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ee ae eee Pl eee Fe Z MARINE REVIEW. - lron Mining Matters. Shipments of iron ore from Two Harbors up to and includ- ing Wednesday, Augnst 30th, aggregated 638,531 gross tons and were divided as follows: Chandler, 313,707 tons; Minnesota, 266,- o12; Zenith, 4,310; Cincinnati, 9,916; Canton, 21,449; Franklin, 21,947; Hale, 1,200. Shipments of Gogebic range mines through Ashland up to and including Saturday, August 26th foot up 787,824 tons, divided among the different mines as follows: Ashland, 26,465 tons; Aurora, 119,695; Colby No. 2, 28,594 ; Tilden, 80,594 ; Germania, 4,975 ; Iron Belt, 7,544 ; Montreal, south vein, 1,347; Montreal, north vein, 25,850; Brotherton, 14,675 ; Comet, 5,043: Hureka, 26,055 ; Careys, 32,931 ; New- port, 73,348; Norrie, 166,922; East Norrie, 64,649; Pabst, 83,353 ; Jack Pot, 1,651; Davis, 11,353 ; Sunday Lake, 17,525. Mr. F. W. Denton of Houghton, Mich., secretary of the Lake Superior Mining Institute, announces that, on account of the depressed condition of business in the mining region, the council of the institute has deemed it advisable to cancel the September meeting which was to have opened on the 6th inst. The next regular meeting will be held in March. The Commonwealth Iron Company, another of the Menomi- nee range corporations operating a big non-Bessemer property, is also carrying a large stock pile, about 100,000 tons, and had laid off recently the greater part of its working force. i In General. A mean speed of 23.031 knots, or 26% statute miles, was at- tained recently by the Japanese war ship Yoshino. One of the machines for trimming and handling ore in the holds of vessels, of which Mr. R. Thew of Cleveland is the patentee and the McMyler company of Cleveland the manufac- turers, is being applied to furnace work in one of the ore sheds of the Carnegie Steel Company. Work on the whaleback steamer at the yard of the Pacific Steel Barge Company, Everett, Wash., was also suspended re- cently on account of the money stringency. The engines were being placed aboard and the boat was nearing completion in all _ parts when the entire force was laid off. The Fiseen, Mr. Mosher's new steam launch, has madea run of 71% miles at the rate of 31.6 miles an hour, and a boat to beat this, or even equal it, must have as much power as she has per ton of displacement, that is 13 tons displacement and 600 indi- cated horse power. During this run her engines made 580 rev- Olutions per minute, the screw being 3 feet diameter by 7 feet pitch.--The Engineer. From a source that would seem entirely reliable the REVIEW is informed that the Morgan Line, now doing a freight business between New York and New Orleans, with the steamers El Norte, El Sid, El Rio, etc., the finest fleet of new steel freight steamers on the coast, will with the close of the present month complete arrangements that will result in all of these vessels running from New Orleans to Liverpool, instead of New York. There is one objection to experimental tanks for determin- ing resistances of models that we have never seen alluded to, and this is the resistance the trough or tank itself opposes to the mo- tion of the displaced water. A ship in a canal or confined to a certain narrow lane with walls on each side, can not push the water away from her, but must plough bodily through it, and just how much power it takes to do this it would be hard to dis- cover we think. --The Engineer. Vessel masters going to the new ore docks of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway Company make favorable reports regarding despatch. Among the first vessels loaded at the new docks was the Harper,which was loaded with 2,087 gross tons in 2 hours and 10 minutes. 'The Emily P. Weed took on 2,364 tons in 4 hours. W. S. Brann, formerly of Gladstone, is in charge of these docks, and he says he expects, when everything is work- ing smoothly, to load a steamer of 2,000 tons capacity in an hour. PHOTOTYPES OF THE NEW NORTHERN STEAMERS, THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, THE S. S. CURRY AND TWELVE OTHERS, INCLUDING A PICTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN, SENT TO ANY ADDRESS ON RECEIPT OF 50 CENTS BY THE MARINE REVIEW, NO. 516 PERRY-PAYNE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, 0. 2G. ig \O? Tios from the Man on the Dock. I wonder why it is that it seems impossible to ever get an impartial or even correct account of a battle or of a steamboat race. Now take the accounts of the race two weeks ago between the Curry andthe Pope. The first one I mean, in which the Merida was nota factor. One ofthe lake papers says of the Pope that "since she came out there has been a general leaning throughout the lake marine to award her the honors for speed," and that, besides, "to the Detroit Dry Dock Company belongs the honor of introducing these 350-foot steel steamers, &c." - Now I think that this is in need of a little correction. It should read that since she (the Pope) came out there has been a general leaning on the part of her builders and owners towards claiming for her everything in sight whether it belonged to her or not. And besides she is not by any means a 350-foot steamer. A good many stories, and not all of them nice ones either, are told of the Pope's fast trips. Some say that itis only reasonable to suppose that ifa boat carries 200 pounds steam she can travel faster than if she only carries 160. However I don't think that this was such a great race after all, and what there was of it is twisted so badly that it is practically unrecognizable. 'The Curry is said to have used up 15% hours making the 225 miles, "or- nearly 15 miles an hour," while as a matter of fact itis hardly 14% miles an hour, and that while so doing she beat by fifty - minutes a boat going 17 miles an hour. Now while I do not believe that there is a freight steamer on the lakes that can make, or that has made, 17 miles, yet I know that the Pope herself has done better than 15% hours across ake Huron, and/also that the same time has been made by another steamer not racing at all. I believe that both the Curry and Pope can beat the time made in the alleged race without trouble. But there is an unpleasantly evident tendency to the "baby"' act somewhere. I see that now somebody in a Cleveland paper claims that the reason the Pope did not get there was because the other fellow had three boilers whereas the Pope had but two. Well its funny how the two boilers must have been hustled at other times ; and then too the people who ride on her claim that she has plenty of boiler. I heard one man say that the Pope used to have a spring in her heel but that it ran down as soon as she was sold.and the only man who carried a key was her former engineer. I guess the Curry must have oneinher's now. I met breezy Capt. Bill Hutchinson, or, as he is better known, "Hutch," the other day, and with him his running mate, or chief engineer, Mr. James Norton. They are quite full of their new Merida, and although it is well known that the line they travel in is rather steady going and not inclined to record-break- ing at all, they both "winked the other eye" and said they were not talking much but were very busy "sawing wood." 'They in- timated that when the other fellows all got through, they would take a fall out of the victor. 'They would only burn their coal, they said, when they got the right fellow alongside, and they © would only have one race to make. Well, the combination is good and ought to win. MHere's to them. st * c Since writing the above all three of the "big fellows" have -- come together, and that with one of the Curry's owners, Mr. Avery of Detroit aboard. "Hutch" and his partner seem to have fulfilled with the Merida the quiet contract which existed be- tween them, having beaten the Curry by a fair margin from the Sault to Port Huron, while the Pope was distanced. Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stocks of wheat and corn in store at the principal points ef accumulation on the lakes on Sept. 2, 1893: Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. INCAS Oc sete ag Mencia 18,455,000 1,789,000 Pith 757982 Bee ae 2,153,000 wseeegene Malwatikeesitln ..ctebiriie. 045 joob rina agede Dethoitecas pres be tesgoeat 960,000 7,000 'LOled6: sta ieg ace ala eerie 1,559,000 61,000 Buffalo «2.0.0. ceereneren es asco 1,352,000 353,000 aT Oial 10. ARIAT Ae. 25,424,000 2,210,000 At the puints named there is a net increase for the week of 93,000 bushels of wheat and 628,000 bushels of corn. Germany is said to be preparing to spend $10,000,000 on new war ships. .