NOVEMBER 7, Igol. W., distant 8,600 feet S.. 36 degrees. W. true (S. W. % S S’lv mag.) from the light-house and distant 13 1-3 (15 1-3) miles $. 8 degrees 45 minutes W. true (S. 7% W..mag.) from the starting point. Mariners are warned not to anchor in the vicinity of this cable. rr DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to: The Marine Record. Winter seems to have set in as the vessels arriving early in the week here were coated with snow and ice. It was possibly only a flurry, but not much more warm weather can be expected. Sunken Wreck of Steamer W. M: Drake Westward of Whitefish Point.—Information has been received that the wreck of the steamer W. M. Drake lies about 1 7-10 (2) miles from the shore in about 35 feet of water and about 6 (7) miles westward from Whitefish Point, Michigan. This wreck has about 5 feet of water over the hull, and being near the course of steamers, care should be taken in pass- ing this point as the wreck is not yet buoyed. Notice will be given when a buoy is established on this wreck. C. Kimura, manager of the Yoshmahani collery in Ja- pan, was at Duluth last week for an investigation of the iton ore mines of this country. He also examined the methods of handling heavy freight ‘here and at other points’on the lakes and will eo to the coal mines of Penn- sylvania after leaving Duluth and the mines. There have been here during the past year more than a dozen Jap- anese, managers of the leading mines and steel works of their country, getting pointers and information of methods of carrying on business under American ideas. For a year or more J: J. Hill of the Great Northern, has been making efforts to’ ascertain if iron ore of Bessemer quality exists on the Pacific coast in sufficient quantities to permit the development of an iron and steel industry on a large scale. It is said he has been successful in finding what he wants in the Fort Steele district of British Colum- bia Numerous ledges have been found, of which nine are of immense size, running as much as 60 feet in width. At Bull-river men have uncovered great masses of hematite lying exposed.on the side of a mountain, three ledges being uncovered, one 60 feet wide. The surface indications show that another ledge extends 21,coo feet. The. following relating to Agate Bay or Two Harbors, Minnesota} has been furnished from the Branch Hydro- graphic Office, Duluth, under date of October 9: The ex- tension of tne East breakwater has been built nearly up to full height, excepting a gap of so feet, where a crib was destroyed by a vessel and not yet replaced. This extension is now a prominent object: and readily seen in ordinary weather. A white light is maintained throughout each night at the outer end of the extension on a mast 14 feet above Lake Superior ‘The fixed red light at the outer end of the old portion of the breakwater was moved 35 feet eastward ‘from its former position during the week ending . June 15, 1901. Vessels can remain in the harbor during severe storms. Fair means are afforded vessels passing Two Harbors to test the accuracy of their compasses, owing to the fact that the streets of the village run in a true north-south direction, and the avenues true west-east. These parallel indentures can be easily distinguished in clear weather at a distance of 8 7-10 (10) miles from shore. From lakeward the alignment of the streets bear north true (N. 56 W. mag.) and the avenues west true (W. 5% S mag.). On account of considerable (but vaguely known) local attraction near the shore, a ship should be 5 miles from land when using this convenience for compass cor- réction. ‘The October report of the customs office of the re- ceipts and shipménts of Duluth harbor shows the usual heavy fall business. Lumber and ore shipments are some- what heavier than the corresponding month a year ago, while merchandise receipts are several tons heavier. The items are now duly embodied in statistical returns, but the following will give an indication of the volume of busi- ness now being transacted : - Shipments—Clearances, 302; wheat, 1.779,916 bushels; corn, 1,200 bushels; oats, 19,600 bushels; flax, 669,000 bushels; flour, 286,407 barrels; feed, 1.430 tons; ore, 445,000 tons; lath, 259,000; shingles, 7,481,000; lumber, 49,285,000 feet; salt, 50 barrels; lime, 900 barrels: copper, 920 tons; ties, 19,000; merchandise, 2,780 barrels; total tonnage, 645;- 904 tons. Receints—Entries, 300; coal, 129,381 tons; sugar, 5,650 barrels; salt, 36,738 barrels; cider, 510 barrels; vinegar, iio nimi RECORD. 765 barrels; liquor, 1 barrel? oil, 65 eee. apples, 650 barrels; stone; 7,322 tons; cement, 1,796 tons; iron,, 318 tons; fresh fish, 71,930 pounds; logs, 2,900,000 feet; ties, 7,800; merchandise, 9,116 tons; total tonnage, 162,477 tons. There is also a long list from,T'wo Harbors within this dis- trict, as follows: Receipts—Entries, 134}, eal ee tons. . Shipments—Clearances, 134; ore, 715,184 tons; lumber, 1,000,990 feet ; total tonnage, 717,184, tons... ed BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. ‘ Milwaukee charters called for 60 cents on coal here on Monday. The Northern Steamship Co. has sent out autiee: that it will not receive westbound freight at Buffalo after No- vember 25, or at Cleveland, Fairport and Detroit after Tuesday, November 26. All freight must be ready to place aboard the steamers on that date, and that. not re- ceived on time will be forwarded all rail at shippers’ risk. Until recently the hydrographic, offices .of the lakes have been sending out bulletins of the work done on the various harbors and the improvements to harbors that. might affect the channels. Now the chief of engineers has decided to take up this work and will bulletin each month the im- provements that have been made during the preceding month. ‘This is put out in book form, a complete descrip- tion being given of each harbor and the existing works with a note as to the additions thereto. Reports of progress are appended each month. x or oor or EASTERN FREIGHTS. Messrs. Funch.: Edye & Co., New York, furnish the Recorp with the following report of Eastern freights: We are unable to report any change whatever in the freight situation, the available tonnage being still in ex- cess of the demand. ‘The Atlantic Coast cotton charterers continue securing boats at 25s net register to U. K. or con- tinent on which basis further business could be effected. From the gulf several steamers, previously fixed, are offer- ing for re-charter, but are experiencing difficulty in find- ing employment. ‘There has been a little more demand for coal tonnage from this coast to continent and Mediterran- can ports, as the annexed fixtures will show. There has been practically no business in sail tonnage during the past week, and there is scarcely any inquiry for either spot ot prospective vessels. Consequently rates should be considered nominal. Grain rates to Liverpool or London are at 24 cents, Glasgow 4 cents, and Bristol 41% certs, Hull 5 cents, Leith 6 cents. ee or oo JUPITER STEEL. ig Jupiter steel, as the product is called, is an. exceptionally high grade of cast steel which is made from wrought-steel scrap, with a liberal mixture of certain other metals dur- ing the process of melting. The manufacture is carried on under several patents granted to Andres G. Lundin, and the composition of the steel, the methods of manipulation in the furnace, the special materials and careful work in the molding, have resulted for the first time in the history of the art in the production of.a cast steel which, in tests carried out at the navy yard at Boston, has proved to possess qualities of strength and ductility equal to those of forged steel. In tests recently carried out by the govern- ment this steel has shown a tensile strength of 67,300 pounds to the square inch and an elongation of 25 per cent. in 8 inches, while in the bending tests a one-inch- square bar of this cast steel was bent cold through an are of 93.5 deg. without fracture. As a result of these excel- lent qualities, Jupiter steel is finding-a wonderfully wide range of usefulness in the industrial arts.. Thus, the ship- work which is being done for the government and private shipbuilding firms include the rams for the new United States battleships Rhode Island and New Jersey, each of which castings will weight 43 tons, and the stern, frame keel and sternpost for the same vessels. Other castings in- clude horseshoes for marine engines, engine thrust bear- ings, knees, and many small parts ordinarily made of forged’ steel for the interior construction and fittings. of ships, engine beds, engine cranks, cross-heads, gear wheels, ete. The castings for the battleships khode Island and New Jersey alone will eave! ving Welgit. over a million pounds. LETTERS. AT. DETROIT. (MARINE POST OFFICE. To get any of these letters, addresses or their author- ized agents will apply at the general delivery window or write to the postmaster at Detroit, calling for “advertised” matter, giving the date of his list and paying one cent. Advertised matter is previously held one week awaiting delivery. It is held two weeks before it goes to the Dead Letter Office at Washington, D.C. Lindberg Ed., Maen Markle Scott. Morton Geo. Mason Frank, Eads Meads, Thomas, Colonel , Mcleod W.—2, Hanscomb McCarty Emmett McDonald Eddie pari Jno., Williams + O’Shea W. J. Arenson Byron, Elphicke Armursen Henry, Paris Boughner Nellie Blauvelt D. W Coyle: Chas. Dave E. F., Siemens Dooley France, Tower Eason Robt. Eastcott ‘John § Fiebach Henry, Zenith City Flore Wm.,S Rose, Frank W.. Farchon Fred, Livingstone Rand John, Ida E. Fuller M. FE. Rockefeller Frank Generous Paul R.—2, J. begs Graham David, . Greene John Gunn C. B., Eads Horton $.—3, Progress Holahan Jos., Runnels Hastings J. B., Seattle Hoover Chas. Harris Robt D. Johnston Frank, Whitney Johnson Jolin Klein Mrs. Will King Capt. G. N. Lyman Lewis, C. B. Jones Logue Dave O., Eads Smith Howard N., Rees Sheriff Frank, Bielman.— . Shaw Wm., Nimick Smith Burt E., Columbian Spring, Mica i JAW. Moore Sauve J. B., Tyrone | Stevenson Robt., Tepkmogs Slater Fred Smith Firman Stone Freeman Woodrow Geo., Progress | Weber John, Wybrand Herb’t, Angeline Wilson Chas W. : Wesley Frank, Roman” F. B. Dickerson,’ P. M. LUNAR INFLUENCES. The Monthly Weather Review published by. the -De- partment of Agriculture, has the following to say relative to lunar influences: “A new journal, now published i in St. Petersburg, is devoted to the. exploitation of the lunar in- fluence. and seems -to. assume that it must necessarily be large and important. It has lately printed a general re- view of the literature of the subject, but as_is generally well known, every exact investigation throws doubt upon’ the subject whether the moon has any importance in meteor- ology. Perhaps the moon ought to influence the weather— but it doesn’t. The controversies over this subject, waged during the 18th century, sobered down during the roth century to the genral conviction that the moon’ s influence is so slight that we really ought not to waste our time dis- cussing it so long as the solar influence claims our. undi- vided attention. It is to be honed that during the 20th cen- tury meteorologists will give increasing. attention to, the solar heat, atmospheric moisture, the rotation, of the earth, and other important matters that enter into: dynamic me- teorology and will-not revive a useless discussion as to the influence of the moon on tke weather. Its real, but very slight. influence on the semimonthly atmospheric . tides seems to be a matter of interest to mathematicians rather than to meteorologists. ‘The excellent review of our know- ledge of the lunar influence, given by van Bebber in the first chapter of his Handbook of Practical Meteorology, ought to suffice for the present.” ss or or ‘ Deputy Consul-General Hanauer reports from Frankfort that in consequence of the low rates for, ocean freight (4s., or 96 cents, per ton on grain from United States ports to Europe), Hamburg steamship lines, it is said, will im- port American coal.. According to Hamburg papers, a shipment of American coke is now bound for that port. A Russian journal calls attention to the fact that a steamship laden with American coal.has arrived at Cronstadt, which is all the more noteworthy .as coal imports from England and Germany have declined considerably of late. ro or io The Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. has decided to make im-- portant additions to their plant in Jersey. City, N. J., there- by greatly increasing the capacity of the pencil and crucible departments, which have been under special pressure. With this end in view property has been acquired on Railroad avenue, adjoining its premises, and after the structures oc- cupying the ground are removed, and which is now under way, work on the new buildings will be commenced at once.. Plans have been prepared for four-story and base- ment buildings, and it is anticipated the new machinery will be installed and the entire equipment in operenes shortly after the first of the year. err |