The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-12-23
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!, oG,AL NEWS TENS. y
The Eliza arrived from Duluth Tues,
day evening, - T
\: The thirteen year old daughter Of
Paul Morrison is seriously i'll.
i School closed yesterday with ap pro-
pirate exercises for the holiday ygaeca- :
ton. @:.:*f /: =. 3i,>.~,- i.
! County Commissioner Scott retur ned
on the Eliza Tuesday evening from
Gross River. = j; y
= Trapping is reported as having been
very poor 90 far this winter on account
Of the heavy snow: storms we have had.
i Prospects are good for race between
che English Locomotive James Tole-
man." which was exhibited at the
;world's fair, and the New York Central's
$685." If it takes place it will likely be
from Chicago to New York. II
! The secretary Of the Duluth Superior
Harbor Improvement company has sent
q communication to the senators and
congressman from the head of the lake
district, asking them to use their inf u:
ence to have a committee of engi neers
visit the head of the lake and look into
the needs of the harbor.
That splendid family journal, The De-
troit Free Press, is offering to send it's
famous twelve-page weekly four months
on trial for 20, cents-clubs of eight,one
dollar. No paper in America enjoys
"a greater reputation for genuine humor
and literary excellence. Our: eaders
cannot invest twenty cents to be tier adj
vantage. The address is bet roit, Mich
Articles Of incorporation were filed
in Duluth last week Of the Altmonte
Water company: It is organized to de-
velope water power of the St Louis,
Cloquet and other rivers, to build dams
and store water for booming logs or for
obtaining water power for fire pro lection
and other purposes, 1t is also author
lied to build mills and factories, The
capital stock is $4,000 and tn Q inco rpo-
rators are Chicago and Minnea polls
mon: Duluth will be the company's
headquarters
The Ironton Structural Steel company
Of West Duluth has made test Of its
new style structural bee m rolling ma
ehinery and has accom- plish ed result
that is entirely novel in the history of
steel manufacture. A TWEEN ty-four-inch
steel beam, thirty feet long, was rolled
by single set Of rolls in one operation
and without removing the billet from
the original rolls. It is claim ed that the
cost Of turning a steel ingot into a fin"
ished beam is reduced 40 per cen by
the process used, which is the inve ntion
of James E. York. general man ager of
the works. There is only one other firm
in the United States ca pable Of rolling
twenty four-inch steel beam and there
the work is done by the ordinary pro-
cess. -
The value of the cargoes that passed
the 500 in '93 was sl45,5O0,000 and the
freight charge was less than ever before,
averaging on iron ore from Duluth to
Cleveland, distance of $50 miles, Tx
cents per ton; on wheat from Duluth to
Buffalo, 1000 miles, 2 l-3 cents per
bushel, and on coal, an average distance
Of 800 miles, % cents per ton. The aver
age mile ton rate on wheat, for instance,
on the great lakes in 1898, deducting
charges for trimming and unloading car
goes. which the vessels pay, was about
= of a mill, or one-tenth of the rate on
the most economically managed railway
in America. After 1896, when the twen-
ty-foot channel between Duluth and
Buffalo will be completed, vessels of
much larger tonnage will begin to ply
the lakes, and it would not be surprising
il the low rates in effect during the pres
emit season were discounted.
Perhaps all parties involved in any
manner in the Hawaiin complication will
agree with us in wishing that the pro-
posed cable between San Francisco and
Honolulu were laid and in working or
der, Much Of the practical dihfc ulty
in the way OF final solution of the is
sues that have been pending for nearly
ayear has been due to the lack Of fire.
quent and rapid communication. This
lack has made it necessary to accord an
unusually wide range Of discretion to
those who represent us there. Minister
Stevens and our naval officers at the
time Of the revolution last January
gould not telegraph for Immediate and
specific Instructions, and they were
obliged to act upon their own Judgment
in the light Of their previous general ad-
vices from Washington. Their course
! was in most respects sustained by the
Harrison administration; but when Mr..