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Over Lake Superior last week blew a strong northwest wind. At Duluth it loosened ice floes at the harbor mouth, and the freighter John Gehm, first vessel to clear since last December, steamed out with 2,500 tons of scrap. At the east end of the lake, tugs had cut a channel from Sault Ste. Marie to open water. The wind from the west closed this, packed miles & miles of ice into Whitefish Bay. Clamped fast in the glittering rubble, more than 50 high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like...
...than half the amount on hand last year and the lowest in ten years, shipping companies rejoiced at getting their big boats through to Duluth and Superior two weeks ahead of the 1936 opening. And for the first time in eight years, crews had been signed for every available freighter on the Great Lakes...
Symbolic was the fact that last week the first freighter out of Duluth carried not ore but scrap iron. Since mining began in the Superior region, more than $3,000,000,000 worth of ore from the Mesabi alone has been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell...
...necessity of shipping an enormous volume of freight in an eight-month navigation season has compelled not only efficiency at Great Lakes ports but economy in Great Lakes ship design. Distinctive Lakes craft, introduced in 1906, is the standard 600-ft. bulk freighter, which resembles nothing so much as a huge steam barge with a minimum of upper-works fore & aft, engines and smokestack so far aft as to seem astern...
...that the Mar Cantabrico's, crew had been taken off by the Canarias "so presumably the ship sank." Next day a Red seaman from the Mar Cantabrico popped up in France, said he was rescued by a fishing smack and that he saw the Canarias towing the crippled freighter and her rich cargo to a White port...