The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-02
WILL CONSTRUCT A ].
REMARKABLE SHIP
VESSEL TO CROSS PACIFIC IN
THIRTY-sIx HOURS.
Duluth Man Declares He Possesses a
Secret that Will Revolutionize
Oceanic Ship Building, and Claims
to Be Able to Attain Speed of $50.
Knots an Hour.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The journal.
Duluth, Mimi, Nov. John B. Cayo. for
] years a well-known resident of Duluth and SUI
| perior, and who Is temporarily III Everett,
| WASH. is. about to build boat for which he
| the boat at the head of the lakes, and says
| that comparatively small vessel will demon
strate the theory and ideas that he wishes to
prove. In letter to a Duluth man he says:
"As there are many people who would take
! advantage of me If they got Into my theories,
cannot freely discuss them until 4 have OBJ
tanned patents to protect me. These shall
get in due time. 1 have brought forward ideas
| of value in ship construction before, especially
the whaleback model. am the originator of
that ship, and not McDctlald, AIcBougall, or
whatever his name is. He. has taken advantage
Of my rights in the patents. / said nothing
! in that instance, but do not intend to let my.
new proposition get entirely out of my hands.
| with boat built according to my ideas
it will be possible to leave San Francisco and
| arrive in Yokohama Japan, in from thirty six
| to forty hours. The distance is 1928 statute
| miles over the course usually followed by ships,
| and if the journey were to be accomplished in
! forty hours, the outside limit, It would mean an
| average speed of better than 40 miles hour
I People who have heard of Mr. Cayo's claims
| are slow to condemn them, but he will have to
show them before they are convinced.
| A teamster named j. Kelly, employed by
the Board OF Trade livery here. and a span;
of horses which he was driving on the Pike lake
road were ~eectrocuteds by an electric light wire
| that had fallen across the road at Mesaba ave-
nue., two blocks back of the boulevard, last
IT,.
l Kelly was killed while Investigating the death
4 Of his team. He was As years of age and I'M
4 married. He was formerly in the undertaking
business here, and is brother of G. B. Kelly
lof Fargo. ~. s7!5F i,
! Activity at Duluth.
The Hines Lumber company is building large
machine and repair shop at Iron River. The
! old mill has been overhaHled and many yard i'm
provements have been undertaken Everything
Is about ready for operations, which will con-
tinue several years. #<E. :
The Diamond Match company is to build an
other match-b block factory in this section similar
to the recently started; at Cloquet. This
will be at Hayward, Wis., and will run the
year around, employing about fifty
"A survey party on the Duluth & Northern
Minnesota road Is at work running lines to
belts near Cross river, from which Alger, Smith
& Co. will begin to take the timber this
winter. This road will be some forty miles
in length, and will extend the main line Of
the Duluth g. Northern Minnesota to about
seventy miles, bringing it to within short
distance of the Canadian boundary and in con-
nection with the Canadian Northern. The ex-
tension will cost about $25o,C0O, and will be-
built the coming season. There are 125, ,OO0
! feet of timber in the Schroeder tract and it
will be some time before it is all logged.
The small mill of J. HUFF on the Blackburn
farm, near Gordon, destroyed by fire the
I other day. 1t will not be rebuilt.
Captain G.. o. Flynn, who has been sent to
wreck the burned schooner Noquebay near
recovering about one-ffth OF the cargo of lunlr
8 Der. This is chiefly hemlock from south-shorA
points. Much of the lumber has been strewn
ibout the beaches. &.
4 The East Fork Lumber company's mill, near
iron River, has started up after a close-dowr
y Of six or seven weeks on: account of high water
& h Il has about fifty men at work and timber
nough hand to maintain operations for some
,hree years. -
- Lumber shipments have been heavy the pas
few weeks and for Ell: month reached tota
q of 650o00o6 feet The3es We're shipments o.
70oo,eoo feet from Superior and about 5, 00o,0ot
n feet from Two Harbors At the latter poin
q there were six vessels loading Monday. Th
= shipments of October viii be large, both 70
Il Duluth mills and from those that reach athi
city by rail, and the total for the viii
81 doubtless reach 425, GO0, 900 feet. - as
The Northland Pine company has moved it
q logging offices from Cross lake to Northlan
"a spur, close to Walker, where it will carry o
81 extensive operations this winter. The compan
IA has found woodsmen scarce this fall and ha
tA been looking in vain for $50 men.