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'THE. Marine. REVIEW 3g CHICAGO GRAIN REPORT Chicago, Aug. 8.--Freights are reflecting fairly strong tone and vessels are in good demand at basis 1% cents Buffalo corn and 334@3% cents through routing to Mon- treal. The total shipping is in excess of the previous week some half million bushels and distributed about as follows: via all rail lines of wheat, 143,700 bu.; corn, 422,381 bu., and oats, 876,614 bu.; via lake to' Buffalo and other American points, of wheat, 80,000 bu., and. corn, 1,401,000 bu.; oats, 80,000 bu.; and to Canada points via: lake, of corn, 322,400 bu. and oats, 376,000 bu. ce Going cash inquiry from eastern and export markets is stimulating a fair marketing of old grain from the country points--the past week noting of Chicago receipts some 2,000,000 bu. wheat, 1,300,000 bu. corn, and 2,620,000 bu. oats. Reports of the growing crop hold of most encourag- ing order and the early calculations of extensive harvesting making for entire fulfilment. The yield of some 850,000,- ooo bu. oats, heretofore suggested by report of the United' States department of agriculture, is practically at maturity, while the corn crop is promising of fully 2,500,000,000 bu. These new oats will move for lake 'distributing points in latter August--the spring wheat following about middle September. : In general the grain situation gives promise of fairly active vessel demand throughout the balance of season. Lake and Rail Shipments: Same week This week. Last week. last year. Wheat\ oo) ye So: 223,700 270,074 484,074 Cork 35s. es 2,145,786 1,764,382 1,661,140 OWNS awe ie ee. 1,333,032 1,200,156 523,500 RVG oe 3,000 7040: 14,640 Batley 10,661 46,203 22,593 3,716,179 3,288,761 2,705,950 Lake and Rail Shipments: : : Since Jan. 1, Same time 1905. year ago. Wheat 7 ee 7.541021 8,102,493 GOPMG One ee 54,454,713 38,571,904 Oats. kk ee ee 30,870,490 27,258,844 Rye. ee ae 614,716 817,687 Batley i 2,437,490 2,738,827 95,919,030 77,480,815 Stocks in Private and Public Elevators: Same week This week. Last week. Jast year. Wheat oo e., 3,465,000 2,198,000 2,330,000 Com. oe ee 5,229,000 5,923,000 4,868,000 ates a 3,605,000 2,599,000 © T,001,000 Rye Go ee 120,000 91,000 563,000 Batley BO td 7 15,714 144,000 12,430,714 10,826,714 8,906,000 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES Capt. Wm. P. Benham is ashore looking after the fitting out of the new steamer Wm. A. Paine. : All the passenger lines out of Detroit report the busi- ness of the present season to be the best in several years. A. D. Thompson & Co., of Duluth, one of the largest grain firms of the northwest, has leased the Great North- ern elevators at Superior. The McMorran Wrecking Co., Port Huron, Mich., has taken the contract to raise the steamer Shamrock which was sunk in Thunder Bay. The steamer Penobscot is to be lengthened 72 feet at the close of the present season. She is now 351 feet long with a gross tonnage of 3,502 tons. Information from Chicago is to the effect that the lake passenger trade out of that port, mainly excursion busi- ness, has been the heaviest in years. Capt. James Reid, of Sarnia, has purchased the iron ore cargo in the wreck of the steamer Yakima lying at the head of Stag Island in the St. Clair river. The steamer Augustus B. Wolvin loaded II,140 tons of © coal at Cleveland last week, which is the largest cargo of coal that was ever carried up the lakes. The steamer James H. Reed, of the Provident Steam- ship Co.'s fleet, put into the Detroit Ship Building Co.'s dock last week with a cracked cylinder head. : The Canadian: steamer S. S. Wexford blew out the cylinder head of a high-pressure engine when about four miles west of Thunder Bay Island last week. The tug Home Rule will receive a new boiler and other changes at the shear dock of the Detroit Shipbuilding Co. The tug. will be out .of commission for several days. Mr. J. B. Miller, of Conneaut, one of the best known and oldest engineers on the lakes, has retired. He was chief engineer of the steamer Mariska of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet. . che steamer J.J. Albright, of the Mitchell fleet, on her last trip carried 7,149 gross tons of ore. She is 416 ft. long and 50 ft. beam and this cargo is therefore quite a record for this type of boat. With. the season of navigation about half through, in- surance men have sustained a loss on hulls but a consider- able profit on cargoes, the total losses for the first half of 1905 averaging about $800,000. The steamer E. H. Gary has again broken the cargo record of the great lakes by loading 12,423 gross tons of iron ore at Escanaba for delivery at South Chicago. Her former record on this trip was 11,882 tons. Capt. J. A. Wiesback, of Buffalo; has surveyed the Aurania which ran aground at the Sault recently, and re- ports that twenty plates must be removed. This will keep the steamer at Lorain for about ten days. Mr. H. F. Brandebury, assistant superintendent of con- struction of life saving stations, has received instructions from Washington to proceed with a testing of the possible new site for the station to be established at Lorain. Alexander Adams is now the chief engineer of the steamer Huron, having been promoted from second engi- neer of the steamer Minneapolis. Both vessels are owned by the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Buffalo Steamship Co. The new steamer Lyman C. Smith, which was built at the Wyandotte yard of the American Ship Building Co., is carrying more than her owners and builders figured. The Smith has just cleared from Duluth with 10,640 tons of ore. "The new steamer George W. Perkins carried 10,742 tons of iron-ore from Two Harbors last week, being the largest: cargo ever carried from the head of the lakes to a Lake Erie port. The larger cargoes have gone to South Chicago:.. : One of the largest tugs in the: Dominion was launched last week at the yard of the Canadian Ship Building Co., Toronto, for the Great--Lakes Dredging Co., of Port Arthur. She is 110 ft. long and'is fitted with powerful engines, being intended for ice crushing purposes about the harbor of Port Arthur. : Two new freighters, the steamer Wm. A. Paine and the Wm. E. Corey, are now in commission. The Paine, which was built at the Cleveland yard of the American Ship Building Co. for Capt. Charles L. Hutchinson, of Cleve- land, is under command of Capt. Wm. P. Benham. The Corey, which was built at the South Chicago yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the Pittsburg Steamship Co., is under command of Capt. Fred A. Bailey.