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: idle. 22 ctimulated an income of $2,000 per an- num are very rare. That we all know to te true. Moreover a man o' warsman at forty-eight is practically as youthful as the ordinary factory hand at thirty. He has had the advantage of regular habits and the finest of open air life. He has far greater capacity for extracting pleasure out of his income of $2,000 per annum at forty-eight than the factory hand at forty-eight has. Assuredly if these facts were generally known the navy department would not lack for ap- prentice seamen. If anyone desires any further information it will be supplied by the Bureau of Navigation, Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor, Navy De- partment, Washington, D. C., or by the nearest naval recruiting station. STRIKE AT DULUTH. The ove trimmers employed on the Mesabi docks at Duluth struck Mon- day for an advance of 25 cents qa day Fhe Duluth, Mesabi & Northern Railway Co., which operates the dock, the men tor the season and it is stated in wages.. has a contract with that it will not accede to the demand. The dock is one of the largest on the lakes, handling ore which is most- ly the product of the mines of the United States Steel Corporation, and the cessation of work there will mean The Pitts- has already or- much delay to the fleet. burgh Steamship Co. dered a large number of vessels to be placed in ordinary until the strike is. will be- adjusted. All the barges dropped immediately and some of the & Steamers will not be sent to. Lake Superior again until the difficulty is settled. All the boats of the other fleets are tunning but they will probably have difficulty in getting cargoes and will be forced to lie up after the present trip. The shipments of ore for July will be considerably reduced by this strike. The open pit mines which ship from the Mesabi dock have ceased operating, no ore having been recéived in Duluth since Saturday night. On Wednesday the strike spread .to Two Harbors, thus tie- ing up two of the largest shipping docks. and seriously delaying the fleet. Half of the mines on the Mesabi range are President Coulby of the Pittsburg Steamship Co,, reached Duluth Thurs- day and will assist in arriving at a set- tlement of the difficulty. It is expected that the solution of it will be the em- ployment of new men, as the work- men have clearly broken their year's .ccntract in striking, Tuscarora, -Chicago with a full cargo of general found in the report of Col. TRE Marine REVIEW MARYLAND-TUSCARORA COLLI- SION. Lehigh Valley line bound~ for Milwaukee and The steamer package freight, was sent to the bot- tom-of the St. Clair river as the re- sult of a collision with the steamer Maryland, managed by Vance & Joys, Milwaukee, last Thursday. The colli- sion occurred near the entrance to Lake Huron and the Tuscarora drifted down and rammed the Grand Trunk docks at Port Huron damaging them and also striking the steamer New York, which was loading there, injur- ing her bow somewhat. The Maryland, which was _, bound for Buffalo 'with 132,000 bus. 'of corn lost her forward bulwarks . and had a hole about 9 by 10 ft. stove tn- her bow extending down from the 14-ft. mark. The Tuscarora when ages to her bow. Her catgo was re- moved by the steamer Mauch' Chunk and 'sie ~ will' be dry docked < at Ecorse. The Maryland will probably be dry docked at Ecorse also. : The damages to both vessels. were very. serious but fortunately there was no loss of life. IRON SITUATION. The strike of ore laborers at the docks at. Duluth and Two "Harbors has brought a situation of serous possibilities before the iron and steel industry. If the trouble continues for any extended period and ties up the ore traffic from the mines to the fur- maces, it is likely. to put check upon mill operations. The pig iron market remains dull, but firm. Heavy transactions in plates 'and shapes are noted in Chicago and in- quiriés are pending theze for a. con- siderable tonnage of structural steel for barges and packet steamers. Bar iron is not very active, but the steel bar business is satisfactory and proba- ble railroad purchases are numerous. Plates are improving in deliveries and prices. Coke is in light demand and old material is dull. : a' severe LAKE IMPROVEMENTS AS \AN | INVESTMENT. ~ additional item of interest is Charles An floated was 'found to have sustained heavy dam- . FE: =; 3... Davis; government engineer , in.: charge of the waters , connecting the great lakes, dealing with the ship canal. Col. Davis: says: "The -large appropriations, going well into the millions, that have been made for the improvement. of the main thoroughfare through the great lakes, commonly designated as_ the ship. canal, which includes the. im- provements of the St. ,Mary's,, river, the St. Clair, Flats,qnd the Detroit river, impress; ,;the,.. popular mind strongly, and the, question is. often asked if such expenditures of public moneys are warranted by the requize- ments of the situation." Col. Davis, answers the question by the presentation of the table carry- ing the,;dreight values for the last 20 years. Continuing, he says: "That is, for a period of 20 years-- from 1887 to 1906--the valuation of the freight tonnage reaches the enor-. mous total of over $4,500,000,000, hav- ing already passed the _ half-billion "mark per. annum. © Taking 'the: ratio between the commerce passing through the Detroit river-and the St. Mary's river and applying it to the valuations, the total through-the latter _for the same 20-year period amounts to $5,- 611,234,000 in' round numbers. For the same 20-yedr period the amounts expended totaled $16,023,241. "This total amounts to a little over two and eight-tenths of one per cent of 'the total freight values, which would seem to answer the question of whether the expenditure is justi- ned," TO LEAVE MANITOWOC. ' The 'report that the Goodrich Tran- sit Co. is to remove its' plant from Manitowoc has been confirmed. The yard of the Manitowoc Dry Dock Co., which the Goodrich company has held under lease, must be vacated as _the owners are to make extensions. There being no other site on _ the river it is believed that the Goodriéh company -will remove to Muskegon where it is said it "has "purchased docks for its accommodation. The new Hoover & Mason ore machine at the Toledo Furnace Co.'s dock is now ready for work. This is the third machine installed at this dock. DREDGING IN DETROIT RIVER. Abstract of proposals for dredging Section 4, Plan B, Detroit river, received in response to advertisement dated June 3, 1907, and opened July a; 1907. Estimated quantity No. Name and address of bidder-- 3,500,000cu. yds. Per c Gon: Breymann Se Bros; sloledo. O73 ee er cubie yard $ agetes 2: Brith Vogel, Milwaukee, Wis.) 0.0.25 ee 26%c 927,500 By Deine Dredging »Co.,: Detroit, Mich. ..,.0.... 3... 30°<¢ 1,050,000 4. Lake Erie Dredging Ca. Buffalo, Ne eyes eee. 30%c 1,067,500 5y Buffalo Dredging Co., Buffalo, ING ee ee oe ons 32. .¢ 1,120,000 6. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Chicago, Tll........., Boe 1,225,000