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1903. ] AROUND THE GREAT LAKES, __.A new chart of Lorain harbor in colors has just been pub- lished by the United States Lake Survey. It may be had from the Review. The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. has purchased about sixty- eight acres of land fronting on the Maumee and Duck creek, Toledo, for reserve use. 'The company has no industrial plans connected with it. Mr. Russel Rumsey, an old resident of Vermillion and father of A. L. Rumsey, shipping master for the Lake Carriers' Asso- ciation, died at tne home of his son near Vermillion on Friday last. He was eighty years of age. W. W. Parshall,. who has been contracting agent for the Barry Transportation Co. at Menominee for the past season, has accepted a position as general freight and passenger agent of the Hart Steamer Line of Green Bay. The Gray Transportation Co. has, it is understood, purchased the steamer Arizona and the schooners Plymouth and Scotia. The vessels have been the property of the company at Bay City of which W. D. Young has been the managing owner. The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. has purchased the Crosby iron mine on the Mesabi range. It lies near Nashwank and is about 18 miles west of Hibbing. The price paid was $170,000. Little has been done with the mine since it was discovered ten years ago. Annual meetings of the several corporations owning big steel vessels operated in the office of Mitchell & Co. were held at Mentor, near Cleveland, on Monday last. Capt. John Mitchell is general manager of all the companies. Practically no change was made in the officials. The Detroit & Cleveland Line has leased of Edward W. Bissell his wharfs and warehouses at the foot of First street for six years. 'This gives the D. & C. a total frontage on the Detroit river of 1,650 ft. The Bissell property has a frontage of 400 ft. on the river and is 135 ft. deep. 'The Globe Steamship Co., Steel Steamship Co., Inland Star Steamship Co, and the Merida Steamship Co., which operate ves- sels of the Gilchrist fleet, held their annual meetings a, few days ago. Mr. J. C. Gilchrist is president and general manager of all the companies and only a few changes were made in the direc- tors. During every period of scarcity in lake marine items lately, Chicago newspapers insist upon combining the passenger steam- boat lines of Lake Michigan. Two sets of promoters have un- dertaken the task within the past few months but capital is a little shy of combinations these days, except in cases of very large earnings. An elaborate: affair in Detroit, the one social gathering among ship masters, is their annual ball, always held while the Lake Carriers are holding their annual meeting at the Hotel Cadillac. Special efforts are being put forth to make the ball a grand success this year. It is to be held at the Masonic Temple on Wednesday evening, Jan 21. The Royal Canadian Humane Association has unanimously awarded medals to Thomas McGaw, Sr., Thomas McGaw, Jr., - John McGaw, Walter McGaw, Robert Sanders, Robert Greenless and Daniel Matheson for conspicuous heroism in saving the crew of the schooner Ann Maria, which was stranded near Kincardine piers, Lake Huron, during a terrific gale on Oct. 7, 1902. Capt. A. D. Campbell, who was in charge of the Algoma Central tug Philadelphia last summer, has been awarded the life- saver's medal b~ the Royal Humane Society. He rescued a boy from drowning at Sault Ste. Marie last summer. The manner in which this society, working throughout Canada, promptly recognizes all such acts of bravery is highly commendable. The sale of the Midland Coal Co. and National Dock & Fuel Co., of which latter concern Mr. John A. Donaldson of Cleveland, was general manager, to the Pittsburg Coal Co. has been closed. This matter was referred to in these columns a week ago. Mr. Donaldson and Mr. A. W. Horton, lake manager for the big coal corporation, are now engaged in fixing up the details of transfer. Cleveland's winter fleet is made up of 116 vessels. The car- rying capacity ranges from 400 tons to 7,000 tons and combined they have a capacity of 281,300 tons of coal. The vessels will, of course, not all load coal but if they did they would take pretty close to 300,000 tons of coal un the lakes on the first trip in the spring. Forty-three of the vessels are in what is known as the old river bed and the others strung along the main river above Main street bridge. Considerable work in refittine and redecorating the D. & C. Line steamers, Detroit, Cleveland, Mackinac and Alpena, will be done during the winter. The contract for decorating the Cleveland and Detroit has been let to the William Wright Co. of Detroit, the painting to Whitnev & Smith of Detroit, the electrical work to the Hiram Marks Electric Co., the contract for carpets to Newcomb, Endicott & Co., Edson, Moore & Co., and Burnham, Stoepel & Co. of Detroit, while, as usual, the hull and engine repairs will be made by the Detroit ship Building Co. A. An. MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 23 Some one has figured that in tons of freight the relative im- portance of the principal ports of the lakes in the season of 1902 was as follows: Duluth, 10,285,815 tons; Cleveland, 9,873,848 tons; Buffalo, 9,727,304 tons; Milwaukee, 9,097,468 tons; Chi- cago, 8,772,905 tons. These figures may be approximately cor- rect. but it is well understood that there is no possibility of getting exact figures as to the commerce of any port on the lakes under existing methods in the custom houses, which have to do with the arrival and departure of vessels. This is not said with any thought of questioning the relative importance of any of the several ports above referred to. A dispatch from Ogdensburg says that Canadian vessel men interested in lake and river trade have joined the Ogdensburg marine men in petitioning the Dominion government to provide better facilities for navigating the treacherous channel near the Duck islands at the mouth of Lake Ontario. They ask for a lighthouse on the Main Duck and a fog signal on False Duck. Several wrecks occurred there last season. Owing to a strong local magnetic attraction in the vicinity steering by compass is exceedingly dangerous and a red light is asked for to distin- guish it from other lights. Magnetic attraction is said to be stronger there than at any point on the great lakes. It is reported from Ogdensburg that the Geo. Hall Coal Co. of that place has purchased from the Columbia Iron Works of Port Huron, one of the two small steel steamers which they have under way at their new St. Clair river yard. The consid- eration is said to be $150,000. 'That figure is probably too high, unless some changes are to be made in original plans for the ves- sel. Four steel steamers are under way at the Columbia works. Two of them are of about 6,000 tons capacity each and are for J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland. The other two, one building on yard account and the other for 'T. J. Prindiville and associates of Chi- cago, are of 200 and 225 ft. keel length, respectively. Probably, the yard account steamer is the one purchased by the Hall com- pany. : The Chamber of Commerce of Erie has revived the subject of raising Perry's old flagship Niagara, which lies at the bottom of Presque Isle harbor. A petition is to be sent to congress to appropriate $10,000 for the undertaking. If Erie was really desirous of raising and restoring this old flagship it would do it without federal assistance. In fact, as a matter of local pride, it should do it. The expense would be inconsiderable--probably far less than $10,0o00--and the leading véssel in a really marvel- ous naval engagement would be worth seeing. Probably 1t would even be worth going to see and Erie might become a mec- ca for the historically curious. It isn't likely that many cities of the size of Erie with such a valuable relic obtainable would petition the government to do what they could very well do themselves. OFFICERS AMONG MASTERS AND PILOTS Officers elected by the Cleveland harbor of the American Association of Masters and Pilots of Steam Vessels Monday evening are: Captain, A. H. Mclachlan; first pilot, Richard Neville, Jr.; second pilot, James F. Goodwin; purser, Richard Neville, Sr.; captain's clerk, Charles A. 'Hinman; delegates to Washington for the grand uarbor, Jan. 21, A. H. McLachlan and Daniel Henderson. Detroit harbor--Wilson McGregor, captain; Philip R. Frost, first pilot; Samuel S. Bunnell, second pilot; David Wilson, pur- ser; E. S. Pickell, captain's clerk; delegates to grand lodge ses- sion at Washington, H. J. Heegan and Wilson McGregor; alter- nate, Philip R. Frost. Milwaukee harbor--Captain, Capt. D. C. Sullivan; first pilot, F. W. Van Patten; second pilot, Warren C. Jones; chaplain, Alex. Eliason; purser, N. J. Mclsaac; captain's clerk, F. L. Tonkin, who was also elected delegate to the grand harbor meet- ing at Washington Jan. 21. HALF THE ORE FROM MESABI. Although opened up only ten years ago, the Mesabi range of Minnesota is now furnishing to the blast furnaces and steel works of the country practical' half the ore that comes from the Lake Superior region. Exact figures dealing with shipments from the different ranges in 1902 are not yet at hand, but the reports are complete enough to show that of the total output of about 27,500,000 gross tons from the Lake Superior mines full 48 per cent. was from mines of the Mesabi range. The following table shows the percentage of the whole furnished by the Mesabi range since shipments from that range were begun in 1893: Year. Mesabi. Total. Bet. 1803 6 ee 613,620 6,065,716 10 1804) 6 So es a 1,793,052 7,748,312 23 1BOS 4 iene GE 2,781,587 10,429,037 206 FROG 2 2,882,079 9,934,828 29 18O7 vied ee 4,275,809 12,464,574 34 1806 ee a a 4,613,766 14,024,673 32 1RO0S 5 Oe ae ee 6,626,384 18,251,804 36 1000 ee ee 7,809,535 19,059,393 41 TOBE Fi u555 Sey ee eee 9,004,890 20,580,237 44 102 (estimated) = 2.4.65. -- 13,290,000 27,400,000 48