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: Buffalo Elevator System. The illustration on this page represents a scene in Buffalo harbor, showing a Western line boat being relieved of a cargo of grain. 'The Erie canal boat alongside is taking on a portion of the cargo from the elevator. where was handled last year by Buffalo elevators 135,315,510 bushels of grain and flaxseed, 130,- 253,138 bushels being cared for by elevators belonging to the Western Elevator Company, which controls almost the entire elevator system. 'This shows an increase of neatly 40,000,000 bushels over the amount handled in any previous year. All this grain and flaxseed was received by lake. Of the total receipts, 75)597,079 bushels were weighed by the Merchants' Exchange weighmaster, who found the shortage per 1,000 bushels as fol- lows: Chicago .166, Milwaukee .614, Toledo .346, Duluth and West Superior .335, Port Huron .34, Fort Howard 1.483, Glad- stone .2, Washburn .78; Detroit overran .283 and Fort William cargoes were .314 ahead. 'The total shortage at Buffalo for 1891 was 38,460 bushels and there were 20,388 bushels over. Con- sidering the amount of grain received the shortage equaled that of other years, the average shortage for the past twelve years being reduced 8o per cent. MARINE REVIEW. ¥ About 20 per cent. should be deducted from this capacity for storage of remnants, working room and elevators out of re- pair. 'The estimated cost of the elevators, transfers and floaters is over $8,000,000. 'The transfer capacity for each twenty-four hours would probably aggregate 4,000,000 bushels--that is to say, there are facilities for receiving from lake vessels and rail- roads and transporting tocanal boats and cars daily, the quantity named for the forty-six elevators, transfers and floaters. The engraving is from a photo by Bliss Brothers, commer- cial photographers, Buffalo. Grain Rates, Chicago to New York. Last week's REVIEW contained a table showing annual average freight rates per bushel of wheat for transportation from Chicago to New York for each year from 1868 to 1885 in- clusive. Below will be found the figures from 1885 to the present time. They were secured from a government pub- lication entitled "Statistical Abstract of the United States," the fourteenth number of which has just been issued. It is prepared by the bureau of statistics, treasury department, and contains a vast amount of statistics on finance, coinage, commerce, im- The cost of elevating, receiving, weighing and discharging under the rules governing the business in Buffalo is five-eighths 'of one cent a bushel. Elevating charges are paid by the con- signee, the vessel paying only for the shoveling, and no grain is received for transfer. ; The following statement shows the names and storage ca- pacity of the several elevators: Name. Capacity, bushels. | Name. Capacity, bushels. INGLE ea ctite nce een ete 800,000 N. ¥., L. E. & Western 720,000 EMER tle <sacrasees «tiie gered 5 (250,000 Niagara A......cesesceceeees 800,000 City Ann. ccc. ee eee eeeceees 600,000 Niagara B.......:-sseeseeee I,200,C00 NG ities. 28 is ckeceee ee deees 800,000 Niagara C ......sseseeeseeee 200,000 C. J.. Wells.........0e eee 550,000 Queen City, A, Band C 450,000 HSOAUS WORE: .<<...5....c---+ 1,200,000 APeores En eNO Clare ro eceteeraies cteete s = 250,000 Connecting Terminal... 950,000 CHECK c--csurnsasmerneaers | 90,000 Ni eploliele sa cnc save vats = lees 850,000 Sternberg, (unused) .....-------- Erie Basin, (unused)... ---------- Sturges 2.22. -seserneeeneees 300,000 ahremhGesee ease sec sye tessa nnn 400,000 Swiftsure, (unused)...... --_-- Exchange .........0002-.-9 500,000 Ontario.....ceeeeeeereeeeess 450,000 PEG O WEEK Jone essa s-e2esdes 650,000 Union, (unused............ --_-- International, (Black WPAIES Olle sein tee anim nna 600,000 NOG) vest teste ten cree 650,000 Wheeler «......ss10 sereeees 350,000 Pai res ECO gcas.: cpikars ts ssnys 65,000 WAN UAAS ONS Seach ees oeeee 400,000 WRICE SGIWOLEs. <2 sse-nc---- 300,000 William Wells, (unused) ------- en OTN Saha eee she secs ode ees 100,000 ----_----- OTE Ta es a5 aon inp nov 125,000 Total, 34 elevators:..14,660,000 National & Globe Mills 100,000 migration, shipping, population, railroads, ete. The data re- garding the grain freight rates was prepared by J. C. Brown, statistician of the New York chamber of commerce and covers a period of thirty-five years from 1857 to 1891 inclusive. Follow- ing are figures completing the table that appeared last week: AVERAGE RATES PER BUSHEL. CALENDAR YEAR. By lake By lake © and ecanal.| and rail. By all rail. US Seess ase eae er amc en eee ae esi Roceet sean fadees sie 8.71 12.00 16,50 SSW ice ee tecen us eee fess enan aimed aatase neslagerier vec sia 8.51 12.00 615.74 eRe seer Pee cee ea sera aed te rosie selseticta sels be soe 5.98 11.00 614.50 DS Regain oe seatepeeaincn delageacce ds eesetained te aceac-elt eee 6.89 b 8.70 15.00 SO eeeeaies seein igh ng catiene seg cauilesdcerncactincsck 5.85 8.50 14.31 Eee cet cece cee a eae em ede aaete papers a Dera oaeae 5.96 8.53 15.00 6 Average of officially published tariffs. All work on the $450,000 light-house, which Capt. John F. Anderson of Whitestone L. I., contracted to build for the gov- ernment on'Outer Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, has been abandoned, and there is no prospect of a light-house being built on that shoal under the stipulations of the present agreement.