Shipments of Lake Superior Iron-Ore. [Volume: 8, Issue: 6, 1890, pp. 317-322]

No. 6.]

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of each range, and the total amount and percentage shipped from
the different ports during the year 1889. All of this ore was transferred from cars into docks, and thence into vessels, which carried
it to receiving docks, where it was again handled:
TABLE A.
Lake Shipments from Lake Superior Mines during 1889.

ag a
Shipped from g Pe cent, j E | cent.
oL cent. cent. cent.
0 0 ~0 0
M..arquette, Mich......... 1,376,335 54.6................................. 1,376,335 20.2
Escanaba 1,021,006 40.4 1,684,618 298,008 16.7 3,003,632 44.1
St. Ignace 51,853 2.1...................................... 51,853 0.8
Gladstone 73,847 2.9......................... 73,847 1.1
Ashland, Wis..................2 8.......................... 1,484,802 83.3........ 1,484,802 21.8
Two Harbors, Minn....................................................... 819,639 819,639 12.0.............. nn.... n1 1 QA A1iI1 '750 1411iN 0siO.1. 1 CI s1in 1l ain f.

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An inquiry as to the distribution of this ore would be most interesting, but this cannot be followed except in a general way. In
round numbers, 80 per cent. of the total shipments as above were
sent to ports on the south shore of Lake Erie, the remaining 20 per
cent. going to the blast-furnaces at Chicago, or to those along or
convenient to the shores of Lake Michigan. We have not at hand
data showing the distribution of ores shipped to Lake Michigan
ports, but The Iron Trade Review publishes a rXsumd of the receipts
of ore during the past season at the nine ports on Lake Erie, which
aggregated 5,314,112 gross tons, or 40 per cent. more than was received during 1888, and double what they were in 1886. Until
the year 1888, Cleveland was the principal receiving port on Lake
Erie, but in that year Ashtabula came to the front, and continued to
hold first rank in 1889, handling close to 2,000,000 tons of ore.
Cleveland held second place, with nearly 1,400,000 tons, an amount
greater than ever received there before, and Fairport ranks third,
with over 800,000 tons. The ports of Buffalo, Erie and Lorain,