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Show GRAIN-SHIPPED ON GREAT LAKES Washington, Nov. L A ret lew of the principal events in the progress of cheap transportat ion during the last forty years. Just published by the department de-partment of agriculture, shows tho el feet of the system of Inluud waterways water-ways formed by the Great Lakes has held in marketing a large portion of the grain crop of the Fnlted States. The report enumerates the various Improvements which have been made I In lake channels, the ordinary depth of j t.aler at the shallowest point in 1S71 I being 14 feet, while In K'u-.i, this depth , was lncreated to 21. The lake hunt built no ware more then six times as largo as those built "when the chanm 1 i was seven leet shallower. Freight rates for carrying grain on ' the lakes are much lower than In the i days of shallow channels and small b ats. The uterage rate for wheat from Chicago to Puffalo bits derreas.-d ! to less than one-fourth the average for j lL'Sl 7.". Railroad freight ra' s have declined, too. during the last forty tears, the average rate fro mChicago I lo New York by all ral! routes being j for several years less than one half ! the charge of thirty-fit e and forty ', years iigo. I The department' bulletin adds that during the last ten years only seven j per cent of the total grain shipped from Dulnth and points on J,ak Superior Su-perior and Lake Michigan was enr- I tit-d through lie Wtlland canal io ; 1-ike Ontario. j |