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! THE MARINE RECORD. If. tions and side walls some ten or twelve feet. The tracks would be left on trusses or supported in some way, while the space between the old bottom of the tunnel and the new bottom was being excavated and rebuilt. The new tracks could be laid and everything prepared for the cable while the cars were still running on the old tracks. All the time that would be lost would be taken up by the removal of the old tracks and supports. After the cars were running on the new tracks the crown of the tunnel could be removed, the river could be coffer- dammed in sections without stopping navigation, or a new roof could be built and the old one then dredged or blasted off. 1 _“The procedure which the River Improvement Asso- ciation will doubtless follow to secure the lowering of the tunnels will be by a petition to the Secretary of War against them as obstructions to navigation. During the last season a number of boats have caught on both Washington and La Salle street tunnels. A statement of every such stranding has been prepared for future action. When the association decides that it is time to go ahead these statements will be sent to the War De- partment at Washington with a formal complaint against the tunnels as ‘unreasqnable obstructions to navigation.’ If the Secretary of War follows the usual custom the complaint will be returned to the United States engineer stationed at Chicago and in charge of the government of the river. He will at once investigate the complaint, and if the River Improvement Association can convince him that the tunnels are ‘unreasonable obstructions to navigation, he will so report to the War Department. It is seldom that the report of the engineer in charge * is overruled by the Secretary of War, and if it is not in this case the War Department will order the owners of the tunnels to lower them, or, in other words, to remove the obstructions. If the owners refuse to do so GALLEY SEVEN—Marine Record—Dec. 30 then it is the duty of the United States District-Attorney to begin suit, but you well know that the beginning of a lawsuit is far from its end. ; “Where are the growing cities of the middle West located? Where lake transportation is available. Cleve- land has outstripped Cincinnati. Buffalo is the most thriving city in the Empire State besides New York. Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth, and a score of smaller places have made wonde¥ful strides and are outstripping their rivals which have not the advantages of cheap water transportation. Chicago escaped the threatened and an- ticipated collapse after the World’s Fair, and the recent election showed that its population had made a remark- able gain. ; : “There can be but one cause for this great advance in all lake cities, and that cause is the advantage cheap water transportation gives them. Up to the present this city has been on an equal plane with its rivals on Lake Michigan and Green Bay, and had a material advantage over Duluth on account of the limitation of-draft in get- ting from Lake Superior to Lake Huron. With this limitation removed, the grain trade must face a sharper competition from Lake Superior ports than ever before? With the completion of the twenty-foot channel this sharpened competition will extend all along the line from Sotith Chicago to Duluth. “Whether or not this city is to be in a position to meet such competition will depend largely upon the members of the Commercial Club. If the men who comprise this great organization make up their minds that the river must be improved and the tunnels lowered it will go far toward leading public sentiment in that direction, and it will be accomplished.” WILL MOVE TO CANADA. The Holland & Emery Lumber Company, which has its nominal headquarters at East Tawas, but which is con- trolled by Nelson Holland of Buffalo, is preparing to move the big sawmills from that point to Byng Inlet on Georgian Bay, just as soon as the ice goes out in the spring. This company handles about 45,000,000 feet of logs, bringing them to Tawas from their Canadian lands in rafts. They have now concluded to do all their sawing in Canada. The mills are already partly dismantled. They will be moved on vesesls as nearly intact as possible. As it will be impossible to begin pile driving and dock building at Byng Inlet till forst is out of the ground it will probably be August before any sawing is done there. A LARGE NEW DRY DOCK, The directors of the Union Drydock Company have appropriated enough money to build a new drydock on property now owned by the company in Buffalo. It will be built large enough to receive a vessel 500 feet long and of 50 feet beam. Engineers are now at work on the plans. Drydock No. 1-will also be widened and deepened this winter, so as to take in vessels 350 feet long and 45 feet beam, and leave five feet of clear space on the keel blocks. The small steamer Charles West of the Arnold line, operated in the Straits of Macinac, is at Manistee and, dur- ing the winter will be lengthened 26 feet. Capt. John Isbister who had charge of the steamer Josephine during the past season, will next season com- mand the steamer Samoa. eereneneteniestieninntet ai WANTED. Tug suitable for fishing purposes, about 8o ft. long and 14 feet beam, with power suitable for purpose mentioned. Desire boat built within past six years. Price must be reasonable. Address W. B., care of MARINE RECORD. TUG WANTED. Parties would consider the purchase of a good light- draft tug 6 or 7 feet. Price must be very low. Good power and sufficiently seaworthy to go outside in any weather. Address Box L., THE MARINE RECORD. 48-51 WANTED. Advertiser wants to purchase a steam barge, having:a capacity of 200 to 250 M feet of lumber on a draft of 7 or 8 feet. Must be in good condition. For further par- ticulars apply to Kendall Marine Reporting Co., Port Huron, Mich. PROPOSALS. | U.S. Engineer Office, Duluth, Minn., Dec. 14. 1896. Sealed proposals, in triplicate, for building breakwater at Presque Isle Point, Marquette, Mich., will be received here until noon, Jan 11, 1897, and then publicly opened. Infor- mation furnished onapplication. Clin- ton B. Sears, Major Engrs. 51-1 U.S. Engineer Office, Duluth, Minn., Dec. 16, 1896. 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