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MARINE Magnitude of Investments in Iron Ore on the Lakes. At the Fifth International Congress on Inland Navigation held in Paris a few weeks ago, Mr. George H. Ely of Cleveland, was a delegate from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and read a paper on the Great Lakes of North America. On Thursday evening of this week Mr. Ely read the paper again by request in Cleveland before members of the board of trade and board of industry. 'The paper deals largely with the iron ore business of the lakes, and in this regard is most interesting. Attention is especially directed to the importance of the Lake Superior iron district, which produces more than one-half of the ores for the vast iron and steel industries of this country. It is shown clearly that Lake Superior ore could never have gone on wheels to meet the coal of the central states. Deep water communication with the northwest alone rendered the present development of Lake Superior iron ore possible. The magni- tude of investments in Lake Superior ore mining and in its - distribution will appear from the following, which is a part of the paper: i Capital in mines in the four Lake Superior dis- ) tricts in 1889 as per United States census | $ 60,8 era vei eeec tsi iceetcecsess fen: $54,825,122 | one iierease to July 1, 1892...........00.0 15,000,000 J Capital in docks and their equipments at Lake Superior, and Lake Michigan ports, built and used exclusively for shipping ore (official)...... Capital empioyed exclusively in railroad trans- portation of ore from mines to shipping ports on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan (official) Floating capital on the lakes, employed exclu- sively in ore transportation, from upper lake to lemmetelaice ports(estimated:)..2..%..0...0iis. ite. Capital in docks and in their equipments, for receiving and forwarding ore exclusively, at Lake Erie ports, between Toledo and Buffalo, Mmelasiyes Gteboth (oficial): ccs os esis eniecnal vee Capital employed exclusively in railroad trans- portation of ore, inland to mills and furnaces iommuakelame=ports (Oficial). .s..aie.4.os ie 9,885,665 27,014,594 29,933,107 12,392,880 26,343,617 CE IL 0 Fp $ 175394,985 As showing the chemical constitution of Lake Superior ores in general Mr. Ely presents the following average analyses of Lake Superior ores, No. 1 best grade, comprising 85 per cent. of the total hard ore production and 90 per cent. of the total soft ore production. 'The analyses are averages of 100 cargoes of each kind of ore mentioned and the samplings for the same were made at Lake Erie ports by Rattle & Nye, of Cleveland, during the shipping season of 1889: : : Tetalli ong Phospho- 2 : Hesignations. es Silica. cae Alumina} Lime. | es ig Rn aehes peor Me WeISCSSeTNEl. .....-...c0c0c00% o> (67.00 | 2.05 ; 0.041 0.35 ee Hard non-Bessemer............. | ebfe2le 2.51 0.147 0.27 nee Soft Bessemer..................6+ 62.68 5.90 0.040 208 0.22 | Soft non-Bessemer............... 62.71 6.12 0.215 21699 0.186 Organic and Designations. /Magnesia.| Sulphur. |Manganese Volatile | matter. MPAA BESBEIMEL. ...-..-.-.c-.0+: | 0.111 0.028 0.124: ae Hard non-Bessemer............., 0.141 0.083 rete sal 04 Ott DESSEMEr......<..02..0..0 ++ | = 0,142 0.030 0.440 1.78 Soft non-Bessemer .........-.++ L003 0.048 0.371 1.42 Struggle for More Aids to Navigation. In accordance with a promise made by the river and harbor committee of the present congress, no river and harbor bill will be presented at the next session. An effort will be made, how- ever, by the shipping interests of the lakes to, secure aids to navi- CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1892. REVIEW. No. 15. gation for which appropriations were refused in the last congress. These different lights, fog signals, etc., are included in the fol- lowing estimates just made by the light-house board: Fog signal at Eagle Harbor, Mich., $5,500; fog signal on Galleo Island, N. Y., $5,700; range lights at Maumee, Ohio, $4,100; range lights at Menasha, Mich., $5,000; light at Old Mackinac point, Mich., $1,100; light station on Poe's reef, Mich., $25,000; fog signal on South Fox island, Mich., $5,500; fog signal at Tibbett's point, N. Y., $4,300; light at Wilson harbor, N. Y., $2,500; constructing buoyage at Chicago, neces- sitated by the world's fair, $29,500; completing lighthouse and fog signal at easterly end of the breakwater, Chicago, $15,500; fog signal at Escanaba, Mich., $1,100; range lights at Grassy island, Detroit river, Mich., $8,000; fog signal at Oswego, N. Y., $4,300; patrol steamer for St. Mary's river, Mich., $4,000; fog signal at Pere Marquette, Mich., $5.500; tender for the ninth district, $95,000; light station at Bayfield, Wis., $5,000; tempo- rary floating lights on Bay State and Old Point shoals, N. Y., $800; fog signal at Big Sable, Mich., $5,500; light station at Carlton, N. Y., $8,600; light and fog signal station at Che- quamegon point, Wis., completion of, $100; lighthouse at Devil's island, Wis., $22,000; light station at the mouth of Eagle river, Mich., $20,000; light and fog signal at Fairport, Ohio, $4,700; light and fog signal station at Forty Mile point, Mich., $25,000; light station at Gladstone, Mich., $10,000; light and fog bell at Grand Marais, Mich., $15,000; light and fog signal station at Little Gull island, Mich., $20,000; light and signal at Ludington, Mich., pier, $4,500; light station at Manitowoc, Wis , $5,000; light station at Mendota, Mich., $7,500; light and fog signal station at North Manitou, Mich., $20,000; light sta- tion at Port Clinton, O., $1,500; fog signal on pier head of Portage lake ship canal, $5,500; light station on Portage lake, $3,500; fog signal on pier headat Presque Isle, Pa., $4,300; light and fog signal at Round island, Mich., $15,000; fog signal on pier head at St. Joseph, Mich., $5,000; light station on St. Mary's island, Mich., $15,000. Documenting of a Vessel Transferred to Foreign Flag. A collection of decisions from the treasury department for the months of July and August, contains the following: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF NAVIGATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug..15, 1892. Collector of Customs, Marquette, Mich.-- sir: I transmit herewith for ready reference a copy ofa letter from the deputy collector of customs at Sault Ste. Marie relative toa tug, the name of which he fails to specify, and which, therefore, can not be entered on the records of the depart- ment according to the usual course of procedure. He inquires whether an American-built tug, hull, boilers, and engine, "owned by an American citizen and transferred to Canada," may now be documented by said American citizen as a vessel of the United States. He reports that the owner is not a full citizen, but declared his intention to become one fifteen years ago, and is willing to take out final papers. : The law forbids the documenting in the United States of a vessel which has been sold or become the property of an alien, except under certain circumstances vot understood to exist in the present case. Had the owner been an Americen citizen, the mere fact that the vessel was "transferred to the Canadian flag" since the close of the "war of the rebellion'? would not neces- sarily preclude the granting of documents in the United States. (Sections 4135, 4136, 4165, and 4172, revised statutes, articles 8, g, and 75, regulations of 1884.) This office understands that the law contemplates full citi- zenship in such cases; that is to say, there must bea declaration of intent, a residence for a continued term of five years next preceding admission, the takin of an oath to support the con- stitution, and actual admission by a court of competent juris- diction, unless the case falls within section 2166 or 2174, revised statutes. Please advise the deputy collector acccordingly. T. B. SANDERS, Acting Commissioner.