30. TAe MarINeE REVIEW AT THE HEAD OF THE LAKES. Duluth, Minn., Feb. 12--Steamer Bon Ami of the Booth line, left this city on her last trip Feb. 10, and laid up at Two Harbors on Monday, the season for this craft being 321 days, having started in March. There is no reason why the boat could not continue longer either from Duluth or Two Har- bors, for there is not enough ice at either place to obstruct navigation. The boat will be running again next month. The season has the mines, and it may be that nothing will be done on this line for some time,. but there is little doubt that in time the mines and roads running to them will be using power: from the Duluth works. The Reid Wrecking Co. succeeded in getting the Manila off the rocks of the north shore, only to have the boat sink in 23 feet of water just as they got her moving toward : onlg: eityo" 1b will been a very prof- itable one, and the. Booth line) 3 == has done' 'far more passenger and freight busi- ness than ever in its history. The continual develop- ment of the north shore, and the great amount of through business growing up be-| tween this city} and the Canadian ports, of Port) Arthur and Fort William is hav- ing. its effect on the. trade, which each. year ~ de- mands 'better and better crait and more commodious passenger accommodation. Capt. Con Flynn, a well known vessel man of this city, has been ap- pointed district steamboat manager for the Booth company, and will have charge of all its boat operations out of this city. ' : - Brankman Bros. & Morris, of St. Paul, who built the first half of the Northwestern Fuel Co.'s great coal dock at Superior, are to erect the second half, this season, at a cost of $300,000. Work begins at once. The contract includes merely substructure, dredging, and the like, and about $300,- coo more will be spent in various equipment and superstruc- ture contracts. When completed the dock will be 1,200 feet frontage with the same depth from front to front. It will have, therefore, room for shipping of 2,400 feet at which 'there will be 21 feet of water. The storage capacity of the completed dock will be about 850,000 tons. It is sup- posed that boats will be handled at the new port the com- ing fall. hOST,S IED Anas Wten FAARUNIE: Efforts are making to induce various waterfront interests at Duluth to subscribe toward the construction and main- tainance of a fire tug for the city. It is estimated that the cost of a properly equipped fire tug will be from $75,000 to $80,000. Total quantity of grains in store at the head of the lake has increased rather slowly of late, but now amounts to more than 18,000,000 bushels. It is coming in at the rate of better. than 1,000,000 bu. per week. Flour has not begun to arrive here for spring shipment, though it is about the time when it usually begins to come up from Minneapolis. But the flour market.is very quiet and the mills are not run- ning strong. The Great Northern Power Co., of Duluth, is busy looking up manufacturing enterprises to utilize the surplus of power which it still has. It has sold about 17,000 of the 30,000 horsepower that it will have ready for work next summer, and \the expectation is that most of this remainder will be contracted for in a short time. No contracts have been let for power for the mining or railway companies running to HARVEY WON'T BE HAPPY UNTIL HE FINDS IT. Donahey in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. not be a serious matter to repair this last break, however, and she -_| will be up again | in a short time. It is now rumored that"the boat may be equipped with steam, the engines of the lost Lafay- ette being 'used: for her. As soon as the Mahila is: in' the drydock' work 'begins on the Mataafa. COAL CO. The Pittsburg ) Coal Co., has' de- cided: to dispose of some of its lake property and ex- tend its operations in other directions. Among the latest transactions in this direction was the sale of the Western Coal & Dock Co., at Waukegan, Wis., to the Erie railroad. This property was acquired for the purpose of' dis- posing of soft coal in that district, but the Erie road has been using it for some time past for hard coal, and the Pitts- burg company received no advantage from the arrangement. The two-thirds interest in the Whitnall Coal Co. at Milwau- kee has also been disposed of. As has already been an- nounced the company is erecting a modern coal dock on St. . Mary's river to take the place of the present small dock which is inadequate to handle the business the company has an op- portunity to secure. ; At the recent annual meeting of the Pittsburg Coal Co., at Jersey City, the following directors were elected: Alexander Dempster, Charles Donnelly, D. L. Gillespie and J. Denniston Lyon were elected to succeed A. M. Neeper, T. C. Wales, L. R. Doty and F. M. Wallace, while directors re-elected were Francis L. Robbins, M. H. Taylor, A. W. Mellon, George T. Oliver, John I. Bishop, John A. Bell, Grant B. Schley, Cal- vary Morris, Henry R. Rea, James H. Beal and. Walter Woodford. On thursday of this week M. H. Taylor, of Erie, succeeds Francis L. Robbins as president, but Mr. Robbins still retains his position as the active head as chairman of the board. Capt. C. A. McAllister has been appointed engineer-in- chief of the revenue cutter. service in place of Capt. John W. Collins, deceased. Mr. George W. Dickie of San Francisco will superin- tend the construction of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co.'s steamer at the yard of the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. T. Mr. John Sampson who has been acting in the Boacity of dock agent of the Chicago-Northwestern Railway at Ashland, Wis., has been appointed assistant superintend- ent of the Pacific division of the Chicago-Northwestern Railway with headquarters at Ashland. Mr. George H. Reese has been appointed dock agent at Ashland.