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front and finishing the breakwater. As President Brown, of the Lake Carriers’ Association, is at its head, the technical knowledge necessary is provided, especially as Councilinan Ash, an old vessel man, is alsoa member. Capt. Brown ought to be especially anxious for the development of the harbor, as he is part owner of the steamer Lagonda. . This is a great season for shipping salt from here by ‘lake to Chicago. Itis mainly Warsaw salt, that comes -in Jess than-100 miles by rail. Formerly but little of it went by lake, <s vessels did not like to handle it, but now thy will take anything that pays acent. The salt “men have found this out, and began by forcing the rate down to a level with coul; and now they get the pick of “the vessels: besides. . The effort to locate the transportation men who offered to take grain at Chicago lest week free of - Buffalo charges, has failed: The associated elevators ‘deny any such attempt, and it does not appear that -any was placed. The canal. men are not in it, either, and say that they are getting most of their grain out of the regular houses, in spite of the existence of one or two wild elevators. _ After a mishap or two the steam yacht Enquirer is getting her gait all right, and is already a welcome visitor at the various resorts in this vicinity, first tak- ing in the lake-side stopping places and then going down the river in a perfectly democratic fashion. She -has already developed some very pretty speed. CHAMBERLIN. esi DETROIT. Gas, Rates AMONG PASSENGER LINES—THE PROPOSED TELEPHONE CONNETIONS AT PoIntT aU PELEE—MR. SHAW AND THE SAULT REGULATIONS. ae Correspondence to The Marine Record, Detroit, August 5. rl eb John Walsh, of J. & T. Hurley’s business, says that though the hard times are of course felt in their business some, they have so far succeeded in keeping up business fairly well. The Mongaugon bringing coal from Cleveland to Sandwich at 25c has a short route, and the Majestic is carrying wheat from Duluth to Buffalo at 15c. The Mystic Star is also car- rying rye, Detroit to Buffalo, at 1c. All vessel men and vessel owners should” Mimabine in effort to have the Dummy lighthouse connected as soon as possible with the North Passage telegraph cable. More boats pass that point than any other lake light- house on fresh water, and there are very often acci- _ dents more or less serious there. The cable has four connections on Pelee Island, one quite near the life-sav- ing station there, and two on the mainland, one at Leamington and one on the end of Point Pelee. The Canadian government, too, intends connecting this line with the Hell Telephone Co.’s lines direct, thus estab- lishing universal connection, and enabling news to be conveyed with the greatest speed in all directions. This change will probably be effected next year, but it may not be amiss to call the vessel men’s attention to the matter, that any suggestions they may see fit to make may be acted upon in making the change. Another matter that should call for marine attention is the unmarked reefs around Pelee Island. ‘There is i the Middle Ground, between the Dummy and Pelee GRATE ete en es ee THE MARINE RECORD. SS ——a—ae—a_0_0—0>0>0®@a0a0—oa—=™$=$@ss=$@mq$@m@@@”S0EE0EN EEE SSS —0—060N0N0N0N0N0N00000NNNNNNNRNSSNSSSSSeeeeeeeeeeeeS south of the usual track of through bound vessels There have been enough accidents, especially “on Chic-a-no-lee Reef, to warrant a buoyrat least, if nota light. A gas buoy would be very serviceable there; also at Mill Point Reef. With the Middle Ground vessels are better acquainted and can better avoid it. The surprising travel on the D & C line, though spoken of in. these columns before, deserves one more mention. ‘The Star-Cole combination cut rates and thus canceled their agreement with the D. & C. and People’s line a few days ago, as a result of which the other lines cut too, and are now combined, practically against the former line. On Sunday last the City of the Straits took over 700 people to Put-in-Bay from Toledo, to spend a few hours, and on Wednesday all the staterooms of the City of Mackinac were filled for days ahead with orders to reserve for Mackinac. In spite of the hard times this line has succeeded in eclipsing its records in the past. John C Shaw has been attacked, both in Detroit and Cleveland, for the part he took in suggesting changes in the rules now governing the navigation of the St. Mary’s River. These attacks have been most uncalled for, first, because Mr. Shaw is financially interested, in the Eddy- Shaw fleet; second, because he isan admiralty lawyer, and as such his interests are identical with those of vessel owners. Mr. Shaw holds master’s papers and sailed for years, so his experience is worth something, also from a practical point of view. But the truth is, Mr.. Shaw is backed up by vessel in- terests in making these suggestions public. Mr. Shaw was accused of haste, when the truth was, his action was the result of mature deliberation and conferences with different clients. McC. a A WRECKS AND WRECKING. The mishaps reported during the week havé' been, luckily, of a very minor character. The Waverly, re- ported last week as being stranded at Death’s Door, was released by the steamer Argo after lightering. The tug Leathem, from Sturgeon Bay, also rendered assistance. The Waverly had 1,400 tons of ore on board. She ran out,2 feet 9 inches forward and 1 foot aft. She went on zbout 700 feet northwest of the black nun buoy, with her starboard bow to the buoy. Pilot Island light bore “—: by N. % N. and she was heading. about SK. The schooner Re meer: which has been lying on the bottom at Ashtabula for some time, has been raised, and will receive repairs at Cleveland. The wrecking expedition from Sturgeon Bay is still at work on the schooner Mattie C. Bell at Summer Island. Most of the coal has been taken out of her hold and hydraulic jacks are being used to roll the wreck over in order to patch her bottom, after which she wil, be pulled into deep water. rrr The Weather Bureau announces that owing to the completion of the new Ilcck at the Sault, the stage of water there will not be annotinced by telegraph after the 10th. & THE FREIGHT SITUATION. The vessels which have been placed in ordinary are once in awhile called out again, but. there is a lack of wild cargoes which is very remarkable-for this time of year. Twice as much soft coal has been shipped to Lake Superior as last season to corresponding date, and car- goes are extremely scarce. Now isthe usual time for cleaning out the elevators for the reception of new wheat at the head of the lakes, and the consequent ~in- crease in grain shipments is expected to prove of some relief. Practically no wild ore is being offered. The talk that some contract ore will be held over to next year is with- out sufficient warrant, as nearly all the ore placed in contracts last spring had already been sold, and the comparatively high freight rate is amply covered in the advanced prices of ore. The vessel men took their med- icine gracefully on last year’s contracts, and the ore dealers realize that such a request would be unfair, and that the staving off of delivery by the furnaces is an en- tirely separate matter. Ore rates remain nominally at 60c from the head of the laks, 50c from Marquette, and 40c from Escanaba. Hard coal pays 20c and soft coal 25c to any port. Chicago grain shipments are improy- ing, and 14%c is now paid on corn to Buffalo. —_-———aennD 0-2 — o—— Major W.L,. Marshall, Corpsof Engineers, advertises on Page 13 for bids for dredging Calumet River and har- bor. SAULT CANAL RECORD FOR JULY. The traffic through the St. Mary’s Falls Canal for July shows in its total tonnage a slight increase over that of June, both as to east and west-bound trade. Wheat shipments show an increase of about 40 per cent, but shipments cf other grains show a decided falling off. Flour shipments were a little heavier and iron ore shows a falling off of about 16 good sized cargoes, the shipments from Lake Superior being 1,367, 431 gross tons, as compared with 1,418,231 gross tons in June. An increase over last July’s shipments is still shown, the showing for the corresponding month last year being 1,312,355 gross tons. The total shipments to Aug- ust 1 also show quite an increase over shipments to the same date last year, being 3,902,880 gross tons, as com- pared with 3,580,839 gross tons to August 1, 1895. Hard coal shipments to Lake Superior are not much more than half what they were in June, and only about two- thirds what they were in July, 1895. Soft coal shows an increase of about 50,000 tons over June, and about 40,00 tons over July last year. About 32,408 tons additional of anthracite has been shipped to Lake Superior, and the shipments of soft coal are just about twice what they 1 were last year to o August 1. ; eee pe De ie eS REPORT OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGER TRAFFIC TO AND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR FOR seas MONTE OF FOL: 1896, INCLUDING STATISTICS oF THE ONEee STATES AND CANADIAN | CANALS AT SAULT STE. MARIE, MICHIGAN, AND ONTARIO. EAST BOUND. Suly, 1896. July, 1895 Total to August 1, 1896, U.S. |Canadian ; U. S. |Canadian U.S. |Canadian To Aug.1 ees Canal. Canal. Total. Canal. Canal. Total. Canal. Canal. Total. 1895. : Mier eA ees Peel bh eiaatye te ysta tds TAREE Reso Sls ey eee 17,155 2,104 19,259 17,812 17,812 §3,069 7,461 60,530 53,992 Se teen WGA te ONS, iii uskh cot aagcied ep mun omnehs » #9 ste harehe .|1 927.433 365,079. | 2,292 512 2.859, 2,859 || 7,084,529 | 2,639,184 | 9,723,713 2,8°9 Building Re TE EON Neo el ghee Neh aie costs op iad wes a AO liege ire 4,225 3,747 3,747 8.115 1,140 9,255 12,520 SHES 1S SRT LUSSIER 765,833 323,384 | 1,089,217 858,582 | Not open} 858.382 || 2 285,152 755,630 | 3,040,782 3,540,807 Iron ore: HII COIS eta OA UO OS BO DOM GR ela eS) ESI ES 815,961 723,562 | 1,539,523 || 1.469,838 to 1,469,838 || 2,723,907 | 1,747,319 | 4,471,226 4,010,540 On api et wich LONSAL. COIL G 6hN). ds), Ok RORRILORY nec aaale.s 4,967 1,115 6,082 4,581 | naviga- 4,581 7,858 5,815 13,673 12,037 Lumber, Mi Sahat IN ecole AS ais gd te Bea babi ah cae Sat fo (ote oak CL SHH GRY vcs eevee wove 111,733 5,062 116,795 133,243 tion. 133,243 330,647 14,000 344,647 357,180 BN Re er SCOTS cae ceca keiials onc ee sigs oa aa a win Ba ina spefGqsins Hoe as) 2 «° vine ai|iaie o.oce pce ie P ereqeiene «tn a ioylie gs et oe ’ 100 JOOR BR aesk Bayt Ae ae ee 100 aS et ee kaa a eaaie nial sae nec bse 6 oh be see 2,789,206 | 4,037,835 | 6,836, 041 2,713,030 2,713,030 ||16,404,815 | 9,532,411 |25,937,226 8,959,991 Pe Uilctassimed areiphty net tons. POS et SOS ee A cree top at 8,485 39,996 31,478 31,478 72,349 23,908 96,257 73,609 Be eet ers 6 asus. claseay f4.ita%b- bed. dele nee sono ccualiew. 3,220 1,975 5.195 3,647 3,647 5,484 3,458 8,942 7,081 WEST BOUND. sah ys hard RUS nee po cee wucie i we Wie cc ob cite Sip xc sislaecece Pitts owe 28,610 11,500 40,110 62,589 62,589 120,132 56,169 176,301 143,893 aia Reoatlaaee Rae We bewelo) Seed ie ea Od ES ote Agighan: 223,418} 246,975 | 740,303 || 432.873 873 || 832,620 | 469,176 | 1,301,796 662,630 Flour, barrelss icin escieii ba phic presi basases; atte eee eS ales ea NS A el see lS Oa Notsopent: 0. 8508 Ooi rr ie 62 150 Me een ONES LS orcas sacha cnn gee casein wan sad << bee Phe sick + MBeae oe acnfef hog bioeay ese aie w 9 erdpeseial] meee Rete B oes 10,400 to 10,400 LM TOOF oss, 1,109 28,650 Manititactiredumon wer toms dri Lies Ad A. aes 14,590 3,330 17,920 10,878°| naviga- 10,878 41,058 3,339 44,397 31,317 ees aN ag tk oe ata sth us ae a ty chy. obovate virys/d vin sis seh ss 26,207 4,135 30,342 37,165 tion. 37,165 107,571 5,536 113,107 127,515 nclassified freight. net tonsocs. 26 Se ge A i ye RE PE 30,824 11,628 42,452: 41,608 41,608 115,041 31, 825 114,866 125,350 CSSD) EV Ss ga eels iar epee rae Ba cag EO ara Pa rsd tars SRR Ee kn 2,792 2,768 5,560%|)}) 41256 4,256 4,636 4,468 9,104 7,322 East bound freight ees tee ye hae Wil Plane cea e slows see |e ch, a eee 2; 152, er opiates ie ck hae Ree Be Ee | Rae Sete eeceee re aera OAIAE218 8 | etre coccciees i enone ey eerie ie teehee Sracore [es eee ea eee Beery te ee seo (vat BRS Ge PA AE tite Pee RAT PUES Fos a vo aee racer echo esadpttera ia) by4 obiteieicte wad fe Gosh es D7OE BOO Waterers Yo, bleh he's aa ote DATT SBT Maio sie « ott aces 8; TOS 200 eee a Notr.— United States c craft passing in July, 2,215; Canadian tered tonnage, 1,074, 695; total registered tonnage, 2: 929, 755. craft, 1 ,202; total craft, 3; 417; United States craft, registered tonnage, L 855,060; Canadian craft, regis-