AVERAGE FREIGHT CHARGES PER BUSHEL

For the transportation of wheat and corn from Chicago to New York for a series of years.

*To Buffalo only. Including Buffalo charges and tolls.

FOREIGN FREIGHT RATES.

Annual average through freight rates on grain, flour and provisions (per 100 pounds), from Chicago to European ports, by all-rail to seaboard and thence by steamers.

The following were the published tariff rates for freight, in carloads, on the commodities enumerated to the several points herein named, and points common

NOTE.-January 1 to June 1, and October 21 to December 31, 1901, export rates on grain and grain products via Montreal were the same as to Philadelphia for export.

CLEARING HOUSE

The following table shows the amount of clearings by the associated banks of Chicago for each month during the past six years.

CLEARING HOUSE.

The following shows the amount of clearings by the Clearing House of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago for each month during the past six years.