Commerce of Milwaukie. 4ff 
COMMERCE OF MILWAUKIE. • 
The following table, compiled -with care and accuracy, from 
the books of the different forwarding houses, will show the amount 
of imports and exports from Milwaukie during the season of nav- 
igation which has just closed. We add, from our files, the amount 
of each article exported during the preceding year. 
EXPORTS. 
1846. 1847. 
Wheat bush. 213,448 598,011 
Flour, bbls. 15,756 34,840 
Beef and Pork 634 
Hides No. 5,513 12,961 
Ashes lbs. 16,250 127,435 
Lead and Shot " 1,770,650 1,160,649 
Wool " 10,562 43,215 
Sundries 171,951 
IMPORTS. 
Merchandise lbs. 45,23 1,540 
Salt - " 28,811 
Sundries, bbls. bulk 29,162 
Emigrants' Luggage, 6 1,888 
LUMBER. 
Lumber feet 18,111,352 
Shingles No. 8,616,100 
It will be seen that the increase of exports, in all the leading 
articles, has been very large, exceeding 100 per cent, and in the 
article of wheat nearly 200 per cent ! Reducing the flour to 
wheat, the total exports for 1846 and 1847 compare as follows : 
1846, bush. 292,323 
1847, « 772,211 
Reverting to 1845, the first year that any considerable amount of 
wheat was shipped from this port, we have the following com- 
parison, for three years, of the exports of flour and wheat from 
Milwaukie : 
Wheat. Flour. 
1845 95,500 bush. 7,500 bbls. 
1846 --- 213,448 " 15,756 « 
1847 598,011 « 34,840 « 
During thepast season, the large flouring mill of Medberry and 
Hoover has been put in operation on the water power, and the 
steam mill of Goodrich & Easton in the Fifth Ward. Another 
year will nrobablv pM two more to the number of flouring mills 
