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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
