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TRAE MarINE. REVIEW SECTION AT 'AA LOOKING OUTBOARD Lx) _MIDSHIP SECTION 1 A 5 | ' q 1 q 1 a : je === Se : te = rah a Al a fa ost oe 1 || [4 Sapa somal ey 1 | i I VI , {i th eee Ui > It = ft ° |< {ll ay a) | e Hi E 24 6 i bef ieee eo i tear ae te rT | i A ll ! eS I " ' { Wo I Ny 1 ™ i ; \ pis He ag | hed apo ey We os AS eS i i pe SS = Bee t I dy 444 i co mip 1 eee i SECTION THROUGH Hf a SIDE TANK SHOWING | Vy lt A i a fh = STIFFENERS AND | | ui! yt ih ihn ee ee STRINGER Pee Ti. Hl ih it 1H i = CONNECTIONS | | thi E > it ( ) ht ( ) it ( ) i = \ att ! qh } iM ie | = al 4 a! ai ui 1° Lito alto Hp 24,2 24.2 ote oi] WARING REVIEW - MIpsHIP SECTION OF THE STEAMER WILLIAM G. MATHER BUILDING AT THE VARD OF THE : GREAT LAKES ENGIN BERING WORKS, DETROIT. For description see Marine Review, Sept. 28. IMPORTANT LUMBER DEAL Duluth, Minn., Oct. 3.--T wo -very important matters in connection with the head-of-the-lakes. lumber trade, and the future shipments of lumber eastward by lake, have 'been settled this week here. One is the purchase of the large mill of the St. Louis Lumber Co., by the Rainy Lake Co., and the other is the removal of the milling headquarters of the Edward Hines Lumber Co. from Ashland to this city. The Rainy Lake Co. is owner of or controls nearly two thousand million feet of standing pine in the country directly north that the Hines company is interested in these purchases, and that it intends to operate here for this timber. This timber will have to be rafted about 125 miles down the north shore to of Duluth, running from north of the Mesabi range to the . international houndry. It has one mill at the interior village of Virginia, on the Mesabi range, and has been figuring on building another there, the two to have an annual capacity of 200,000,000 ft., but has come to no agreement on this point. Recently it leased the Lesure mill at Duluth, and after a week bought it outright. It gave a contract to the St. Louis mill at Duluth for a lot of sawing and has now closed a deal for its purchase also. This will give it capacity in this city for about 120,000,000 ft a year, and in the first mill at Virginia, which it recently bought, it has 90,000,000 ft. more. There is little prospect now that it will build a second mill there, as it has been talked. The product of all these mills is to go east, and the deals insure the operation of the St.. Louis and Lesure mills for a long term of years. Both were saw- ing .on contract and had little more timber of their own left. Both might have otherwise have been wrecked next year. The removal of the Hines headquarters emphasizes the de- cline of Ashland as a sawing center. It opens the way for some questioning as to the Hines company's intentions for it has not now in this neighborhood more than two or three years' sawing. There have been some large purchases of timber on the north shore of Lake Superior by the Weyer- haeueser and Wright & Davis interests, and it is now supposed mills at Duluth, but this is now a very plain proposition, and can be done with a minimum of losses. These two deals add a great many hundred million feet of standing pine to that tributary to this market and sure to be shipped east from here by lake. The head of the lakes as a lumber ship- _ ping center is prolonged for ten years at least over what it otherwise might have been. OVERLOADING VESSELS Buffalo, Oct. 3--It has always seemed odd to me. that so much has been said and so little done on the vexed sub- ject of overloading lake vessels. Sailors have complained and insurance men have grumbled, but the vessel owners have kept on yielding to the temptation of putting on a little more load than would be safe in a storm and taking their chances. for it is too easy a way to earn a few hundred dollars to be given up unless it is made necessary. Insurance interests have suffered untold losses on this account and it looks as though they were to go on losing, for they have not the in- dependence to come out and adopt a load line for every vessel and refuse to be responsible if it is out of sight when the vessel leaves port. Still we are hearing in these days of steel bottoms all of the old stories of losses that we used to when the fleet was mostly wood, though the term "floating coffins" is not heard quite as much. Yet it is doubtful if the term should be dropped, especially when certain occurrences not so far dis- tant are recalled. Steel vessels have been going down too readily to be sure that they are not out of that list. It may be possible that lake underwriters look at the blackest side of the case, but they have been hit very hard of late, so that