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INTRODUCTION. 



TABLE I. 



Shipments of flour and grain from Milwaukic for nineteen years. 

 (Compiled from statistics of Chamber of Commerce.; 



The following table shows the total amount of grain, including flour, shipped from all the ports 

 on Lake Michigan during the past six years : 



TABLE J. 

 Total shipment eastward of grain and flour from Lake Michigan ports for six years. 



(Compiled from the statistics of the various boards of trade.) 



A glance at the figures in the foregoing table fully demonstrates the marvellous progress which 

 has taken place in the grain trade of the northwest. In history, ancient or modern, we may search in 

 vain for a parallel. 



The following table shows the entire movement of flour and grain eastward from the western and 

 northwestern States, (including, in this instance, Canada West, whose products intermingle, in a general 

 statement such as this, with those of the United States :) 



