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Motor Vessel, Ottawa coming into Mackinaw Island, MI. one of the most beautiful summer resorts in the country. Tl he Great Lakes area, bounded gen- erally on the north by Canada and on the south by the United States, contains probably the greatest industrial complex of the world. The steel plants here producing more than 30% of the world’s largely of specially developed ships, dur- ing the navigation seaso The variety of eater cargo that moves on the Great Lakes and the Sea- ica) and a population of about 65 million (slightly less than one-third the bined United States-Canadian popula- tion), it produces about 78 percent of the North American steel, adds half the value of its manufactures and produces more than 40% of its food and feed. le inland traffic there has size, but the smaller ones are tending to disappear from the system, outmoded by the large-size ships, many of which are as much as — feet in length with a 105- foot beat These "tgs ships can carry cargoes of up to 60,000 tons of iron ore 1,700,000 bushels of grain. Many of the world’s largest Merchant ships come into the Lakes by means of the Seaway. Some of these vessels ex- ceed 550 feet in length and can carry a cargo of over 24,000 tons into or out of the Great Lakes. The construction of large locks and the the world’s longest stairway has brought ships of all nations to our doorsteps. From the heartland of America to the ean of the World, we dedicate this