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are Norcross Bros., of --Worcester, Mass., and Cleveland, O. The cost of the monument is $19,000, which sum was contributed by the general gov- ernment, the state of Michigan and the transportation and mining interests 'of the lakes. It will be erected at Locks Park, on the axis of Bingham~avenue. SHORTAGES IN CANADIAN GRAIN. CARGOES. Editor Martne Review--Sir: I do not wish to enter into a controversy, regarding the causes leading to the shortage, and overrun on. cargoes, shipped 'from Fort William and Port Arthur. In writing to you on the 6th inst. I intended only to give any one interested the benefit of my _ exper- ience gained during the time I was employed at one of the Fort William elevators, as. well "as what: I had learned while assistant in an elevator at a Georgian Bay port. At the lat- ter | have seen a case, in fact, two or three cases, where one steamer fol- lowed the other at the elevator, in loading at the Lake Superior Cariadian pon, <coming in like-order at the Georgian Bay port, the first to fall short several hundred bushels, and the other te min over seatly a2. like amount. I also know it to be a fact the grain-has been found in the ship- ping bins, after the vessel for which it was weighed had left port. In so far as. the wearing out of spouts is concerned, that cannot be confined to the Canadian ports alone; that will happen in all elevators that handle grain, and the Canadian ele- vators have just as good millwrights as those in our ports to look after this work. As for the reweighing of part of a: draft, that would .have to occur often, in order to create a large shortage, and would not of necessity 'have to fall on the shoulders of the loading port, for during my exper- ience in the Buffalo elevators I have -. seen. where shortages of 500 bushels were found to occur, same being lo- cated here after the cargo had been reweighed, or in. loading to canal boats or cars. This, of course, could not happen through the reweighing of 'a part of one or of several drafts, but through both the weighman and tally -man failing to tally one or more' drafts. / If the cause of those large short- ages was or could be put on the wear- ing out of the spouts, and the over-_ - flow of bins, there would be no over- run on cargoes; it would all be a shortage. JoserH A, BOLAND. Buffalo, June 21. THE MarINeE REVIEW AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The steamer Yale ran aground at Point Pelee near Southeast shoal on Lake Erie last week. The steamer Smith Thompson, build- ing for the L. C. Smith Transit Co., will be launched at Toledo on Saturday, Capt. T. W. Walker, commanding the revenue cutter Tuscarora, will re- tire at the end of the present season, having reached the age. of sixty-five years. : The .steamer.-H: $s" Pickands and the schooner Morengo have arrived at the yard of Abram Smith & Son, Algonac, Mich., for 'repairs to top sides. The Reid Wrecking: -Co.. has con- tracted to raise the dredge Sir Wil- fred lost off Port Hope three years ago. It was not discovered unt] last fall, The old side wheeler Urania has been restored to her original name Flora and will operate between To- ledo and Cedar Point in connection with the steamer Eastland. -- 'Marine interests at Tonawanda have started a movement to have the war department establish a. flash light at the entrance to Niagara river and a signal light at the mouth of Tonawanda creek. D. O. Smith, of Port Washington, who purchased the hull of the_ pas- senger steamer Atlanta, has notified the collector of customs at Milwau- range. 27 keé that he will raise the wreck of the* steamer' "Atlanta. which" was burned off Port Washington a year ago. Capt. Thomas Johnson, assistant to the spresident of the .-Great Lakes Towing Co., has purchased the gaso- line launch Bayou from the Buffalo Yacht club.. The Bayou is 65 ft. long and is one of the finest launches on the lakes. The contract having been let by the Lake Erie Dredging Co., of. Buf- falo, for removing the shoal that lies at the mouth of Buffalo harbor just outside the lighthouse on the long breakwater, captains of vessels are requested to slow down on entering port and give as wide berth as possi- ble to the dredges and drill boats that will be at work upon the con- tract.. The action of-the swell from wheels of passing steamboats is very apt to break the anchors or spuds on the dredges or drill boats. The Lunkenheimer Co., Cincinnati, O., has just issued a little catalogue of its generator valves. The booklet is quite small, but it nevertheless en- ters thoroughly into a description of the various types of generator valves manufactured by the company. The booklet is illustrated with wash draw- - ings and a complete price list is given. The booklet will be sent to anyone interested. IMPROVING HARBOR AT BUFFALO, N. Y. . Abstract of proposals for excavation in south end of Buffalo Harbor, N. Y., received in response to advertisement of May 1 and opened June 1, Adams, Colonel, Corps of Engineers. 1907, at' Buffalo, (Ne Yo, "by HocM. Dredging and removing 100,000 No. Name and address-- yards of material. Total Remarks. Per cubic yard, scow measure. 1 Daly & Hannan Dredging Co., Ogdensburg, N. Y.. 28 ¢ $28,000.00 2.3 Graves & Stephens, Cleveland O..... ve. es 20° 20,000.00 3 Buffalo Dredging Co., Buffalo, N. Y....... ete 14 ¢ 14,000.00 Accepted. 4 Lake Erie Dredging Co., Buffalo, N. Y...........- 23%4c 23,500.00 5 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Chicago, Ill...... ; 24%c 24,500.00 IMPROVING HARBOR AT BUFFALO, N. Y. ~- Abstract of proposals for removing shoals outside north end of breakwater at Buffalo, N. Y. received in response to advertisement dated May 3, and opened June 3, 1907, at Buffalo, by H. M. Adams, Colonel, Corps of Engineers. ; WY, Removing 35,- 000 cubic yards No. Name and address-- material per Total Remarks. cubic yard, scow $74 & 6090000 Accented 1 Lake Erie Dredging Co., Buffalo, N. Y.......... ; ,900. ccepted. 2 Graves & Stephens, Cleveland, O........+..--e sees 5.50 192,500.00 3 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Chicago, Ill...... 5.25 183,750.00 4 Buffalo Dredging Co., Buffalo, N. Y.......---++- 3.80 133,000.00 REMOVING RIP-RAP AT ASHLAND, WIS. Abstract of bids opened June 6, 190 of Engineers, for furnishing and placing a 7, at Duluth, Minn., by Major Graham D. Fitch, Corps bout 60,000 tons of rip-rap at Ashland, Wis. Amount available for this work, about $80,000. Amount proposed to, be expended, about $60,000. Per ton of 2,000 Ibs., including re- No. of : bid. Name and address of bidder. 1 Alex. Sang, Duluth, Minn......... 2 A. Donald & Co., Ashland, Wis... 3 Powell & Mitchell, Marquette, Mich. 4 Northern Dredge Co., Duluth, Minn. nay? 1e8 and of cross drift- wood. /. Total. Remarks. $0.99 $59,400 *Recommended for accept- ance on account superior quality of stone. 1.07 64,200 1.25 75,000 : 97 Stone unsatisfactory. 58,200