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SIMS MT eb vl oe Boat HORON..;. an Special Correspondence to The Marine Record: The’ Port Huron and Duluth Steamship Co. has char- tered the steamers Buel and Wyoming for the coming sea- 5B BL oh Cat “son, rapes McNab, of the steamer United Empire, is at Toledo,’ ooking for.a tug for, the Northwestern /‘Transporta- -.Grand Capt. John C. Silvia delivered an interesting: ad- dress before the Huron Harbor No. 45 on Saturday even- ing in the rooms in the White building, sy Bik » During the: month of February vessel Inspectors Stewart and Van Liew issued 167 licenses. One hundred of these were to masters and pilots and 57 to marine engineers. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hogan gave Andrew Wilson a send-off party at their. home on Lapeer avenue, Friday evening. Mr. ‘Wilson, leaves to-day to fit out his steamer for the season. Capt. Thompson informed the Herald that a harbor tug will be put. into commission in this ‘city begifning tomor- row morning. “The boat ‘will rémain here for the balance ofthe season. > | The steamer Conger has broken ithe ice so that y willbe experienced in dropping the boat into ES ae St aie ees Pn te Bee réceived information to the effect that ‘uyahoga Contracting Co. is about to get its machinery ‘én the ground aridwill begin work on the canal soon after the first of March. A son of A. W. Colwell, who built the i ity sugar. factory, will be the engineer. in charge. ‘Huron ¢aptains will command steam- the steel company during the ‘present mer’ Griffin, C. E. Coblar; steamer Maruba, teamer Maricopa, H Zealand; steamer Rens- . Chambers; ‘steamer Superior, J. H. e° wing’ ate the appointments to 0" Co.'s fleet for 1902: ngineer, S. Brisbin; purser, R. Ingles... Monarch, Capt. J. He Ronan’; engineer, T. O: Bard; g. United’ Empire, Capt. John d; purser, J. R. Young; -perior ship yard. , _THE MARINE RECORD. — ——_— *DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special ‘Correspondence to The Marine Record: The heavy flow of. water and the boiling ‘of quicksand expected to be encountered, at a depth of fifty-eight or: sixty feet ifthe néw shaft’ at the Mass mie, Negaunee, — Mich.; has not yet materialized, though the shaft has -at~, tained"a depth ‘of ‘over sixty-five feet. *This is gratifying to the manageniént of the Clevéland-Cliffs Co.,. as well as to ‘Capt. James Ff. Rough, who is directing the work. “Right million bushels of ‘Canadian wheat have been’ réceived ‘at ‘the: head. of the lakes. in bond, of the crop of 1901. This is by far thé greatest amount of wheat ever received here in one year from, across the international border, and there is a prospect that considerable more will come. Reports of late as to the probable quantity have been much exaggerated. It is possible that 2,000,900 bush- els more may be received in bond, but not to'exceed that. In an editorial advocating a tonnage tax upon iron ore, the Minneapolis Tribune is guilty of a grevious mis-state- ment. It says: “The state of Michigan had a long strug- gle with the problem of taxing mines and finally settled down to the tonnage tax as the most certain and equitable method.” The facts are exactly the reverse: After sev- etal years of a specific tax upon every ton of iron ore and éach pound of copper produced, Michigan finally aband- oned the system entirely and now taxes its mines exactly as it does other classes of property in the state. A large force of mechanics has been placed at work upon the fleet of vessels belonging to the Pittsburg Steam- ship Co., which is wintering in this port. Almost all of the vessels are being thoroughly overhauled, and before the work is completed thousands of dollars will have been ex- pended. All of the repair work is being done by the Su- Both the exterior and interior of the vessels are: being repaired, and: all of the engines will be overhauled. It: is expected that before the fleet leaves the harbor a large share of them will be put in the two dry- docks. ‘Ihé engineers of the vessels are on. hand, and are superintending the work in their departments. si ik Loggers in this section have already. sustained serious loss as a result of two weeks of soft weather, culminating in a heavy rain, and unless a freeze up comes and. continues for several weeks, ruin threatens many of the small job- bers. Both the snow and ice roads have been knocked out, and skidding and banking is now. impossible. With no work for the men, some forces are being materially cut and at other camps operations, have been entirely sus- pended. It is in the continuation of the thaw, however, that the greatest’ fear rests, since it ineans that water ‘driv- ing the logs in the spring will be exceedingly short and practically all of the cut will have to! be left on the skids and banks until next year, and incidentally run the risk of fire and damage by worms. The outlook for lumber- men, is a dismal one and the loss at present reaches many thousands of dollars. BB The lumber. stocks on the docks at Duluth and Superior on March, amount to about 172,200,000. feet. The lum- ber cut of the Duluth district for the winter, up to March Ist, is 60,000,0co feet. Two mills, that of Alger, Smith & Co., and Hubbard & Vincent, are still cutting. The former has been sawing’ steadily all winter and the latter started two weeks ago’ on a contract to cut 30,000,000 for BL Gilbert. |The St. Louis Lumber Co.’s mill ‘recently finished its winter cut of. 11,500,000 feet: for the same man. At the close of the navigation season last fall the stocks of lumber amounted to 140,000,000 feet. Very little of the dry lumber remains unsold, as sales have been numerous during -the winter. ‘The largest stock of dry lumber is owned by the Lesure Lumber Co., and amounts ‘to 6,000,000 feet. The outlook for, the lumber market at the head of the lakes for the season of 1902 was never bettér than at the present time. Manufacturers are confident that they will get good prices and are not over anxious to sell at the present time. Buyers from the east have been plenty in Duluth since the first of the year. Sales for the past week have amounted to 30,000,0c0 feet. A concerted effort will probably be made by the North- western wheat interests to have Congress remove the tariff from Canadian wheat. Grain exchanges over the country will be asked to join in the movement. The argument to Congress .will be that, under the present system, the mod- erate amount of wheat Canada has to export spoils the market in Great Britain for the American raiser and ex- porter, although out of proportion to the amount that Can- ada has to spare. Under present. international tariff ar- rangements, the Manitoba wheat has practically but one market, the English, and as this wheat is’ so restricted as to market, it makes a particularly mean competitor for the American grain. It will be urged that, with the Manitoba wheat admitted free into this country, it would disappear quickly and without appreciably affecting prices. The American miller would have a chance to make a profit out of it, and the American traders a chance to merchandise it. As for the American farmer, who might raise the objection he:needs protection if the other fellow is to get it, it. will be. claimed the American farmer suffers more from Man- itoba competition while the Canadian market for his grain is so limited, than if the Canadian wheat were permitted to come in free and mingle with the big crop of this country. “March “thy suit rises, 6:25; sets,, 5:58; March toth sun “Cleveland agents of the Union Transit: Co., vice A. SSH pet eana aaa MARCH 6, 1902 CLEVELAND. i Special Corresbondeiice’io The Marine Record. rises, 6:20, °sets 6:01 ; 6.104. : Mesérs. Bartlett and ‘Tinker have been appointed the March 13th sun rises, 6:14}; sets Thompson,,,résighed.. ‘Their offices are ‘at No. 57 River "Phe following meteorological observations are. furnished by:the office of the United States-Weather Bureau for the week ending March 5th: Prevdiling wind direction for the week, southeast; highest velocity, 64 miles from the southeast on the 28th; mean temperature for the week, 37; highest temperature, 59 on Feb. 28; lowest, 23 on Mar. ath. Sunrise and sunset data computed for local time; About 1,000,000 tons. of ircn ore will be moved from Michipicoten to Lake Erie ports the coming. season. ‘This entire output has already been sold. In addition’to the four steamers and two. barges that carried Michipicoten ore last year, the Clergue people-havechartered 16,000 of ad- ditional tonnage. The names of the vessels secured are not yet given out, as there are. yet some details of the char- ter to be completed. Trouble between the botlerinakers and employers has been brewing for some time. A minimum wage of twenty- seven cents per hour has been“ paid, but the working day — has been of ten hours’ duration. The union demanded that they should be paid $2.75 -for a day’s work of nine hours. ‘To this demand the employers refused to concede, and in consequence thirteen out of fourteen of the Cleve- land shops are idle. Although prices for lake coal will not be fixed until the — latter part of the month, some of the shippers to the head of Lake Superior are dcing a little feeling around, and vesselmen could probabl make season contracts at last year’s figure, which was 35 cents. The leading owners say that they will not tie up at that figure, and are holding for 40 cents to the ports at the head of Lake Superior and 50 cents to Milwaukee. It is likely that the shippers will be able to. find more than the disposition of the. vessel owners before they meet to fix the prices, and present indications are that they will adjust their prices to suit an increasing carrying charge. One reason why the vessel owners are holding aloof both from ore and coal contracts, is that the market is constantly getting stronger. There is even a suggesticn that some owners feel that they acted hastily in accepting eighty cents on ore between Duluth and Ohio. ; _The situation, as pertains to the coming season’s move- ment of iron ore, has not changed in two weeks. Some few of the smaller shippers seem to have entirely closed up their business, as far as they expect to do it by contract vessels, and are therefore off the market. The larger shippers, however, have done practically nothing’ ‘The in- formation up to, date is that the total tonnage covered approximates 4,000,000 with none of the bigger factors represented. The latest information also has it that the sales of ore are now about completed. cae - The survey of the Cleveland harbor, preparatory to the spring improvement work has been completed and. the chart has been constructed. [his is’ probably: the most complete: document of its kind on the lakes. - The: engineers took 6,500 soundings inside of the harbor and the line cast, if pieced together, would have extended twenty-five ‘miles. The survey also included the basin beyond the west arm of the breakwater, which it is intended to improve during the year. An appropriation in the rivers and harbors bill makes provision for this improvement. Heretofore the basin. has rarely been used. : - William Kennedy is the recipient of a handsome jewel awarded -him this week by the Marine Engineers’ Benefi- cial Association. ‘The honor was voted upon and granted at the 26th annual convention of the order held in this city last year, and is the second presented to any member of the association, William Sheffers, of Baltimore, Md., holding the other. Mr. Kennedy was.a charter member of the Cleveland lodge, founded in 1865, and. first started his sailing» career. in 1859. He was: for 30 years in the New York Central and Western Line, between Buffalo and Chicago, and was. second engineer on the Peuabic, Capt. George P. McKav, when she sunk, through collision on. — Lake Huron, in 1865. “ 7 Sore Dan C. Kingman, major of engineers, in charge of the Cleveland district of rivers and harbors work, has been called to Washington for, a consultation with the heads of the departments. The exact purpose of. the visit is not known, but the presumption is that it has reference.to the bill for the appropriation for rivers and harbors work. It is evident now. that the hydraulic dredge which Major Kingman has asked for Cleveland is not in the. present bill as outlined on Sunday. morning. Some of the. friends of the major have suggested that he go to Washington. to father his. own movement, knowing his ability as an -ad- vocate before a committee. Ways have been suggested by which it is possible that the committee may wish to. decide to take off some of the appropriations for dredging — in the district this summer and apply those amounts to the