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36 TAE MarRINE REVIEW point is mentioned for a keeper's dwelling costing $5,000, while a $3,500 oil storehouse is proposed for the depot at Detroit. Among the larger items are $50,000 for finish- ing the light and fog signal at Rock of Ages, Lake Su- perior, $38,000 for moving the Eagle river station to Sand. Hills, $13,200 for a light and range at Grand Island' liarbor, $21,000 for: lights and ranges at Rock harbor,' $55,000 for a crib at-the entrance. to' Portage 'lake ship canal, $22,000 for lights and signals at Portage river pier- head, $38,000 for a light-and fog signal at Nine Mile point, and $28,000 for the reconstruction of the range and es signal at Superior pierhead, Wisconsin. There are now six parties on the lake survey. The sum of $115,000 is recommended for carrying on the work, while an additional $10,000 is. eee for the investiga- | tion of water levels. conveyors for collecting screenings from retail delivery chutes and for delivering fuel to the power plant. There are two piers each 500 ft. in length, with a tower on each to which the conveyor chutes run, so constructed as to permit the delivery end of the con- veyor chutes to be raised or lowered to suit the level of the decks of vessels at varying stages of the tide. In designing the plant the architect' kept in mind the dimensions' of the mammoth steamships Minnesota and Dakota which take coal at Seattle, and the plant is so constructed that one of these big vessels can run_be- tween: the two piers and take coal from both towers at the same time. Power for the plant-is developed by an adjacent steam power plant, coal. screenings being used for fuel. The plant consists of two Babcock & Wilcox water tube MARINE COALING PLANT OF 16,000 TONS CAPACITY, SEATTLE, WASH. NEW MARINE COAL BUNKERS AT SEATTLE The Pacific Coast Co. has recently completed at Seattle a new marine coaling plant of 16,000 tons capacity and capable of handling coal to ships at the rate of 1,500 tons an hour. ' The main bunkers are 80 x 176 ft. on the ground plan and consist of twenty-six compartments, while the secondary or tug bunkers are 20 x 144 ft. on ground plan and have six- teen compartments. The entire plant is equipped with end- ° less chain conveyors supplied by the Link Belt Machinery Co. of Chicago,' which. equipment consists of two main wharf conveyors each 600 ft. in length and consisting of corrugated steel belts 4 ft. wide and with a capacity of 750 tons of coal cach per hour; two chain bucket conveyors each 530 ft. long running across above and returning under the main bunkers and used for conveying coal from a hopper under the railroad tracks into which the coal is dumped from cars; a flight bucket conveyor to the tug bunkers with a capacity of 250 tons an hour; and cable boilers, each consisting of fourteen sections of nine 4-in. tubes 16 ft. long, and two 36-in. steam drums 22 ft. long; two'125 H. P. engines of McEwan Engine Co. make; two. 8-pole, 160 K. W., 260° revolution, 250-volt dices current, direct connected generators of General. Elec- tric: 'make, thtee © marble' switchboards~ .with © General Electric equipment, and. nine General Electric motors varying in size from 10 to 85 H. P. Coal is mined by The Pacific Coast Co. at its mines in King county, Washing- ton, at.the rate of 3,000 tons daily, carried to the bunk- ers over the Columbia & Puget Sound railroad, and load- ed there in ships both for fuel use and for transshipment to other markets. The Reid Wrecking Co. of Port Huron, will under- take the work of removing the burned hulk of the steam- er Eliza H. Strong, which lies about a mile off the har- bor of Lexington, Lake Huron.