cent of the lakewise shipments from Huron during 1938, the total for Lake Superior being 212,142 tons. The port of Duluth-Superior received a total of 108,831 tons or approximately one-fifth of the outbound traffic from Huron. Fort William, Ontario received 62,254 tons.

Lake Huron and Georgian Bay ports received a total of 138,357 short tons of coal from Huron, Britt, Ontario, and Bay City, Mich., were the ranking ports in this group with 78,596 and 35,892 tons, respectively.

Ports on Lake Michigan and Green Bay received 82,920 tons of coal from Huron, most of which went to Green Bay, Menominee, and Milwaukee. Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River ports together received 37,657 tons of traffic from Huron, while 22,575 tons went to ports on the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, and St. Clair River and 12,941 tons to ports on the St. Marys River.

The tonnages of traffic shipped to the individual ports are shown in the following table, while the accompanying flow chart shows the distribution of this traffic in graphic form.

Destination of lake shipments from Huron during the calendar year 1988

GENERAL

Huron is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of the Huron River, the lower mile of which comprises the harbor. By water the port is approximately 47 miles in a westerly direction from Cleveland and 59 miles easterly from Toledo, Ohio. Five of the eight docks and wharves at Huron have been provided by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Co. and are operated by the Cleveland Stevedore Co. These include one dock for the receipt of iron ore, one for loading coal and bunkering vessels, one for the receipt of stone, and two auxiliary docks for berthing ore and coal vessels. Two small docks at the port are used in connection with the fishing industry and one for berthing towboats.

Practically all of the water-borne commerce of the port passes over the two facilities provided by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Co. for handling ore and coal. During the 10-year period 1929-38 receipts of iron ore from upper lake ports averaged a little over 700,000 tons per year and accounted for nearly 53 percent of the total water-borne commerce at the port of Huron, while shipments of coal averaged nearly 620,000 tons per year and accounted for about 46 percent of the total. Over 2,000,000 tons of traffic was handled during the calendar year 1929, compared with 931,410 tons in 1938. The tonnage in 1938 was with a single exception the lowest for the entire period.

A study of the lake points of origin and destination of the 1938 traffic at Huron shows that the 368,451 tons of iron ore received in that year originated at Superior and Ashland, Wis., the only other receipts being 609 tons of fish from Lake Erie. The out-bound tonnage in 1938 consisted entirely of coal and totaled 548,160 short tons. Nearly 300,000 tons of this coal was sent to Canadian ports on the Great Lakes and the remainder to United States ports. Only about 80,000 tons moved to ports east and north of Huron, the bulk of the shipments being destined to points on Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan.

Since the water-borne commerce at Huron consists entirely of bulk commodities, the only commercial vessels which have occasion to call at the port are the large bulk freighters. The port is served by the New York Central Railroad in addition to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and traffic is interchanged between the two lines by a direct switching movement in the rear of the docks.