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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. | Tron ore: Maritana, Minnesota Steamship Company of Cleveland, 4,260 gross, Or 4,771 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago; Ma ryland, Inter-Ocean Transportation Company of Milwaukee, 3,663 gross, or 4,103 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago, draft 17 feet 4 inches. Grain: EK. C. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 125,730 bushels of corn, Chicago to Buffalo, draft 14 feet 8 inches; Owoko, Minch estate, Cleveland, 113,829 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo; W. H. Gilcher, J.C. Gilchrist of Cleveland, 113,820 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo. Coal: HE. C. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 3,930 net tons anthracite, Buffalo to Chicago. 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. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company............... $100 00 Geir $ 65 00 Chanrpion Iron Company.:........:......0c.0s D5 FOO eae, es 58 00 Chandler [rom COMmPany--....,...0..cecsesceees 25 00 45 co 47 00 Faekson tron Company....25...0...cscs..s.-050 DEE OOMe UE Gomis. 75 00 Lake Superior Iron Company................. 25 00 40 00 41 00 Minnesota Iron Company............e.ececceees 100 00 70 00 75 00 Bittepunem co lake Angeline Iron Co... .-25-00. © -. vh.cusbse 140 00 RepwoMe trom COMPANY. ..1..:.0sc.scecsoe0 0s: 25 00 10 00 12 00 PMGHMING Misses sc sc rs eeses0suves ES laah dae ieee state BST OO stu by Ra an ok EP cae ease Sera NOMMMPL MEV <EUIKCC. sy... .sccisssrtcaassiec senses 25 OO epee ey ai .nes: 5 00 Teta O Taree ie ests sie Acai bok oe bwcoeatew acs 25 00 2 00 2 50 Nitti Cltescer en ciaeicitesieoc ss ctencie as ctor. Eaieemenceneree 25 00 2 25 2 50 PATTON ee ctr cctiel cisco ne sie v's cio sieiete ote oleeiner ec sen ies Necre 7 25) OO Oued hie Ave en cec tts The movement of iron ore from all upper lake ports is shown elsewhere and there is presented here the shipments of the dif- ferent mines from Two Harbors and Ashland. Shipments from Two Harbors up to and including Wednesday; Oct. 7, aggrega- ted 992,088 gross tons,of which 562,892 tons were from. the Chandler, 415,625 tons from the Minnesota, 2,525 tons from the Pioneer and 11,046 tons from the Zenith mine. On the same date shipments from Ashland aggregated 1,997,135 gross tons, divided among the different mines as follows: Ashland 172,381 tons, Aurora 263,469, Colby, No. 1, 4.761, Colby, No. 2, 51,- 850, Rand 17,700, Tilden 201,646, Iron Belt 138,650, Montreal, south vein, 3,383, Montreal, north vein, 30,142, Palms 57,093, Section 33, south vein 4,619, Section 33, north vein 3,133, Anvil 4,217, Brotherton 90,677, Comet 33,707, Carey 32,131, Newport 114,037, Imperial 5,803, Norrie 350,741, Hast Norrie 166,916, Odanah 4,373, Pabst 44,447, Eureka 8,317, Sunday Lake 43,332, Windsor 26,673, Jack Pot 2,717. The Minnesota Iron Company has secured a lease of another piece of mining property on the Vermillion range. It is about a mile east of Ely and the lessors are A. M. Miller and John G. and EK. D. Brown, of Duluth. The lease runs for thirty years and the royalty is 25 cents a ton with a guaranteed minimum output of 20,000 tons. Payment of royalty is not compulsory under the lease until Oct. 1, 1894, but work on the property with diamond drills will be pushed immediately, and if the showing is promising development will begin with a view to shipping ore next season. Articles of incorporation of the Oliver Mining Company, of Minnesota, have been filed in the office of the register of deeds. The corporation will carry on a general mining and manufactur- ing business. The incorporators are Henry W. Oliver, Henry R. Rea and Chas. D. Frazer of Pittsburg, Geo. E. Tener and Edward D. Reis of Allegheny City, Pa., and Edward Floada, of Duluth. 'The principal office will be Duluth. The capital stock is to be $1,200,000, divided in 12,000 shares of $roo each. --Vermillion Iron Journal. In taking 3,930 net tons of anthracite coal from Buffalo to Chicago the big steamer EK. C. Pope was put to considerable extra expense through grounding at Grosse point, but at last . accounts she had succeeded in continuing the voyage without leaving any portion of the cargo behind. The load is larger by several hundred tons than any coal cargo ever carried on the lakes. GET TWO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE MARINE REVIEW AND YOU WILL RECEIVE A COPY OF THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRIS- » TOPHER COLUMBUS. 5 ; CHICAGO LAKE INTERESTS. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW, { No. 13 Western Union Building, CHICAGO, III1., Oct. 13. The well-known "Diamond D'" appeared on Hausler's tugs at South Chicago last Monday. The extension of the Dunham Line is a good deal of a surprise to Chicago river tugmen, but it was a move which had been under contemplation for several months. South Chicago is destined to be the second port on Lake Michigan. Every increase in the cost of navigating Chicago river is driving commerce to the Calumet. This year's business at that port is largely in excess of all previous records, and there is no reason for disbelieving that the increase will be maintained, Another elevator will be built at South Chicago next season, the Illinois Steel Company will receive as much if not more ore than this year, and the coal and grain trades are steadily growing. Capt. Dunham has been in luck in getting in on the ground floor in the tug business at so promising a point. It is not at all certain even yet that Chicago tugs are going to continue to burn hard coal. The owners of several tugs flatly refuse to burn hard coal, saying that théy prefer to pay the fines for making smoke. It all depends now on the ability of the Society for the Prevention of Smoke to make it so warm for the users of soft coal that they will find it cheaper to burn hard coal. Otherwise all tugs will return to the use of soft coal inside of a week. The old side-wheeler Pearl arrived here from Buffalo Tuesday, and- will go into the World's Fair business for a concern bearing the name of "The World's Transportation and Excursion Boat Company." Why Chicago should be made the graveyard of old excursion boats has never been made plain, but such is the case. The Pearl is to travel between State street bridge and a pier to be built south of the world's fair grounds on what is known as the " Willard Vract.'" Water tube boilers will be put in the tug Mollie Spencer the coming winter. It is reported that this new style of boiler will find its way into some of the big steel steamers to be built during the coming winter. On several yachts here this pattern of boiler has been tried with best results. Ina test made up the south fork of the south branch fully twice as much was accomplished as with the old style boilers. Shippers here are talking of very low grain rates. They claim that the rate on corn to Buffalo will go to 1 cent a bushel before the close of navigation. They are of the opinion that if iron ore ceases to move freely the grain trade will be glutted with boats, and vessel men will be falling over each other to get cargoes. Underwriters are feeling better since good weather came this week. The margin between payments received and losses paid on the whole had come to be very limited. On the other hand, grain insurance has been extremely profitable, and several companies have been compelled to to take the profits on grain to make up the losses on hulls. Walking Delegate Miller, who threw stones at the captain of the schooner John Wesley at South Chicago, is in hard luck. Miller was wanted in Buffalo for the assault on the crew of the Mabel Wilson on the high seas. The Seamen's Union was extremely anxious to keep him here and haye his trial in the state courts. He had been bound to the grand jury in $1,000 bonds for the attack on the Wesley, and this, it was hoped, would prevent the officers from taking him back to Buffalo. His bondsmen surrendered him to the sheriff, and then the United States marshal got him away from the sheriff, and took him to Buffalo. In the federal court there Miller is believed to be good for five or six years in the penitentiary. Here it was likely that he would escape punishment altogether. Grain at Chicago and Duluth. Stocks of grain at Chicago and Duluth on Monday, the roth inst., were: Chicago. Duluth.. Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. All wheat, bu. litig StOnele nesters acces mae scene * 8,303,986 4,927,437 3,653,528 Increase during the week........... 809,318 264,215 499,092 Increase over same time last year 4,888,922 3,263,514 --..........0.. c In addition to the above there is 2,505,969 bushels of oats, 333,603 bushels of rye and 167,133 bushels of barley in store in Chicago. Official Numbers and Tonnage. Official numbers were assigned to two lake vessels during the week ending Oct. 8 by the bureau of navigation, E. C. O'Brien commissioner: Sail--Hattie LeRoy, Grand Haven, Mich., tonnage gross 8.99, net 8.54, No. 96,197. Steam--Ann Arbor, No. 1, Toledo, tonnage gross 1,127.76, net 563.88, No. 106,974. Experiments are being made every few days with the Baker sub-marine boat at Detroit. Commodore Folger and other off- cers of the navy are expected to give the boat a final test soon in the Detroit river. On account of the strength of hull of the present craft it cannot be sunk more than fifteen feet under the surface. 'he inventor is now satisfied that the boat is a success.