ANNUAL REPORT—COMMERCE. 
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Table No. 5. 
STATEMENT of reeapts and shipments of lumber^ at the two ports of Mil¬ 
waukee and Chicago. 
Locality. 
[1860. 
T ■ ■ -.. 
In the Year 1866. 
Total rep’ts 
Lumber, 
feet. 
Total rep’ts. 
Lumber, 
feet. 
1 
Receipts by- 
lake. Lum¬ 
ber, feet. 
Receipts by 
R.R. canal, 
etc. Lum¬ 
ber, feet. 
Ship, by R. 
R. and ca¬ 
nal. Lum¬ 
ber, feet. 
_ 
Estimated 
product of 
lumber, 
feet. 
1 
Total rep’ts. 
Coal, tons. 
Milwaukee. 
30, m,000 
*58,808,000 
56,846,000 
1,962,000 
1 
21,906,156 . 
1 
66,617 
Chicago... 
225,372,340 
730,057,168 
687,851,000 
42,206,168 
422,087,266'. 
496,193 
Totals... 
255,496,340 
788,865,168 
744,697,000 
44,168,168 
443,993,422 
562,810 
Wisconsin. 
tSOO, 000,000 
Michigan,. 
$1,125,000.000 
Total.... 
1,925,000,000 
“ To move by rail the quantity actually received (788,865,- 
168 feet), allowing for each car seven thousand feet, and for 
each train fifteen cars, will require 7,513 trains of cars, or one 
for every hour, day, and night in the year, Sundays excepted, 
and to move the quantity actually shipped (443,993,422 feet), 
will require 4,228 trains, or about fourteen trains for everyday 
in the year, Sundays excepted. 
“ Should the western freights amount to not more than one- 
half of the eastern freights, they would swell the aggregate of 
the saving to $15,975,000 per annum.” 
RAPID GROWTH OF THIS NECESSITY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT. 
Under this head the memorial properly recites: 
“ However great in quantity and value the productions of the 
five states referred to now are, under the stimulus ‘of cheap 
transportation, they will grow into quantities and values vast 
and immeasurable. However great may be the development 
indicated by the miles of completed railway therein, it has not 
reached nor approached its limit. 
“ The following statement is designed to show the number 
of miles of railway completed in these states, and the number 
of acres of improved land as compared with the total area: 
» Not estimating-lath, shingles, posts, ties, bolts, cord wood, eto. 
t Estimate SecreUr}' Wisconsin State Agricultural Society’s Report, in press, gathered from reports of Boards 
of Trade, 
i Estimate of Commissioner General Land Office, report of 1867. 
