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a channel to be built by the road through undrained land. * Bd sk A* ACT passed by the Illinois legislature in its closing days last month repealed the Lake Calumet harbor act of 1921, . under’ which the Nickel Plate ordinance was passed and an new act gives the city the power to levy a tax to build the harbor itself. The new act prohibits sale of harbor land but permits leases for 50 years, subject to re- valuation of property leased at stated intervals. co miscellaneous freight ship- ping on the Great Lakes is re- ported by some of the steamship companies to be in a seasonal lull, although the decline this summer is by no means abnormal. The falling off is in line with that of the past several years and is considered normal. Shipments from the fruit belt of southern and western Michigan have been started and indications are that the volume will fall not far behind that of a year ago. Last season tremendous shipments of fruit were made over the Great Lakes from the Michigan fruit area. The _ season’s peak fruit harvest still is several weeks off. * ES Eg URTHER barriers to the long dis- cussed Calumet harbor improve- ment have been removed by the ap- proval in the main by the Illinois state waterway department to the plan agreed on by the city of Chica- go and the Nickel Plate railroad for harbor dredging. The improvement contemplates the dredging of Lake Calumet and the Calumet river chan- nel, thus granting direct access from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. Ocean Freight Rates Per 100 Pounds Unless Otherwise Stated Quotations Corrected to July 19, 1927 on Future Loadings NOTE: FREIGHT RATES STEADY WITH BUT SLIGHT CHANGE New York Cotton General cargo {tFinished REMARKS _ From North Pacific Lumber to Grain Provisions (H. D.) Flour cu. ft: 100 lbs. steel Freight Offered Ports to Per m. t. Liverpool...... 2s Odt $0.60 $0.40 0.18 $0.50 $0.90 $8.00T***. Very poor San Francisco.......... $4.50 to 5.00 London....... 2s Odt 0.60 0.40 0:18 0.50 0.90 8.00T**#* Very poor South California........ 4.50 to 5.00 Oslow ses ees $0.18 0.45 0.50 0.30 0.42% 0.85 82001. Fair Hawaiian Islands....:.. 9.00 to 10.00 Copenhagen... 0.18 0.45 0.50 0.30 0.50 1.00 8.00T Fair New Zealand........... 16.00 to 19.00 Hamburg...... 0.11 0.55 0.40 0.23 0.50 0.90 10. 00T Fair Sydney.) cee ec 14.00 to 14.50 Bremen....... 0.10 0.35 0.40 to 65 0.18 0.50 0.90 10.00T Fair Melbourne-Adelaide..... 14.00 to 15.00 3 Oriental Ports........... te 008 0.32% 0.40 0.23 0.45 0.80 9,507 ‘Very aulet_ Osteneal Porte een) Uk Gde Hd Antwerp...... 0.07 0.32% 0.40 0.23 0.45 0.80 9.50T Poor ©) PerusChile..0 005k 13.50 to 16.00 tise... 3 Oe 0.55 0.50 0.30 0.45 0.80 9.00T Very quiet South Africa..........0. 20.00 to 24.00 Bordeaux...... 0.10 0.55 0.50 0.30 0.45 0.80 9.00T Very quiet. Ouhg jo fe ee 15.00 to 17.00 Barcelona..... 0.50 0.30 10.00 bags —12.00T— 10.00T Quiet United Kingdom........ 80s to 95s Lisbon..... aie . 0.75 0.50 8.00T bags —23.00T— 8.00T Quiet —_-_United Kingdom (ties). . oie Marseilles. .... ae 0.65 0.40 7.00 bags —23 .00T— 8.00T Quiet Baltimore-Boston range. . $14.00 to 15.50 Genoa........ 0.19 14.25 0.50 9.00 —23.00T— 11.50T Fair Florida Range.......... No rates Naples. . 5.3... 0.19 14.25 0.50 9.00 —23 .00T— 11.50T Fair Buenos Aires sce cy. ese 15.00 to 17.00 Constantinople. 0.27 20.00T 0.85 0.40% —24.00T— 11.50T Quiet North of Hatteras...... ‘ Alexandria..... 20.00T 0.85 0.401% —24.00T— 11.50T Quiet”) Ghieg ace 10.50 to 11.00 Algiers........ 0.85 0.60 0.45 —23 ,00T— 11.50T Fair laine .. 9,50 to 10.50 Dakar. hess 17.00 15.50T —23.00T— 11.50T Very good Capetown..... 18.00 13.00 20.00 13.00 to 18.00 Good Flour and Wheat Buenos Aires... Sats 22.00T 20.00 to 22:00T¢ 8.00 to8.80T Very poor U. K. and _ Continent **Rio de Janeiro 22.00T Ze 20.00 to 22.00Tt 7.00to7.70T¢ Very poor — (gross ton).......... 338 9d to 35s Od Pernambuco... ewe 22.00T i 9.00T —22.00T—T 9.70Tt Very poor Oriental Ports (net tons).. $4.25 to 4.75 Wavanaieccos. 0.35* 0.50 See 0.35* 0.61 1.33 10.00 Fair : Vera Cruz..... 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.25 0.52% 1.05 0.30 to 0.35 Fair Valparaiso..... 1.07 are 0.70 Ris Soe 10.00T Fair San Francisco. . 0.35 to 0.70 fe 0.40 to 1.10 as Sane 0.25 to 0-30 Fair Sydney........ 18.00T 1.25 18.00T 18.00-24.00T 9.00 to 12.—T Quiet NOTE: Lighterage rates on fuel in New Calcitta. 3:33 Ke Berea eA -12 —16.00T— 10 00T Very quiet York reduced from 6% to Sic per barrel. The coal strike in * Britain is now settled and freight rates or bunker prices for coal or pig iron are again quoted. —' ‘ f 480 lbs. ¢Landed. ttHeavy products limited in length. *Extra charge for wharfage. is eee Paes cechares on all Slee to Rie de Janeiro on account of congestion. ***Plus 15 per cent. Principal Rates To and From United Kingdom General cargo rates to Havana change daily and are omitted for d 20 ‘ Pigi United Kingdom to New York or A the time being. i i i i iron, Unite in poe eae snag is ‘ : z ee eee ‘Philadelphia re e IRE aon os eeracs 6 Rates to Calcutta are subject to Coal, United Kingdom to Buenos Aires.. 13 0 Iron ore, Bilbao to Cardiff...........+6. 6 6 change Asibtag: 3 26 oe ge ha Manganese Ore, Poti to Philadelphia... $3.95 Iron ore, Huelva to Phila. or Balto...... is ee ceo $2.00 per fciuht LOH at Valparaiso, Bunker Prices At New York At Philadelphia Other Ports il Diesel i Coal Fuel oil Diesel Eng. oil Boston, coal, per ton....$7.86 Scenes Came ol ahonaside trim. in bunk alongside alongside Boston, oil, f. a. 8., per per ton per barrel _ per gallon per ton per barrel per gallon Barrel: oi Gitcen peaees .82 .05 Sept. 18 1926.. 5.00@5.35 1.74@1.74% 6.14% Hampton Roads, coal, per Sept. 181926. 5-106 oo. 4.7058 386 Oct Is 7°25@7.50 1.74@1.8034 $.66@5.88 ton, f.o.b., piers. $4.35 to 4.50 ee 7.00@7.50 1.81% 587 Nov. 19...... 7,00@7.50 1.80% G@1.81 5.43@5.88 July 5 °— Cardiff, coal, per Bec 20... 6 25@6.50 1.81 5 86 Dee. 90, 5. 50@5.75 1 80@1.90% 5.64@6.19 tones cs eee ee 14s Od Tan. 19 §.90@6.15 1.81% 5.87 he | Ao eRe ee 6.20 1.95@1.95% 5 88@6.19 London, coal, per ton...—s — Feb. 18. 5.25@5.50 1.8144 5.95 eb: 1825.25. 5.24@5.50 1.90@1.91. 5.64@6.13 Antwerp, coal, per ton. 21s 6d Mar. 18...... 5.25@5.50 1.81% 5.95 Mar. 18.2... 5.24@5.50 1.95@1.95% 5.38@5.88 Antwerp, Fuel oil, per ton 80s0d Apr. 19 5@5.50 1-75 eye: Apr. 19....... 5.15@5.65 1.81@1.86 5.38@5.64 Antwerp, Diesel oil, per ee Ce 65 1.8134 5163 May 10. 15@5.65 1.7536@1.76 5.14@5.38 ob Pe .958 Od NS 5.50 1.71% 5.39 June 18....... 5 .00@5.25 70 5.12@5.14 British ports, Fuel oil...80s Od July 19, 1997. © 5.65 1.65 5.24 July 19 1927 1; 5:00@5.25 1.65@1.70 5.10@5.12 British ports, Diesel oil ..95s Od MARINE Review—August, 1927 35