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MARINE REVIEW. 9 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 Transporiation Company of Milwaukee, 3,663 gross, or 4,103 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago, draft 17 feet 4 inches. Grain: H.C. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 125,730 bushels of corn, Chicago to Buffalo, draft 14 feet 8 inches; W. H. Gilcher, 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. 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In considering the question of a dividend the directors took into account the poor outlook in the iron market, and although making a division of profits at pres- ent they give no assurance of a continuance of dividends. Aside from this action on the part of the Cleveland-Cliffs company there is little of interest to be said of the older mining concerns. Stocks are not changing hands and values are in most cases quoted without transactions to sustain them. Slow sale this season for the product of hard ore mines is not looked upon as apermanent setback to this kind ofore. Hard ore has certainly been very slow of sale, excepting among the owners of large fur- naces, but most producers are inclined to think that there is something of a "fad" in the feeling against it. Some bother is attached to crushing this ore and it is probably more costly in smelting, but on the other hand it contains very little moisture. Big crushers are now being introduced at the hard ore mines. A machine weighing twenty tons is being erected at Tower, Minn., by the Minnesota Iron Company. Officers of the Lake Superior and other companies interested in the work of draining Lake Angeline are informed that all the water will be drained out of the lake by the middle of next month. Shipments of iron ore from Two Harbors up to and includ- ing Wednesday,Sept. 21, aggregated 916,051 gross tons, of which 525,803 tons were from the Chandler, 380,726 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 1,739,059 gross tons, divided among the different mines as follows: Ashland 161,351 tons, Aurora 248,761, Colby, No. ieee Colby, No. 2, 48,761, Rand 17,700, Tilden 186,315, Taylor 14,640, Globe-Ashland 5,309, Iron Belt 123,522, Mon- treal, south vein, 3,383, Montreal, north vein, 25,749, Palms 48,834, Section 33, south vein 4,619, Section 33, north vein _ 3,133, Anvil 1,696, Brotherton 83,249, Comet Bo,113, Carey . 25,570, Newport 99,104, Imperial 3,456, Norrie 332,476, Fast Norrie 158,870, Odanah 3,193, Pabst 40,500, Eureka 5,086, Sun- day Lake 41,684, Windsor 26,673, Jack Pot 2,717. The Vermillion Iron Journal quotes Capt. J. H. Curdy, superintendent of the Cincinnati mine, which is one of the lead- ing Mesaba properties, as saying that his company has ordered a hoisting plant and will sink shafts to the bottom of the for- mation before stoping the ore from above. The company now has one shaft down about 130 feet and is opening up drifts and crosscuts. The only item of importance regarding new leases lately comes from the C.'N. Nelson Lumber Company. 'This company has given to H. J. Goodwin of New York an option on 9,000 acres, and it is said that Moore & Foley will conduct the explorations. Ore shipments from Ashland on Sept. 21 were 1,939,059 gross tons, against 986,725 gross tons on the same date in 1891. Personal Mention. The Sterling Mining Company, New Lisbon, Ohio, has es- tablished an office at 513 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland. N. F. Wood, president of the company, is in charge. Capt. HE. M. Peck, of Detroit, Mr. F. W. Wheeler, of West Bay City and Mr. E. Platt Stratton of New York were among prominent marine men visiting Cleveland during the week. Thomas Davidson of Miiwaukee and Thomas Quayle of Cleve- land were the surveyors on the wrecked steamer Neshoto. Mr. Quayle, who was one of the builders of the boat, represented the owners, and Capt. Davidson the underwriters. Charles H. Kremer, marine lawyer of Chicago, will repre- sent the owners of the steamer Nipigon in any legal proceedings that may result from the Nipigon--Vienna collision, in which the latter was sunk off Whitefish point, Lake Superior. Officers of the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company, elected at a meeting of the directors held last week are: M.A. Bradley, president; George W. Gardner, vice-president; R.C. Moodey, treasurer; T. F. Newman, secretary and general man- ager. Thomas Marks, vessel owner and forwarder of Port Arthur wasin Detroit a few days ago and talked about various lake matters. He says the Manitoba wheat crop will be very large this year, and no less than 20,000,000 bushels will be forwarded from Port Arthur alone, but, of course, not all by lake. Mr. Marks says that he is still figuring on a steel boat that will have a whaleback deck and stern, with the ordinary steamer bow. The contract will go to a Canadian builder. Publications. The Altantic Ferry, by Arthur J. Maginniss, published by Macmillan & Co., 121 Fourth avenue, New York, is not a tech- nical book, but it contains a mass of statistical information on Atlantic steamers that can be found nowhere else. Ship build- ers will find it convenient as a book of reference. The author _is an expert in naval architecture and students in that subject Biographies of men - may learn considerable from the book. who were prominent in building up the trans-Atlantic fleet and the business for it are included in the volume. More Bodies Recovered. In addition to the list given last week two more bodies from the Western Reserve have come ashore at the Deer Park life saving station. One was Steward Burt Smithof Ashtabula. He was buried seven miles west of the station. The seventh un- known body found was dressed in black pants and overalls, sup- posed to be twenty-four years old and about 5% feet in height. He was buried ten miles west of the station. Eight more bodies remain in the lake and it is thought the six that went down in the metallic boat in deep water will never be recovered. Nearly $200 has been secured for the family of W. H. Seamen through the efforts of Mr. Johnson. The Disgrace of Pinkertonism. There has been much said and written of late about the dis- grace of Pinkertonism. Reference has been had in this verdict to the character of the Pinkerton system and of the Pinkerton guards. But there is another disgrace that ought to be empha- sized in this connection--the disgrace of a condition of things that requires the importation of dare-devil men to secure rights which local authorities do not guarantee. It is disgraceful that men can not be secured in the possession of their own property, disgraceful that men can not go to work except at the risk of their lives in an establishment from which others have volun- tarily withdrawn. It would be well for those who join in the general cry against Pinkertonism to have a serious thought or two about the disgraces that are the occasion of Pinkertonism. --Iron Trade Review.