The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-29

cars, and the locomotives, and finally
the steamships necessary to convey
their products to market.
But in addition to all this, they pro-
pose to furnish all the railroad iron
for all the railroads to be built in
Canada, and successfully outwit Yam
kee ingenuity. Mr.. Rosevear has the
title of general traffic manager, and
he certainly has enough interests to
keep one man busy. There is no use
of Dragging of Yankee energy along
side of the development of the Clergue
interests, and we are glad that this
general traffic manager gave us the
opportunity to compare Canadian
push and enterprise with our boast
ed Yankee superiority. Returning
from this interesting sight, we were
taken back on the boat to our ship.
While going over, Mr.. Rosevear was
invited to describe the great interests
which he represented, which he did in
modest manner, and we regret now
that no notes were taken of his re-
marks, as dependence was placed upon
the receiving of some special statistics
which at this writing have not come
to hand.
The return trip to Port Arthur was
pleasant, but not so ideal as the down
trip, but with ordinary summer
wraps, life on the upper deck was in
every way enjoyable. On Sunday at
ternoon, we had light rain and some
increasing wind, and whitecaps, but
we were soon sheltered by the numer
Gus islands near the approach to Port
Arthur, so that we entered that port
at nine o'clock in the evening. We
were informed that the open lake had
been quite rough during the night
We were detained at Port Arthur and
Fort William for twenty-four hours,
not on account of the rain or storm,
but to unload and load up merchan-
disc. Monday was unpleasantly wet
at Fort William, but not enough to
prevent the party from exploring the
town. By evening the storm was over,
and delightful trip brought us to
Duluth, practically one day behind
our scheduled time.
AS the delay had been thoroughly
canvassed before coming into port,
three-fourths of the party voted to re-
main over one day for the purpose of
visiting the mines at Eveleth.
Two Harbors' Famous Ore Docks.
On our arrival at Duluth, and before
leaving the dock, we were informed
that Immediately after dinner spe-
cial train was at our disposal to see
the car docks at Two Harbors, and
incidentally to be the guests of the
Commercial Club of that progressive
little city. Tha leading spirits in this
bit of enterprise to get the editors to
spend an afternoon in Two Harbors
were Mr.. James Coggswell, the editor
of the Two Harbors Iron News, and
Hon. Joseph Miller, railroad and
warehouse commissioner, and who
had the foresight to prepare a small
folder showing what they had to rec
ommend their town. We regret that
space forbids the publication in de-
tail, but few facts must be given.
Two Harbors is the greatest iron
ore shipping port in the world, having
shipped up to this time nearly thirty
five million gross tons of iron ore,
and will this year ship out altogether
about six million TONS
There are five ore docks, with over
two miles of loading frontage. Last
year there were 1883 cargoes sent
out, an average of 1896 gross tons to
the cargo. The capacity of the docks
is equal to 10000 tons of ore, and
800 men are required in and about
the docks. The average shipping sea-
son is nine months. The average
train load from the mines is 1900
gross tons, 2,240 pounds, the wooden
cars holding 80 tons, the steel cars
holding so tons. One schooner alone
cleared from Two Harbors August 18th
with 1868 gross tons, equivalent to
SSH common tons. Two Harbors has
all the modern public necessities, such
as water, sanitary, electric light and
telephones, is the county seat of Lake
county, has a good commercial club,
and public library, and a population
of $500 well-to-do citizens. After
viewing the docks, and noting the
manner of loading ore into vessels,
similar to loading grain from elevat-
ors, the ladies of the party were taken
in charge by Mrs. Coggswell and other
ladies of Two Harbors, whose names
we have failed to obtain, and were
handsomely entertained, each lady re-
ceiying small souvenir to remember
the occasion.
taken care of by the Commercial Club
at their rooms, where a splendid
lunch was served. About five o'clock
the party started for the return to
Duluth. The train was in charge of
Conductor VIM. Weese and Engineer
d. G. Hayes.
The citizens of Duluth, through
their Commercial Club, had given our
party notice that banquet was on
the program for Tuesday evening, the
exercises to commence at nine o'clock.
The banquet was served at the ST.
Louis Hotel, and about an equal num-
Der of prominent citizens of the city
sat down with the editorial party,
with Mayor I. w. Hugo acting as