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"" - 3 MARINE REVIEW. | ii lron Mining Matters. Shipments of iron ore from Two Harbors up to and includ- ing Wednesday, Nov. 8, aggregated 879,261 gross tons and were divided as follows: Chandler, 422,862 tons; Minnesota, 358,- 932; Zenith, 12,998; Cincinnati, 9,939; Canton, 24,412; Franklin, 46,608; Hale, 3,510. Shipments of Gogebic range mines through Ashland up to and including Saturday, Nov. 4, foot up 1,107,534 tons, divided among the different mines as follows: Ashland, 41,016 tons ; Aurora, 173,172; Colby No. 2, 55,444 ; Tilden, 135,118; Germania, 6,582; Iron Belt, 23,975; Montreal, south vein, 2,606; Montreal, north vein, 31,462; Kureka, A, 1,949; Germania, "Smith," 1,381 ; Brotherton, 16,193 ; Comet, 8,385; HKureka, 29,435; Careys, 32,515; Newport, 102,891 ; Norrie, 228,476 ; East Norrie, 78,135; Palms, 2,657; Pabst, 91,891; Jack Pot, 1,651; Davis, 13,282; Sunday Lake, 20,904. Announcement of the resumption of work at the properties of the Minnesota Iron Company is, of course, received with gen- eral satisfaction, as are also similar reports from the Norrie, Pabst, Lake Angeline and other mines that have been entirely shut down. This renewal of mining is not, however, due to any special improvement in the outlook for ore. It is prompted mainly by the low cost of production, on account of labor charges, and in the case of the Minnesota company, there is the necessity of providing business for its railway, and in order to do this, as against the steam shovel system on the Missabe, the ore must be mined, crushed and placed in stock pies during the winter. Ferdinand Schlesinger is working hard to overcome the financial difficulties that were thought to have stranded him sev- eral months ago, and it is the opinion of people we!l posted in the iron business that he will soon be heard from again in the Lake Superior region. Minority stockholders are said to have secured control of the Ashland mine at Ironwood. Chapin's shipments for the season aggregate 484,370 gross tons. Lake Carriers' Association. Several matters of a general nature were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the finance committee of the Lake Carriers' Association in Cleveland, Monday, but the only action of importance was with regard to wages, which are usually ad- vanced in the fall, but which have ruled low on account of the depressed condition of freights. The wages of wheelmen, fire- men, watchmen and oilers on steamers, and sailors and cooks on tow barges were made $1.25 a day, to date from Nov. 13, and wages of deck hands were made $20 a month. Secretary Keep was instructed to notify the board of ssuper- vising inspectors of steam vessels that the system of lights at the at present in use on tow barges on the lakes is all right, and it is the desire of the association that lake vessels be exempted from any rules that may be adopted for such vessels at the meet- ing of the board to be held in Washington in January next. Mr. Keep was also instructed to confer with the light house board with a view to delaying to as late a date as possible the work of taking up the principal buoys in important channels throughout the lakes. . Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. In addition to the papers already announced for the inaugural meetings of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, which will begin in New York today, Col. Edwin A. Stevens, president of the Hoboken Ferry Company, will read a paper on "Some Thoughts on the Design of New York Ferry Boats," and the subject of a paper by William Gardner, naval architect, will be "Steam Vachts as Naval Auxiliaries in Time of War." Prof. W. F. Durand of Cornell University is also expected to read a paper, the subject of which is '"['he Law of Frictional Resistance." Messrs. A. Cass Canfield, member America's cup committee, New York yacht club, and Joseph H. Linnard, naval constructor, U.S. N., were prevented at the last moment from contributing papers. The banquet Thursday evening will be in the Bruns- wick hotel, Madison Square. - Special attention will be given to the REVIEW during the win- ter to freight matters for the coming season. Owners, masters and others who will be away from leading ports should subscribe now. Around the Lakes. During thirty-six hours ending Monday evening, clearances on the Erie canal from Buffalo amounted to 815,000 bushels of grain. Langell & Sons of St. Clair, Mich, have incorporated their ship yard interests. The concern will in the future be known as the Langell & Sons Ship Building Company. The capital is $150,000. : With a resumption of work on the Peck steamer at Wyan- dotte, itis probable that a very strong effort will be made to provide other contracts for the steel plant of the Detroit Dry Dock Company. A very large part of the gain this season of 64,000,000 feet in lumber shipments through the St. Mary's Falls canal to Nov. I, is in the movement from the head of Lake Superior, where shipments have been doubled. Claims against the steamer Fountain City, which is to be sold by the United States marshal at Milwaukee, Nov. 22, ag- gregate $8,500. 'This includes the $4,000 mortgage held by the Western Transit Company, with interest. John H. Gillett of Marquette, who bought the wrecked schooner Neelon and released her from Manitou island, is patch- ing the boat up and will probably try to get her to a dry dock at Port Huron or some other point on the rivers. Harvey Neelon, a well-known lake captain and vessel owner, formerly of Port Dalhousie, and later of St. Catherines. Ont., died Saturday of heart disease. He was a brother of Sylvester Neelon, and was sixty-four years old. Curtis & Brainard's wooden steamer Mohegan was launched Tueseay at Marine City by M, P. Lester. She is 225 feet keel, 39 feet beam and 14 feet hold, and will have a fore and aft com- pound engine, built by S. F. Hodge & Co. of Detroit. It is now definitely settled that work will be stopped on one of the big Northern line passenger boats, being built by the Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland, until the first boat can be given a trial. A large number of workmen have been laid off and the boat on which work has been suspended will be housed up. A correspondent at West Bay City reports that Capt. Burke was presented with a valuable cane by W. D. Young and the crew of the lost tug Acme, who desired to make acknowledg- ment of his bravery. Work has been commenced on a rebuild above the water line of the tug Ella M. Smith, at West Bay City, and the Charlton will probably go to Owen Sound to be lengthened 15 feet. Principal dimensions of the new ferry steamer to be built by F. W. Wheeler & Co. of West Bay City for the Detroit Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company are: Length over all, 140 feet; length on water line, 126 feet; beam, 39% feet; beam, water line, 34% feet; extreme breadth, 51 feet; moulded depth, 14 feet; draught, 12 feet. 'The engines will Le compound. She will have two steel boilers ro feet.in diameter and 12% feet long. The boat is to be completed and ready for. business by June 1, | 1894. The survey of the steamer Colonial, which was wrecked on _ Pigeon Island reef, Lake Ontario, last month, and was aban- doned to the underwriters as a total loss, but which is now in Cleveland, has been completed. The steamer is again the pro- perty of the original owners, as the estimated figures of the sur- veyors fall several thousand dollars short of making her a con- structive total loss. 'he estimated cost of repairs on the hull is $15,362.85, and on the machinery $4,650. Surveyors' fees are included in these figures. The wrecking bill and temporary re- pairs at Kingston cost about $9,000, making the total loss $29,- 012.85, or about $7,000 below the amount that would make her a constructive total loss. Fuel at Detour Docks. Managers of the new fuel docks of Pickands, Mather. & Co., at Detour, desire to have it understood that steamboats can secure fuel at these docks with the least possible delay at any hour of the day or night. The docks contain six pockets, and there is a plentiful supply of fuel in readinesss to be dumped into the bunkers of steamers at all times. ; British charts of Lake Superior cover the entire north shore. $1. ae