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IMPROVEMENTS AT HURON. Residents of Huron are looking for- ward to great things for that little port since the Wheeling & Lake Erie started in to make improvements by dredging a new slip, erecting new wun- loading machinery and increasing the "TAE MARINE. REVIEW Buffalo and the east. The grain traf- fic afterwards centered at Milan. Buffalo histories tell of the old time schooners bringing grain from Milan to Dart's elevator, and the way it came was by canal from Milan to the Huron river, thence by lake. There S ade SS ee Oe NEW WHEELING & LAKE ERIE SLIP AT HURON WITH WELLMAN-SEAVER- MORGAN road's yard space. They point to the fact that the 602-foot steamer Town- send came in and out without tugs last fall, and they think this is going some, as it most certainly is. She unloaded 10,390 tons of ore in eighteen hours, which makes a good record for the port. There is no question but, what - Huron will increase in importance now with the new facilities. There is a McMyler car dump in both the new and old slip, and there are seventeen ore unloading machines. In the old slip are four hoisting and conveying legs with one McMyler and three Wellman - Seaver - Morgan automatic clamshells, while on the new, there are four 5-ton clam shell fast unload- ers of the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan 'type. A twelve-ton portable: conveyor for stock purposes is now being con- structed. These improvements, alto- gether, figure at $1,000,000. As important as Huron is today, it is doubtful if it is more so than it was back in the thirties during the way- port passenger boat days. At that time, the clink of the ship builder's hammer could be heard up the river nearly as far as Milan, and the toot of the old-time passenger craft made things lively on the lower river. Farm- ers from down as far as Indiana kept things moving too by bringing grain in prairie schooners for shipment to UNLOADERS, are no boats today which could carry cargoes from the inland town, but when the traffic was at its height, schooners did actually run the canal, thereby saving the farmers an eight \to be 19 and publishes the weekly Erie County Reporter. Among the boats built were the steamers Great Eastern and Ohio. The Great Eastern brought one of the first grain cargoes to' Buffalo. When the Ohio was launched, people came for miles around to see it. Capt. W. C. Richardson, of Cleveland, owns the steamer Wm. Edwards and schoon- er Golden Age, which were also built at Huron. The Golden Age is laid ip there this winter. Mayor Clock has back files of the weekly Commercial Advertiser, edited by H. C.'Gray, who died at Ashtabula last summer. In looking up the issues for 1837, it shows that boats were ply- ing up and down the lakes as early as March 27. Lundy, Hickox & Co., ad- vertised the. "fast 'sailing scthooter Commodore Lawrence" to leave Huron | Wednesday, April 5, for Detroit. She carried freight and passengers. The "steam packet ship Columbus, Augus- tus Walker, Master," was also adver- tised for the run around the lake from Buffalo to Detroit, making the round trip in about six days. She was said "as fast as the fastest," and sometimes got on the upper lakes Many captains formerly lived at Huron, but Capt. Henry Peterson, of the Shenango ~ Steamship Co; =. E Meeker and C. A. Weitzman, of the Pittsburg Steamship Co; and' ©. Z. Weitzman, of the United States Trans- portation Co. are. the only active MCMYLER CAR DUMP IN THE OLD SLIP OF THE WHEELING & LAKE ERIE AT HURON. mile additional haul. The company which operated the canal was not dis- solved till last year. In 1837, there were eight ship yards between the lake and Milan, accord- ing to Mayor T. M. Clock, who owns skippers living there now. Capt. J. D. Peterson and Capt. Phil. Smith, retired, are residents. < Thomas Caniff, of Marine City, is mate on the steamer Anna C. Minch.