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@) ES) Sixty Years Ago Great Lakes news for March of 1908, as reported by THE MARINE REVIEW of 1908 -- Only three launches are reported for the month-of March, 1908: the tug L.C.SABIN built by and for the Great Lakes Towing Company at Chicago; the freighter HARRY A. BERWIND, built for the Mutual Steam- ship Company (G.A.Tomlinson, Manager) at Ecorse by Great Lakes Engineering Works; and the WILLIAM H. TRUESDALE, built for the Empire Steamship Company (J. J. H. Brown, Manager) by the American ~~ Building cea at Lorain. Two of three are still with us. The L. C. SABIN is still owned by Great Lakes Tow- dng but 48 now known-as NORTH CAROLINA. HARRY A. BERWIND went on to become HAR- VEY H. BROWN and is today Hindman's PAR- KER EVANS, WILLIAM H, TRUESDALE was re- named JAMES E. McALPINE in 1934 and was taken to Italy for scrapping in 1965. Labor negotiations were in the news 60 years ago. Great Lakes Towing and the Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association signed a two year contract that paid the. following monthly salaries: Captains, $131.29; First Engineers, $116.29; and Mates and Second Engineers, $86.29. In Duluth, Ashland and Marquette, Captains got an extra $5 per month; in South Chi- cago an extra $10 and in Chicago an ex- tra $30. It Looks Like inflation hit the Windy City earty. peat gee will be let within a short ‘ime by the Michigan Alkali Co. pore for building 30,000 ft. age~-at tts works No. 2, Ford Village, near Wyandotte, including a frontage of 1,800 ft. along the Detroit river. This is part of the company's plan of trans- porting stone from its quarries at Al- pena by water. Contract for a steamer has already been given to the Great Lakes Engineering Works." We wonder how they were going to build almost 5 miles of docks on 1800 feet of frontage but we know that the venture was successful and that the company is now known as Wyan- dotte Chemicals. The boat referred to was to be WYANDOTTE (i) which was also successful having Left us only Last year. Modern times were coming to the Lakes in 1908. A long article tells of a Clark wireless station which was to open at the Soo. It tells of other stations in -- with 1968 comments by Dave Glick operation at Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and Port Huron. It fails to estimate how many boats were equipped to pick up wireless messages in 1908. Another article in the March 12, 1908, issue of THE MARINE REVIEW detailed the plans for a navigation canal 22 feet deep to be built from Montreal to, Geor- gian Bay by way of the Ottawa River,Lake Nipissing and the French River. We would guess that some civik servant must have misplaced the plans. Maybe they will find them one of these days. "Apparently there is no rest for the BADGER STATE. She has again been sold, this time to the Reeves & McBean Lumber of Detroit by H. NW. Loud, Au Sable, Mich. to operate in the lumber trade. The BADGER STATE was once a line boat operating in the service of the Western Transportation Co. She was later pur- chased by Barry Brothers and operated in Lake Michigan. Fora brief period they operated her on Lake Erie. was later fitted up as a floating pool room and anchored above Belle Isle, Detroit." We wonder if any of our senion members wilk own up to playing pool on the old BADGER STATE. WHENCE COMES THE ORE 1907 (in millions of gross tons) 1967 13:4; Duluth 14.1 7.4 Superior 169) 3.4 Ashland - 3.0 Marquette Tad 8.2 Two Harbors 2.4 - Silver Bay 9.5 = Taconite Harbor 9.6 - Port Arthur 3.1 salt Michipicoten o2 a Little Current 5 - Depot Harbor ad 5.8 Escanaba 6.6 eta Picton “5 41.3 TOTAL LAKES" ORE 66.3 - Ore brought up Seaway 14. 4 41.3 TOTAL ORE MOVED BY BOAT 80. 7 1967 tonnages from THE PLAIN DEALER and SKILLINGS' MINING REVIEW.