Scope and Content Note
Weekly statements of merchandise and produce shipped via the Erie Canal through Buffalo were submitted by the toll collector there to the Comptroller.
Columns of figures give the quantity of general merchandise charged at rate of one mill and of particular commodities (like sugar, coffee, nails, iron, crockery, oysters) going west; and the quantity of produce going east (pork, beef, cheese, lard, wool, wheat, corn, etc.) from western states and from Canada. The series is framentary; not all weekly reports are present even for years 1877 and 1879. Toll collectors were required to submit reports of traffic yearly and as requested by the Comptroller, by a law of 1826.
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