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MARINE REVIEW. 4 Record of Speed and Big Cargoes. [Masters or owners of freight boats are invited to report improvements on this list. | Iron ore: Maritana, Minnesota Steamship Company of Cleveland, 4,260 gross, or 4,771 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago; Maryland, Inter-Ocean Transportation Company of Milwaukee, 3,663 gross, or 4,103 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago, draft 17 feet 4 inches. Grain: KH. C. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 125,730 bushels of corn, Chicago to Buffalo; same steamer, 120,191 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo; Onoko, Minch estate, Cleveland, 113,829 bushels of wheat, Chicago: to Buffalo; W. H. Gilcher, J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland, 113,820 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo. 4 Coal: E.C. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 3,950 net tons anthracite, Buffalo to Chicago. Speed: Owego, Union Line of Buffalo, Buffalo to Chicago, 889 miles, 54 hours and 16 minutes, 16.4 miles an hour. lron Mining. VALUE OF LEADING STOCKS. Quoted by Chas. H. Potter & Co., No. rog Superior St. Cleveland, O. Stocks. Par Value. Bid. Asked. - Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company............... $100 oo Pie. $ 63 oo Chantpion tron CoOnipany.c\...ssis--sececesee.: 25100. Mat Sens 58 00 Chandler don: Compan yxe..cccb cio. chscsse ss 25 OOM (ete ee 46 00 PAGcOMe OM = COMPANY son. 5accesesoscwsersenstes DOV mere h ay veh meus 75 00 Lake Superior Iron Company................ 25 00 40 00 42 00 Mantihteso tad OT, COMPA y...c 5. ...cccessccsesse 100 0O 70 00 75 00 Pitino co Wvalke Angeline Iron Co... 9°25 00 ~~ "ln. 145 00 Rept Mie ion Comi panty. .).ccied.c.csvesv sess. 25 00 10 00 12 00 PND AMA Cliccacs cote sSewacg eet ieesa = Southsea che else veie DISHOO' Gira GH "ada eased seatecs ae SCHON (Mitty CMTC. cc... sinc deceecvacscacasosees Bre C Owe en ota sc can 5 00 EOIULMC UOT cece creo s piss th ve covuscsucesUsecsacnces 25 00 2 00 2 50 STENNIS © litsser cise Saiscaiovcte vaclcs ceveves Geb cases ssetesets 25 00 2 00 2 50 PUG Ostelerece eet se ene eceneessectec sce Reee tee 25 OO Seiwa atlas Shipments of iron ore from Two Harbors up to and includ- ing Wednesday, Oct. 19, aggregated 1,047,679 gross tons, of which 598,725 tons were from the Chandler, 435,456 tons from the Minnesota, 2,525 tons from the Pioneer and 11,046 tons from the Zenith mine. On the same -date shipments from Ashland aggregated 2,026,540 gross tons, divided among the different mines as follows: Ashland 179,570tons, Aurora 281,290, Colby, Nou, 4.001, Colby, No.2, 51,850, Rand 17,700, Vilden 215, - 931, Iron Belt 147,027, Montreal, south vein, 3,383, Montreal, north vein, 31,233, Palms 76,323, Section 33, south vein 6,924, mecuion 33, forth vein 3,133, Anvil 5,637, Brotherton: 95,130, Comet 37,974, Carey 45,272, Newport 122,866, Imperial 5,803, Norrie 385,410, Hast Norrie 168,928, Odanah 5,652, Pabst 48,- 110, Hureka 8,317, Sunday Lake 46,305, Windsor 27,973, Jack ROE Vo05- A sample car load of Mesaba ore from the Mountain Iron Company's property has been received at Duluth and a small quantity of this ore will be shipped by lake before the close of the season. The Mountain Iron, Biwabik and one or two other companies are now making every preparation for the sale of ore this fall and liberal shipments next season. Owners of the Bi- wabik claim that recent drilling proves that the ore body is 1,100 feet wide, an average of go feet in depth and half a mile long. A scarcity of labor is complained of at several of the larger mines of the Menominee range. Increased activity in these mines must mean that considerable unsold ore is being shipped, notwitstanding recent advances in lake freights. Explanation of the Canal Tolls. In view of the fact that there is considerable misapprehen- sion among brokers and vesel owners regarding the levy of tolls on grain from Fort William and other Canadian ports, Earhart & Co., Duluth, issue a circular stating that in his proclamation the president expressly states that a toll of 20 cents per ton shall be levied on all freight passing through the St. Mary's falls canal "in transit to any port of the dominion of Canada," whether carried in vessels of the United States or other nations. The only statement giving credence to the idea that tolls would be collected on grain bound for American ports to be exported to Canada was a circular issued Sept. 10 and withdrawn Sept. 19. Thus it is entirely inmaterial where grain originates so long as it is consigned to and landed at United States ports. Gaul, Goth and Greek are names assigned to three big freight steamers now building in Belfast for the Union Steam- ship Company's service between England and South America. M. A. BRADLEY. President. James W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. John G. Keith, Chicago, Ill. Frank J. Firth, Evie, Pa. W.S. Brainard, Toledo, O. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, O. R.P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis. Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. Alex. McDougall, Duluth,Minn. Charles H. Keep, Secretary, Buffalo, N.Y. Geo. P. McKay, Treasurer, Cleveland, O. Harvey D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. VICE-PRESIDENTS: secretary Charles H. Keep of Buffalo says that no attempt will be made to map out a line of proceedure with reference to legislation important to the lakes in the next session of congress until a week or two previous to the opening of the session, when the legislative committee composed of Buffalo managers of the association will be called together. It is probable that the vessel interests will not bring up in this session a bill to reg- ulate raft towing, but will ask instead that congress appoint a commission to investigate the subject. This may cause delay, probably for a full season, but it is thought that in the end the result will be more satisfactory, as an investigation of the raft- ing question can not end unfavorably to the vessel owners, and the report of a government commission would give the com- mittee on commerce an opportunity to present a bill that would in all probability withstand the objections of the rafting interests and would be favorably received by congress. The bill for new aids to navigation, which failed of passage in the last session, will also be vigorously pushed in the next ses- sion, and in addition it is expected that something will be done toward securing the passage of a measure that will admit of the collection of reliable statistics relative to lake commerce. The bill requiring vessel masters to report to customs officers at all ports where cargo is taken on or discharged, which was killed on account of objections from the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, Goodrich Transportation Company and other lines doing business at a great number of ports, will prob- ably be revived and so amended as to permit the officers of package freight lines, in the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, to report their full season's business within a stated - period after the close of navigation. 'This would permit of monthly or even weekly reports being prepared in all lines of lake commerce excepting package freight, which could be added at the close of the season. If the recommendations of the naval officers who met at Detroit in conference with a committee from the association are accepted by the light-house board, the four light-ships to be secured from the Eleven-Foot shoal appropriation of $60,000 will be of wood, about 80 feet long, 20 feet beam, and 8 feet depth of hold, and will cost about $5,000 each without equip- ment, ora little more than $13,000 each including equipment. This would leave a balance for maintenance of the vessels for one year. 'The inspectors recommend, as expected, that one vessel be stationed to cover Eleven-Foot and Corona shoals; one at or near Gravelly island shoal, Poverty island passage ; oneat the end of Peshtigo shoal, southerly end of Green bay, and the fourth at the lower end of Lake Huron, preferably near Corsica shual. Stocks of Grain. The following table prepared from the Chicago Board of Trade report of the visible supply of grain on Saturday the 22nd inst., shows with comparisons stocks of wheat and corn in store at points of accumulation important to the lake traffic : WHEAT, BUSHELS. _ Oct. 22, 792% Oct. 15, 292. CORN, BUSHELS. Oct. 22, 792. Oct. 15, 792. Chicago. <a... 8,967,000 8,932,000 6,355,000 5,445,000 DO urltibhieeee sense 4,977,000 4,289,000 ate Sees aicu ake aciiies ne be oee Milwaukee..... 1,517,000 1,480,000 10,000 11,000 Detroit 1,026,000 1,110,000 34,000 25,000 Toledo ......... 3,672,000 3,917 ,000 255,600 220,000 Buffalo.......... 2,609,000 2,174,000 871,000 590,000 New York......13,993,000 12,682,000 1,697,000 1,441,000 Baltimore....... 2,003,000 2,004,000 305,000 172,000 Philadelphia... 1,696,000 1,700,000 208,000 268,000 Ostonees sae: 114,000 250,000 241 ,000 199,000 Montreal........ 398,000 324,000 18,000 19,900 Tho statement shows that at five lake shipping ports, Chicago, Duluth, Milwaukee, Detroit and Toledo, the net increase for the week is 881,000 bu- shels of wheat and 104,000 bushels of corn, while.at Buffalo and the five prin- cipal exporting ports on the seaboard, New York Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Montreal, the net increase in wheat is 1,679,000 bushels and in corn 651,000 bushels. Marte REvIeEw for one year and Patterson's Nautical Dictionary for 36,