Show We have often described how the disintegrated iron ore In the Lake Superior Su-perior region Is loaded from the ground by steam shovels that three shovelfuls make a carload Tliat Is run by trains to the lake shore and discharged l Into bins from which it runs directly into the hatchway of steamers below So far all right It only requires two or three hours to load an eight or nine tho sandton ship But the trouble has been the unloading at the other terminus ter-minus But now it is said that at last a new shovel has been Invented for unloading un-loading steamers and being tested it has demonstrated that It Is capable of handling 1500 tons per day with the employment em-ployment of only three men for each shovel A force of nearly one hundred men are now at work making shovels Tho implement must he a most effective effect-ive one for the account says It Is said that this ingenious contrivance shovels material on any side of it and can Mil cars from the steamer hol6s on cither side of the steamer Each shovel shov-el has three distinct engines jhnd the scoop may be made lo cut into the t ore piles to any desired depth A more economical method of unloading ore atcomors has long been a desideratum and If the problem has been solved it will 10 lo the advantage of the Iron business |