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European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. June, 1910 AGENTS FOR MARINE REVIEW. Buffalo:-- %). ©2@onnor, 2. Ohio: strect. R. J. Seidenberg, Ellicott Square News Stand. J. H. Fleming, Chamber of Commerce. Chicago:-- Post Office News Co., 178 Dearborn street. Frank Morris, 165 Wabash avenue. James Dunne, Chicago Northwestern railroad station. Detroit :-- Wayne Hotel, Jefferson and Third. Robert Schram, 115 Woodward avenue. Geo. W. Sharpe & Co., 138 Griswold street. Gary, Ind.:-- Frank Kleinschmidt, 652 Broadway. Toledo:-- K. Kramer, Produce Exchange building. Boston :-- Board of Trade News Stand, Miss Minnie Chene:7, Prop., Board of Trade building. Revere Beach and Lynn News Stand, 350 Atlantic avenue. Rowes Wharf News Stand, B. J. Dannahy, Prop., Atlantic avenue. New Orleans:-- Staub's News Emporium, Exchange Alley and Canal street. Hollei's News Stand, Commercial place. ores oo Stand, Charles, near Canal street. New York:-- J. Fine, Produce Exchange building. Wm. Farrell, Battery place and Greenwich street. J. Fuchs, 17 Battery place. Washington :-- New Willard hotel, 14th and Pennsylvania avenue. Becker & Orndorff, 1427 Pennsylvania avenue. "movement on_ record. firm basis. THE Marine. REVIEW THE STATE OF INDUSTRY. The apathy in the iron business and depression more or less extended in other lines bears no reflection in lake trade. The movement of ore during May was the heaviest for that month in the history of the trade. It reached 6,081,358 tons, showing an increase of 2,828,083 tons over the movement of May, 1909. To June 1, 7,601,665 tons have been moved, an increase of 4,292,- 597 tons over 1909--and it must be borne in mind that 42,500,000 tons were moved during the season of 1909, the heaviest This movement was accomplished easily, notwithstanding the temporary blockading of the West Neebish channel caused by the sinking of a steamer and the congestion of both upper and lower lake docks. It is rea- sonably certain that 50,000,000 tons of ore will be moved during the present year It will be a simple matter to even exceed that movement should the This ore will be moved at a freight rate 10 cents in ex- shippers require it. cess of that paid last year, meaning an added distribution of $5,000,000 among vessel owners. Therefore, whatever may be the state of industry throughout the country, the lakes at any rate are pros- pering. The fact, too, that ore is mov- ing in such abundance is a hopeful sign and puts the optimistic views of Judge Gary, of the Steel Corporation, upon a This country is a mighty big one with enormous powers of con- sumption and pessimistic talk is out of place in it. THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. It is understood that out of 391 con- districts 296 of them have appropriations in the River and Harbor Bill, now before congress; it is under- gressional stood also that many of these districts. have no water in them save mountain streams. Apparently what the late Sen- ator Hanna termed pork is to be found in liberal quantities in this bill. Ap- parently the congressmen are acting on the theory that if the streams in their districts do not need improvement, their political fortunes do. It should be the settled policy of the government not to waste money upon streams that are not navigable or that from their general geographical situation will never bear June, 1910 Mil- lions can be economically spent in deep--- ening channels in order that freight a paying proportion of commerce. rates may be reduced; but even a penny is extravagantly wasted if spent upon a stream that will never bear a pound of commerce. The whole scheme of river and harbor improvements should be sys- tematized. The abolition of the National Waterways Commission is a mistake. DEVELOPMENT OF INLAND WATERWAYS. A. facetious after dinner orator re- cently remarked that if talk could be made to work, the much mooted deep- waterways projects in the Mississippi valley would have long since been com- pleted and we would now be enjoying a 25-ft. and Pittsburg to the Gulf of Mexico. Nevertheless out of the mass of fruit- channel from St. Paul, Chicago less discussion so caustically referred to and in spite of the many impractical or commercially impossible schemes that have been advanced, there are unmis- takable indications that the people of the middle west are gradually awaken- ing to a sane and lively appreciation of the deep waterways problem. Recently the business men of Kansas City raised $1,000,000 to finance a peo- ple's boat line to ply the Missouri river between Kansas City and St. Louis. A portion of this fund, we understand, is to be stretches in the river and the balance in used in improving certain bad building and providing working capital for a fleet of properly constructed river steamers designed to carry freight. It will be that City-St. Louis steamboat line have to create any new traffic routes. noted this Kansas will not One trouble with the Mississippi deep channel project from a commercial stand- point is that the bulk of the traffic in the United States moves in an east and west direction and to make any great of of this would have to be diverted to a north use the Mississippi much and south direction and the tremendous inertia of years of custom overcome. But between Kansas City and St. Louis is an immense traffic already moving along established lines and between -es- tablished points. Furthermore we un- derstand that the boats are to be con-