APPENDIX No. 9.

ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES IN RELATION TO THE TRADE AND MANUFACTURES OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, BY MR. WILLIAM MELHINCH, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO. 1876.

Question 1. A statement showing the quantity of grain received at and shipped from Cleveland by lake and by rail during the year 1875.

Answer

Question 2. A statement showing the tonnage of freight received at Cleveland from the south by rail and by canal during the year 1875, mentioning the quantities of the principal commodities received.

Answer. By canal, 394,666 tons; by rail, 1,591,462 tons.
Quantities of the principal commodities received:

Question 3. A statement showing the tonnage of freight shipped from Cleveland southward during the year 1875, stating the quantities of the principal commodities shipped.

Answer. By canal, 175,643 tons; by rail, 874,541 tons.

Quantities of the principal commodities shipped from Cleveland southward during the last year:

Merchandise

Iron.....

Petroleum

Manufactures

Ore....

Tons. 217,660

61, 835 37,537

Lumber..

Wood-fuel

21,747 223, 195

19, 193

19,782

Question 4. A statement showing the tonnage of freight received from the aast by lake and by rail during the year 1875, stating the quantities of the principal commodities or classes of commodities received.

Answer. By lake, 38,583 tons; by rail, 1,007,250 tons.

The railroad companies report no specifications of quantities of principal commodities from the east.

Question 5. A statement showing the tonnage of freight shipped east from Cleveland by lake and by rail during the year 1875, stating the quantities of the principal commodities or classes of commodities thus shipped.

Answer. By rail, 744,402 tons; by lake, 2,608 tons.

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Companies do not report classifications of the principal commodities shipped east; therefore, cannot furnish the desired information.

Question 6. A statement showing the tonnage of freight received from the west by lake and by rail during the year 1875, stating the quantities of the principal commodities or classes of commodities thus received.

Answer. By lake, 871,560 tons; by rail, 1,254,267 tons.

Quantities of the principal commodities thus received:

Question 7. A statement showing the tonnage of freight shipped from Cleveland to the west by lake and by rail during the year 1875, stating the quantities of the principal commodities or classes of commodities thus shipped. Answer. By lake, 95,947 tons; by rail, 543,957 tons. Quantities of principal commodities so shipped:

Question 8. The estimated total tonnage of freight received by rail, by lake, and by canal during the year 1875.

Answer. By rail, 2,598,712 tons; by lake, 1,025,536 tons; by canal, 402,012 tons. Question 9. the estimated total tonnage shipped by rail, by lake, and by canal during the year 1875.

Answer. By rail, 1,810,516 tons; by lake, 197,121 tons; by canal, 175,643 tons. Question 10. For every one hundred cars loaded at Cleveland and bound east, about how many loaded cars were received from the east during the year 1875?

Answer. For every one hundred cars loaded at Cleveland and bound east there are one hundred and fifty-two loaded cars received from the east.

Question 11. Any statement from available statistics showing the growth of the manufacturing interests of Cleveland and the proportion of the tonnage of such products which are shipped by lake, by canal, and by rail.

Answer. The manufacturing interests of the city of Cleveland have increased over two hundred per cent. during the last eight years, and are still increasing. As there are no available statistics to refer to for exactness, would say that the best estimates that can be had go to show conclusively that this statement of increase is undoubtedly correct; and it is also estimated that from forty to forty-five per cent. of the tonnage shipped from Cleveland by lake, by rail, and by canal consists of Cleveland manufact

ures.

Question 12. Over what routes and by means of what fast-freight lines are freights shipped from Cleveland to Boston; also, to New York, to Philadelphia, and to Baltimore?

Answer. Freight is shipped to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore from Cleveland by the following fast-freight lines: Red Line, White line, and Merchants' Dispatch, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, Boston and Albany Railroad; Hoosac Tunnel line, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, New York Central and Hudson River, and Troy and Boston Railroads; Great Western Dispatch and the South Shore Line, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Erie Railways; Empire Line, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Philadelphia and Erie Railways, and connections.

Question 13. Such statistics or other facts which you may be able to present in regard to the increase of commerce by rail between Cleveland and States south of the Ohio River. In this connection please to present any facts indicating the probable commercial advantages likely to be realized by Cleveland from the construction of the Cincinnati Southern Railway.

Answer. In the absence of any statistics, would state on reliable testimony that the following articles, viz, railroad-iron, galvanized iron, steam-machinery, petroleum and other oils, agricultural implements, furniture, wooden ware, and wrought iron and nails, are all shipped south of the Ohio River in large quantities, and the trade between Cleveland and the States south of the Ohio River has increased two hundred per cent. in the last eight years. When the Cincinnati Southern Railroad is finished all these articles, as well as many others not here enumerated, will be transported at much less rates than at present, and consequently the commerce of Cleveland will be greatly advanced.

Question 14. What commodities are shipped from Cleveland to foreign ports on through bills of lading, and to what extent are such commodities purchased by the railroad or steamer lines that transport them?

Answer. The commodities shipped from Cleveland to foreign ports on through bills of lading are litte or noue of them purchased by the vessel-owners. The following

comprises some of the articles so shipped, viz: Stone and marble, iron, petroleum and other oils, fire-bricks, salt and cement, nails, merchandise and manufactures.

Question 15. Please to state the relative importance of Cleveland in comparison with other cities, with respect to some of the principal commodities of her production, or of her commerce.

Answer. In regard to the relative importance of Cleveland in comparison with other cities with respect to some of the principal commodities of her production or commerce, I would state that iron in all its various forms, refined and lubricating oils, coal, lumber, agricultural implements, and wooden ware, are the principal commodities of commerce and manufacture. In oils, iron, and lumber, coal, wooden ware, and agricultural implements, Cleveland is ahead of Chicago. In all these articles except iron and coal, ahead of Pittsburgh, equal to Cincinnati in all but coal, and as for refined and lubricating oils, Cleveland is ahead of all the cities mentioned.

Question 16. Please to prepare a statement as to the amount of cotton received at and shipped from Cleveland during the year ending August 31, 1875. • Answer. Received, 36,588 tons; shipped, none.

Question 17. Please to present such information as you may be able to obtain in regard to the annual production, consumption, and value of petroleum in the United States.

Answer. In reply to the inquiry as to the production and average price of petroleum oil, I would present the following statistics, which are full and reliable:

The above table gives the average daily production for each month from January, 1868, to September 1, 1875.

The average value of crude petroleum since 1864 at the wells was as follows: 1864, $7.62; 1865, $5.88; 1866, $3.43; 1867, $2.23; 1868, $3.60; 1869, $5.13; 1870, $3.40; 1871, $1.15; 1872, $3.40; 1873, $1.50; 1874, $1.00; 1875, to September 1, $1.41. The above statement shows the average price per barrel for each year.

Estimated tonnage of all classes of freights shipped from Cleveland during the last year.

APPENDIX No. 10.

ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES IN RELATION TO THE COMMERCE OF TOLEDO, BY MR. C. F. WALES, SECRETARY OF THE TOLEDO BOARD OF TRADE 1876.

Question 1. Please to present statistics showing the commerce of Toledo, Ohio, dur ing the year ending December 31, 1875.

Answer. 1st. Exhibit of flour and grain received and shipped by lake and rail:

2d. Exhibit of tonnage of freight received at Toledo from the South, by rail and canal, during the year 1875:

3d. Exhibit of tonnage of freight shipped southward from Toledo :

71

201 16, 310 380 2,550

2,320

420

26, 258
48, 388

295

638

761

449

215

27,374

102

Tons.

627

23,477

14,243

5,577

5,595

4th. Statement of tonnage of freights shipped East from Toledo by rail and lake:

5th. Statement of tonnage received from the West via rail and lake:

...

Flour.

Wheat.

Corn

Oats..

Rye Barley

Lumber.

Shingles

Staves

Lath

Iron

Iron ore..

Hides..

Seeds

25,000

Dressed hogs.

Salt

25,487

Lake via canal at Toledo has been diverted by the railways, and latterly we receive comparatively little freight from points south of the Ohio River. Doubtless Toledo would derive some little benefit from the construction of the Cincinnati-Louisville Railway, but it would be slight.

Question. 2. Please to present a statement of commodities shipped from Toledo to foreign ports on through-bills, &c.