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Table 4. — Annual car lot unloads at 12 cities and United States shipments 
Cities 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
Average 
New York 
Cars 
4,465 
Cars 
4,801 
Cars 
4,072 
1,867 
1,554 
1, 237 
1,115 
687 
654 
593 
426 
283 
107 
40 
Cars 
4,429 
1,797 
1,482 
1,545 
922 
559 
558 
498 
345 
314 
91 
71 
Cars 
4,933 
1,776 
1,698 
1,673 
951 
672 
675 
548 
453 
400 
115 
65 
Cars 
Boston. . __ . ... 
1 813 
Philadelphia.. .. 
1,542 
695 
1,208 
549 
382 
417 
389 
276 
75 
25 
1,398 
1,403 
976 
438 
516 
422 
284 
226 
83 
61 
1 535 
Chicago. . 
1 310 
Pittsburgh .. . . 
1 034 
St. Louis.. !_-. . ... 
581 
557 
496 
Kansas City ... .. 
379 
300 
Minneapolis 
St. Paul . 
94 
52 
Total 
i 10,023 
i 10, 608 
12,635 
12,611 
13, 959 
2 12, 691 
United States shipments.. ... ... ... 
22, 027 
20, 874 
25, 950 
23, 318 
27, 563 
23,946 
1 11 cities; no figures available for Boston 1918 and 1919 
Table 5 
2 Includes 3-year average for Boston. 
Annual early and late car lot unloads at 12 cities and total United 
States shipments 
Early 
Late 
Cities 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
Aver- 
age 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
Aver- 
age 
New York 
Boston . . ... 
Cars 
696 
Cars 
665 
Cars 
860 
576 
403 
484 
348 
161 
134 
169 
84 
77 
60 
11 
Cars 
967 
399 
251 
391 
273 
122 
113 
116 
92 
90 
24 
21 
Cars 
1,127 
384 
374 
734 
309 
199 
175 
168 
92 
124 
58 
36 
Cars 
863 
453 
300 
469 
282 
137 
116 
132 
76 
81 
42 
18 
Cars 
3,769 
~1,~268" 
377 
1,001 
426 
295 
312 
333 
215 
43 
17 
Cars 
4,136 
"l,"26r 
983 
700 
360 
445 
322 
225 
175 
46 
47 
Cars 
3,212 
1,291 
1, 151 
753 
767 
526 
520 
424 
342 
206 
47 
29 
Cars 
3.462 
1.398 
1,231 
1,154 
649 
437 
445 
382 
253 
224 
67 
50 
Cars 
3,806 
1.392 
1,324 
939 
642 
473 
500 
380 
361 
276 
57 
29 
Cars 
3,677 
1.360 
Philadelphia. __ 
Chicago 
Pittsburgh 
St. Louis 
Detroit 
Cleveland 
Kansas City.. 
Cincinnati 
Minneapolis _ . _ 
St. Paul 
274 
318 
207 
123 
87 
105 
56 
61 
32 
8 
197 
420 
276 
78 
71 
100 
59 
51 
37 
14 
1,235 
841 
752 
444 
441 
364 
303 
219 
52 
34 
Total.— 
1 1, 967 
'1,968 
3,367 
2,859 
3,780 
2 2,969 
1 8, 056 
18,640 
9.268 
9,752 
10, 179 
2 9,722 
United States 
shipments 
4,397 
3,318 
6,366 
5,175 
5,970 
5,045 
17,630 
17, 556 
19,584 J 18, 143 
21, 593 
18,901 
11 cities; no figures available for Boston 1918 and 1919. 2 Includes 3-year average for Boston. 
Table 6. — Car lot unloads at tl cities compared with population 
City 
Population 
of city 
and adja- 
cent 
territory : 
Percent- 
age of 
com- 
bined 
total 
Percent- 
age of 
total 
United 
States 
urban 
popula- 
tion 2 
Average 
annual 
unloads 
1918-22 
(cars) 
Equivalent 
in bushels 
(500 
bushels 
per 
carload) 
Per cent 
of un- 
loads of 
12 cities 
Bushels 
per 1,000 
popula- 
tion 
8. 034, 349 
3, 201, 301 
2, 428, 728 
1, 801, 320 
1, 216, 464 
1, 181, 057 
1,014,457 
951, 579 
681, 287 
679, 864 
502, 242 
37.1 
14.7 
11. 1 
8.3 
5.6 
5.4 
4.7 
4.4 
3.2 
3.2 
2.3 
14.8 
5.9 
4.5 
3.3 
2.2 
2. 1 
1.9 
1.8 
1.3 
1.3 
0.9 
4,540 
1,310 
1, 535 
3 1,813 
1,034 
557 
581 
496 
300 
146 
379 
2, 270, 000 
655, 000 
767, 500 
906, 500 
517, 000 
278, 500 
290, 500 
248,000 
150,000 
73,000 
189,500 
35.8 
10.3 
12. 1 
14.3 
8. 1 
4.4 
4.6 
3.9 
2.4 
1. 1 
3.0 
283 
205 
Philadelphia. 
316 
503 
Pittsburgh 
125 
2M\ 
286 
261 
220 
Minneapolis and St. Paul *. 
107 
377 
Total 
21, 692, 648 
100.0 
39.9 
12, 691 
6, 345, 500 
100.0 
292 
1 Adjacent territory includes civil divisions within 10 miles of city boundary. 
» The total urban population of the United States including cities of 2,500 or more is 54,304,603 according 
to the census of 1920. 
3 Average 1920-1922. 
* Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan districts interlock 
