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December, 1909 CLOSE OF LAKE SEASON. The of 1909 an soine vessels lake season may be at end though are still out and one: or two are yet to The Hebard, of the Wilson Transit Co.'s fleet, has sail. steamer Charles been chartered to carry wheat from Fort William to Buffalo She will leave without insurance on Friday with 330,000 bushels and her freight will yield her something more than $13,000. The steamer. Capt. Thomas Wilson will load coal at Buf- falo either on Friday or Saturday for Milwaukee at $1 per ton. These are the highest rates paid this season. The last ore cargo of the season was carried from Escanaba on Wednesday by the steamer Mariposa. at 4 cents. Notwithstanding numerous delays, such as the strike of the switchmen, the crippling of the Poe lock, frozen ore and vicissitudes of weather, the fleet succeeded in moving nearly 5,- 000,000 tons during November, the exact figures being 4,899,220 tons. This makes the total movement to Dec. 1, 41,164,359 tons which is only 124,396 tons less than was moved dur- ing the full season of 1907. The rec- ord, therefore, for 1907 has. been broken as about 350,000 tons will be moved during December. This is a most extraordinary performance as the present season opened quite late. Following are the figures. tabulated for the month of November and up to Dec. 1 with comparative data for the two preceding years: Port: Nov., 1907. Nov., 1908. Nov., 1909. Escanaba: <0. 469,373 586,112 701,646 Marquette =..3.; 307,547 290,451 369,478 Ashland 220058 319,438 479,015 . 600,469 Superior... 2s. 679,237 629,771 758,073 Dihaths ee 1,537,438 876,600 1,446,288 Two Harbors.... 843,043 756,146 1,023,266 4,156,076 3,618,095 4,899,220 'To ect, To: Dec. 1, To Deo 1, Port. 1907. 1908. 1909. Escanaba. 3) snc 5,722,416 3,332,229 5,632,421 Marquette . 3,009 360 1,468,181 2,877,191 Ashland: ok, . 33 3,423,277 2,498,963 3,736,744 Superior £04 6 6 2754275182. 23;538;3907. 6,505,527, Diduth eae Ps 13,445,977 8,808 168 13,296,326 Two Harbors... 8,169,727 5,702,237 9,116,150 41,197,939 25,348,168 41,164,359 Regarding ore prices for 1910, ev- eryone is keeping quite still and there seems to be. no disposition to make a move until after the holidays. Accidents during the week have been quite numerous and costly, the most serious being the sinking of the steamer Henry Steinbrenner in Mud Lake in collision with the steamer H. A. Berwind during a blinding snow storm. The Steinbrenner was given " a terrific blow on the starboard side - and sank almost immediately. She has now sunk into mud about six feet and as the mud has freely min- "TAE MarRINE. REVIEW gled with her cargo of ore, the job of raising her will be:a difficult one. The Berwind stood alongside the Steinbrenner until morning when she proceeded to Detour. As owing to her own injuries she was drawing too much water to go up the old channel to the Sault, permission was given her to go up the new channel and she was taken to the Sault for temporary repairs. The Steinbrenner is owned by Henry Steinbrenner of Cleveland and the Berwind by G. A. Tomlinson of Duluth. The Steinbren- ner was later abandoned to the under- writers by the owners as a total loss. The steamer B. Lyman Smith of the United States Transportation Co.'s fleet, bound from the Canadian head of the lakes to Buffalo, went ashore just outside of Port Arthur.': She also will have to lighter. The "steamer. Uganda 15° fact on Grassy island, Detroit river, and may have to be dredged off. She was bound down without cargo and was. caught in the heavy blow, of Sunday, Dees The steamer Sir Thomas Shaugh- nessy is at the Superior shipyard with twenty-two broken plates, as a result;-of 7striking 'at' Blake's Point while entering the Passage Island channel near Isle Royal. The steamer. James H: Hoyt which went on the rocks on Outer island, Lake Superior, on Nov. 13 was re- leased after two weeks of effort by Capt. James Reid, the wrecker. The Hoyt had been abandoned by her owners to the underwriters. The steamers Frank C.. Ball and Hoover and Mason were in collision in Lake St. Clair. The Ball received about a dozen damaged plates and was taken to- Toledo for repairs. The Hoover and Mason proceeded to Du- "luth with her cargo of coal and then went into dry dock for a survey. The steamer Charles Weston, which was in collision with the steamer Ward Ames above the Sault, was taken to Lorain for repairs. : The steamer Bransford, which went ashore near Menagerie. island light, Lake Superior, was released on the fifth day by the wrecker Favorite. As. she was short of fuel the Favorite towed her to the Sault. The bulk freighter W. C. Richard- son foundered within one mile of Buffalo today, drowning five members of her crew. The accident was caused by. the shifting of her cargo of flax. The Richardson was owned by W. C. Richardson & Co., of Cleveland, and was built in 1902. She was 354 feet keel and 48 feet beam. the new excursion . ship» Building" Co, 529 The package freighter Clarion, of the Anchor Line, caught fire near Southeast Shoal and will ptobably ibe a total loss. Twelve members of her crew are missing though it is not as yet known whether they reached shore Or, Not. CONTRACTS FOR LAKE VESSELS. Charles B. Calder, general manager of the Toledo Ship Building Co., To- ledo, has closed contract with the Argo Steamship Co. of Cleveland for a steel lumber carrier to be 256 ft. over all, 236 ft. keel, 40 ft. beam and 17 ft. deep, equipped with triple-ex- pansion engines and _ Scotch boilers, -- Contract has also been awarded to the Toledo' Ship Building Co. for steamer for the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co. This new steamer will be 196 ft. over all, 181 ft. between perpendiculars and 62 ft. beam over guards. She is promised for delivery next June. -This makes twenty-seven vessels under contract for 1910 delivery, fourteen of which are building by the American Ship _ Building Co., eight by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, four by the Toledo and one by the Manitowoc Dry Dock Co. The three steamers building at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes En- gineering Works for the Pittsburg Steamship Co. will be named in honor of officials of the United States Steel Corporation. The first of the freight- ers to be launched will be named in honor of William B. Dickson, first vice-president of the Steel. Corpora- tion, the second for William J. Ol- cott, president of the Oliver Ifon Mining Co,, and the third for William P. Palmer, president of the Ameri- can Steel & Wire Co. The bulk freighter A. A. Augustus, building at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the Pioneer Steamship Co. of Cleveland of which Capt. Charles L. Hutchinson is manager, will be launched on Dec th The steamer John P. Morgan Jr. building for the Pittsburg Steamship -- Co. was launched from the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. on Nov. 13 and was christened by Laura Watterson, the little daugh- ter of Capt. W. W. Watterson, hull superintendent of the Pittsburg Steam- ship Co. The Morgan is one of the 600-footers. The new steamer building for the Anchor Line at the Wyandotte yard of the American Ship Building Co. will be launched on Saturday, "Dec. 11.