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20 THE MaRINE REVIEW DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR ASSOCIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Company CLEVELAND. CHICAGO: MONADNOCK BUILDING. PITTSBURG: PARK BUILDING. NEW YORK: 150 NASSAU STREET. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, $3.00 perannum. To Foreign Countries, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preced- : ing date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. willsupply the trade with the MARINE REVIEW through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Wane, London, E. C. England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. JOSE 21, 1906. THE SITUATION AT SAULT STE. MARIE. Mr. Harvey D. Goulder, counsel for the Lake Car- riers' Association, has submitted a brief to William Livingstone, president of the Lake Carriers' Asso- ciation, on the present situation at Sault Ste. Marie. Sault Ste. Marie, as everyone knows, is the most im- portant point on the chain of lakes since it marks the navigable connection of Lake Superior with the lower lakes. As a single unit the waterborne com- merce of Lake Superior is not equaled by that of any waterway in the world. Of late years private com- panies have sought to utilize the water of the rapids for power purposes, and in the development of these purely private enterprises rivalries have naturally arisen. At the last annual meeting of the Lake Car- riers' Association at Detroit, Mr. Goulder was espe- cially careful in emphasizing the fact that the Lake Carriers' Association as a body must hold itself aloof from these purely independent ventures, preserving a strict neutrality, avoiding even the suspicion of favor- ing one interest or another, but standing squarely on the ground of the paramount right of navigation. His point was that the Lake Carriers' Association should not be drawn into any private squabble. After direct- ing the attention of the convention to encroachment on lands and waters north of the government works, he submitted the following resolution, which was Adopted: Resolved: That we declare our opposition to any works in_pro- gress or any encroachment on the lands or waters 'north of* the government canal, all which waters, owing to the great and rapid growth of tonnage on the great lakes, will be required by the government to make suitable. provision for the needs of navigation in the near future. That levels must be maintained, navigation must be. protected, the public must have absolute right to use any portion or all of the natural flow in the future, free from any private use, and we, there- fore, declare our opposition to any, works in progress and call upon the government to clear the rapids from all encroachment and private improvement of any kind; and if the parties operating these have vested rights, that the government acquire the same in a proper and just manner. This action is taken upon the firm conviction that the needs of the country demand that the whole space north of the present locks and government works out to the international boundary line, are required and will be rapidly utilized for navigation purposes. This resolution clearly defines the position of the Lake Carriers' Association. The association is op- posed to any encroachment in the territory north of the Poe lock. The Chandler-Dunbar Power Co. 1s engaged upon works north of the present Poe lock. but the Lake Carriers' Association is not opposed to the Chandler-Dunbar company itself. It is simply op- posed to the use of the space north of the Poe lock for any private purpose. Its attitude towards the Chand- ler-Dunbar company is entirely impersonal. A mem- ber of the Chandler-Dunbar company has latterly in a newspaper article charged the Lake Carriers' Asso- ciation with being used as a cat's paw by another pri- vate interest at the Sault, thus projecting the very 'situation that Mr. Goulder was so careful to avoid. tf the charge is founded upon any unguarded utterance of any member of the association it is nevertheless untrue in its general application to the association. All that the Lake Carriers' Association desires is the safeguarding of the rights of navigation. Mr. Goulder in his brief submitted to President Livingstone shows that the commerce of the canals at Sault Ste. Marie has trebled in the past ten years and has actually multiplied twelve times in the past twenty years. The commerce of the canals for 1885 was 3,256,628 tons; for 1895, 15,062,680 tons; and for 1905, 44,270,680 tons. Upon this basis of increase the commetce ten years hence will amount to 107,000,- ooo tons and twenty years hence to the astounding total of 202,000,000, tons. The contention of the Lake Carriers' Association, therefore, is that all available space north of the present Poe lock will eventually be needed to accommodate the demands of navigation. It was the general belief at the recent convention of the Lake Carriers' Association that the war depart- ment was planning to construct a third lock north of the Poe lock. Tentative plans were submitted show~ ing the general location of such a lock. The Lake Carriers' Association is much perplexed to discover now that the war department is preparing to enlarge the Weitzel lock rather than to construct a third lock. While in Washington recently protest was made against this proposed arrangement on the ground that lake commerce could not suffer to be deprived of the use of the Weitzel lock. Much surprise was expressed at this turn of affairs and an inquiry was immediately instituted by the association. The attention of 'Mr.