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THE MARINE RECORD. FEBRUARY 13, 1902. DETROIT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record: Mr. F. F. Newman, president of the Great Lakes Towing Co. has bought the wrecking steamers Saginaw and Fair- port from A. A. Parker. There will be no trouble in the iron mining districts of upper Michigan this year. ‘The wage scale, as now paid, is satisfactory in most cases, and there is plenty of work for all who apply at the mines, as a rule. Detroit Local No. 3, Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Asso- ciation fell in line Wednesday evening with the general movement all along the lakes to increase the initiation fee and dues in order to create a larger reserve fund and be better prepared for any emergencies which may arise. Mr. F. H. Clergue, has announced that the Algoma Steel Works, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., will commence turning out steel sails this month. The capacity of the mill is 1,000 rails per day, and the material for the production of 50,000 tons is not in stock. The company has a con- tract to supply the Dominion Government with 25,000 tons of rails. Capt. Thomas G. Simmons of Detroit, for several years past, pilot on the C. & B. line steamer City of Erie, has resigned his posittion to accpt one with the new Cleveland coal concern started some time ago by John Donaldson and Nicholas Boylan in opposition to the Pittsburg Coal Co., known as the trust. Henry Harris, forme:ly mate of the City of Erie, will be made pilot. The following meteorological observations are furnished by the office of the United States Weather Bureau, De- troit, for the week ending Tuesday, February, 11th. Pre- vailing wind direction for the week, west; highest veloci- ty, 28 miles from the west at 11:10 a. m. on the 8th. Mean teniperature for the week 14 degrees; highest temperature, 27 degrees on the 9th; lowest, 4 degrees on the 5th. Marine engines, hoisting engines, ship windlasses and other specialtics manufactured by the Marine Tron Co., Bay City, Mich., will be found described in a special cata- logue which this company now has ready for disttribution. It is 5 by 8 inches in size, well printed, and contains illus- trations of various specialties referred to. Most of the illustrations are of considerable size and the text is com- plete, so that each specialty is sufficiently described to give an excellent understanding of it. At the meeting the initiation fees of the lodge were raised from $10 to $25 and the annual dues from $3 to $5. While nothing has been publicly said as to the future course of the marine engineers and in explanation of the seemingly amicable adjustment of wages and other mat- ters with the vessei owners, the engineers are not satisfied. They say that there will be tio trouble this spring, that the men will all return to their boats and that the wag: scale has been satisfactorily adjusted so far as the sea- son is concerned, but the step taken by Detroit local and similar action which will be taken by other locals is for the purpose of fortifying themselves for the future. The deal whereby the affairs of the new Detroit & Puf- falo line will be managed by the Cleveland & Buffalo line at the Buffalo end of the run, was completed at a meeting of the directors and representatives of both lines yesterday afternoon. The directors of the new line authorized the signing of a contract, the terms of which will not be made public, but which Mr. W. C. McMillan, general manager of the D. & B. line, said were highly saisfactory to both parties. As the relations between the three big Lake Eric passenger lines now stand, the business of the D. & B. line at: Detroit will be handled through the offices of the De- troit & Cleveland line, and the Buffalo end will be taken care of by the Cleveland & Buffalo line, all freight and passengers to be handled from the docks of the old es- tablished line. : The new White Star ine steamer, Greyhound will be launched at the Wyandotte yards of the American Ship Building Co. next Saturday afternoon, according to the present plans and the work upon her is being rushed. The biggest problem which confronts the company is how they will get the boat up to Detroit in order to put the wood- work upon her. The ice between Detroit and Wyandotte is several feet thick, and the slip into which the Grey- hound will be launched is frozen to a depth of almost two feet. This will have to be cut and floated out into the river before the launching can take place, and one of the big ferries will be engaged to break the ice in the river and tow the new boat to the dock of the shipbuilding COA DEE, at the foot of Orleans’ street, where her upper works and epuipment will be completed. At the annual meeting of the stockholders and direc- tors of the Kirpy-Carpenter Lumber Co., of Menominee, Mich., a $1,000.00 dividend was declared for the year 0: tgor. This will probably be the last,. dividend paid by the company except on its Southern pine interests. The concern still owns 57,000 acres of timber land in Louisiana, which will bring $20 an acre. There are several men looking over it at present with a view of purchasing. The company has wound up its pine business in that locality and its big dividend accrued in part from the sale of in- terests in Menominee. This will probably be its last year there, and one of tke greatest lumber concerns in the country will have gone out of existence. All the old officers were re-elected.-.A. A. Carpenter, president; S. M. Steph- enson, vice president; S. P. Gibbs, secretary and treasurer. The announcement is made semi-officially that the Northern Navigation Co., of Collingwood has acquired all the stock of the Northwest Transportation Co., known as the Sarnia, or Beatty line of steamers, which run from Sarnia to Sault Ste. Marie and Lake Superior ports. About a year ago the Collingwood Co. secured a control- ling interest in the stock and so satisfactory was the busi- ness last year and so promising is it for the future, that that company lost no time im acquiring the rest of the stock. ‘This will give the Northern Navigation Co., con- trol practically of the Canadian tourist traffic on the up- per lakes.. The lines thus amalgamated will in all proba- bility be under one management, though this point will not be definitely decided upon for a few days. New ser- vice will be put into the route by the addition of the steamer Huronic, now: approaching completion at Col- lingwood. The Cleveland Sawmill & Lumber Co., which was or- ganized 30 years ago and has continually operated a saw- mill at Cleveland to the first of the year, has moved its manufacturing and distributing point from Cleveland to Sarnia, Ont. During the years that the company has operated in Cleveland, it has cut from its lands in, Michigan and manufactured in its Cleveland mill upwards of 1,000,- 000,000 feet of white pine and Norway timber. '/All of the land on which it had timber that could be brought to Cleveland have been cut over, but it still has in Canada upwards of 300,000,000 feet of standing white pine timber. Several years ago the Canadian government retaliated for the duty imposed by the United States on lumber, by put- ting an export clause on logs, prohibiting their being taken from the Dominion. ‘This necessitated the erection of an immense plant by the Cleveland Sawmill & Lumber Co., at Sarnia, Ont., opposite Port Huron, for the manufacturing of its Canadian timber, and in the future its shipments wiil be from that point, although the main office will be con- tinued at Cleveland as formerly. Following the same plan as that of Pack, Woody & Co., and Gilchrist & Co., who, upon the cutting of their timber lands, disposed of their Cleveland yards, the Cleveland Sawmill & Lumber Co. has sold its entire stock of lumber in this city to Ralph Gray. During all the years of its business in Cleveland, the company has averaged in its employ about 250 men and 4oo to 500 men in the woods. It is now employing in Canada an equal number, almost all of whom are native Canadians, and Canaca is the gainer to that extent. ; — or BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. They are not going te prove to Capt. Davis, who bid off thes temer Hennepin at the auction the other day, that he paid too much for her and he is able to make others see that he was right in paying what he did for her. She is especially well adapted to the stone trade into which she is to go. After she has been cut down to a single- decker her hold will be fitted with a double row of pock- ets or hoppers, and by an arrangement of belt conveyors running under these hoppers the Laks Shore Stone Co. expects to be able to discharge crushed. stone at the low rate of one cent per ton, whereas, it has heretofore cost ten cents per ton. The United States district court, which was te convene in Buffalo on the first Monday of February, is deferred till the third Monday, as Judge Hazelton has been called to New York. ‘There are several important admiralty cases on the calendar, though the collision case of the steamers Curry and M. Sicken has lately been settled and the case withdrawn. ‘The accident occurred at Buffalo on August 20 last, the Curry running into the Sicken as she lay at the Bennett elevator. Other cases to come up are the tug Erie against the steamer Homer Warrern for collision in Buffalo. Harbor; R. R. Rhodes against the cargo of the steamer Alva for demurrage; owners of the tug!’Tecumseh and barge Marengo against the Buffalo lumber firm of Montgomery Bros. for demurrage; James Mahoney against the barge Myron Butman for personal injury. — OOO OOS The Buckeye Fish Co., of Cleveland, has bought 25a feet of dock frontage from the Menominee River V,uinker Co., of Menominee, and will erect 2 vig fish canning fac- tory, to cost $30,000. The new factory will employ 150 men the whole year. The Buckeye Co., will also erect a large fertilizing establishment, and will manufacture fer- tilizer from fish offal. The company has already pur- eet two tugs and will have a fleet of small sailing ves- sels. Lit DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record: Deputy Collector T. B. Mills, of the port of Superior, has just been reappointed for his second term. The official appointment papers were brought here by Gad Smith, the newly appoitited collector for the Marquette district. The soft-coal.shortage at the head of the lakes is be- coming more acute every day. The supply of the hard variety, however, is going to be ample unless there should _ be an-unusual amount of cold weather between now and March. 15.;.‘The bituminous shortage is so serious that the coal companies are piecing out their stocks as muchi as possible by -all rail deliveries to their railway and mining customers. They do this in order to not be de- prived of their stocks all at once and left without any- thing for the general trade. The prospects at present are that there will be not to exceed 80 per cent. as much iron ore in stockpile at the mines of St. Louis county on May 1_as usual, but there will be more ore shipped this year than ever before in a single year. The reason for..the estimated reduction of the winter output of 20 per cent. is easily guessed. The State board of equalization provided for the assessment of ore in stockpile as personal property, the same to be as- sessed May 1 at $1 a ton. Speaking of the present and pros- pective results of this, a well known.mining man said: The William Bros. Boiler & Manufacturing Co., Minne- apolis, Minn., with a capital of $300,000, has been incor- porated. ‘The incorporators are William, Frederick, Joserh M. and Bernard M. Bros. The company will manufacture boilers, tanks, smokestacks and will do sheet iron, steel structural, foundry and cas: iron work. The officers are as follows: President, Williem Bros; vice president, Fred- erick Bros; secretary, Jos M. Bros; treasurer, Bernard Bros. The company announces the erection of a large manufacuring plant in Southeast Minneapolis and it is now in process of construction. The lumber market has opened for the season of 1902 and apparently with a rush. Jn the last few days some very large deals have been closed. It is reported that A. A. Bigelow & Co. have closed out their entire season’s cut of white pine lumber No. 3 and better. This will amount to about 25,000,000 feet and perhaps 5,000,000 over this amount. ‘The consideration is not known, but a _ fair amount to place on this sale would be about $500,000 Moore, Keppel & Co. of Port Wing have also closed their entire cut of logs for this winter, including what stock was left over from last year, in all about 18,000,000 feet. The boom in the price of lumber which has been on for several years, has apparently reached a climax in the Du- luth market. The prices have attained a plane where the Canadian product, regardless of a $2 tariff, comes in com- petition with Duluth lumber in the eastern markets. Few important sales havebeen madein this market for some time, but two lumber concerns in the United States alone have bought an aggregate of 240,000,000 feet of Canadian lumber recently. A Saginaw firm has bought 140,000,000 feet of Canadian lumber for delivery there, and a Boston firm -has bought 100,000,000 feet for delivery in Tonawanda. These two purchases are equal to one-half the entire cut of the Duluth-Superior mills for a season. Capt. W. H. Singer has been visiting lower lake ports ‘in quest of a steamer for his White line on Lake Super- ior. He has visited Detroit and Cleveland. and has seen some steamers that will answer his purpose. The names of the craft he will not divulge, but it is probable that at the opening of navigation next season one of the lower » lake boats will be brought here. Capt. Singer says it is his intention to g2t only an up-to-date steel vessel about 200 feet long: ‘This vessel will probably ‘be put’ on’ the run between Duluth and Isle Royale. The business ‘has outgrown the facilities possessed by the White line at present. Isle Royale, which has lately come to the front as a tourist resort, is the direct cause of the increase in business. The island is controlled by an English. syndi- cate, who secured it for the purpose of mining copper, but later turned it into a stmmer resort. Deputy Port Collector T. B. Mills has a big kick to make regarding the official court report for the harbors of Duluthand Superior. Between the local report, and the re- port for Superior as given by Capt. Gaillard, there is a discrepancy of nearly $13,000,000, and Superior is the loser in the transaction. Collector Mills has written Capt. Gail- lard concerning the matter and has sent him a synopsis of the two reports, and in every way, it shows that the re- port issued from the Duluth office credits Superior with less business than does the local report. Capt. Gaillard has replied in rather indefinite terms, and the matter will be further investigated when the port officer who had charge of the Superior reports in the Duluth office returns to duty. An attempt will then be made to see just where the trouble lies. ‘The local figures were obtained with pains- taking care, and their accuracy was corroborated in every manner possible. First, the captain’s manifest was taken, then the supplementary manifest was examined, and finally — the figures were compared with those of the shippers and receivers, who must, of necessity, keep accurate accounts. In only one commodity did a difference fail to appear, and that was in coal. In that part of the report, the amounts credited to Superior for anthracite and bituminous coal, in both reports, tallied to a pound.