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STATISTICS OF LAKE COMMERCE. 213 IRON ORE RECORD, SEASONS OF 1892, '93 and '94. LAKE SHIPMENTS AGGREGATE 7,776,547 GROSS TONS—RECEIPTS AT LAKE ERIE PORTS FOOT UP 6,350,825 TONS—4,834,247 TONS ON LAKE ERIE DOCKS. IRON ORE RECEIPTS AT LAKE ERIE PORTS DURING FIVE YEARS PAST- GROsS TONS. Complete returns from all upper lake shipping ports, as well as all receiving docks at Lake Erie ports, were prepared and published by the Marine Review. The most important features of the returns are contained in the following small table, gross tons ruling in all cases : 1894. 1893. Total output by water from shipping ports 7,776,547 5,880,918 Total receipts at Lake Erie docks............. 6,350,825 5,333,061 Total amount on dock Dec. 1.................... 4,834,247 4,070,710 It will be noted that the movement of ore during 1894 by lake is more than 1,700,000 tons greater than the lake and rail movement in 1893, and the amount on dock is a little more than 750,000 tons greater than a year ago. This latter figure is somewhat surprising, but'it is certain that the proportion of unsold ore is very light as compared with the past two years and the consumption now more active than it has ever been in the history of the iron ore business. Then, too, a very large portion of the ore on dock is Mesabi ore, the shipments from that range having reached a total of 1,793,988 tons, of which 1,369,252 tons was moved through Duluth and 424,736 tons through Two Harbors. The tables that follow give the statistics in detail: WATER SHIPMENTS OF IRON ORE FROM ALL LAKE SUPERIOR PORTS— GROSS TONS. Escanaba............ Marquette........... Ashland.............. Two Harbors....... Gladstone........... Superior.............. Duluth................ Total by lake Total all rail., Grand total... 1894. 1,643,000 1,433,872 1,738,590 1,373,253 218,080 1,369,252 7,776,547 1893. 2,048,981 1,086,934 1,117,524 903,329 203,585 80,273 440,292 5,880,918 178,037 6,058,955 1892. 4,010,085 1,026,338 2,223,683 1,165,076 115,886 4,245 8,545,313 528,930 9,074,243 PORTS. 1894. 1893. Toledo.......................... 158,384 Sandusky..................... 23,043 Huron........................... 172,775 Lorain......................... 150,424 Cleveland...................... 1,624,573 Fairport........................ 976,222 Ashtabula..................... 1,987,722 Conneaut ..................... 237,905 Erie.............................. 624,438 -Buffalo......................... 395,339 Total.. 145,515 4,464 137,700 165,667 1,260,716 792,517 1,815,738 203,20 469,29 308,238 6,350,825 5,333,061 1892. 139,987 49,736 65,000 190,400 1,950,224 866,611 2,555,416 1,130 645,230 197,000 1891. 191,105 105,90 14,910 266,009 1,257,775 699,434 1,599,785 393,759 410,000 6,660,734 4,939,684 1890. 164,295 174,596 1,200 280,450 1,945,192 1,096,408 2,176,730 "'487,493 548,000 7,874,664 ^Includes 90,339 tons shipped to Tonawanda. IRON ORE ON DOCKS, LAKE ERIE PORTS, ON DEC. 1 OF EACH YEAR FOR FIVE YEARS PAST—GROSS TONS- PORTS. Toledo,.... Sandusky,. Huron....... Lorain...... ^Cleveland Fairport.... Ashtabula. Conneaut - Erie.,........ Buffalo....... Total... 1894. 1893. 96,157 77,004 147,632 223,733 1,441,785 660,980 1,439,119 199,365 454,233 94,239 4,834,247 1892. 92,911 78,439 89,000 201,633 1,163,930 578,033 1,296,431 91,337 359,827 119,170 71,409 87,500 45,000 147,600 1,347,992 610,609 1,312,658 401,683 125,000 4,070,710 4,149,451 1891. 122,515 122,000 14,910 250,812 1,114,762 597,617 903,957 1890. 252,916 129,000 3,508,489 110,740 115,000 1,200 210,237 1,209,467 721,000 1,151,397 "248,714 125,732 2,893,487 Tlncludes amount at furnaces of Cleveland Rolling Mill Company.