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MARINE REVIEW. 7 , Iron Mining. -- s VALUE OF LEADING STOCKS. Quoted by Chas. H. Potter & Co., No. tog Superior St. Cleveland, O. . Stocks. Cleveland--Cliffs Iron Cateng eo are rece $ sy ea Champion Iron Company...is255.. 0c Be OO Sere 'o 00 ChandlerIrGrh Company i. csec.sedcssdesewcckess 25 OO "47 50 oo 00 piacieson rom Canipany..iice.ccctessscecs tice cs: ZOOL ao es 00 Lake Superior Iron Company...............4 BaHODE Ti) eee « 65 00 ~Minnesota Iron Company........... Ae aeecceaes 100 0O "79 00 SI 00 Pittsburg Lake Angeline Iron Co.......... 25 Ory 148 00 kepulbine Iron Companys... sites sises sess. 25 00 25 50 "27 00 PRPS RUB SEEC rep ah osiciwocve = os gus os as 5e2 et ochre ceew ene 25 00 : : poe broth REM ieby CHT CE: ccc hess les coseedee dooce 25 00 ie ES PEG OMRON neces 854 fos doo verdeck ss elauke ss. Het 25 00 , 2 50 "3, 00 Officers of mining companies elected recently are: ~ Chapin ----M. A. Hanna of Cleveland president; George H. Kent of _ Cleveland secretary and treasurer; H. McKay Twombly of New York and J. H. Van Dyke and Ferdinand Schlesinger of Mil- waukee, directors. Aurora company--Charles L,. Colby, Edwin H. Abbott, Colgate Hoyt, W. J. Olcott, Charles H. Ropes, L. -H. Severence and Joseph I. Colby, directors. Metropolitan Land and Iron Company--S. S. Curry, president; H. S. Hasel- ton, secretary and assistant treasurer; I. J. Pettit, treasurer. The Norrie, East Norrie and Pabst mines are owned and opera- ted by this latter company. Brotherton company---Joseph Sell- wood, president; H. Niedecken, secretary; W. J. Luther, treas- -urer: Kdward Niedecken, H. A. Cooper, W.S. Morton and J. P. Channing, members of the board of directors. : H. P. Allis & Co., Milwaukee, are building a vertical, tan- dem, compound mine-pump engine for the Chapin mine, Iron Mountain, Mich. 'The cylinders measure respectively 50 inches and 100 inches, with a stroke of 10 feet. The flywheel is 4o feet in diameter, and weighs 160 tons. The main shaft is 27 inches in diameter and the crank pin 16 inches in diameter. The crank shaft weighs nearly 8 tons. The beam is 32 feet in <letigth from center to center,, and weighs 100 tons. The connecting rod is 30 feet in length from center to center, and 15 inches in diameter in the center. This engine is 54 feet in height from bed plate to top of cylinder, and is inten- ded to work a line of 28-inch pumps against 1,500 feet of head. Losses at the Ludington and Hamilton mines through the great flood of water that has resulted in almost an entire sus- pefise of work for several weeks past arecertain to be very great especially on account of the reduction in output during the coming season when somie profit is expected in the ore business. Late advices are to the effect that the water has been lowered a few feet at the Ludington, but there is little encouragement in this, when it is known that nearly 2,000,000 gallons of water-a day is being removed from the mine by pumpsand bailers. Cor- rigan, Ives & Co. of Cleveland are the shipping agents repre- senting the Hamilton and J H. Outhwaite & Co. represent the Ludington. It is more than probable that the Brotherton mine, which joins the list of Gogebic range dividend payers with an assurance of 25 cents ashare on Feb. 1, anda like amount on April 1, would have paid a dividend last year but, for money tied up in ore on dock at Lake Erie ports. The ore on hand Jan. 1, 1891, 'amounted to 13,015 tons. During the year 1891 67,200 tons were mined, and 48,809 tons shipped, leaving the balance on hand 31,406 tons Jani 1892. It is expected that 135,000 tons will be mined this year. The capital stock of the company is 80,000 shares of $25 each par value. 'The stock is held in the market at about $3. H. V. Winchell, state geologist of Minnesota, has visited the new Mesaba range recently on business connected with his forth- coming aunual report. He says that the average assays of ore from the Vermillion range show 66 per cent. iron and .075 phos- phorus, while the average from the Mesaba is 60 per cent. iron and but..o4 phosphorus. A combination of the ores, he suggests, would give 63 per cent. iron and .0575 phosphorus, which would be within the Bessemer limit. Lieut. G. L. Carden is the author of a number of articles descriptive of and highly complimentary to lake ship and en- gine builders, which have appeared in the New York Times re- cently. The articles in the Times are written from notes made "by Lieut. Carden while on a tour of the lakes in search of infor- mation to be furnished Washington authorities. In General. as 'Capt. Alexander McDougall: "Our boats were like the dog with a tin kettle attached to its tail. "Everybody fired rocks at it. "The dog escaped, and so did our boats."' It is reported in Washington that Senator Sherman, who headed the opposition last year to the transfer of the revenue marine from the treasury to the navy department, made certain pledges to the lake citizens of Ohio, who aided him in his re- election to the Senate a few weeks ago, that will prevent any outspoken opposition from him when the bill for the transfer comes up again for consideration. If such is the case it is strange that there has been no report of it in Cleveland. Although there is no way of obtaining facts on the subject, it is quite certain that fully half the steam pleasure craft built this past year have been furnished with water tube boilers, and this has given a profitable business to the ten or twelve manu- facturers of the marine type of water tube boilers in the United States. But the manufacturing of this class of boiler will be limited until it is adopted by the merchant mariner. It is claimed that one lake shipbuilding company is favorably im- pressed with a certain make and will, as soon as they have time, try the merits of the coming boiler. If itisa success, it will add to the laurels of the concern, which was the pioneer in adopting the independent condenser. aes Accounts published recently of the successful testing of th modern high power guns on the United States monitor Mianto- nomah, have created considerable interest in naval and mechani- cal engineering circles, especially as this is the first attempt at working the guns on board vessels with the hydraulic pressure system. 'The hydraulic pressure pumps used on the Miantono- mah were built by the George F. Blake Manufacturing Com- pany from special designs. The water pressure these pumps have to contend with is nearly 1,000 pounds per square inch. The Blake hydraulic pressure pumps are also used by the United States ordnance department for working the guns at the testing grounds and at the Washington navy yard gun shop. A communication elsewhere refers to the death of Henry. W. Granger, a marine engineer who diedin Detroit a few days ago bereft of the comforts that ability would have given him but for misfortunes. He was born in Chicago and obtained a knowl- edge of machinery in his father's shop, afterward engaging as a tug engineer and chief engineer of a line of tugs on the Chicago river. He was on the Detroit river during the palmy days of the big lake tugs, and later, upon engaging with the Dry Dock Engine Works of Detroit in 1870, as a machinist and draftsman, he developed a superior knowledge of marine engines. His first designing work of note, referred to in the communication, was, according to an associate engineer who is well acquainted with his early life, accomplished in 1872, when he made a fore-and-aft compound engine of a doublg high pressure engine of 26-inch cylinders then in the lake tug Champion. A new fore-and-aft compound engine, designed later by Mr. Granger, went into the steamer Thomas W. Palmer. Fifty Second Congress--First Session. The following bills of interest to lake vessel owners have been intro- dueed in Congress recently: H. R. 20°, Chipman--To establish telegraph communication between Alpena, Mich., and certain life-saving stations. H. R. 228, Lind --Granting the consent of Congress to the erection of bridges over navigable rivers, and for other purposes. H. R. 500, Miller--Appropriating money for the improvement of Fox river in Wisconsin. H. R. 505, Hangen--Yo establish a pier light at Bayfield, Wis. H. R..535, Covert--To transfer the revenue cutter service from the treasury department to the navy department. H. R. 542, Breckenridge--To require persons who make their resi- dence on boats on the interior waters of the United States to obtain license, and for other purposes. , rn H. R. 553, Cummings--Granting pension to certain officers and enlist- ed men of the life-saving service, and to their widows and minor children. (Mr. Buchanan is credited with introducing a duplicate of this bill). H: R. 2693, O'Neil--Limiting the operation of certain acts relating .to constructions over navigable rivers. H. R. 269°, Burrows-- Making an appropriation for the improvement of St. Joseph harbor. Mich. H. R. 2697---To establish a life-saving station at or near Saugatuck, Mich. H. R. 3596, Lynch--To create a port of entry and Ashland, Wis. delivery at the city of