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mileage, or tons carried one mile, was 5,753,- 

 029,773, an increase of 963,608,964, or 20-12 

 per cent. The Chicago and Northwestern and 

 the Wabash system are credited with the larger 

 share of both increased tonnage and mileage. 

 The average ton haul was 152'27 miles; the 

 average freight received for each ton moved, 

 $1.72, and the rate per ton per mile 1-18 cent, 

 an increase of 2'7 mills over 1880. The casu- 

 alty list was unusually large : 



Eighty-three are classed as purely accidental, 

 and 428 as resulting from direct carelessness 

 or want of proper caution. Of the number 

 killed classed as " others," 55 were tramps, tres- 

 passers, or ride-stealers, 28 of whom were on 

 the track intoxicated, 11 were killed at high- 

 way-crossings, and one was a suicide. Of the 

 same class injured, 51 were tramps or trespass- 

 ers. The number of passengers killed was one 

 for every 492,448 carried, and the number in- 

 jured one for every 145,234. Of employes, one 

 in every 286 was killed, and one in each 71 in- 

 jured. The most prolific cause of injury to em- 

 ployes continues to be the coupling of cars, but 

 nine employes were injured from being caught 

 in a frog. 



LUMBER BUSINESS. The following figures, 

 relative to the lumber-cut of the seventy Sag- 

 inaw Eiver mills, and of the mills tributary to 

 the Saginaw Valley, are abstracted from the 

 full tables found in the "Annual Review," 

 compiled and published by order of the Sag- 

 inaw Board of Trade : 



Pine-lumber cut in 1981 967,320,317 feet. 



Pine-lumber cut in 1882 1,011,274,905 " 



At inland mills in Saginaw and Bay Coun- 

 ties 17,873,000 " 



At other inland and railroad mills 150,000,000 feet 



Total pine-cut of year 1,490,582,022 



Hard- wood lumber cut in 1882 24,649,900 



Pine-lumber on dock sold 105,073,000 



Pine-lumber on dock unsold 204,OOU,999 



Logs in boom 63,575,000 



Oak and pine square timber 7,853,000 



Hard-wood lumber at inland mills 4,759,900 



Salt-barrel staves cut 49,372,116 pieces. 



Salt-barrel headings cut 2,851,315 sets. 



Shingles cut in Saginaw and Bay Coun- 

 ties 295,046,500 



With 275,000 feet of shingle-logs in boom. 

 Oak pipe staves cut for foreign markets, 758,- 

 082, against 1,537,073 in 1881. 



The same publication gives in detail the 

 product of the other lumber districts of the 

 State, and closes with the following summary 

 tables of the cut of pine-lumber for 1882 : 



EASTERN MICHIGAN. 



Saginaw Valley mills 1,028,648,505 



Flint and Pere Marquette mills '. . 112,638,562 



Saginaw Valley and St. Louis Railroad 3,500,000 



Detroit, Saginaw, and Bay City Division 8,000,000 



Mackinac Division 56,550,000 



Tawas 42,438,443 



Oscoda and Au Sable 181,908,525 



Alcona mills 20,000,000 



Alpena 179,000,000 



Cheboygan 82,000,000 



Miscellaneous and scattering mills 50,000,000 



Total 1,764,683^935 



WESTERN MICHIGAN. 



Lake Michigan towns 1,476,996,679 



Chicago and West Michigan Railroad 206,911,000 



Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad 329,910,668 



Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Railroad 102,748,000 



Miscellaneous and scattering mills 97,851,000 



Total 2,214,117,847 



Grand total for Michigan 3,978,801,282 



Grand total for Northwest, 1882 7,513,806,191 



Grand total for Northwest, 1881 6,768,856,740 



SALT MANUFACTURE. The same "Review" 

 gives the following table of the salt inspected 

 during the year : 



The total manufacture for the year was 

 3,204,921 barrels, embracing the grades of 

 fine bulk, fine barrels, packers, solar, and sec- 

 ond quality. The average price of salt for the 

 year was 70 cents a barrel. 



MINERAL STATISTICS. The Commissioner 

 of Mineral Statistics, Hon. A. P. Swineford, of 

 Marquette, furnishes full tables of the products 

 of the mines and furnaces of the Lake Superior 

 region, from which the following tables are 

 condensed. The first table gives the iron prod- 

 uct for the last five years, with the total prod- 

 uct for twenty-seven years, making the total 

 20,584,931 tons, valued at $164,830,526 : 



The quartz production of the year was 12,- 

 623 tons, valued at $63,115. Total value of 

 ore, pig-iron, and quartz, $26,301,366. Excess 

 over 1881, $5,727,655. 



The output of the charcoal furnaces was: 



