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— 187 (EST 8.) PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE MARINE RECORD PUBLISHING CO., [INCORPORATED. ] GEORGE L. SMITH, President, MANAGER. C. E. RUvskin, ‘ ; : ‘ W. L. McCormick, . > ‘ : EDITOR. ‘THOMAS WILLIAMS, Chicago, . f ASSOCIATE. CLEVELAND, CHICAGO, WESTERN RESERVE BUILDING, FOURTH FLOOR. ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING, ROOM 308. SUBSCRIPTION. One copy, one year, postage paid, $2.00. One copy, one year, to foreign countries, $3.00. Invariably in advance. ADVERTISING. Rates given on application. All communications should be addressed to the Cleveland office. THE MARINE RECORD PUBLISHING Co., FOURTH FLOOR, WESTERN RESERVE BUILDING, CLEVELAND. Entered at Cleveland Postoffice as Second-Class Mail Matter. Heee ee ae ————————————EEEeEe CLEVELAND, O., JUNE 25, 1896. AN intoxicated individual has placed himself in a seri; _ ous predicament by committing mutiny on the steamer City of Chicago in Lake Michigan. He was placed in irons and is now in jail at St. Joseph, Mich., charged with attempting to shoot an officer on the high seas. The offense carries with it punishment more seri- ous than that inflicted on many murderers. ED Oe PRESIDENT CHARLES F. THWING, of Western Reserve University, has contributed an able article on Ohio and Cleveland to the current number of Harper’s Magazine, which, however, is sadly marred by his reiteration of that moss-grown misconception that Cleveland is the second greatest shipbuilding port in the world. Cleve-. land is hustling to maintain a fresh-water pre-eminence which is in itself now open to some dispute. rr 2 a A STEAMER and barges have just delivered 2,000,000 feet of Canadian lumber at Bay City planing mills, where it will be worked up. Formerly all the rough lumber sawed in Bay City was sent down to Lake Erie ports, but now most of the available sites along the Saginaw River »are occupied by mills, and not only Canadian logs, but sawed lumber, is taken there. Will the same rule apply later to the iron ore regions of the Lake Superior district, and will it, in years to come, teem with blast furnaces and rolling mills? The daily press at the head of the lakes seems to think such a condition will obtain before many years, and while the vast plants in the lower lake territory will not be abandoned, it is by no means an im- probability that a large quantity of iron ore will in time be worked up nearer its source of production. rr 0 0 ei ELSEWHERE Will be noted a move by Engineer-in-Chief George W. Melville, to experiment with cast steel, in order to ascertain if it will not answer as well as forged steel for many purposes, including that of shafting for light war vessels. The idea isnot looked upon with favor by local experts, who consider that too much depends upon the parts of engines as now used, aud that where one important part is placed at right angles to another working with it the liability to breakage would be too great to risk, economy being the only incentive. This is yery likely to haye one result, and that is a reduction in the price of steel forgings in the general trade, and in cases where the government is willing to relax somewhat the rigidity of its requirements relating to inspection. Some .of these requirements involve a heavy incidental expense which materially augments the prices that have «to be charged on steel forgings, when other arrangements could be made which would afford the government the same protection, and still be less burdensome upon the contractor. THE MARINE RECORD. IRON ORE FROM LEADING DISTRICTS. For a number of years we have regularly ascertained the annual shipments of iron ore from the leading iron ore districts of the country. These shipments in the last three years, including the consumption by local fur- naces, were as follows in gross tons: SHIPMENTS OF : . 1893. 1894. 1895. Shipments of iron ore from Gross | Gross Gross leading districts, tons | tons, tons. ELIAS SAGES LE sth Bias raiders nate ta Se Bea fp enema ee | Lake Superior mines of Michigan’ and Wis- | Corsi eSB eee ee. ec ee eet ae 4,621,987 5,008,246 6,582,134 Vermilion Lake and Mesaba mines of Minne- | SOtay oh 5 Gesis ea ec uen eee auc en ee 1,438,505) 2,740,686| 3,856,134 Missouri mines i52-icie. os. ee dee. Fite 60.862 14,147 49,454 Cornwall mines, Pennsylvania... . 439,705, 371,710 614,598 New Jersey mines. {32127 220. Hee tees 328 028| 277,483 280,417 Chateaugay mines on Lake Chan plain....... 29.584 10 C00 20,937 Crown Point mines, New York...... .......| 19,001) 5,190 6,339 Port Henry mines, New York..............- 153,902) 59,656 166,965 Other Lake Champlain mines, New York.... Gy () eR one ae 10,595 Hudson River Ore and Iron Company ...... 38,442) 12.334 13,089 Tillie Foster mines, New York,.............. 27,623) 66,953 41,216 Forest of Dean mines, New York............ 18,185 12,510 6 881 Salisbury region, |Connecticut............... 17,024) 14,000 11,402 Alleghany county, Virginia.................. 175,140, 142,808 209,619 Cranberry mines, North Carolina............ 9,098) 300 2,019 Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com- pany’s Inman mines in Tennessee....... 73.428) 26,477 19,900 Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com- pany’s mines in Alabama................ 722,976, 813,578) 1,186,999 Calhoun, Etowah and Shelby counties in Ala- Eth eRe NR SEE OS Sune SA RBOEN | ERENORIBE ote 200,370, 81,933 218,819 Total of the above districts .............. 8,375,430) 9,658,020] 13,302,517 The Lake Superior mines which shipped the largest quantities of ore in 1895 were the following: The Norrie mine, in the Gogebic range, 743,168 tons; Chapin, in the Menominee range, 618,371 tons; Superior, in the Mar- quette range, 342,097 tons, and Angeline, in the same range, 313,°56 tons; Chandler, in the Vermilion range, 605,024 tons; and Lone Jack-and Oliver,-in the Mesaba range, 500,377 tons. From reports which we have received from the lead- ing producers of iron ore concentrates we learn that the quantity of this kind of ore that was produced in 1895 amounted to 33,858 gross tons, while the shipments dur- ing the same year amounted to 56,727 tons. At several of the plants no concentrates at all were produced in 1895, the shipments being made from the stock piles.— Annual Statistical Report American Iron and Steel Association. ED SD: CURRENT FREIGHT STATISTICS. From the opening of navigation until June 1 the coal shipments up the lakes amounted to 409,491 tons. For the corresponding period in 1895 the shipments were 47,424. The earlier opening of navigation and last year’s strike account in great part for this difference. This includes all ports between and including Buffalo and Toledo. ' Buffalo’s lake commerce for the week ended June 20 was as follows: Receipts—wheat, 655,046 bu.; corn, 572,800 bu.; oats, 2,183,716 bu.; flaxseed, 203,- 322 bu.; flour, 208,887 bbls.; copper, 5,955 tons; iron ore, 20,842 tons; lumber, 8,814,000 feet; lath, 500,000; shingles, - 4,700,000. Shipments—coal, 77,085 tons; cement, 21,710 bbls; salt, 5,573 bbls; sugar, 30,076 bbls. Marquette ore shipments for the two weeks ending June 20 were 117,871 tons. Gladstone shipments for the week ending June 20 were: Ore, 13,350 tons; grain, 100,000 bu.; lumber, 800,- 000 feet; cedar, 52,000 pieces; pig iron, 1,175 tons. From all upper lake ports there was shipped to June 1, 1,695,540 gross tons of ore, which is quite a little in excess of last year’s shipments to the same date. Take Superior ports—Duluth, Superior, Ashland, Two Har- bors and Marquette—sent down 938,493 gross tons to June l1last year; this year, according to the report of tonnage through the Sault canals, they shipped 1,199,361 gross tons to the same date, or 260,000 tons more. ——— EOD CAPITAL IN IRON MINING. The amount of capital invested directly on account of the iron ore deposits in Lake Superior is as follows: Capital in mines, $96,329,122; capital in docks and their equipments at Lake Superior and Lake Michigan ports, $14,185,665; capital employed exclusively in railroad transportation from mines to shipping ports on Lakes Superior and Michigan, $32,364,594; floating capital on the lakes used in transporting ore from Lake Superior and Lake Michigan ports to between Toledo and Buffalo, inclusive of both, $15,492,880; capital employed exclu- sively in carrying ore from Lake Krie docks to furnaces, $28,193,617. ‘The total is $233,242,085. At the expiration of this year the Lake Superior region will ‘have produc- ed in excess of 100,000,00¢ gross tons of ore, of which 7. per cent has been mined within the past ten years. ———_—_——— rr re ee i COMMANDER SIGSBEE ON FRESH WATER. The Great Lake region is honored with a visit from Com. Charles D. Sigsbee, U.S. N., hydrographer, wh : came to Cleveland on Sunday, and after spending Mon- day in visiting the prominent representatives of lake in terests, left Tuesday morning as the guest of Capt. Thomas Jones, of the steamer Iroquois, for a trip to Du luth. Com. Sigsbee stated, during his call at TH RECORD office, that he expected to return from Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie, whence he will radiate in various di- rections, as he thinks in this manner he can get into” touch with the greatest number of vessel masters in the limited time he has at his disposal. Com. Sigsbee ex- pects to spend from two to three weeks on the lakes. While.in Cleveland he was the guest of Ensign W. C, — Cole, who is in charge of the Cleveland Branch Hydro- — graphic Office. Oe TIME RECORDS OF STEAMERS WITH TOWS. The Ashtabula Beacon, in its issue of last Friday, printed a statement that the steamer Aurora and con- sort Aurania made the last trip from Ashtabula to Du- © luth and return in 7 days and 22 hours, bringing down ~ 4,550 tons of ore, which it stated, was 10 hours better © time than ever made heretofore by a steamer and con- — sort. The Beacon omits to state whether:this time was taken from arrival at Ashtabula on one trip till arrival on the next, but as it states that the time included 12 hours’ loading at Duluth, the inference is that the time was taken from departure from Ashtabula till arrival on the next trip. If so, these figures are open to ques- tion as record breakers. The Mariska, towing the Malta, has a record of 7 days, 19% hours from Two Har- bors to Ashtabula and return to Ashtabula, which in- cludes at least 12 hours’ unloading time, the capacity of steamer and tow being considerably more than the amount given above. The whalebacks. Pathfinder and Sagamore, also both large carriers, made the same trip in 7 days 13% hours. The steamer Sitka, with a barge in tow, has just made a record of 7 days 17 hours from Conneaut to Two Harbors and. return. : DD oe a THE FREIGHT SILUATION. The freight situation shows a more bearish outlook at present than it has at any time previous during the sea- son. he ore rate from the head of Lake Snperior has dropped to 80c, with 75c being paid from Marquette and 2 55c from Escanaba. : Jest This condition of affairs is almost — certain to continue until August, and may last for a two months. Iron ore sales are brightening up, and while no more large blocks have been disposed ‘of ap- pearances indicate that a large amount will be sold dur- ing the latter half of the season. Shipments of ore are already considerably ahead of last year, and the slack- ening down was to be looked for; but there is still every reason to believe that this year’s output will exceed 10,- 000,000 tons. The weakness in the ore rate is partially due to the reduced shipments of grain, and the consequent falling off in rates, the Duluth-Buffalo wheat rate being weao — at2%c, and the Chicago-Buffalo corn rate none tok — strong at 1%c. vs : Coal freights are in pretty good shape considering the ~ large quantities already shipped, and that the car- dumping machies afford so much better dispatch than ~ formerly in loading. The fact that sales have been made © at low prices has a tendency to keep up shipments. — West Virginia coal is getting into the Northwest by all railhauls, but this does not seem to affect the volume of : lake traffic. The Norfolk & Western has made a rate of — $3.25 per ton from the Pocahontas district to St Paul — and Minneapolis, and the Chesapeake & Ohio has in — turn made a rate of $3.50 per ton on run-of-mine gas — coal, from West Virginia to Winona, Minn. This is getting some of the business away from the Pittsburg district. West Virginia coal is also making some in- roads on the Pittsburg districts lake trade, the B. & .O. having made the rate from Fairmount, W. Va., to lake ports f. o. b. vessel $1.05, which is, its competitors claim, acutof about 15c. Lake rates remain abont the same. Ohio ports pay 35c to Lake Superior on soft coal, and Bufialo 30c on hard. On soft coal to Milwaukee 40c. is now paid, a slight reduction from former rates. . Buffalo pays 45c to Milwaukee and 50c to Chicago.