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MARINE REVIEW. | ae Wreck of the Walk-in-the-Water. The illustration on page 5 is presented as an ancient work of art. It is copied from an oil painting by Mr. Matthies, made for the parents of ex-Senator Thomas W. Palmer, who were on the boat when she was wrecked, returning from their wedding trip. The apparent perspective, giving one the idea that the shipwrecked passengers might have jumped ashore from the stern, andthe figures in the water, indicating that those who could not get into the life boat walked ashore, detract from the seriousness of the disaster. The Walk-in-the-Water was built at Black Rock, now part of Buffalo N. Y., in 1818 and was the first steam vessel that ever navigated any of the lakes above Ontario. She was launched May 28, 1818, and started on her first trip from Black Rock to Detroit on Aug. 25 in the same year. Her machinery had to be brought from Albany to Buffalo, a distance of 300 miles, in wag- ons drawn by five to eight horses each. As this vessel ran reg- ularly to and from Black Rock harbor and not to the present harbor at Buffalo, she had to proceed a short distance down the Niagara river. While she could navigate down stream safely, her power was not sufficient to enable her to make headway against the strong current at the head of the Niagara river. Resort was therefore had to what was known in the early days asa "horned breeze." 'The Walk-in-the-Water was regularly towed up the Niagara river by a number of yokes of oxen. The boat made her trips regularly between Black Rock and Detroit, making the round tripsin nine to ten days. She was wrecked and lost on the beach at Buffalo in November, 1821, but during the winter of 1821-22 a second steamer was built at Buf- falo named the Superior. The machinery of the Walk-in-the- Water was used in the Superior. It was a low-pressure engine, 48 by 40 inches, and turned 16-foot paddle wheels. The hull was 150 feet long by 27 feet beam, and she was described as . "the finest steamer in the world except one recently launched in New York, designed to cross the Atlantic." Job Fish was her first captain. Any of the readers of the REVIEW who wish to preserve the picture can have a copy on plate paper, without reading matter by sending their address to this office. Around the Lakes. Soundings over the bar outside of Ashtabula harbor are said to show 17 feet, more water than for several seasons past. The new steel steamer Arthur E. Orr will be launched from the yard of the Chicago Shipbuilding Company in about two weeks. We have received with the compliments of George T. Marks copies of annual reports of the boards of trade of Port Arthur and Fort William, Ont. Contracts for the five lake lightships, on which the Craig Ship Building Company of Toledo submitted the lowest pro- posal, have been awarded to that company. Trunk line managers propose to divide the east-bound traffic in grain delivered to them by boat at Erie and Buffalo for the seaboard. Such a pool should help the Erie canal boat . Owners. The wooden steamer which P. F. Thrall is preparing to build at Green Bay will have a keel length of 164 feet, 35 feet beam and 12 feet hold, with an estimated carrying capacity of 800,000 feet of lumber. ; We are informed by the Jenks Ship Building Company of Port Huron, that there is no truth in the report ofa sale of one of their new steamers to Chicago parties. The company still has three lumber steamers for sale. The propeller H. D. Coffinberry now in Cleveland, which was arrested by the United States marshal on March 1, on a libel filed by the Detroit Dry Dock Company, will be sold at auction at the government building on Tuesday next. James Churnley & Co. have sold the steamer John Otis to Capt. James Sandford and others of Muskegon for $14,000. The Smith-Fee Company has purchased the steamer Otego, now at Buffalo, and will run her between Duluth and Portage lake. On the river front property of A. Smith at Algonac, A. W. Comstock, lumber dealer, is building a lumber steamer of 800,000 feet capacity, and it is intended as soon as she 1s launched to lay the keel for another steamer of obout 1,000,000 feet capacity, The boat now on the stocks will be launched in a few days, Iron Mining. VALUE OF LEADING STOCKS, Quoted by Chas. H. Potter & Co., No. 10g Superior St. Cleveland, O. Stocks. Par Value. Bid. Asked. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company............... $100 00 #$ 53 00 Go ccs Champion Iron Company........sccscsseeseoees 25 00 26 00 eeeoeaber Chandler IronyCompany.-7.ccsiee-senew ces 25) OOn wteen Semesters 40 00 Jackson Iron Company...... aae(eiesieeticteeteteeneies 2151 OO) epee accons seer 75 00 Lake Superior Iron Company..............04 - 25 00 28 00 "31 00 Minnesota Iron Conmipany. ..tqsssssessccsdet 100 00 60 00 63 50 Pittsburgh & Lake Angeline Iron Co.....° 25 00 7 feceenees 137 50 Republic Iron | Companty:,:.-::s-222+ bene e eee a5: bot ya pier 9 750. ASlalgn'd vss sts ee sacesace nance deccisse aie aise: 25. OOLthe Passes oop eames cca Sections lity theese. wee tae. eeeeen ate 25 00 1 OO a aa eeecerese ; Brotherton... cced.d: atch ..cheaadicean seoenee ie D5 Olt: y ei aes See ee eee IGmoyel JBXalbe-Gscooncodd abosadocoouoandneocABadocsounodBuds 25 00 2 40 2275 AMIE OLA ces asesitcs ccs ute heosseses enum seee cen Teens 25 00 6 50 7 00 Lake Superior mine managers to the number of about 150 organized at Iron Mountain, Mich., last week, a society to be known as the Lake Superior Miners' Association. 'The object is the same as that sought by similar organizations in the mining industry in this and other countries. Ata session lasting through three days of last week, papers were read, permanent officers elected and visits made to several mines in the vicinity of Iron Mountain. At the Chapin mine the visitors inspected the big pump, which is the largest in the west and which is reported to cost $300,000. In addition to this big pump, the Chapin com- pany is figuring on another pump, to have a capacity of 2,000 gallons per minute, lifting it 1,500 feet. The bailing process at the Hamilton-Ludington was also examined. 'The bailers were worked to show how quickly. and easily they performed the task. These bailers are 43 feet long, are made from old boiler shells at small cost, and hold ten tons of water, or about 2,700 gallons. 'They are operated so as to remove 2,000 gallons of water per minute. Officers elected by the association are: President, Nelson P. Hulst of Milwaukee; vice presidents for two years, J. T. Jones of Iron Mountain, F. P. Mills of Ishpeming, and Graham Pope of Houghton; vice presidents for one year, M. W. Burt of Ironwood and J. Parke Channing of Iron Mountain; board of managers for two years, Walter Fitch of Champion and ~ John Duncan of Calumet; board of managers for one year, J. N. McNaughton and Chas. McGregor of Iron Mountain, and Wm. Kelly of Vulcan ; secretary, F. W. Denton of the Michigan Min- ing School; Houghton; treasurer, C. M. Boss of Bessemer, -- Two papers were read at the meeting, one on "Soft Ore Mining by Per Larrson of the Aragon mine, and the other on "The Geology of that Portion of the Menominee Range East of the Menominee River,' by Dr. Nelson P. Hulst of Milwaukee. Mr. Hulst's paper was very interesting, and was accompanied by maps of the range and of several mines showing the geological formation. Four methods of mining made use of in Lake Superior soft ore mines--stripping and open pit work, rooming with timbering, filling and caving--were all described in the paper by Mr. Larrson, who concluded by saying that the condi- tions that meet the miner in the different mines are so varied that no two mines can be worked by exactly the same plan. -- "Such of us that have had pet methods are fast giving them up," he added, "and we would perhaps all be only too glad to join our Mesabi friends in adopting their stripping proposition, if nature ~ had not turned our ore deposits edge-ways in the ground. We must, however, adapt ourselves to the conditions that meet us and by learning from each other's experience, endeavor to keep ourselves to the front among American miners." Two regular meetings will be held annually, on the first Wednesdays in March and December. 'The next meeting will be held in Ishpeming. Any person in any way interested in mining is eligible to membership on the recommendation of a member of the association and the approval of the council. The annual membership dues are fixed at $5. The Merrett-Rockefeller combination is said to have paid to the Lake Superior company for its leases on 4,000 acres of Me- sabi range lands $250,000, of which $100,000 is to be turned over on delivery of the leases and the balance in five install- ments to extend over eighteen months without interest. The Lake Superior company will also receive one-half of the net profits from the sale of ore. The Chicago & Minnesota Ore Company, now controlled by the Minnesota Iron Company, is reported to have taken options recently on immense tracts of Mesabi land. The new steamer now being constructed in England for the Montreal Transportion company will be called the Bannockburn,