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$870. The vessel was battered up while towing over the Columbia river bar and the repairs include the placing of a new wheel and the construction of a Jiféboat. The New England Transportation Co., Portland, Me., is engaged in build- ing two four-masted, single-decked Tae Marine Review tor tug recently which was 45 ft. long, 12 ft. 4 in, beam and 4 ft, draught: She was christened the Advance and is designed for towing and general purposes. She is equipped with a four-cylinder Hercules engine of 55 Eley William J. Burlee, who was con- BATTLESHIP NORTH DAKOTA ON JAN. 8. schooners for stock. They are 230 it. in length over all, with a gross ton- nage of 700 each and are valued at $50,000 apiece. They will be with auxiliary engines of 15 H. P. John Chilman, boat builder Gray's Harbor, Wash., launched a at = a fitted nected with the successful ship yard at Port Richmond, S.1., N. Yen whieh bears his name, is about to establish a ship building plant at West Point, Va., which is situated on the York river. Mr. Burlee has acquired a tract of timber land 6,000 acres in extent 23 which has a mile of water front with a depth of 50 ft. The new company is said to have orders in hand for con- siderable work of the nature of car floats and oil barges. The Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Vin launched the steel steamer Lurline for the Matson Steam Navigation Co., San Francisco, Cal-, on Jan. 11. The Lur- line is 450 ft. in length, 55 ft. beam and 31 ft. deep and has a capacity for 1,000 passengers and 5,000 tons of cargo. The vessel is estimated to have cost $1,200,000. She will go into commission in about four months. GROIWTH OF LAKE COMMERCE. The accgmpanying diagram showing the growth of Lake Superior com- merce as registered by the ship canals at Sault Ste. Marie is very interest- ing. It was prepared two years ago by Harvey D. Goulder to illustrate an address on the need of greater facili- ties for handling lake commerce. The full line shows the freight tonnage from 1855 to 1905. as eiven sintethe published official records' of St. Mary's Falls canal. The dot and dash line shows the estimated growth based upon a probable percentage of in- crease from year to year as indicated by the increase of previous years. The interesting thing about the diagram is that the line of probable increase has already been surpassed, the predicted commerce of 1909 having been reached in 1907. O 1855 1860 0d 0000" 0d OOO00d od oogooE : Od OOOOH '0G O'OOO0'OG OG 0';O0O00OY9 OG OO OOO Od O'ODO'OE OCOMOOOO!! OODOONOd! OODMOODOE! O0D'O0000 | OODOON'O9S! OODVOODOZ! OODVOODOsS! OOMOO00 Ss! OOMOODOS! OO0000000 4 1865 Z| OO@'OO0000! als = | TO Zz es OdD';OOOOY ca 0) 1870 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 |900 adv3aAa 1905 1910 1915 1920 1925 CHART OF LAKE SUPERIOR COMMERCE,