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8 MARINE REVIFE,W MARINE REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. JoHN M. MuLROONEY, F. M. BARTON, ; HOMER J.CaARR, - - - Associate Editor and Manager Chicago Office, 210 South Water Street. Published every Thursday at No. 510 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland, O. SUBSCRIPTION--$z2.00 per year in advance. Convenient binders sent, post paid, 75 cents. Advertising rates on application. \ PROPRIETORS. The books of the United States treasury department contain the names of 3,510 vessels, measuring. 1,063,063.90 tons in the lake trade. In classification of this fleet the lakes have more steamboats of 1,000 to 2,500 tons than the combined ownership of this class of vessels in all other sections of the country. The classification is as follows: Class. Number. Tonnage. Stenmbviessel si. - ir. ete ches. «nr .ezwrmensis ake 1,527 652,922.25 Sailing vessels-e..s. recs qtues ders srphestibinxaionie 1,272 328,655.96 | Gane b Gates: ides visgae gc: oe suas 0 epe Riis sies cen 657 67,574.90 BAGP OSs gai cine cs gi Ses wu mete per avers tetanic ove antes 54 13,910.09 SNe OAL sicsiw on sete asta cs otc ce seen os oe 3,510 1,063, 063. go : According to the report of William W. Bates, United States com- missioner of navigation, 46 per cent. of the new tonnage of the country was built on the lakes during 1889. This is a percentage greater than the work of the Atlantic coast and western rivers combined, and almost equal to the whole work on the Atlantic and Pacific coast. In 1890 the tonnage built on the lakes is but very little less than that built on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. . Tonnage built on the lakes during the past five years was as follows: oe No. of boats. Net Tonnage. TESG, 5 ccs ee SE A 85 20,400.54. EOS Jai dec cpieseh seanen tn Moms: Dotaade< agspateaas 152 56,488.32 Ve Ouasesi deen aictnsy eho nkntPe veces aut 222 101,102.87 TOO er tee ta whaen Se oa usciees ceweetge seed ds 225 107,080.30 EOQO at ee ee tute Gere ees Soh Hat f chee tases 218 ~ 108,515.00 SROEAL Sr a5. skit Wee teas eee come 902 393,597-03 St. Mary's Falls and Suez canal entice Number of boats through St. Mary's Falls canal in 1890, 234 days of navigation, 10,557; tonnage, net | registered, 8,454,435. Number of boats through Suez canal during 1890, full year, 3,389; tonnage, net registered, 6,890,014. Lintered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. Ir was announced immediately after the reciprocity confer- ence in Washington between representatives of the Canadian and United States governments that the matter of discrimination in Welland and St. Lawrense canal tolls as well as the question of reciprocity in wrecking on the great lakes had been settled in accordance with the views of American lake interests on these subjects. It would seem, however, that although there is again a manifest disposition on the part of the Canadian parliament to accept the American proposition for reciprocity of service in case of wreck or salvage, a bill for that purpose having been recently introduced by Mackenzie Bowell, minister of custom, the executive officers of the government have not as yet given full approval to the movement in any way. As regards the subject of discrimination in canal tolts, the Canadian commissioners simply promised to give it their immediate attention. Even this has aroused the Kingston forwarding interests, who are again very earnest in their opposition to allowing a rebate on grain bound through the canals to American ports. DETROIT vessel owners are about to petition Inspector General Dumont of the inspection service to have steam vessels inspected before the opening in the spring, in all cases where it is possible to have them inspected at that time. Vessel owners in other lake cities will join in this request, as such a plan would be the means of saving delay to_their vessels during the season of navigation. Under the present rules a steamer built in August will be inspected in August each year afterward. On ac- count of the peculiarities of the lake trade, every minute of time being taken advantage of during the season of navigation, vessel owners have a right, as against shipping interests else- where, to ask for inspection in the spring, but the argument to be raised against such a system is that it would crowd the work of the inspectors into two or three months of the year. bushels were loaded into vessels engaged recently, although _ port is not as strong as it would be with less tonnage to move at ies controlling about equal portions of all but about one-fifth o course, what may be done in the way of further development o On Monday next at 10 a. m. the army engineers appointe to consider the application for a bridge at Duluth harbor entrance will meet at Detroit. Genera] Poe, senior member the commission, asks that all arguments for or against the; ject be submitted in duplicate type-written copies. The dy Carriers' Association and Cleveland Vessel Owners' Associa will both enter strong protest against the bridge. A bad precec ent would be established if the construction of this bridge j permitted by the government. Defeat the project. es Lake Freight Matters. | Some Cleveland ore dealers have been inclined to a ieee favorable view of the iron market during the past week, on the claim that it is admitted on the part of all concerned that de- pression has reached its limit, although there is no outwai change in conditions. Prospects of a late opening, indications o low water and a fair demand for vessels to carry grain are all facto that have combined to relieve the vessel owners of anxiety r - garding iron ore, notwithstanding the absence of demand for ves- sels in either the Lake Superior or Lake Michigan ore trade. Several large steamers have been chartered during the week f first trips with grain from Duluth to Buffalo at 4 cents and the is still a demand in this direction. At Chicago about 1,000,0 not more than three or four charters have been made during the week at 33/ cents on wheat to Buffalo. The soft coal produce and railway men who were to have held a conference at Pit burgh on Tuesday iast have postponed the meeting for one wee Vessels wintering at Buffalo have a capacity of about 200,000 tons, so that the feeling as to opening rates on coal out of that -- the opening. To Drain a Lake of 800, 000, 000 Gallons. From the Cleveland offices of the Lake Superior, Cleveland and Pittsburgh & Lake Angeline mining companies it is a nounced officially that work on the project of draining Lak Angeline has begun under a contract calling for its completion in five months. 'The lake covers an area of 153 acres and has a maximum depth of 43 feet with a mean depth of 20 feet. Th lake is owned by these companies, whose mines are already be- ing worked beneath it, the Lake Superior and Cleveland compa the property, which is owned by the Lake Angeline company. This large body of water is being removed as a matter of safety to the present underground workings, but there is no telling, o the properties when the water is out of the way. 'The companies undertaking this work are among the strongest in the minit 3 business of Take Superior and there is little doubt that it w | be carried out successfully. 'The contractor is C. B. Howell o New York. A crib will be sunk while the ice is still on the lake. A centrifugal pump having a 20-inch suction and a 22- inch discharge, with a capacity of 15,000 to 20,000 gallons a minute will be used and the water will be discharged into the Carp river. Admiral Watson, H. M. N., in a report to the British admir- alty, says that the ship building firms in the interior of the United States especially at Duluth, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleve- land and Buffalo have large ship building plants and could in a short time build ships which could be easily converted into war -- vessels. The British admiral is not the only person acquainted with shipping that is surprised at the wonderful development of ship building interests on the great lakes. Shipping men nearer home are astonished at what western ship builders are doing -- Maritime Register. Send 10 cents in stamps f | ntained tit the lesite: ps for copy of supplement co