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MARINE REVIEW. 9 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: E.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, 113,839 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo; W. H. Gilcher, J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland, 113,820 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo. 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 00 PCr e a $ 63 oo Champion Iron Company... :......cccccesssses D5OOMe tosis a4 ete 45 00 Giandlien Iron COMPAy....-..c0.sccceroeeceps DIN IOO Mune ota Sie Re 44 00 Prescot (On COMPANy;......c.5.vc..seeqs eens PS IOO Sere a Grek anys 75 00 fake siperior iron Company:................ PU HOt Neen RE 39 00 Mamnesota Irom COMpany...........cs.-csseseas LOO 00M SA? "GtA. eres 71 00 Parspuneiiece Wake Angeline Iron Co... 925 00 -- .ieeieess 145 00 EOS LOU, COMPANY... .15.5..4sececoverw ees 25 00 9 00 10 00 PCMAG ge ccciieete.o0e see bees ee os Bacio recess PE OOP Ai. cin. be cess. se date SeeeOMMe Mb CMCC. wv sacecosvescrseseaesees ars DRNOOs rents noses 4 00 RM IT TGLO MS steed cava vaso seo seteeceaiesectases eh ves 25 00 2 00 2 50 HPOMMIL Uncrate esters ow ose ol Vic taeShlsaestadeses cae DSEOOLs mean tsa GF 210 PANMUTOMeE ot ssrostelo sis siistoisis.s sje ce eesieles sine csuneeesties peaeee DS OOS Sytner bs Peveinctcae 10 00 Shipments of iron ore from Two Harbors up to and includ- ing Wednesday, Nov. 9, aggregated 1,123,224 gross tons, of which 637,588 tons were from the Chandler, 468,268 tons from the Minnesota, 2,525 tons from the Pioneer and 14,843 tons from the Zenith mine. Onthe same date shipments from Ashland aggregated 2,175,329 tons, of which 1,097,188 tons were from the Wisconsin Central docks and 1,078,141 tons from the Mil- watkee, Lake Shore and Western docks. Shipments from Ash- land to the date named are about 1,000 tons ahead of the entire shipments in 1890, the banner year, which aggregated 2,174,559 tons. In 1891 the total movement from Ashland was but 1,- 253,492 tons. Shipments of the different Gogebic range mines from Ashland so far this season are: Ashland 191,691 tons, Aurora 294,425, Colby, No. 2, 51,805, Rand 17,700, Tilden 220,022, Colby No, 1, 6,172, Iron Belt 157,994, Montreal, south vein, 3,333, Montreal, north vein, 37,203, Palms 93,104, Sec- tion 33, south vein, 10,432, Section 33, north vein, 4,248, Anvil 6,716, Brotherton 95,132, Comet 38,990, Carey 51,457, Imperial 6,925, Norrie 418,303, Newport 131,023, East Norrie 174,488, Odanah 6,132, Pabst 56,155, Jack Pot 3,943, Kureka 8,317, Sun- day: Lake 49,312, Windsor 31,227. c f During the first month's operation of the eight-hour system at the Lake Angeline mine there was a gain of ore produced amounting to 730 pounds per day for every man employed in and about the property, miners, trammiers,laborers, firemen, en- gineers, superintendents and the entire force. These figures are placed against the best secured for any previous month in the year. Besides giving the company that much ore per man it also shows an increase in earnings to the men of something over $1,500. One of the latest stories from the Mesaba recounts details connected with the discovery of ore by a party of miners who found difficulty in getting good water near their camp, and were Sinking a well on a slight elevation some distance from the mine workings. Officers of the Iron Range & Huron Bay railway, upon Which the rails have all been laid between Champion, Mich. and Huron bay, Lake Superior, say that they will immediately begin a survey for an extension of the line to Ishpeming and Ne- gaunee, Mich. ST. MARY'S RIVER CHARTS Nos. | AND 2 FROM POINT IROQUOIS TO E. NEEBISH AND FROM MUD LAKE ENTRANCE TO E. NEEBISH, COR- RECTED TO AUG. 30, 1892, CAN BE HAD AT THE OFFICE OF THE MA. RINE REVIE W, 516 peERRY-PAYNE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, FOR 20 CENTS EACH, OR BOTH BY MAIL FOR 50 CENTS. BOTH CHARTS WILL BE FURNISHED WITH CLOTH BACKS AND BOUND EDGES FOR $1. James W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. John G. Keith, Chicago, Il. PRS TG oe) Pa eda e RDG @s bats W.S. Brainard, Toledo, O. NACL ISEA SIS TAC NS SENST: ene Wilson, Cleveland, O. R.P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis. Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. Alex. Me Dougall, Duluth,Minn. Charles H. Keep, Secretary, Buffalo, N.Y. « Geo. P. McKay, Treasurer, Cleveland, O. Harvey D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. SECURE NAMES OF DEPARTING CREWS. As a result of the recent serious disasters through which the entire crews of at least three vessels have been lost, there is a renewal of the demand for some system of registering sailors at the port of departure, so that in case of an accident to any vessel involving the loss of life there will be no difficulty in securing a full list of the crew of such vessel. Many members of the Lake Carriers' Association have given this matter serious~ thought since the loss of the steamer W. H. Gilcher, regarding the crew of which there is as yet only meager information, and they are of the opinion that unless the association adopts measures where- by this difficulty can be largely removed, the vessel owners will find themselves confronted later by the passage of a law that may cause delay in port that will be far more troublesome than a sys- tem through which masters might send to owners full lists of their crews just before leaving port. Some lake newspapers are advocating the passage of a law compelling vessel masters to fur- nish collectors of customs with names of their crew before each departure up or down the lakes. Such a law would not be im- practicable, but it would be a source of great annoyance, as mas- ters are often on the pilot house ready to signal the engines to go ahead when the last manis put aboard. Insuch cases, which are not numerous, a list of names which would be almost com- plete could be furnished to the owner, and would serve all prac- tical purposes, although it would not meet the requirements of law and would only add to delay in port if the names were to be turned over to a collector of customs. As it is now, everybody will admit that in nine cases out of ten the owners or agents of lake vessels have the names of only master or chief engineer when the vessel leaves port. Sometimes the first mateis known, but rarely is there any knowledge of other members of the crew. Vessel owners will do well in taking early action on this sub- ject. If they are met with a law of the kind spoken of here their defence will be very feeble as against the humane side of the question. As a result of numerous accidents recently in the vicinity of "Death's Door,"'entrance to Green bay,the association a short time ago repeated a request to Superintendent Kimball of the life saving service that a life saving station be established in that locality at once. Inanswerto this latest request, Horace L. Piper, acting superintendent, says in a letter to Treasurer Mc- Kay: 'I am glad to be able to inform you that a site has been selected for a life saving station on Plum island, and it is hoped that the station can be erected next year." In General. For a given displacement a wooden ship is heavier than an iron one. 'The carrying capacity of the former is said to be five- ninths of the displacement, whilst in iron ships it is 15 per cent. more. The new Cunard racer Campania will possess engines ar- ranged in a novel fashion, and yet designed to develop 28,000 horse power. 'They are worked on the triple expansion system, but the forward and after cylinders are tandem. In the convey- ance of steam the exhaust is from the two high pressure cylin- ders on top of the forward and after cylinders to the intermediate cylinder, and thence to the forward and after lower cylinders. The Maritime Register of New York says: "We are glad to see that the shipbuilding firm of Dialogue & Son, of Camden, New Jersey, has contracted to build a steamer for the trade on the Orinoco river. Every vessel built in this country for the river trade of South America is the best evidence of the capabili- ties of American ship yards and will help materially to lead for- eign ship owners to try American work. We hold that there is a great market in river navigation of tropical countries for American shipbuilders." It might be well to add in connection with this opinion from the Register that only a short time ago F. W. Wheeler & Co., shipbuilders of West Bay City, Mich., sent from their yard to Central America a tug, the Yulu, for river service.