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“, Record of Speed and Big Cargoes. [Masters or owners are invited to report improvement on this list. | __Iron_ ore; Lake Michigan—Maryland, Inter-Ocean Transportation compen of Milwaukee, 3,322 gross, or 3,737 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago,draft 16 feet 6 inches; E. C. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 3239 sens: At Gee net faees Baeenebe. to Buffalo,draft 16 feet. Lake perior—E. C. Pope, ros. of Bay City, 2,828 ; tons, Ashland to Lake Erie, draft 14 feet Siwehied Matinee aout Grain: E.C. Pope, Eddy Bros. of Bay City, 125,730 bushels of corn, draft 14 feet 8 inches; Western Reserve, Peter Minch, of Cleveland, 112,431 bushels of wheat, Chicago to Buffalo; W. H. Gilcher, J.C. Gilchrist, of Cleveland, 114,982 bushels of corn, Chicago to Buffalo. Speed: Owego, Union Line, of Buffalo, Buffalo to Chicago, 889 miles, 54 hours and 16 minutes, 16.4 miles an hour; Saranac, Lehigh Valley Line, of Buffalo, Buffalo to Iime-Kilns, 240 miles, 15 hours and 10 minutes, 16 miles an hour. Iron Mining. _ VALUE OF LEADING STOCKS. Quoted by Chas. H. Potter & Co., No. 104 Superior St. Stocks. Par Value. Bid. Asked Cleveland-—Cliffs Iron Company.............. $100 00-2 Hie. $ 82 50 Champion Iron Company...........cscseeseeees MS OO ir tastaeiis 77 50 Chandler Iron Cotipany........0 oe 25 00 38 50 40 00 Chicago and Minnesota Ore Company...... 100000 kaseeueee 100 00 Jackson Tron Compamy...c.....s..ccccceeseese. “1h 0 Oa PR 110 00 Lake Superior Iron Company............00.. 25 00 6000. ns Minnesota Iron Company............ceeeeeeeees 100 00 80 00 83 00 Pittsburg Lake Angeline Iron Co......0..: 25 00: © _« .sessesers 145 00 Republic Iron Company.................00000.. 25 00 25 00 27 00 AShIBbM SG. oA Roars kts Sog ee. SN one Che tee TST NC oes et Ses EEE PGI 1 MATT PER 5s is ass sive sin denn snanpen 25 00 seinnitass faghesees Brotherton.:......... Pao A es GUE GEGs ¢ssnna sNoh oes sua 25 00 2 00 2 50 Mr. M. A. Bradley of Cleveland, who is interested in some of the undeveloped iron properties of the Vermillion and Mesaba ranges, Minnesota, says that the plan of the Meritts and others who have been working in that territory is to build docks and terminal equipment at Superior, Wis., in connection with the Duluth & Winnipeg and Duluth, Mesaba & Northern railway projects. The plans of these railway companies seem to be well defined and there is no doubt of the existence of good ore in great quantities in the new Minnesota territory, about which a great deal has been said of late, so that it is reasonable to expect that toward the close of next season Lake Superior will have another ore shipping port. Prices of mining stocks have shown some improvement of late, probably due to the better prospects for next season’s business. Values have not, however, reached figures at which owners of stocks are willing ta trade and the market is not very active. Some ore has’ been sold recently for delivery during the winter but there is nothing of interest in the prices secured for it. Shipments of the Gogebic range mines from Ashland on Oct. 28 (these mines are also shipping from Escanaba and by rail) were as follows: Ashland 233,842 tons, Aurora 79,410, Tilden, No. 2, 5,221, Tilden 23,194, Montreal, south vein 56,- 133, Palms 32,237, Section 33, Bessemer, 36,738, Carey 92,963, Trezona 15,759, Germania 22,382, Iron Belt 1,506, Mount Hope 95,231, Norrie 239,366, East Norrie 108,994, Comet 8,050, Fed- eral 929, Eureka 12,752, Pabst 83,061, Ruby 913, Sunday Lake 54,419, total 1,203,679 tons. On the same date the Ludington mine had shipped from Gladstone 119,746 tons and the Hamilton 53,158 tons. The output of the Vermillion range, also com- puted to the 21st inst., included 466,104 tons from the Minne- sota mine, and 343,085 tons from the Chandler. At the Foxdale, a property near Humboldt, Mich, being worked by Ishpeming parties, the drill cut through 60 feet of ore recently, and the shaft that has since been sunk reached the deposit much sooner than was expected. The ore is said to be identical in appearance with the best Republic Bessemer, and it is thought that a good mine has been found. A heavy flow of water in one of the shafts of the Hamilton mine, which had gone down to 1,435 feet, has forced a suspen- sion of work in the shaft for the present season. ‘The Badger, new mine of the Commonwealth company, is said to have sold 35,000 tons of ore tor delivery by rail during the coming winter. All manner of work in and around the Fitch mine is at a stand-still and there is no telling when operations will be re- sumed. MARINE REVIEW. - 3 ae eae ae Flash Light at Whitefish. ; A short time ago Capt. J. D. Peterson of the steamer J. C. Lockwood suggested that the light at Whitefish point, Lake Su- _ perior, above the Sault, be changed from a fixed to a flash light. In a letter regarding the change Capt. Peterson said: ‘‘Many of our modern steamers now have electric masthead lights and in meeting these steamers near Whitefish it is sometimes hard to distinguish one from the other. And again in snow squalls, or any hazy weather, it is very important that the master should be able to distinguish the light the moment he sees it. As it is now it is sometimes hard to do this.” Before this suggestion had been made the light-house board had recognized the importance of such a change, and Capt. Peterson, as well as other masters in the Lake Superior trade, will undoubtedly be pleased to learn that the board has author- ized putting a red flash in the structure at Whitefish. Due notice of the change will be given by the board, probably before the close of navigation this season. In General. | A correspondent in the American Shipbuilder produces some very forcible arguments in the way of proving that collisions are due in many cases to leaky pistons, which cause a failure of a steamer’s engine to respond promptly to the action of the steam when an order is given to suddenly stop or reverse. English exchanges continue reporting favorable results ob- © tained from the Serve ribbed boiler tubes, which have been adopted for all ordinary boilers of the French navy and which have made a very important showing in trials by the Inman Cun- ard and other big steamship-companies. With the Serve tube the opportunity afforded of considerably increasing the boiler power without any increase in the size of the boiler or the con- sumption of fuel is a great point in its favor. George S. Weaver of Keuka lake, Bancroft, N. Y., tells the Scientific American of the pertormance ofa small steamboat which he has been using for pleasure purposes on the lake. The boat is 65 feet long and has a six-cylinder engine made by the . Colt Patent Fire-arms Company, of Hartford, Conn. Each cylin- der is 7 inches in diameter and the stroke is 6 inches, driving a 44-inch wheel with 6 feet pitch at 220 revolutions. The boat is unusually heavy for her size but makes 15 miles an hour with fifty passengers aboard. ‘The owner claims to have run her ten seasons without an accident or a dollar’s worth of expense to the machinery, save the breaking of a crank pin during the first sea son. In connection with the announcment of work being begun on the Clyde for the two new Cunard steamers, Andrew Carne- gie said in London a few days ago that before these boats have fairly got their speed the Inman line will be out with two fast boats, built on the Deleware river. He says the Inman company wants to make its line entirely American and will require very little encouragement from the United States government to do so. ‘Ihe Cunard boats will have engines of 14,000 horse power, duplicates of those in the Etruria, guaranted to give a sustained speed of 21 knots an honr in open sea and 2234 measured miles on the trial trip. Much greater speed would be obtained from the boats iftheir owners did not want them to carry about 700 cabin passengers and at least 2,000 tons of freight. The armour-plate bending rolls constructed by the Niles Tool Works, at Hamilton, Ohio, for the United States navy yard at Mare island, will bend armour plate 2 inches thick by 22 feet long. It has four wrought-iron forged rolls 22 feet 6 inches in length between journals, supported in two housings of massive proportions. ‘I‘wo of these rolls are placed in the center of these housings, one vertically above the other. They are 32 inches in diameter, and are used to pinch the plate and carry it through. The other two rolls are placed one on each side of the center rolls. They are used to bend the plate, and are 2 5% inches in diameter, and move in guides in the roll housings, inclined at 20 degrees from the vertical. ‘The adjusting screws for these rolls are 7 in- ches in diameter, and driven by tangent gearings. The three movable rolls are raised and lowered by power, furnished by a pair of vertical reversible engines with link motion, provided for this purpose only, having cylinders 10 inches in diameter, and stroke of 12 inches. A board consisting of Naval Constructor Hichborn and Chief Engineer Inch, U.S. N. tested the rolls at * the works.