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AT HEAD OF THE LAKES. Duluth, June 3.--If there has been any doubt up to this time regarding the rate at which ore is being moved from. the head of the lakes it must surely cease with a glance at the fig- ures for the month of May. The Mis- sabe: docks made two records' handling during the month 1,835,921 tons of ore or 695,160 tons more than in May, 1906, and 34,825 tons more than the pre- vious record made last July. The 'sec- ond record was in the unloading of 2,946 cars in 24 hours. It «will be grati- fying also to the large number. of in- dependent interests shipping from Allouez to note that the Great North- ern railroad has more than made good its proposed increase of 50 per cent in tonnage handled during May. The shipment from Superior was 994,504 tons as compared with 657,924 tons in May, 1906, an actual increase of a lit- tle more than 51 per cent. If the boats which have been the cause of delays up to this time arrive in good season at Allouez from now on the Great Northern will undoubtedly ship its full quota. Day, : The Two Harbor docks also showed an increase for the month. with 1,203,- 428 tons this year against 1,011,430 tons in May last year. This aggregates a shipment of 4,038,853 tons from the head of the lakes during May, an in- crease of 1,228,738 tons over last year. The total for the year is 4,487,750 tons so that at the end of May the ship- ments are about as: far ahead of last year as they were behind at the begin- ning of the month or 693,021 tons. With the new boats available this month the June tonnage bids fair to make another record. During the past 'few days cargoes have been smaller as 18 ft., 10 in. was ordered as a maximum draught for the Sault river, but the gov- ernment today increased that to 19 ft. 4 in. The grain movement during the past week was unustially light, only 1,050,887 - bushels being shipped altogether. The receipts also were very small. Below is the comparative statement for the past two weeks: --Week May 25-- --Week June 1-- Receipts. Shipm'ts. Receipts. Shipm'ts. Wheat ..<686,805 1,240,232 425,629 695,224 Corn 1,292 531 Oats ..... 57,509 103,218 54,066 194,161 Bye 8 4,929 4,933 1,232 754 Barley... 54,962 214,186 50,607. 60,112 Flax .....245,262 447,489 177,978 100,624 The coal' tonnage coming to the head of the lakes continues large -par- ticularly in bituminous grades. The coal docks are in good shape and ship- ments away from the docks are fair. The Northwestern Fuel Co. is install- ing a new Brown Hoist bridge on its No. 1 dock, Superior, which will in- "TAE MarRINE. REVIEW crease: the shipping facilities material- ly. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., has begun work on its new coal dock to be.located on the bay side of Connors Point next to the dock. of the Northern Coal & Dock Co. This dock will not be finished for two years and will handle both anthra- cite and bituminous coal. This year only the wood cribbing will be put in, the contractors being Whitney Bros., 39 SENECA CHAIN CO., The Seneca Chain Co... Kent, ©. has recently completed a 3%-in. chain for the Edison Engineering Co., of New York, one of the largest chains ever made in this country. The links in the chain weigh 94 lbs. each and the hook weighs 457 lIbs., the triangle being of 4%-in. iron. The company makes chains from the smallest sized MAKING. A 314-IN, CHAIN, of Superior; 75,000 ft. of lumber will be used. Above the 18 ft. of wood the dock will be built of concrete and will be 1,165 ft. long and 672 ft. wide. The kind of machinery to be installed has not been decided upon yet. -The government engineer,- Major Fitch, is asking for bids, to be opened June 15, for a steel tug. Specifications for the tug, which is to be .85 ft.-long can be obtained from the engineer's of- fice, Duluth. The government has an appropriation of about $35,000 available for this purpose. : The steamer Weston aground on Outer Island and later pulled off by the tug Crosby and the steamer Rog- ers after lightering 1,200 tons of her cargo proceeded to Duluth under her own steam and was found not to be leaking. - She is not yet unloaded and a survey of the damage has not been made but it is thought she will not have to go into dry dock. The steamer Wm. B. Kerr took 11,- 414 tons of iron ore to Buffalo, the largest cargo ever delivered at that port. wire to the largest ship cables. It has contracts on hand now for cables for twenty-three lightships, also heavy cables for the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., and the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco. The company is prepared to turn out both stud link and close link cables of any size. Its business is rapidly growing and it has recently increased its capital stock from $200,000 to $300,- 000 for the purpose of building a plant at Mansfield, O. The buildings at Mansfield will be built of brick and stone, the main building being 60 x 160 with two forge shops 40 x 228 each. The plant will be equipped with a 150-H. P. gas engine, testing machine, track railroad scales, and the most modern equipment in the way of chain-making machinery. The com- pany is now employing at its Kent plant over 400 hands. It is employ- ing about 100 hands at Zanesville, but will move the latter plant to Mansfield upon the completion of the buildings at Mansfield, when it ex- pects to employ at that plant 250 men. ask