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MARCH 22, 1900. THE MARINE RECORD. Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and United States Light-House Departments for channel and harbor lighting. Over 800 gas buoys and gas beacons in service. 12 2. Chicago Pautical School 1513 Masonic Temple, Capt. Samuel W. Gould, | 265 MARCY AVE., CLEVELAND. CHICAGO. - ‘ (Late roheuhe ny Navy) B urn Gives instructions in Ocean Principal. ' Continuously Navigation and prepares candidates for the examina- tions for Master and Pilots’ Licenses, before the Local Steamboat Inspectors. #% from 80 to 365 days and nights without atten- tion, and can be seen a distance of six miles, A full aud complete course of instruction in lake and ocean navigation. Also special branches taught those desiring to qualify themselves for better positions in the marine service. $200 in prizes (Great Lakes Regis- ter) awarded annually to students. Students taught by correspondence. Students may begin at any time. Send for circular. SO} THE 1900 CUT OF LUMBER ON GEORGIAN BAY. During the past the maximum cut of white pine by the mills of the Georgian Bay district of Ontario has been about 150,000,000 feet. This total was reached in 1895. Owing to the difficulties encountered in logging during the present winter—unfavorable weather and the extreme difficulty in maintaining woods crews—and the fact that but few new mills were going into commission, it has been inferred that the approximate lumber output of this district for the com- ing season would not exceed 150,000,000 feet. Careful investigation, however, proves these figures do not represent the facts. More logs have been cut and skidded - than ever before in the history of the district, and, while in active seasons of the past as high as 300,000,000 feet of logs “have gone into export to feed Saginaw Valley and Huron shore mills, this season will see barely 50,060,000 feet thus directed. While only three or four new mills will be in commission . in the Georgian Bay district this season, the old ones have been largely rebuilt and much new machinery added. Again, ‘preparations have been made to run many of them day and night, against a former custom of day service only. From the best information obtainable at this writing, the following summary may be regarded as reasonably accurate of the probable output of the Georgian Bay mills for the “season of 1900: ; FEET. Cutler & Savidge Luimber Co., Cutler, Ont...... 25,000,000 Cook Bros. Ltd., Sprague.............)........ 22,000,000 Spanish River Lumber Co., Spanish River....... 18,000,000 Moulthrop Lumber Co., Johns Island........... 30,000,000 Blind River Lumber Co., Blind River........... 10,000,000 N. Dyment, Thessalon,.... aie Baveua are alec iuen aee 10,000,000 Conlon Bros., Little Current.......0...... 0.0... 18,000,000 W. & A. McArthur, Little Current.......... .. 15,000,000 » Cook Bros., French River.......... Apa Mee, 5,000,000 _ Holland-Emory Lumber Co., Byng Inlet. ..!... 40,000,000 William Peter, Patry Sound 2.0.5.) 60000202... 30,000,000 ‘Conger Lumber Co., Parry Sound............. . + 22,000,000 Parry Sound Lumber Co., Parry Sound...... . 25,000,000 Slush & West, Parry Sound...............00... 8,000,000 e Midland Amitlis os es osa PSs Peron ee unig hs 60,000,000 WMictoria*Marbor mills... 7... be ed oe. 68. 50,000,009 Waubausheue mills.............. ual site ae es 35,000,000 : Beck Lumber Co., Penetenguishene. ............ 25,000,000 - J. & T. Charlton, Collingwood................. 15,000,000 POA st Oren Mer eh nrc se len 473,000,000 It is hard to see how, by any combination of conditions or _ circumstancés, the cut will fall short of 400,000,0c0 feet. _ Fully one-third of this quantity has already been marketed, or will go direct to wholesale yards controlled by the manu- facturers in the United States. While the aggregate repre- _ sents but a small portion of the totality of white pine pro- _. duction, the notable increase in this district will materially assist the jobbers and manufacturers of the Saginaw Valley, _ Detroit, Toledo, Sandusky, Cleveland, Buffalo and Tona- _ wanda to maintain stocks for the year to come, and incident- ally yield Uncle Sam quite a bit of pin money.—American - Lumberman. = Oe eS BS OCCULTATION OF SATURN. eee Next Saturday morning, the 24th inst., the planet Saturn will be occulted; that is, hidden by the old, or waning moon. __ An occultation of any kind is an interesting astronomical _ event; an occultation of the sun, which means a total eclipse, _is the most absorbing phenomenon known to astronomical observational science. The Toronto World very pertinently ait Controlled by observes that next in interest after a total eclipse of the sun, is an occultation of the planet Saturn. Itis true that, like all other objects, stellar to the naked eye, the planet ap- proaches and passes behind th2 moon’s disc, simply asa very bright star, but in a telescope able to show the moons and rings of Siturn, the phenomenon isa singularly beauti- ful one, because the entire planetary system may be seen slowly moving up to and being eclipsed by. the advancing lunar limb: Just now Saturn is a marvelously glorious object in the southern skies from about_2 o’clock in the morning till day-. break. On the night in question the planet will be occulted by the moon while both are below our horizon, so that both objects will rise together. About half an hour after moon- rise careful scrutiny will show the planetary system beginning to edge into view from behind the dark side of the moon. Ample compensation for the circumstance that the com- meacement of the occultation will be invisible to us may be found in the reappearance of the planetary system from be- hind the moon, inasmuch as, unless the earth-shine is very strong, the planet will appear to come out upon the sky as a new object; that is, as something not there before. The reappearance of the planet will, of course, easily be visible to the naked eye, and, while the phenomenon will be still more beautiful in a good opera or field glass, it’ will re- quire a telescope, not necessarily a powerful one, by any means, to bring out all its beauties. An occultation of Sat- urn is rare, and on this occasion will, if the sky permits, be observed and photographed from: all parts of the North American continent. Apart from the occultation, Saturn himself is a very at- tractive object, inasmuch as hisrings are as nearly open as they may ever be seen from the earth, so much so that in a telescope the half of the planet seems now to hang within the ring system. All men who sail, either on the lakes, coast or ocean, ought to be particularly interested in this magnificent and far learning occultation. It is of vast importance, to the novice, as to the adept, and in this connection, more dis- tinctly so as to locating observer’s position on the earth. oo oo VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD, by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade. CITIES WHERE WHEAT.| CORN. Oats. RYE BARLEY STORED. Bushels. | Bushels, | Bushels. ; Bushels. | Bushels. 652 000 10,000 80,000 52,000 454,000 97,000 BOSOOO| nice eal males to ees 14,400,900} 5,373,000] 1,854,000 273,000 21,000 85.000] 3.751,000 BAQIOOO IE snag vis creme lieve bathe oe 417,000 213,000 48,000 5,000 13,000 14,424,000 971,000 244,000 417 000 184,000 248,000].......... MARAE aR eee seal awl Lata eee Forpowillia mm: Ont: | [its y201; 000) ie oe ea cA esieen scat op ae esse] eet roa Milwaukee.......... , 256,000 SOD cowie s 10,000 8,000 “3 ahOatay Sai vtse sees 189,000 GOS; COO tie Nl ea RR Te Montreal. ..3.. @.i.. 52,009 15,000 442,000 14,000 34,000 Port Arthur, Ont.... 208,000 Bei Pillage cdots «AIRY ee Sara ut Neel sia my eee TOLEAOR eeu seis cee 745,000] 2,196,000 160,000 ‘BOOOL sco ataecasn POLONLO rye cs ween ta 68,000] 604. ci. au 4,000) . 41,000 Grand Total..... 53.911,000] 20,542,000] 6,728,000] 1;167,000 961,000 Corresponding Date, ESO ears ca bid fie Bia ar 29,992,000} 33.466,000| 11,074,000] 1,503,000] 2,546,000 Increase, ... 06.0.0 213,000) 3). 5 «/. ae BAT OOO Hs Fe ae ul ey oaks Solan Decrease ..,........ a ee 518,000 ‘ 3.000 100,000 While the stock of grain at lake ports only is here given, the total shows the figures for the entire country except the Pacific Slope. — TAKE — Wade Park or Payne Ave. Car. THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING Co, {60 Broadway, New York City. LAKE SUPERIOR ORE SUPPLY. John M. Longyear, of Marquette, has been quoted recent- ly in a newspaper interview on the future of the Lake Su- perior iron ranges. His holdings of timber and mineral lands in Michigan are probably more extensive than those of any single capitalist, and his years of exploration and pioneer- ing on the Gogebic, Menominee and Marquette ranges have given him unusual familiarity, with the resources of the Lake Superior region. Mr. Longyear’s advocacy of _the erection of iron and steel plants on Lake Superior has been » an outgrowth of the relation he has sustained to mineral de- velopments there and his desire that the largest possibilities of these natural advantages may be realized. He has pub- lished some literature on the subject, embodying the results - of investigation by experts. His most recent expression is as follows: “T have no idea that the iron ore deposits of the upper peninsula of Michigan are likely to be exhausted in the near fnture. The deposits now being operated will probably be exhausted in‘’a few years, but there are extensive tracts of unexplored territory which will undoubtedly yield large quantities of ore. Explorers are now at work on some of these tracts and during the coming year will probably re- veal new deposiis. It is doubtful, however, if the explorers will find new deposits of first-class ores rapidly enough to take the place of such deposits which are becoming ex- hausted, hut it is safe to say that before the first-class ores of the upper peninsula become exhausted, the iron and steel makers will have turned their attention to the lower grade ores, of which there is unlimited quantities in this region. Mining operations will undoubtedly be carried on for the production of iron ore inthe upper peninsula of Michigan for, at least, several generations to come. is “At present, indications strongly point tothe possible early erection of steel manufacturing plants near the mines. Recent improvements in the saving of the by-pro- ducts created in the process of reducing wood to charcoal make charcoal the cheapest fuel of any now in use. Im- mense regions near the mines are covered with a heavy growth of hardwood timber. All the immense timber re- sources of the region will be drawn upon extensively in the near future, and while there are large areas of good soil which yield satisfactory returns to the agriculturist, there are extensive areas which are undoubtedly adapted to noth- ing so wellas the production of wood, some varieties of which grow quite rapidly. In time some system of intel- ligent and practical forestry will undoubtedly be inaugur- ated which will insure a perpetual supply of timber for in- dustrial purposes. ‘‘ There are many other minerals known to existin the upper peninsula, aside from iron ore and copper, but which have heretofore had little attention. These will naturally receive more ‘attention as the population increases and as knowledge of the natural resources develops. The clays, marbles, sandstones and other building materials have in them a basis of extensive industries. There are also ex- tensive areas underlaid by limestones, beds of marl and other cement-making material, not to speak of gold, silver, graphite, roofing slate and gannister, all of which are known to exist and have already had some attention. The numerous water powers afforded by the mountain streams, with frequent cataracts and rapids, also afford a basis for industries. Some of these powers have already been im- proved, but there are many others awaiting development. The region is one full of natural resources of many kinds, which will undoubtedly support an ever-increasing popu- lation for hundreds of years.”’