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...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 black beetles stuck...
...word filtered out to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo of the 30-mile Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well be on the moon. By 1852 Congress was of a different mind. In 1855 the first locks were completed and passed sailing ships carrying 1,447 tons of ore. Boomed by the Civil War, iron mining spread into new ranges in the West...
...tons were nearly three times as great as the total in 1932, which marked a 20-year low in Great Lakes trade. Shipping men last week predicted that the tonnage shipped this year will equal the 1929 record of 138,574,441 tons, that the Sault Ste. Marie locks, busiest in the world, will pass a tonnage equal to that of 1929, when they had a traffic greater than that of the Panama and Suez Canals combined...
...from a trip to England in a windjammer to see how well its navigator maintained his course, was thus spurred to invent an equatorial sextant. One of two members of Michigan's early Territorial Legislative Council and later a State Legislator, he was a prime mover in the Sault Sainte Marie Canal project, was generally called "Judge" before he died...
...Marquette, Mich. Polish-born Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens had by last week accustomed Italian, French, German and Polish Catholics to hearing him orate and converse fluently in their languages. Still vacant remained the post Bishop Plagens left to take over the diocese of Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette-the auxiliary Bishopric of Detroit, see of Bishop Michael James Gallagher...