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JANUARY -FEBRUARY PAGE 208 Barge URANUS In 1872 the HERSCHEL, a schooner barge, was built for Kirby & Company at Marinette for $5,000, and in 1873 the schooner-barge URANUS, 524 tons, was built for the same company. The steamer LELAND of 325 tons was built in 1873 for the Leland Iron Furnace at Leland for $16,000. Angus McLeod was the Master Carpenter who built these four barges and the steamer LELAND, and he was from Ward's Wyan- dotte shipyard. In 1874 the heavy outside tug MUSIC of 320 tons was built by Andrew Cameron, Master Car- penter, for Mitchel, et al, at Bay City at a cost of $20,000. The year TeV saw tine mitten one sania alte schooner FRED L, WELLS of 97 tons built by Arthur Fraser, Master Car- penter of Ward's yard, for Edward Winchester, of Toledo. PESHA PHOTO Dossin Museum Collection A large stave and tile mill was built in 1880 by Fred Tank and Asso- ciates, located where the present Route 2 bends to the south. This was used in later years as an onion storage warehouse. The old shipyard slipway remained in place, and in 1889 William Spaulding built there the steamer FRED TANK. She was 91 tons, and built for LaDuce of Toledo at a cost of $9,000. Built to haul staves and tile out of Tank's Mill on Ward's Canal, she took many loads of staves to Kelleys Island for the cooper shop at the north side lime kilns. In 1896 the FRED TANK deliv- ered the four street cars from Tol- edo to Put-in-Bay, for the Hotel Victory Electric Railroad Line. At the time the TANK was built there were several mud scows built for