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PTT ee MARINE REVINW. IT To Make War Vessels of the Lake Michigan Car Ferries, While the car ferries Ann Arbor No. 1 and Ann Arbor No. 2, now in service on Lake Michigan in connection with the To- ledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railway, were being built at Toledo, Lieut. George L. Carden of the United States revenue marine inspected the boats, acting as a representative of the government, and it has since been announced that they have been declared wholly acceptable for use in case of a de- mand for war vessels on the lakes. A cut showing the appear- ance of the boats as now in use was printed in the last issue of the REviEw. The illustration on this page, made from draw- ings furnished by the builders, and taken from the Illustrated Buffalo Express, represents one of the car ferries stripped of her upper works and transformed into a war vessel, according to ideas said to be held by government officials. It might be well to note in this connection, however, that no official announce- ment has been made by either the treasury or navy department, as to any arrangement between the government and the builders or owners of these boats regarding their construction. All talk of their adaptability to war purposes has been connected with sensational newspaper articles sent out from Washington about the three small revenue cutters recently constructed for the Canadian government. Iron Mining. VALUE OF L.KADING STOCKS. Quoted by Chas. H. Potter G Co., No. 10g Superior St. Cleveland, O. Stocks. Par Value. Bid. Asked. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company............... $100 00 Pixcecents $ 54 00 Champion Iron Company................ ats 25 100. ig te heed es 35 00 Chandler amionmy Commie thy secee eee erent 25 OO. oar. meee 40 00 Jackson Iron; Conmpatiy cesses enter Z5OUr Ts get: nee eee Lake Superior Iron Company................. BSEOO ha es a a eae Minnesota Iron) Company poses eee re 100 00 67 oO 69 00 Pittsburgh & Wake Angeline lronsCone ets OG se see 135 00 Republic iron Comipaihye seen nee 25 00 10 00 Il 00 Dist at Cate eciatas mic cie seine ves te ct Bee anne eee 25. OO!) 72) ce tacdeee nt ene aepmeneetee Section ih nihty-thinee ens. see eee De OO Wars aiauereeen 4 00 Brotherton «4%. 5.-:.anecndaets pescon- cco uneeneee 25) 00 ciigatt og unwed ie ce eee err Prout Belt... sisjceoisemcsece sone ctasae me eee at jn OOF) eres wes ee ee 2 00 ANUEOTAH etececeee neers A sen uants coach wera 25 00 8 co 9 00 Five members of the Merritt family, A. D. Thomson, E. H. Hall and Moses E. Clapp, constitute a new board of directors re- cently elected by the Biwabik, leading Mesaba range company. The very severe winter weather is delaying operations on the range to a much greater extent than was expected, steam shovel work on the strippings being almost entirely suspended. The Standard Ore Company is about to ship some of its product to the West Duluth blast furnace. A sample car load from the Hale, which was hauled to a railway station in sleighs, has been -shipped to Pittsburg for test. There is already 100,000 tons of ore in the stock piles of the x Helin a WAR VESSEL FROM REMODELED LAKE MICHIGAN CAR FERRY. From the Illustrated Buffalo Express. Copyrighted 1892, by Gro. E. MATTHEWS & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Considerable difficulty has been encountered in operating the car ferries during the extended period of severe weather since they were brought into service on Lake Michigan. Their work of ferrying loaded cars across the lake has certainly not been at a profit, although under better conditions of weather and with experience back of their management they may prove suc- cessful. It is claimed that if they do prove profitable four more of them will be built. To Be Paid to District Attorneys. Previous to the time when Major L,. Cooper Overman, corps of engineers, U. S. A., stationed at Cleveland, was forced to re- sign his position in the army on account of irregularities in his accounts, all questions regarding damages to light-houses, piers and other government property of this kind sustained through accident or negligence of vessel masters were settled between the vessel owner and the government engineer in charge of the dis- trict where the damage occurred. In order to guard against any possibilty of misappropriation of such funds in the future, a clause was inserted in the river and harbor act of Sept. 19, 1890, providing that hereafter engineers must give such information to the United States district attorney for the district in which the accident occurs, and the vessel owner's settlement will be made with that officer, biy Chandler, Vermillion range, and about 2,000 tons is being hoisted daily, which would indicate that the mine will duplicate this vear its heavy output.of 1892. At the new Zenith mine of the same range, which made an initial shipment of about 15,000 tons last year, the main shaft, now down 360 feet, willbe sunk to a depth of 425 feet, and it is claimed that the output next year will be close to 100,000 tons. The management of the Great Western of Crystal Falls, represented in the market by Mr. V. K. Moore of Detroit, is con- sidering the advisability of closing down the mine. The mine shipped 87,487 tons of ore last year, but like a number of other properties it is worked at a high cost and the margin of profit has been greatly reduced through low prices that have ruled in the ore market. Already some of Minnesota's legislators are hatching up schemes to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Progress toward development of the new mining !ands in the state have hardly tegur, and it is proposed to tax the output of iron mines 5 cents a ton and of copper mines $1 a ton. J. B. Knight of Norway, Mich., has been appointed state com- missioner of mineral statistics. Twin screws will increase in favor as a result of the acci- dent to the Umbria. With the general tendency to discard can- vas, all ocean going steamers should have twin screws.