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Up and Down the Great Lakes Bulk Traffic in 1932—Vessels Lost—Grain Diverted to Canadian Ports—Lake Levels—Propeller Club Organized total traffic through all four locks of the canals at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and Ontario, amount- ed to 20,481,047 short tons. This was 24,125,278 tons less than the 1931 total and was the lightest ton- nage since 1897. The large decrease was in iron ore which totaled only 3,607,119 tons as compared with 24,259,964 tons for the season of 1931 and the record of 64,917,703 tons in 1929. It is a new low rec- ord for the past forty years. Up- bound coal was also light. Soft coal shipments amounted to only 7,190,- 371 tons, or about half of the nor- mal tonnage, though it is only some 2,700,000 tons less than for 1981. Wheat, however, increased over 1931 shipments from 189,272,600 bushels for that year to 207,227,164 bushels for the year 1932. By comparison, the Welland ship canal has been doing quite well, which, it is felt, is due to improve- ments to navigation. Traffie in- ereased to 8,535,641 tons for 1932 from 7,273,886 tons for 1931. This sets a new high record for the Wel- land ship canal, the previous record being 7,439,617 tons for the year 1928. Wheat increased from 2,146,- 418 tons in 1931 to 2,926,509 tons in 1932; corn from 81,685 tons to 300,686 tons; rye from 26,011 tons to 232,368 tons; gasoline from 1381,- 645 tons to 296,522 tons; mer- chandise from 297,017 tons to 522,- 588 tons; pulpwood from 209,415 tons to 301,997 tons; and coke from 139,313 tons to 292,255 tons. The largest decrease included 205,868 tons of barley, 84,153 tons of petro- leum and oil, 74,057 tons of bi- tuminous coal, 30,207 tons of sand, and 241,- 517 tons of iron ore. The heavy movement Ot Daca the season of 19382, the wheat through the St. Lawrence canals was. the chief factor of in- creasing the to- tal tonnage in these waters from 6,036,980 tons in 1931 to 6,693,800 tons in 1932. This, how- ever, was not a record as it was 34 Bulk Cargo Movement Movement of bulk cargo on the Great Lakes during 1932 was the lowest since the year 1901. The 19382 movement of iron ore, coal, grain and stone totaled 41,672,761 net tons, while the total of these com- modities for the year 1901 totaled something like 39,600,000 tons. The total bulk movement for 1932 shows a decrease from that of 1931 of 32,- 475,924 net tons and a reduction of 70,856,096 net tons from the move- ment in the year 1930. Conditions were so much worse in 1932 than they were the year before, that at no time during the season did the peak of operations give employment to more than 385 per cent of the total available fleet. This peak was reached about the middle of October, but the major part of the season saw only 20 to 25 per cent of the fleet capacity employed. A comparison of the total movements of various bulk commodi- ties during the past ten years is given in the accompanying table. This much may be said, that an improvement, but to what degree is problematic, is looked for during 19338. exceeded in 1927 and 1928. Increases were noted as follows: wheat 76,075 tons, 39 per cent; rye from 41,017 tons to 221,747 tons; corn from 83,- 845 tons to 189,285 tons; gasoline from 63,906 tons to 173,022 tons; merchandise from 392,487 tons to 582,703 tons; paper from 60,103 tons to 121,814 tons and anthracite coal from 134,730 tons to 230,453 tons. Bulk Cargo Movement---1932 Shipments on the Great Lakes for Last Year Com- pared with Ten Preceding Years Decreases were shown in barley by 50 per cent, bituminous coal by 20 per cent, and sand by 61 per cent. A rather remarkable feature was the light passenger traffic which for 1932 amounted to only 1784 pas- sengers as compared with 43,866 in 1931 and 51,848 in 19380. The United States canal at Sault Ste. Marie was opened April 17 and closed Dec. 13, 1932, a season of 241 days. The Canadian canal was opened on the same day, but was closed on Dec. 16. Passenger Transportation Water transportation will come in- to its own in bringing visitors to the grounds of Chicago’s World fair, and also in carrying them in smaller craft from one part of the grounds to the other. In addition to the facilities of the regular steamship lines, steamships and large launches will operate from both north and south points. Pas- sengers will be discharged at two landings in the exposition. Steamers and motor boats will also be avail- able for sight-seeing trips along the exposition grounds and the water- front of Chicago. All of these fa- cilities will be handled by private corporations arranging contracts for this purpose with the exposition. Lake Vessels Lost The casualties on the Great Lakes during the last season included the loss of four lives in the sinking of the freighter Jonn J. Bo“anp JR. in Lake Erie, Oct. 6. In addition to the freighter re- ferred to four other _ vessels were lost through destruction by fire. Three of these were pas- Iron ore Coal Grain, various kinds Stone Total senger steamers, Gross tons net tons net tons net tons net tons th Dove th 3,567,985 24,857,369 8,890,409 3,928,840 41,672,761 See : 26,467,756 BL 176.850 9,479,640 7,208,946 74,148,865 KEYSTONE, and 582, 072,060 9,851,229 12/432,628 112,528,85 ; 65,204,600 39,254,578 10,021,099 16,269,612 isabT4 44 co oe 53,980,874 34,823,002 16,372,116 15,677,551 127,331,248 The fourth was 51,107,136 34,794,291 14,692,536 14,038,376 120,760,195 t h e wooden 58,537,855 81,011,544 12/087,316 12,628,244 121,289,502 : 54,081,298 28,127,359 13,320,346 11/351,948 113,370,707 freighter =. Kat- 42,623,572 25,860,515 15,222'787 9°225,624 98,047,327 KASKA, The ton- 59,036,704 33,137,028 11,850,446 9/920,422 121,029/004 42,613,726 19,868,925 14/267,020 7,592,137 89,455,455 nage, last totaled MARINE REVIEW—February, 1933 5869 gross tons.