421% 0.85 8.00T Poor Hawaiian Islands....... 9.00 to 10.00 Copenhagen... 0.18 0 45 0.50 0.30 0.50 1.00 8.00r Poor New :Zealand.. i253. 16.00 to 19.00 Hamburg... Onl! 0.55 0.40 0.23 0.50 0.90 10 OOT Pair Sydney. coe ea ew en te 14.00 to 14.50 Bremen....... 0.10 0.35 0.50to 65 0.23 0.50 0.90 10.00T Fair Melbourne-Adelaide..... 14.00 to 15.00 Oriental Ports. 2.0.0.5. 11.00 to 12.00 pete ee 0.15 032% 0 60 0.25 0.45 0.80 9.50T Fair Oriental Ports (logs).... 14.50 to 15.50 Antwerp...... 0.09 0.32% 0 45 On73 0.45 0.80 9.50T Poor Pera:Ghilec 23 ao 13.50 to 16.00 Havrev.es: an: 0.14 0.55 0.50 0.30 0.45 0.80 9.00T Quiet South Africa......1..... 20.00 to 24.00 Bordeaux...... 0.14 0.55 0.50 0. 30 0.45 0.80 9.00T Quiet Ciba ee 15.00 to 17.00 Barcelona..... 0.50 0.30 10.00 bags —12.00T— 10.00T Fair United Kingdom........ 80s: to 05s Lisbon: 220s 0.75 0.50 8.00T bags —23.00T— 8.00T Poor United Kingdom (ties)... eo tae Marseilles..... ae 0.65 0.40 7.00 bags —23.00T— 8.00T Poor Baltimore-Boston range. . $14.00 to 14.50 Genoas.s. 2 c 0.19 14.25 0.50 9.00 —23.00T— 11.50T Fair. Florida Range.......... No rates Naples sso. 0.19 14,25 0.50 9.00 —23.00T— 11.50T Pair Buenos Aires........00 15.00 to 17.00 Constantinople. 02% 20.00T 0.85 0.40% —24.00T— TL 508 Poor North of batterie 228 14.00 tc 15.00 Alexandria..... 20.00T 0.85 0.401% —24,00T— 11.50T Poor Ching 2.5 Se ear 10.50 to 11.00 Algiers. .: ica: 0.85 0.60 0.45 —23.00T— 11.50T Poor Tayaneecue saree, 9.50 to 10.50 Dakatss oon ts 17.00 15.50T —23.00T— 11.50T Very good : Capetown..... 18.00 13.00 20.00 13.00 to 18.00 Good . Flour and Wheat Buenos Aires... 22.00T 20.00 to 22.00T¢ 3.00 to 8.80T Fair U. K. and Continent *#Riode Janeiro 22.00T ae 20.00 to 22.00T+ 7.00 to 7.70Tt Fair (gross ton).......... 33s 9d to 35s Od fis abuso a 22.00T 9.00T —22.00T—t 9.70Tt Bair Oriental Ports (net tons).. $4.25 to 4.75 Havana....... 0.30* 0.50 Bea 0. 30* 0.61 1533 10.00 Fair Vera’Cruze%.33. 0.25 0.30 0.35 0225 0.52% = 1.05 0.30 to 0.35 Fair Valparaiso..... : 1.07 0.70 oe eae 10.00T Fair San Francisco. . 0.35 to 0.70 Aer 0.40 to 1.10 es sion 0.25 to 0-30 Fair Sydney........ 18.00T 1.25 18.00T 18.00-24.00T 9.00 to 11.50T Fair WOTH: Lichterasé tates On AUN ce Mee Calcutta: 2s. 10.00T —16.00T— 10.00T Fair York reduced from 6% to 5¥%c per barrel. The coal strike in Britain is now settled and freight rates or bunker prices for coal or pig iron are again quoted. od . Pe t f 480 lbs. tLanded. +}Heavy products limited in length. *Extra charge for wharfage. ‘ . erie MO:b0 warcharee on all Aes to Rio de Janeiro on account of congestion. ***Plus 15 per cent. Principal Rates To and From United Kingdom General cargo rates to Havana change daily and are omitted for 4 % . Piei iinivca Kin cdo 45 New Kore d the time being. i i ited Ki ym. . ig iron, Unite ingdom to New York or : Be A Wales i NL Hast. ssi hove dee 4 Philadelphia. ..2c2.%.. BN eetaaine eee e oie cee 12-6 Rates to Calcutta are subject to Coal, United Kingdom to Buenos Aires.. 12 9 Iron ore, Bilbao to Cardiff.............. 6.9 change without notice. _Cotton Manganese Ore, Poti to Philadelphia... $3.95 Iron ore, Huelva to Phila. or Balto...... Pi goes only to Bombay. Landing charge of $2.00 per freight ton at Valparaiso, Bunker Prices Other Ports At New York At Philadelphia Coal Fuel oil Diesel engine Coal Fuel oil Diesel Eng. oil Boston, coal, per ton.... $7.86 alongside alongside oil alongside trim. in bunk alongside alongside Boston, oil, f. a. 8., per per ton per barrel per gallon per ton per barrel per gallon barrelescscccaws rae bie ee i ; Aug. 12, 1926.. 5.00@5.25 1.69@1.74% 5.75@6.17c Hampton Roads, coal, per ee 3 45@6.00 1814 6.05, Sept theo. 5: 5.00@5.35 1.74@1.744% _ 6.14% ton, f.o.b., piers. $4.35 to 4.50 Det, 22... 7:25@7.50 1.70% 586 Geko te oe. 7.25@7.50 1.74@1.8014 5.66@5.88 June 10 — Cardiff, coal, per Nov. 19..... 7.00@7.50 1.8144 5.87 Nove 19. iss 7.00@7.50 1.8014 @1.81 5.43@5.88 Yoneraly ee ee 14s od Dec 20:7. 6.25 @6.50 1.81 5.86 Deer 20csas: 5.50@5.75 1.80@1.90% 5.64@6.19 London, coal, per ton...—s — Tan. 19...... 5.90@6.15 1.81% 5.87 Tan. 193.4453, 6.20 1.95@1.9534 5.88@6.19 Antwerp, coal, per ton. .21s 6d Pe th: 5.25 @5.50 1.8144 5.95 Feb. 18. 0.005 5.24@5.50 1.90@1.91 5.64@6.13 Antwerp, Fuel oil, per ton 80s0d Mie 5.25@5.50 1.8114 5.95 Man 1800: 5 one 1.95 @1. 95% 3 sa) 88 Antwerp, Diesel oil, per oe ; Apr. 190s. ea .81@1. EG a aes ee Mee Os 1 8144 2°63 Mey 19 3118@$.65 1.751%4@1.76 5.14@5.38 British ports, Fuel oil,..80s Od fide 16,1987 5 80 1.711% 5.39 June 18, 1927. 5.00@5.25 1.70 5.12@5.14 British ports, Diesel oi .95s Od 89 MARINE REVIEW—July, 1927