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532 July ore receipts at Ashtabula estab- lished a new record for monthly figures. During that period, 1,707,072 tons of iron ore were received, a gain of 10,- 155 tons over the June record. ee ee It is reported that wrecking operations on the steamer CHartes S. Price, on the bottom of Lake Huron about 11 miles above Port Huron, may be abandoned. A survey made recently by Capt. Alex Cunning, who is in charge of the work, indicates that the machinery of the vessel has been destroyed, the boilers are out of the hull and all the bulkheads from the cargo hold aft are carried away. It is stated that the bow could be lifted with air with comparative ease, but with the machinery and boilers gone and the stern badly battered, it is doubtful whether the wreck would be worth much if salved. The Great Lakes Towing Co. took the contract for float- ing the steamer for $98,000 or a per- centage of the value of the ship, on the no-cure-no-pay plan. oe The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. has made some additional changes in the names of vessels in its fleet. The steamer EUGENE ZIMMERMAN has_ been renamed Granp IsLANnp, and the F. M. OspornE has béen changed to MUNSING. * * * Several serious collisions have oc- curred on the Great Lakes during the past month. Notable among these was the collision between the steamers NorrincHam and W. Grant MordeEN, in a dense fog, above Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior. NorrincHAM, upbound, light, struck Morpen on the port bow just for- ward of the wheel house, damaging the latter considerably above the water line. MorpEN was temporarily repaired at the Soo, losing a week’s time. NotTrincGHAM sustained ‘the greater injury, her stem being twisted back almost its entire length. She was repaired at Toledo and was out of commission two weeks. The steamers SIERRA and’ Empire City col- lided at Algonac, St. Clair river. Both - vessels were badly damaged and _ lost considerable time making repairs. An- other collision which caused consider- able damage to both vessels was that be- tween steamer Marquette, formerly E. L. Wairace. and the. steamer J, T. Kopp, in the lower Detroit river. Mar- QUETTE was out of commission three weeks, while repair work on the Kopp delayed her about two weeks. On Puget Sound By F. K. Haskell ESPITE serious delays caused by D the longshoremen’s strike, Seat- tle’s overseas, coastwise and Alaskan commerce for June showed an ‘increase of more than $19,000,000, com- pared with the same month last year. : The total value of the commerce of the port for June, 1916, was $37,918,383, against $18,737,300 in June, 1915. i ee The North Pacific Ship Building Co. has been incorporated at Portland, Ore., with a capital of $100,000. It will oper- ate in conjunction with the Smith & Watson Iron Works and the Northwest Steel Works, where all machinery for the vessels will be constructed. * * Ok Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Seaborn Ship Yard Co., Tacoma, Wash. The trustees are C. N. Seaborn, Tacoma; Phillips Morrison THE MARINE REVIEW and J. F. Ostrander, Seattle. The com- pany has a capital stock of $10,000 and will engage in the general ship yards and ship building business. rae Oee The power freighter Caco, built for the Island Transportation Co. at the yards of John Martinolich at Dockton, Wash., was launched recently. The new vessel is 65 feet long and will be equipped with an 80-horsepower Winton marine gas engine. CHaco will have the pilot house control system. The freighter will cost $8,000 and will ply between Seattle and island points. * * * Nine years ago the splendid 5,000-ton steel freight and passenger steamer SESOSTRIS, operated by the Kosmos line, was loading a cargo of coffee at Ocas on the Pacific shores of Guatemala. A great storm arose, which first cast the steamer adrift and then carried her on a sandy beach, where she has remained half buried ever since. The plight of YZ Y YY 1SSISSI September, 1916 Sresostris had been all but forgotten until shipping men, as the result of the European war, began to search harbors far and wide for tonnage. While north Pacific shipping men were searching for vessels, someone suggested SEsOSTRIS, and now an expedition is being formed for floating the big German craft. The British Columbia Salvage Co. is outfit- ting the tug Pitot, which will leave for the south with a party of salvage experts aboard. Capt. W. H. Logan will be in charge. The salvage steamer SALVoR may accompany Pitor. The natives are said to have dug the vessel out of the sand, forming an artificial lake. In order to get SEsosTRIS into deep water, a channel, half a mile long, will have to be dug. * cd * The American schooner ALBERT MEYER was purchased by J. E. Shields, Seattle, when 18 days out from Melbourne, © Australia, for Papeete. The vessel was formerly operated as a fishing schooner by the Alaska Codfish Co. Y By H.H. Dunn - NTICIPATION, by First Chief Carranza of Mexico, of war with United States has brought damage of more than $300,000 to shipping in- terests on the Gulf of Mexico, through the darkening, by his orders, of light- houses on the many reefs which mark the Mexican coast. The steamer FRepa, from New Orleans, laden with grain and hospital supplies, and. chartered to the Carribbean & Southern Steamship Co., went on Alacran reef, on the coast of Yucatan, 12 miles from the Alacran light, which was dark. The vessel and cargo represent $400,000, and while much of the cargo will be saved, the ship is badly damaged. The second vessel to meet a like fate is CARIARIN, a large schooner, of Pensacola, which was de- stroyed on the same reef, owing to the darkening of the light, on the night of July 7. Capt. Sullivan, of the wrecked schooner, and his crew of 10 men, have been brought to New Orleans by the Norwegian steamer NoRDAMERIKA. CARIARIN and her cargo represent a loss of about $75,000. k * * The former revenue cutter, WINONA. has been sold by W. M. Evans, Mobile, Ala., to Francisco Negra, a wealthy cattle raiser of Cuba, for $30,000.’ Negra also bought the steamer Louis Dotive, and will put both boats in the Cuban cattle trade. The revenue cutter TALLAPOOAS replaced Winona on the Mobile section of the Gulf coast. Pe. eee, Monroe, La., was cut off from river trafic for about a week by low water. Even the shallow-draft packets were un- able to reach the town. * Ok Ok The Mobile & Gulf Navigation Co. will start a line of steamers between Mobile and Cuban ports about Sept. 1, according to an announcement by P. E. Chalifoux, Birmingham, president of the company. Later, the company plans to, operate steamers to Central and South American ports. ee te Engineering officers of the United States army are seeking means to deepen Southwest pass—one of the mouths of the Mississippi—to 35 feet, for a width of 1,000 feet, according to newspaper announcements in New Orleans. Con- ferences have been held betweeen these engineers and Major Edward Schultz, in charge of government en- gineers in the Crescent City district. Examination and survey of Southwest pass were made by army engineers last March. Mc om oe The ‘steel barque, Juanrra, 100 days overdue and 40 days unheard from, reached New Orleans July 28. Villa & Co., owners of Juanita, had practically given up hope of her arrival when she came in through the passes. She was directly in the path of the big storm, and was last heard from off Dry Tortugas, June 20, from where she should have arrived in New Orleans in 12 days. The hurricane did not. hit the big barque according to the captain, but she met with other gales and with calms which kept her from making port for 100 days past the date she was due. JUANITA was in sand ballast, coming over ‘for staves. In one of the storms the sand in the hold began to shift, forcing the crew to work with shovels all one day to keep her from going over. Villa & Co. have purchased five new sailing ves- sels for the stave trade between New Orleans and Barcelona. We Ce ae The steamer Rutu, first large vessel ever built in Mobile, was launched on the morning of July 29, at the docks of the Gulf City Boiler Works. Rutu was built for the Texas Oil Co. and will go into service at Port Arthur, Texas. Rice ee The schooner Rowe, with captain and crew of six men, has returned to ‘Gulf- port, after having been blown 300 miles out of her couse and given up for lost. eo ek The seamen’s law has prevented eight steamers of the Mexican Navigation Co. from coming under the United States flag, according to Gonzalo Abaunza, general manager of the company. One of the vessels, Taspasco, has been trans- ferred from Mexican registry to Cuban, as the Cuban Navigation Co., a $3,000,-