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1899.] MARINE REVIEW. 13 years ago defended the America's cup in an international race, is another product of the plant. But, as noted above, many of the contracts ex- ecuted by the company of late have been for light-house tenders and rev- enue cutters for the United States government and light-draught gun- boats for service in the Amazon and other South American rivers. The Pusey & Jones Co. is perhaps the only American concern that has had under construction in its yard at the same time vessels for four different governments--the United States, Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico Many of the smaller craft designed for service in South American tivers have been shipped in three sections and re-erected at the stream which they were designed to navigate. This company has recently added laurels to those already in its possession by its achievement in delivering each of several steam yachts within a month after the time of launch. -- we ENGINE IN COURSE OF ERECTION IN MACHINE SHOP. One of the handsomest of these recently constructed craft is the Illada, built for William Hester, proprietor of the Brooklyn Eagle. This yacht is 123 feet in length and distinguished by exceptionally trim lines. On a recent trial trip she more than met the expectations of both builder and owner. Another late product of the Pusey & Jones Co.'s yard recently described in the Review is the ferryboat B. M. Shanley, built for the Port Richmond & Bergen Point Ferry Co. of Port Richmond, N. Y. The Shanley is 140 feet over guards. 125 feet between perpendiculars, 52 feet beam over guards, 30 feet 'beam of hull and 9 feet 11 inches depth. She is fitted with a jet condensing beam engine of 30 inches cylinder diameter and 9 feet stroke. Steam is supplied from a steel return-tubular boiler, which is able to furnish 40 pounds working pressure to a 30-inch cylinder cutting off at half stroke. The vessel has steam heat, electric lights and two 18-foot metallic life boats. DEVELOPMENT OF CUBAN ORE MINES. Various rumors have lately been in circulation relative to the devel- Opment of Cwban 'iron mines. One of the new organizations designed to further projects of this character is the Cuban Steel Ore Co. a Philadel- phia enterprise, brought out by Dick Bros. & Co. of New York and Philadelphia, and which is capitalized at $3,000,000. The company is re- Ported to be identified with the Pennsylvania Steel Co. and the Tidewater Steel Co. It will build a dock and control a harbor in Cuba, about 60 miles west of Santiago. The company has secured control of rich iron mines in that locality, which it will develop. The preferred stock is $1,000,000 7 per cent. cumulative preferred and $2,000,000 common. The Preferred stock will be paid for in 25 per cent. of the par value thereof on call. Each subscriber to preferred stock will be given a share of common Stock as a bonus. _There is $2,500,000 in stock paid in. The officers are: Evans R, Dick, of Dick Bros. & Co., Philadelphia, president; Luther S. Bent, vice-president; Josiah Monroe, secretary and treasurer. The direc- tors include the officers and A. W. Gibbs, George S. Graham, Isaac N. Solis, E. E. Glenn, Herman Michaelson, F. A. Baker and Robert McKin- Stry, The connection of the Cuban Steel Ore Co. with the Tidewater Steel Co. is that the former will sellthe one to the Chester, Pa., company, where it will be manufactured. Already the Tidewater company. is tedging its docks and otherwise making ready for the importation of ore from Cuba. Deanne POWERFUL DREDGES. SOME OF THE NOTABLE MAOHINES RECENTLY COMPLETED OR CONTRACTED FOR ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC--THE MARYLAND STEEL COMPANY TO BUILD DREDGES FOR NEW YORK HARBOR IMPROVEMENT. The last issue of the Marine Review contained a description and illus- trations of one of the largest\ dipper dredges in the world, the Pan Amer- icant, recently completed for Hingston & Woods of Buffalo, N. Y. Several other very interesting dredges of various types are now building or have recently been contracted for on both sides of the Atlantic. It has just beén aunounced that the contract for the two hydraulic dredges designed for use in the improvement of New York harbor, and which were also fully described in a recent issue of the Review, has been let to the Maryland Steel Co. of Sparrow's Point, Md. Each of these vessels will be 320 feet in length, 48 feet beam and 26 feet depth and will be pro- vided with fourteen hoppers with a capacity of 3,500 cubic yards. Their construction will involve an expenditure of about $900,000. The picture herewith presented shows the William Price hopper dredge, lately built by William Simons & Co. of Renfrew, Scotland, for the Karachi Port Trust of India. It is of the following dimensions: WILLIAM PRICE HOPPER DREDGE, BUILT BY SIMONS & CO., RENFREW. Length, 236 feet; beam, 421% feet; depth of hold, 16 feet; hopper capacity, 1,250 tons. This dredge is propelled by two sets of triple expansion en- gines of about 1,500 horse power, and the speed, loaded, is in the neigh- borhood of 10 knots. The dredging is done by an endless chain of buckets working through a central well, with the uswal steel-framed tower at the movable end of the dredge ladder for graduating the posi- tion of the ladder to the work to be done, The Suez Canal Co. recently placed with Simons & Co. an order for the construction of a very large and powerful hopper dredge for improving the entrance of the canal at Port 'Said. The vessel will be 270 feet in length, 48 feet beam, 19 feet depth and will have a hopper capacity of 2,200 tons of dredgings, while the ladder will dredge to a depth of 40 feet. Each bucket will lift 2 tons of material and the vessel will be capable of raising 1,500 tons an hour. Among other powerful dredges recently designed are the two suction dredges which Maj. James B. Quinn, United States engineer at the mouth of the Mississippi river, will utilize in maintaining the channel at South Pass. They will cost in the neighborhood of $150,000 each, and will be 157 feet long, 27 feet 'beam and 16 feet depth of hold, with two propellers and a hopper capacity of 650 cubic yards. John Stewart & Son, Ltd., of Blackwall, England, recently com- pleted a powerful twin-screw suction hopper dredge for the Russian government. This craft is 184 feet in length, 33 feet beam and 14 feet depth. The loading capacity of the hopper is 500 tons, and with this load the vessel draws 11 feet 11 inches and is capable of maintaining a speed of 8 knots. The propelling machinery consists of two sets of com- pound, surface-condensing engines of 600 horse power combined, the diameter of the cylinders being 14 and 30 inches and the stroke 22 inches. Steam is supplied at 120 pounds working pressure by two boilers, each 11 feet in diameter by 10 feet 6 inches in length. During a recent conversation President C. B. Orcutt of the New- port News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., said: "The ship building interests of the entire country are enjoying extraordinary prosperity. We have more work on hand at Newport» News now than at any time since the plant was completed. The scarcity of material occasioned by the activity in ship building has retarded the work somewhat, but we have not made application for extension of time in the delivery of any vessel. Should the government decide to give us more time we would be pleased, as we could then make a special effort to complete the merchant vessels, several of which are badly needed for immediate service. We now have 6.000 men at work and are doing all in our power to complete the vessels under way at the earliest possible dates in all cases." The work of fittiag the United States torpedo boat Talbot with machinery for the use of liquid fuel is in progress at the Norfolk (Va.) navy yard, under the direction of F. E. Magee of the Consolidated Gas Fuel Co. of New York. Mr. Magee claims that oil will be found fully 50. per cent cheaper than coal,