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MARINE REVIEW. | 7 Record of Speed and Big Cargoes. [ Masters or owners of freight boats are invited to report improvements on this list. ] Iron ore: Maritana, Minnesota Steamship Company of Cleveland, 4,260 gross, or 4,771 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago; Maryland, Inter-Ocean Transportation Company of Milwaukee, 3,663 gross, or 4,103 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago, draft 17 feet 4 inches. Grain: KE. ©. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 125,730 bushels of corn, Chicago to Buffalo, draft 14 feet 8 inches; W. H. Gileher, J. C. Gilchrist of of Cleveland, 113,885 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo. Speed: Owego, Union Line of Buffalo, Buffalo to Chicago, 889 miles, 54 hours and 16 minutes, 16.4 miles an hour. lron Mining. VALUE OF LEADING STOCKS. Quoted by Chas. H. Potter & Co., No. 104 Superior St. Cleveland, O. Stocks. Par Value. Bid. Asked. 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Managers of leading iron properties on other ranges are still visiting the Mesaba and they all seem to be keeping a very close watch of its development, but there are no leases of importance recently. Some of the fee holders of the Norrie mine are said to have leased lands south of the Bi- wabik and Canton mines, although it has been understood all along that the Norrie people who have been looking over the range consider the royalties too high. Shipments of iron ore from Two Harbors up to and includ- ing Wednesday,Sept. 14, aggregated 870,880 gross tons, of which 500, 201 tons were from the Chandler, 361,157 tons from the Min- nesota, 2,525 tons from the Pioneer and 6,997 tons from the Zenith mine. On the same date shipments from Ashland ag- gregated 1,624,234 gross tons, divided among the different mines as follows: Ashland 157,351 tons, Aurora 241,957, Colby, No. eno. Golly, No.2, 47,335, Rand 17,233, lilden174,198, Taylor 14,640, Globe-Ashland 5,309, Iron Belt 117,788, Mon- treal, south vein, 3,383, Montreal, north vein, 25,749, Palms 45,898, Section 33, south vein 4,619, Section 33, north vein 3,133, Anvil 1,696, Brotherton 75,568, Comet 25,049, Carey 22,324, Newport 81,024, Imperial 3,456, Norrie 310,541, Hast Norrie 148,419, Odanah 2,242, Pabst 38,599, Eureka 5,086, Sun- day Lake 40,114, Windsor 18,936, Jack Pot 1,609. Another valuable find of ore is reported from the property of the Commonwealth company, Menominee range. Although a very large output is being made this season from the different mines of this company the work of exploring its property goes on right along. Speed and Big Cargoes. For only a single week the steamer Onoko held the honor of carrying the largest cargo of wheat between Chicago and Buf- falo. 'The steamer W. H. Gilcher, owned by J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland, a few days ago delivered at Buffalo from Chicago a cargo of 113,885 bushels of wheat, or 46 bushels more than the Onoko's cargo of a week previous. The new steel steamer Pioneer, owned by the Cleveland- Cliffs Iron Company, may be the fastest freight boat on the lakes, but as yet she can hardly be said to have earned it against the public record of the Union liner Owego between Chicago and Buffalo two years ago, when that boat made an average of 16.4 miles an hour on the long run of 889 miles. 'The Owego's test was publicly announced beforehand and is beyond question. It is claimed for the Pioneer that she made the run between Buffalo and Detroit, light, two weeksago at anaverge of a small fraction less than 17 miles an hour, but now comes a report from Buffalo that on the last trip down the Owego left Detroit 20 minutes behind the Pioneer and arrived in Buffalo 40 minutes ahead of her, both boats being loaded. Searching for Sunken Gold Near Hell Gate, New York. For several weeks a dredging company organized in Gloucester, Mass., has been endeavoring to locate a great quan- tity of British gold. This gold lies at the bottom of Long Island sound, under go feet of water, just above Hell Gate, near New York city. The amount of money is reported to be not less than $5,000,000, and has been quietly reposing at the bottom of the sound for more than one hundred years. 'The details of the sinking of the Hussar, a British war ship, with this large quan- tity of money and seventy American prisoners of war on board, are very interesting, but would occupy too much of our space to be repeated here. It is sufficient to say that the dredgers have located the sunken vessel, over which the tides of one hundred years have washed a tremendous quantity of sand and debris, and have already brought to the surface a number of pieces of money, some human bones, pieces of iron, steel and copper, and other fragments of the vessel. Themethod of search- ing employed by the diver at the bottom of the sea is shown in the accompanying illustration. A powerful incandescent lamp protected by a double globe, and connected by a strong insuia- ted cable to a generator on the wrecker above, furnishes the light for this submarine work. Casting this light before him, the diver prowls around among the rocks and seaweed of the bottom, and explores the remains of the old wreck with almost as much ease as if he were in the light of day above, and not buried under ninety feet of water. Although previous attempts have been unsuccessful, the present company is determined to prosecute the work, and keep the diver and his light below un- til his search is rewarded by the glitter of the long-lost treasure. --Scientific American. Wrecks and Heavy Losses. The steamboat Vienna, sunk on Friday last through colli- sion with the steamer Nipigon six miles below Whitefish point in deep water, can be added to the total losses of the season. She was owned by the Orient Transportation Company, Cleve- land, and was valued at $46,000. Her insurance is divided as follows : St. Paul $5,000, Detroit $5,000, Michigan $5,000, North American $5,000, London $5,000 and Commercial Union $14,- 000.