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THE MARINE RECORD. JUNE 13, Igo!. Kae nmkk & DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The Frank E. Kirby is now on her regular daily trips between this port, Sandusky and Put-in-Bay. The Board of Public Works at Saginaw is seeking bids for dredging Saginaw river and proposals are asked for up till June 20. ‘The City of Mackinac goes on her regular route on Satur- day next andthe regular summer schedule of the D. & C. Line will then be effected. The United States Lake Survey Office announces that new charts of Erie harbor and Presque Isle, Pa., and of Buffalo harbor and Niagara river to the Falls have just been issued and are now on sale at the office, 33 Campau Building, at 11 and 20 cents a copy respectively. Work on the remedial project to counteract or balance the flow of water through the artificial canals, to be constructed ~ by the Consolidated Lake Superior Power Co. at the head of the rapids, west of the railroad bridge at Sault Ste Marie, has been begun. The works will be built at the expense of the company. Even Admiral Dewey sends a letter regretting the defeat of the Tashmoo in her late race with the City of Erie, how- ever, the race was the Tashmoo’s for about half the distance and then it was nip and tuck almost to the finish, still the result was absolute and is so accepted, there is no ‘‘beefing”’ about theloss of the race, while the Tashmoo is still the fastest boat that ever floated in Detroit river. A. A. Parker, owner of the steamer B. W. Blanchard, Capt. Thos. Meikleham, that towed the Flint for hours in Lake Huron during the gale, until the Flint could fix her rudder, has put in a bill against the Flint’s owners for $5,000. This may look like a large tow bill, but when the risk to the Blanchard is taken into account it is no more than she is justly entitled to. General Manager Newman, of the C. & B. Line, has been sent two cheeks for $1,000 each from Capt. J: W. Westcott, stakeholder for the City of Erie-Tashmoo race. Mr. New- man has decided to split the $1,000 up equally in Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo and Buffalo. Hach city will get $250, and ‘Mr. Newman has asked the mayors of the different cities to name charitable institutions to turn the money over to. At the Wyandotte yards of the Detroit Ship Building Co. the two 5,000 ton steel cargo steamers, building to the order of Detroit owners, and to be named the Colonial and Yosemite, are drawing well along towards completion, so that it is now figured that they can be launched next month. There is also some talk of laying the keels of two steamers for the Atlantic or Pacific coast trade, but the specifications are not yet far enough along to give out definite information regarding them. “Superyising Inspector Westcott, of the Steamboat In- spection. Service, says that the action of the Buffalo local inspectors in naming a draft above which no boats must load will probably not be followed in Detroit. Nor, it is safe to say will it at any other port within his district. The load line as well as the manning scale or crew test is best left with the owners and according to lake custom. The local inspectors of steamboats at Buffalo must surely be training to goon astrike against their supervising inspectors, Uncle Sam and his rules, or else they are growing more dogmatic and absolute in their crazy rulings. It is learned here that it was the Ar steamer Caledonia, owned by Capt. James Corrigan of Cleveland, that they went after, but their hasty officialism met with a severe rebuff from their head- quarters, The section of shoalest water in the connecting waters of the lake system last year, was in the vicinity of Ballard’s reef, and in the narrow channel between Bois Blanc island and Amherstburg, near the mouth of the Detroit river, where dredging has been going on at a large scale for several years. It is now reported from that section that the depth of the channel down from Ballard’s reef to the mouth of the river is fully equal if not better than it was last season, al- though the stage of water is about six inches lower. The increased depth is due to the progress with the dredging operations. The shoalest spot now between Detroit and Lake Erie is the Lime Kilns cut. This cut is being widened to 600 feet, and the government engineers have located to the westward of it a chaiinel of 300 feet width and thirteen feet depth, which will shortly be buoyed for light draught vessels, thus relieving the congestion in the twenty-one foot channel. Bi EE eee DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. A block of concrete weighing 430 tons and to be used for the pierhead abutment at the Duluth ship canal was formed and placed this week. Capt. Philip Schied, who for the past year has been local manager of the. Union Towing & Wrecking Co., at Duluth, has resigned. He will be succeeded by Hiram G. Inman, the company’s cashier. Capt. B. B. Inman and family has returned from Buffalo where they remained several days. Capt. Inman was in the east on business and took advantage on the occasion to visit the exposition at Buffalo. The raft of logs containing six million feet from the north shore to Baraga, Mich, took eight days, in tow of the tug Schoolcraft, to make the 225 miles. This is the largest tim- ber raft on record hereabouts. News has been received here that the Canadian owned steamer Myles, Capt. J. Dix, is ashore at Depot Harbor, in Georgian Bay. The steamer has a cargo of grain for Richardson & Sons, shipped from Lake Superior. Capt. T. Donnelly has gone to the scene of the wreck. Mr. Mortensen is quoted in’ the Duluth Herald as saying that the Alexander Edgar Co., has just closed a deal for about 40,000,coo feet of standing pine in the vicinity of Iron river. It is one of the largest timber deals made in that portion of Northern Wisconsin for some time. The steamer Ottawa, of the Canada-Atlantic Transit Co., yesterday cleared with 18,000 bushels of corn for Depot Harbor. This was the Ottawa’s first trip to Duluth harbor. The steamer W. lL. Brown, of the same fleet will today load 248,000 bushels of corn and wheat for the same destination. A new life-saving station may be built on the shore of Lake Superior at the mouth of the Portage Lake ship canal this summer. The present station is located a quarter of a mile up the canal, and is said to be too far from the lake. J. C. Kiah, of Harbor Beach, superintendent of the eleventh district is at Houghton to select the new site. There will be no delays to vessels loading at the Great Northern railroad’s new elevator at West Superior. The house is the largest in the world, having a capacity of 3, I100,- ooo bushels of grain. It will receive 500 to 600 cars a day, and will scalp, grade and clean 12,200 bushels an hour. It has sixteen marine spouts and in one draft can clear 160,000 bushels into a waiting ship, a larger cargo than the average vessel will hold. The elevator is 367 feet long, 124 feet wide and 251 feet high. The Edward Hines Lumber Co. placed a writ on the main masts of the James H. Shrigley and her tow barge Shawnee, this week, for a claim of $5,000. The vessels are loaded with lumber shipped by C. H. Bradley & Co., and consigned to a firm in Cleveland, probably their owners, and it will take bonds for $10,o00to releasethem. The Shrigley, Capt. Joseph Albam, is owned by J. N. Hahn, Cleveland, and is a small wooden boat of 460 tons, built at Milwaukee in 1881, though she is still on her first letter and valued for insurance purposes at about $20,000. Her tow barge the Shawnee, is 521 tons, built at Gibraltar in 1873, on her first letter, and belonging to the same owners, with a valuation of about $7,000. The Mining Journal, says: ‘‘Marquette is making very little noise over the betterment of the outlook for it, coming as a result’of a large iron manufacturing industry within its limits by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., W. G. Mather, Cleveland, president, and the construction of a railway which will make tributary to the city a large stretch of rich hardwood and farming lands, but there is quite a boom development here just the same. More building is going on than for years past, and much more is planned for this season, Business is better and real estate values are advanc- ing healthily. Marquette is going to become an important manufacturing center, and this, added to its extensive ship- ping business, will make the city one of the liveliest and most prosperous in the upper peninsula within the next five years.” BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The new steel steamer Mauch Chunk, built to the order of the Lehigh Valley Line will be ready for service in a few days. Coal freights are the same here as the figures offered from Ohio ports, viz. 40 cents to Lake Michigan and 35 cents to: the head of the lakes. There is all the work and more too than the Buffalo Dry Dock Co. can now take care of and some repair jobs have had to be sent to Cleveland. Buffalo is to get a share of that Erie-Tashmoo stake money. Mr. Newman, General Manager of the C. & B. Line has asked the mayor to name‘the recipients at this end of the route. Freight rates are now quoted at 4o cents, Lakes Michigan or Superior, Chicago, (south branch) and Kenosha 50 cents, Toledo has the lowest rate -at-30-cents, Port Huron paying 4o cents as nearly all other ports, Edward Gaskin, formerly with the Union Dry Dock Co., has opened an office as surveyor and consulting shipbuilder. Mr. Gaskin is well and fayorably known at the principal lake portsand he has already secured an excellent patronage. Shipments of anthracite last week were a little over 60,- oco tons, of which Chicago took nearly one-half. The May shipments aggregated 265,000 tons, Chicago taking 135,000, Milwaukee 71,000 tons and the head of the lakes 60,000 tons. The large steel steamer building by the Buffalo Dry Dock. Co., (American Ship Building Co.,) to the order of the Western Transit Co., is all in frame and work is proceeding very steadily ‘on her, she-is to be given more power and con- sequently will be faster by several miles an hour than the. the ordinary cargo boats. A-double daily service willbe given by the C. & B. Line’ after July 1 leaving here for Cleveland, morning and even- ing. | The City of the Straits willform the cargo boat branch of the line, making three trips each way -weekly while the passenger boats will only carry the baggage and the choicest kind of first class freight. The Canadian authorities are after excursion steamers with a sharp authority. The Mary has been tied up at Brockville, because that boat had not been given Canadian inspection. ‘The steamer Cresco, which was put on in place of the Mary, was detained on account of overloading, and had to debark a number of passengers. Her owners will also have to answer the charge. : The steamer North Land left here on Tuesday night for Chicago on her ‘first trip on the new route of the Great Northern: steamers. She will reach Chicago Friday, and that afternoon she will take an excursion to Waukegan under the auspices of the Chicago Press Club. The Miami, which has come tothe lakes from Florida, will meet the North Land at Mackinac Island on her way. down the lakes from Chicago. Since the resignation of Supt. Watterson, to take charge of the Shipowners’ Drydock in Chicago, the position has been left open in the Buffalo yards, and Mr. Drake‘has been general manager, dividing the work formerly performed by’ Supt. Watterson among the heads of the various departments. © He is one of the busiest men along Buffalo river. He is taking great pride in his work and is constantly seeking to improve the facilities of the yards, and the character.of the work turned out by the Buffalo Dry Dock Co., with Mr. Edward Smith as president. Drake & Maytham have sold their steel steamer W. H. Gratwick toa syndicate of Syracuse capitalists, who are making the purchase simply as an investment. It appears that they find she has made money for others and ought to do so for them. The Gratwick was built at West Bay City in ’93 and is a wooden boat of 2,818 gross tons, is rated A1 and is given a valuation for insurance purposes of $180,000. She will be delivered to the purchasers at Duluth next week. Capt John Mitchell, Cleveland, sold the Gratwick to Drake & Maytham about two years ago. The local inspectors of steamboats in issuing this year’s certificates of inspection to steamers, are filling in the blank space which fixes the load line. The inspectors give as their authority for this proceeding, rule 9 of the rules and regulations of the Board of Supervising Inspectors, which says that the owner, master or agent of every seagoing sail or steam vessel shall indicate the draft of water at which he shall deem his vessel safe to be loaded, and that it shall be- unlawful for such vessel to be loaded deeper than stated in certificate. If owners did this, it would make Buffalo an unsafe and closed port to the majority of vessels. ‘catia Oe