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MARINE REVIEW. WiG LK: No. 10. CLEVELAND, O., SEPTEMBER 6, 1804. A Cargo of 4,535 Tons of Coal, Another cargo record has been broken, and now the steamer S. S. Curry, owned by the Hawgood and Avery Transit Company of Cleveland and built by F. W. Wheeler & Co. of West Bay City, Mich., leads all lake freight boats in the matter of big coal cargoes. She is now unloading at Gladstone, Mich., a cargo of 4,535 net tons of soft coal, taken on at Con- neaut, O., last week. With 280 tons of fuel in addition to her cargo, the Curry was drawing 16 feet 9 inches. Of course, this does not represent the full capacity of this steamer, or in fact that of several other big lake boats that are limited by the draft of harbors and connecting rivers, and also by the extra fuel taken on at lower lake ports to meet requirements for almost the entire round trip, but it is the largest coal cargo ever car- ried on the lakes. It is 283 tons greater than the Selwyn Eddy's cargo of 4,252 tons of hard coal, recently loaded at Buffalo for Chicago. A Serious View of the Chicago Drainage Project. Editor MARINE REVIEW: May I, through your columns, ask some one in authority why the people of Chicago are permitted to open a chan- nel from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, having adepth and width equal to the "Soo" canal with a steady flow of water, when the United States government is, at the present time, spending millionsin deepening the connecting channels of these lakes? It is said by those who are sup- posed to know that the level of the water on the lakes will not be lowered, but as the water shed on the lakes can not be enlarged, surely the slightest drain must affect the level, and such a constant drain as this new river must soon noticeably affect it. The canal will undoubtedly be of great benefit to Chicago, but are the people at large willing to risk the lowering of these great avenues of trade, the lakes, by reason of this new river? Those possessed of the slightest common sense must see that unless there is some way to increase the inflow of water into these lakes, the level, in time, must be lowered. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 31, 1894. RICHARD P, Joy. Grain and Flour Shipments from Duluth and Superior. According to semi-official reports there was shipped from Duluth and Superior during the crop year ending August 31, 1894, 8,674,191 barrels of flour, as against 5,459,174 barrels during the year ending August 31, 1898. This heavy movement of flour is, of course, due largely to the increase in the number of mills making flour at the head of Lake Superior. As com- pared with previous years the shipments of wheat from the head of the lakes show a marked falling off. This is due in part to the manufacture of wheat into flour at the new mills but more largely to the fact that in the crop year 1893-94 there was not the wheat to be moved. The output or make of flour in Duluth-Superior mills during the year just closed amounted to 2,671,889 barrels, against 1,607,616 barrels during the previous year. Following is a table giving the shipments of wheat, flour and corn: DULUTH FILOUR AND GRAIN SHIPMENTS. Wheat, Flour, Corn, bushels. barrels. bushels. Year ending August 31, 1894...... 23,425,028 *8,674,191 357,336 St gs ms Sl gS OB nas. 34,519,851 5,459,174 307,836 nS xs f Gilpeliso2 ec ne. 46,071,503 4,087,643 111,372 *Includes Superior shipments. Iron Mining Matters. A meeting of stockholders of the Chapin Mining Company, held in Milwaukee Monday, is the cause of more newspaper dispatches regarding the future of the mine and a rehearsal of the causes leading to the sale that is to occur next month. The stockholders decided to offer no oppo- sition to the foreclosure suit, but this action is of no significance, as there was no cause for the meeting of stockholders, which was probably called _ by Trustee Flannigan simply on account of a desire on his part to proceed with the sale in the careful manner that has characterized his actions in all matters pertaining to the property since he took charge ofit. The railway companies, which are among the principal holders of the bonds, can hardly be expected to go into the mining business, and it is more than probable that Mr. Chapin, owner of the fee, would allow the mine to fill up with water and remain in that condition for all time to come rather than undertake its operation on his own account, so that it may as well be regarded as a certainty that the mine will fall into the hands of M. A. Hanna & Co. of Cleveland, and a complete settlement with creditors will follow. The Cleveland firm, with its iron ore sales business, ships and docks, and with the claims that it holds against the Clrapin, is alone fitted to operate the mine under the prevailing prices in the ore trade, and the small army of workmen and their families, whose lives have been associated with the development and operation of the mine, have reason to feel thankful that circumstances leading to the sale have resulted in the prospective owners being in a position to save the property from entire loss. R.C. Flannigan, the attorney who has had charge of the Chapin as trustee for the bond-holders since the Schlesinger failure, was not well known to people interested in the Lake Superior mines pre- vious to his appointment to this position, but he is highly regarded among all classes in the upper Michigan peninsula. His efforts last winter to keep the mine in operation were mainly directed toward the welfare of the workmen and their families, and it is understood that for all his labor in this regard he had not fixed upon any renumeration until it was suggested by certain of the bondholders that he ask the court, in the foreclosure proceeding, to fix a sum covering his fee. Angus Smith of Milwaukee, president of the Aragon mine, who was compelled to take back the mine from Ferdinand Schlesinger after the latter's failure, caused a sale of delinquent stock at public auction in Milwaukee a few days ago. The shares offered were: Joseph G. Butler of Youngstown, O., 2,000 shares, assessment due, $4,000; William H. Os- born, Milwaukee, 2,000 shares, assessment, $4,000; Charles. Himrod, Chi- cago, 1,125 shares, assessment, $2,500, and 2,000 shares of Joseph Butler, held by Angus Smith as collateral security. The stock was bought by M. A. Helmer of Milwaukee for other parties at $2.03 to $2.05 a share. Stock piles at some of the leading Gogebic range mines are undoubt- edly larger than it was thought they would beat thistime. At the several Norrie properties, for instance, the amount still reported in stock is above 100,000 tons, while the surface ore at the Superior aggregates about 40,000 tons and that at the Ashland 25,000 tons. During the recent period of advancing freight, shipments of ore from Ashland were materially reduced. For the week ending August 25, the movement from that port amounted to only 65,164 tons, against 88,032 for the week ending August 18, and 79,223 tons during the week ending August 1]. Cargo and Speed Records.--:Lake Freight Steamers. Iron ore.--Maritana, Minnesota Steamship Company of Cleveland, 4,260 gross or 4,771 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago; Selwyn Eddy, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, Mich., 3,897 gross or 4,364 net tons, Escanaba to Ashtabula; S. S. Curry, Hawgood & Avery Transit Company of Cleveland, 3,852 gross or 4,314 net tons, Escanaba to Fairport; Kearsarge, Interlake Company of Cleveland, 3,718 gross or 4,164 net tons, Escanaba to Cleve- land. Grain.--Selwyn Eddy, Eddy Transportation Company of Bay City, 130,820 bushels of wheat, Detroit to Buffalo; Centurion, Hopkins Trans- portation Company of St. Clair, Mich., 147,812 bushels of corn, Chicago to Erie; Onoko, Minch estate of Cleveland, 187,657 bushels oats, Chicago to Buffalo. Coal.--S. S. Curry, Hawgood and Avery Transit Company of Cleve- land, 4,535 net tons bituminous, Conneaut to Gladstone; Selwyn Eddy, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, Mich., 4,252 net tons anthracite, Buffalo to Mil- waukee. : Speed._Owego, Union Line of Buffalo, Buffalo to Chicago, 889 miles, 45 hours and 16 minutes, 16.4 miles an hour. Light-house illuminants that have been used in the United States, since the use of candles was discontinued, are fish oil to 1812, sperm oil to 1861, colza oil to 1865, lard oil to 1879. From 1880 to 1884, kerosene was gradually substituted for the lard oil. The highest price paid in any one year for oil was in 1875, $167,575 for lard oil; the least recently was in 1888, $10,490 for lard oil and $20,059 for mineral oil. The lowest price per gallon was 64% cents. The number of gallons of oil purchased in 1889 was 347,960. Gas has been tried. It is now used at three stations from city works. Compressed gas is used at ten lights, three gas buoys, and one lighted beacon. The use of electric light is as yet largely experimental. PHOTOGRAPHS of sixteen lake steamers and two color plates will be mailed to any address for 50 cents. MARINE REVIEW, Cleveland, O,