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Volume of

Shipment

Date of

Arrivai.

AT THE Mouth of

River

Made from Yuma

TO the Interior

Steamer

Steamer

Merchant Freight

Army Freight

Month

Year

Newbern

Montana

Pounds

Pounds

January

1874

10

31

94,000

24,000

February

1874

19

1 2,000

2,000

March

1874

12

3 20,000

343,202

April

1874

3

23

212,721

116,907

May

1874

31

56,547

53.373

June

1874

1 69,500

43,000

July

1874

9

78,830

66,700

August

1874

20

7

146,700

200,800

September

1874

18

48,000

October

1874

10

17,000

200,000

November

1874

28

8

55,000

December

1874

Montana

wrecked December 20, no figures

given.

January

1875

14

no figures

given.

February

1875

24 yWo?2itaw J repaired. 261,000

48,000

March

1875

21

141,000

43,000

April

1875

ID

572,000

75,000

May

1875

28

5

171,500

June

1875

19

223,200

July

1875

16

369,725

August

1875

7

319,500

September

1875

4

25

250,892

October

1875

20

443,000

November

1875

11

299,000

December

1875

4

345.250

Total

• ■ 15 trips

1 3 trips

4,007,325

1,215,983

Hiram C. Hodge estimated that the import trade in 1875 had reached a volume exceeding four thousand five hundred tons/^^ Two years earher the Miner announced that during a seventy-day period the firm of William B. Hooper had dispatched 1,457,146 pounds of freight to the different military and mining posts of the interior.^^^

In contrast to the import trade, the Arizona export trade consisted chiefly of raw ores, wool, hides, and pelts. By 1 864 the mines had started producing in sizable quantities, and from that time the bulk of all exports consisted of gold, silver, and copper ores.^^*

Freight rates to San Francisco from the various river ports are described by the Sentinel in 1873. Over a long period of time they, of course, varied considerably. On ore: "From Mohave or Hardy ville, $25 per ton, . . . From William's Fork or Camp Colorado, 1 1 5 per ton. Ehrenberg or Castle Dome, $12.50 per ton; Yuma, $10." On wool: "From Mohave, $25 per ton. Ehrenberg or Yuma, $20 per ton." On general merchandise: "From Hardyville, $30 per ton measurement; Ehrenberg, $25; Yuma, $20."^^^

Two policies of the Colorado Steam Navigation Company proved to be a