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(NAVIGATION NOTES. N dredge Togo: is wor\ing in "A Thornbury harbor. Capt. Young is in +. hargey *| The U. S. survey steamer TMancock I "fis engaged in sounding for an obstruc- - tion in the outlet of Lake Iluron, re per ported by tke mastegppof the steanic™ wii Castalia. While 'approaching the light- Co ship downlLound a couple of weeks ago, -- the Castalia struck an obstruction, } presutnably a large boulder, but Capt. | Beauvais, of the Hancock, says he has fw not found any trace of it vet. Ife ine' for timaled that the Castalia's captain: bu may have made an-error in the loca-) Re ition of the obstruction, but he expects | My . IF | { ! er a. T~Tt= a to locate it within a very short lime. The forward hatch on the "lower! deck of the S. Si Beavertan collapsed | 5 at Bort Arthur soon after -- the) pa r- ; tl atrival of the vessel. Tags of sugar] ac had been piled on the lower deck, but} or the principal cause of the breakdown | ds was the shaking up the vessel had re- Gy _ ceived in crossing Lake Superior. No/ pt | one was hurt, aithough several of the | «dt men engaged in unloading the carga) | saved themselves from falling into the | hold by leaping quickly to the side of the pile, As the catgo in the hold | bi Fe) consisted of sewer pipe, the only dam- jm dd age done was the bursting oof -- the) Th d. ibags and the spilling of the sugar. "The hatch was 'supported by steel | La beams at cach side with a specially) - SS strong one in the centre, but the bolt} he jholes broke and the beams were bent] - lbefare they allowed the -weight to ( ne fall. = eae G Fe While passing up Lake Huron the| * er' steamer uronic saw Sloating wreek- ( 'S lage from the steamer New York which * foundered on Sunday morning. The k | water in that part of the lake is very "tdeep and nothing of the hull of the "Wf chip was lo be seen, except pieces of al j timber that had beensloosened by the Bi waves, The pilot house was floating and Capt. Camphel] stopped his ship to read the mame, Chairs, planks, >} bekling and other wreckage of all sg) kinds was floating on the water, The j 4 --™! ik | eee Oe | men on the Huronic said that they | had never seen such a mess anywhere an belore. i k. The I. S. steamer Norwalk was in jthe dry dock on Tuesday for a new fe beet) This was put on and tke toat Bi tot away for Wiarton an Wednesday 'morning. 2 ee | OOO OF Lad ~ The C. P. R. steamers' will leave Owen Sound at 1.30 o'clock instead of I five o'clock for the balance of the sea- dsm, Sailings are the sane, namely, fon all days of the week except Sunday "and Friday. ores a i las pee The steamer Frank T,. Vanee of De luth was burned tp the water's edge hin mid-lake off Lidington, Mich., on ; Tuesday, The steamer Maggie Mar- shall rescucd the entire crew, while the Pere Marquette ferty No. 19 stood by) t d- jand played the hose on the burning) = ivesse], Capt. Randsof the Vance re-| --'iused to leave her, unt:l it became ap- tt 'S yarent that his erait would net bel rs saved, c a eae at or} > t ----- ' Dredge No. S of the Great Takes '1 Dredging Company, - which sank last) -- | (October, drow ning five men, while 'being moved from Fort Williatn . to Pi Port Arthur, acd which was recently | raised, is now in dry. dock at the ™.Jcompany's plant at Fort William. The e ('redge will be refitted during the win-| 4, It is really astonishing to tead a- > , bout the way the wheat crop of West-. ., @ jer Canada is poured cach fall througk | | @ |the elevators of the Twin Cities on! y) Take Superior--Fort William and Port| @ Arthur, Last year 43,000,000 bushels| |, out of a crop of 125,000,co0 bushels, wint through the big termiral €leva-| ;, 'tors 'in eighty days. The real signi-| . ticance of this is made clear by T. M./ 5, Ralston in the course of an article in| October Busy Man's, entitled "Pouring | ,, Grain Through the Big Funnel.'" Hel, 4 points out that during the past year te cighty-nine million bushels were hand- jel diy the Twin City clevators, that @ jit required cighty-nine thousand cars) yp 'to hold this quantity and that this in- volved the despatching from Winnipeg of thirtern thousand trains of seventy cars each. The manner of handling the gtair is destrited in interesting fash- jon and a descriptfon of the mammoth clevators--the largest in the world--is given, aad os i The Canadiat Vacific. Railway has stnt out a special chart for the use of navigators who have cargoes for the} ¢ company's new elevator at Victoria) Harbor. The course shown holds to! that for the Midland: harbor until al» new--line-has--tabe taken ina north- easterly direction bringing Sturgton Point in line with the north end off, MethodistIsland. The course is main-! tained until the vessels can swing a-| round and run south-casterly alongside | the company's flew -- concrete wharves, A foot 'note on the chart savs that boats must not load to tore than nineteen feat umlil other- "wise advised. The elevator was ex-/5 pected to be ready to receive gtain on Monday, roth inst. pind irae Capt. William G, Plavter who has|™ sailed the Collins Iniet Lumber Co.'s tug. Telen S. tor four vears, has sev. ere hissconnection. with the company and has moved to a farm at the Rat- Tet, i "18 1 a = o -- ------ The tug Charles Lemcke and consort were in port from the Mrauce Peninsula on Saturday Thee cbrowghe over a| cata od lumber eget The MoT. Ce."s steamer Glenmonnt | went om Pipe Isham, near Deteur, ony Saturday, The boat which was load: | wl with. wheat kas heen released = eynont damage. t t cov STY cor ict" NEXT WEER. The county council-as been called toe gather at Rarme on Monday ates | neon next, Warden A.C. Garden who! W has moved from Barrie to Hamilton! will preside.