Rail commodity movements

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Creator

Lazaga, Leon M.

Language

English

Source

The American Chamber of Commerce Journal Volume XVII (Issue No.4) April 1937

Year

1937

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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52 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL April, 1937 RAIL COMMODITY MOVEMENTS By LEON M. LAZAGA Traffic Manager, Manila Railroad Company The volume of commodities received in Manila during the month of March 1937, via the Manila Railroad Company, are as follows: Rice, cavanes. 249,354 Sugar, piculs.................................. 837,066 Copra, piculs................................. 27,478 Desiccated Coconuts, cases......... 31.280 Tobacco, bales.............................. 93 Lumber, board feet....................... 150,509 Timber, kilos................................. 1,431,000 The freight revenue car loading statistics for four weeks ending March 27, 1937, as compared with the same period of 1936 are given below: FREIGHT REVENUE CAR LOADING COMMODITIES NUMBER OF FREIGHT CARS tFo’S bDee™a*°T 1937 1936 1937 1936 Cars Tonnage Rice.............................................. Palay............................................ Sugar............................................ Sugar Cane.................................. Coconuts..................................... Molasses...................................... Hemp........................................... Tobacco....................................... Livestock..................................... Mineral Products...................... Lumber and Timber................. Other Forest Products............. Manufactures.............................. All others including L.C.L... . 791 233 1.713 7.768 150 12s 338 147 2.7S9 112 1.112 277 1 10.713 2.882 52,028 133 2/278 2.111 L252 11.091 1.385 3.105 3,788 107 20,225 240 121 1.250 6,656 (375) 13* 17 (GO) (38) 4.104 1.630 37.937 123,562 (2.766) (118) 2.582 (38) 106 570 (1"(37) (415) (3.067) 6.351 |240.769 78,161 7.935 162.608 SUMMARY Week ending March 6...............1 4.324 Weekending March 13............ 4.336 Week ending March 20............. 4.017 Weekending March 27.............. 1.609 2.157 1,71 1 1,308 1,175 74,726 75,006 66,860 24,177 22,118 13,930 1 1,94 7 2,709 434 44,560 5A930 12,230 Total................................... 11 1.286 6.351 240.769 1 78.161 7.935 162.608 NOTE:—Figures in parenthesis indicate decrease. Mountain Fanners (Continued from page 38) (built from money earned in the mines) are promoting is superior. My criticism of the ‘ebgan’ is pragmatic rather than moral, and concerned with the present rather than the past; whatever one may think of its promiscuity— and one can see the subject fairly only through native eyes—it is a system which can endure only where there is no taint of venereal disease. Venereal disease was unknown to the Igorot until very recently (certainly unknown in modem times), and even now its risks are a closed book to much of the Mountain Province. The expected sequence is occurring. We have more and more cases, all of t hem traceable to Baguio—again I should qualify: the Consta bulary has spread its share, and I know of cases contracted in the new training camps. But the majority certainly originate in Baguio, while the ‘ebgan’ is a fertile field for dissemi nating the contagion. The virulence of some of these cases of gonorrhoea (not. surprising, I suppose, in a people who have built up no degree of immunity) is ghastly. When you arid to the picture the fact that the older people look on western theories of germs as arrant superstition and scorn any prophylactic practices, you can see the threat this single group of vencral diseases presents. Fortunately the Igorot can stand blunt speech and has no prudish reticence about the facts of the body—some of my sermon topic in Besao would get. me tarred and feathered at home I "I must apologize for the length and way wardness of this letter. I doubt if I have said anything that can be of value to vou; I have let my typewriter ramble. But you have the same hope which I hold to, that these mountains may continue to be inhabited by the people who, against such formidable obstacles, have made a home on their steep hillside. I wish you could get here one of these days so that we might have a talk; Manila is too bustling— I like the remoteness, the quiet evenings, of Besao. You would see, I am sure, much to interest you.” BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Kerr Steamship Co., Inc. General Agents “SILVER FLEET” Express Freight Services Philippines-New York-Boston Philippines-Pacific Coast (Direct) Roosevelt Steamship Agency Agents Chaco Bldg Phone 2-14-20 P. O. Box 1394 Telephone 22070 J. A. STIVER Attorney-At-Law—Notary Public Certified Public Accountant Administration of Estates Receiverships Investments Collections Income Ta* 121 Real, Intramuros Manila, P. I. fr & ® * CHINA BANKING CORPORATION MANILA, P. I. Domestic and Foreign Banking of Every Description Philippines Cold Stores Wholesale and Retail Dealers in American and Australian Refrigerated Produce STORES AND OFFICES Calle Echague Manila, P. I. AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL P. O. 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