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1903. ] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 49 ENLARGEMENT OF DETROIT SHOPS. About $75,000 is being spent in making important additions to the shops of the Detroit Snip Building Co. at Orleans and Atwater streets in Detroit. 'Lhe work is nearine completion. A rough sketch of the shops is shown herewith. The improvement in brief is a three-story addition, 172x49 ft., to the Detroit com- CASTING CLEANING ROOM Al : FOUNDRY k 9 ; g 8 3 YARD N A : &2-) ' g R j \ 3 'i g k N y "Hoes . J N x S ENGINE HOUSE _ K ql "St 0 Y oj 2 Se k oo i ENGINE ae ; SCREW ALl4 | Nl corrive | Blacksonrtyswop S| arecen AR Rk : Si 2 FURS ZT FLOOR TOSe Roo PATTERN SHOP" Sécowd Ht oor pPrer Wl Drawive orice GEWL STORAGE uf ay ENEIN EER K pany's machine shop, the new structure including enlargement of foundry, smith shop, store room, etc. on the ground floor, and large new pattern shop on the second floor with spacious drawing office and general storage above. With the mechine shop, which was already practically a néw, well-equipped structure, the building covers an area of 200 TAIRD FLOOR | by 238 ft., surrounded on three sides by wide public thorough- -- fares, with the best of railway connection on the fourth side. 'The Detroit company now certainlv has a well-arranged plant for its marine engine work, which means, of course, foundry, smith shop and other necessary adjuncts. 'The new foundry is 75x151 ft.; smith shop, 49x86 ft.; pa'tern shop, 140xao ft., and drawing cffice, 70x49 ft. 'Vhe plan shows the general arrangement quite 'oclearly. NEARLY THIRTY-SIX MILLIONS. Reports from the canals at Sault Ste. Marie showing a total of nearly 36,000,000 net tons of freight moved to and from Lake Superior during the season of. lake navigation just closed were. not of special interest, as it has been known for several weeks past that the thirty-five million mark would be exceeded. '1ne exact figures as to the freight movement are 35,951,146 tons for 1902, compared with 28,403,065 tons in 1901. The shortage of coal in the northwest is clearly reflected in these final canal reports. Only 309,948 tons of hard coal went forward in 1902, as against 804,493 tons in 1901. Soft coal shipments, aggregat- ing 4,502,530 tons in 1902, are 713,887 tons in excess of the ship- ments of 1901, but this increase is not by any means sufficient to meet the requirements. There will be no coal at Lake Superior ports in the spring. A brief summary of the Sault traffic follows: . 1902 1901 Doerr OF passages 2. el Lit 22,659 20,041 hee tongage Of vessels 2... 6 31,955,582 24,626,975 Rhee OF freight. net... ee es ee 35,901,146 28,403,065 The canal reports will be discussed in detail in the next issue of the Review. : Engineers of the Gilchrist vessels presented Mr. J. C. Mitch- ell, chief engineer of the fleet, with $250 in gold last week. CARGO RECORDS OF LAKE FREIGHTERS. _A comparison of records show that a mistake was made in Saying that the cargo of 7,659 net tons of soft coal loaded at Lorain recently by the steamer John vv. Gates, was not a record cargo. The stecmer I. L. Elwood in 190t loaded a larger cargo of hard coal at Buffalo (7,688 net tons), but the Gates now holds the record in soft coal. Record cargoes' of ore, grain and coal revised to date, are: ee Iron ore--Steel tow barge John Smeaton, owned by Pitts- burg Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 7,652 gross or 8,570 net tons, Two Harbors to South Chicago; steamer Isaac L. Elwood, Pittsburg Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Du- luth, manager, 7,642 gross or 8,559 net tons, Two Harbors to Conneaut. Grain--Steamer S. J. Murphy, Donora Mining Co., Duluth, 269,000 bushels of corn, equal to 7,532 net tons, South Chicago to Buffalo; steamer Douglas Houghton, Pittsburg Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 308,000 bushels of clipped oats and 60,000 bushels of corn, equal to 7,520 net tons, Manitowoc to Buffalo. a Coal--Steamer I. L. Elwood, owned by Pittsburg Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 7,688 net tons anthracite, Buffalo to Duluth; steamer John W. Gates, Pittsburg Steamship Co., A. B. Welvin of Duluth, manager, 7,659 net tons of bitum- inous, Lorain to Duluth. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES, The annual meeting of the Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association will be held at Milwaukee on Jan. 20. : The Lehigh Valley Transportation Co., which for two sea- sons has been under the management, of vessels of the Erie rail- road line, has been returned to the management of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. with L. H. Van Allen as the official head. © A traffic report from Tonawanda shows that about 407,000.000 ft. of lumber were received there during the seascn and. 230,500 tons of ore unloaded at the docks of Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co. During I901 447,000,000 ft. of lumber were received at the port. Fire broke out in the machine shop of the Jenks Ship Build- ing Co., Port Huron, Mich., early Monday morning and did coa- siderable damage. 'The fire started in the pattern shop, which was pretty thoroughly destroyed before the fire could be checked. An aggravating feature of ine loss is the destruction of patterns for the engines of the new passenger steamer building for the Michigan Steamship Co. 'Lhe steamer John Spry has filed a salvage claim of $5.000 against the Colonial. The Colonial loaded coal for Milwaukee at a Lake Erie port. She was considerably damaged in passing through St. Clair flats and put into Manitowce for repairs. After- -- wards with the assistance of the John Spry she started for Mil- waukee. For their work in assisting the vessel the crew of the John Spry has entered a salvage claim for $5,000. It will be contested as unreasonable. : The Champicen Iron Co. has sold its iron ore properties in - Marquette county, Michigan, to the Clairton Steel Co., a con- trolling interest in which is held by W. P. Snvder and Henry Oliver of Pittsburg. The price paid is about $1,600,000. Pre- vious to the sale over two-thirds of the stock of the Champion Iron Co. had been deposited with H. H. Fay and associates to effect a transfer of the property. The par value of the stock is $25 a share and there are 20,000 shares, so that the purchase price is quite favorable to the stockholders. _ While in Buffalo last week Congressman Burton announced that the government had provided for a survey for a one-mile deep water slip canal connecting Buffalo harbor with Black Rock and all the ports on the Niagara river below that point. For the dredging of Black Rock harbor $800,000 has already been appro- priated. What is proposed to do is to deepen the present strip of water known as Black Rock harbor from its entrance in the Buffalo harbor to a point near the international bridge. This waterway lies parallel with Niagara river west of the Erie canal. At the international bridge a lock would be built. The reason why lake vessels do not venture down the Niagara river now is that that portion of it from its mouth to Black Rock is filled with rocks and is possessed with a treacherous current. Below Black Rock the river becomes deep, the water smooth and safe for all vessels. The one-mile waterway proposed will circum- vent the dangers of this portion of the river. Mr. James Corrigan recently took occasion in Duluth to deny reports that the United States Steel Corporation is nego- tiating for the mining properties controlled by Corrigan, Mc- Kinney & Co. He said that his company is well satisfied to con- tinue in the mining business and does not desire to sell. Mr. Corrigan made some interesting observations as to the output for next year. He savs he does not look for a large increase over the output of 1902 owing to the fact that the mines were crowded pretty hard in the past year. Moreover, 1002 was a very--long season. 'Another thing," he said, "which will tend to hold down the increase in the movement of ore in 1903 is the fact that ore has not been consumed to the extent expected this year, owing to the scarcity of coke. Some of the furnaces were compelled to go out of blast on this account. The coke famine was respon- sible for the importation of much pig iron into the country. Had there been an ample supply, the furnaces all over would have been continuously active."