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MARINE REVIEW. II Gas Buoys. Secretary Coffin of the light-house board some time ago promised lake vessel owners that he would use his influence with the board to have three or four gas buoys used to mark dangerous places in connecting waterways. 'This was shortly after the last Congress had made an appropriation for gas buoys, but it seems that this appropriation was insufficient to cover all that had been expected of it. In its annual report the board again refers to gas buoys. 'The buoy used," says the report, 'is of the Pintsch pattern and patent. It is. forged by a secret process without seam and holds compressed gas without perceptible loss, which _ burns with a steady flame and which is rarely extinguished from any. cause, making 'a useful light. The gas buoy is sometimes used to replace temporarily, a light-ship while the latter is under repair. It is sometimes used where a light-ship can not be moored. A dangerous wreck in an important channel leading into New York had to be marked, and as the channel was too nar- tow to admit of a lightship being placed near the wreck, a Pin- tcsh gas bouy was used there satisfactorily, to the great advantage of shipping, for a considerable length of time and until the wreck had disappeared. 'The board last year placed a lighted gas buoy in the fairway of vessels going north and south, near to the wrecks of the steamer Vizcaya and the schooner Hargraves, off Barnegat light on the New Jersey seacoast, where it served to keep vessels from running on to these wrecks. 'The appropriation of $30,000 for gas buoys, made by the act approved on March 3, 1891, limited the board to the payment of not exceeding $2,000 each for gas buoys. This provision precluded the purchase of many of the larger class. The size of the buoy, which the Board has used so successfully for the past six or seven years, weighs about 6,000 pounds and costs about $2,000 on the other side of the Atlantic, where only it is made. The duty upon it is about 45 DenGent, | ad valorem. That amount, with the freight, will make each buoy cost about $3,000 delivered at the general light-house depot. Ten more of these buoys are needed. 'The board estimates that they will cost $30,000, and it is recommended that an appropria- tion of this amount be made for that purpose." Power of Side Lights. While the International Marine Congress was in session in Washington in 1889 the question was raised as to the proper power of the running lights used by vessels of the merchant marine. No agreetnent could be reached, as the congress was without accurate knowledge as to intensity of the lights proposed. It had been decided that the side lights of a vessel under way, which should be red on one side and. green on the other, ought to be sufficiently powerful to be seen 2 miles, while the white top lights should be seen 5 miles. 'The light-house board was formally requested to ascertain the intensity of the proposed lights by actual experiment. 'The board appointed a committee, consisting of two of its inspectors, two of its engineers, with one of its own members as chairman, to do this work. 'This com- mittee has acted on the matter and its report is presented as a part of the annual report of the board. Stating the matter in brief, it appears, that to be practically seen in fairly clear weather for 5 miles, a white light must have an intensity of thirtv candle power, and that red and green lights to be seen 2 miles must each have a power of forty candles New Electrical Plant. The electric lighting plant which Mr. Harvey H. Brown of Cleveland had installed on the steamer Castalia when she was completed did not operate to his satisfaction, and last week Mr. Brown contracted with the Fisher Electric Company of Detroit to remove the old plant and install on the steamer a complete plant including all the latest improvements made by the Fisher company--automatic signal lights and a number of new fixtures and other appliances. Mr. A. W. Colton,managing owner of the steamer Reynolds, has contracted with the Fisher Electric Company to equip that steamer with a complete incandescent lighting plant. The Rey- nolds is a good freight boat and the application of an incandescent lighting plant to her present eqipment places her in the best class of steamers. The equipment will include automatic signal lights and automatic dynamos, and the system will be so arranged that the engineer controls all parts of the boat from the engine room. New fixtures and portable lamps will also be supplied. bee STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, 34 West Congress street, Detroit. Mich., Jan. 19, 1892. Sealed proposals, in triplicate, will be rec: ived at this office until 2 0'clock, p: m.,Mareh 4, 1892; and then opened: For furnishing Twelve Valve Frames and Fourteen Valves for the 800- foot Lock at St. Mary's Falls Canal, Michigan. Preference will be given to material of domestic production or manufacture, conditions of quali- ty and price (import duties included) being equal. Attention is invited to Acts of Congress, approved Feb. 26, 1885, and Feb. 23, 1887, vol. 23, page 832, and vol 24, page 414. Statutes at Large. The Government reserves the right to reject any or all proposals; also, to waive any informali- ties. For further information apply at.this office. O. M. POE, Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Bvt. Brig. General, U: S. 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A NEW COAL FIELD AND TIMBER DISTRICT THE OHIO EXTENSION OF THE NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILROAD Penetrates one of the most valuable Coal and Timber Districts in the United States. The line i i is 193 miles in length, from Coal Crove, Ohio, via Kenova, W. Va., to Elkhorn, W.Va ney which 54 miles, to Glintew, W. Va., is now opened for business, and the entire line is under construction and will be completed early in the Fall of 1892. It passes through virgin country abounding in Cas, Splint, Cannel, Steam, Coking and Domestic Coals and Fire-Clay ; Chestnut-Oak, White-Oak, Beech and Poplar Timber. Those looking for advantageous sites for the location of Saw-Mills or Tanneries, and establishments for the manufacture of Furniture, Wagons, Agricultural Implements, Wood-Pulp, Fire-Brick, or manufactured iron articles, should investigate the resources of this new field. i turing establishments; also the territory opened town of Kenova, W. 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