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2-3 the 106 ——_ x Republic Steel and Cleveland- Cliffs Iron Company have reached an agreement in principle ona long-term iron ore hauling con- tract to replace the present Wilson Transit contract which expires at the end of the 1971 season after 15 years. Kinsman has bought the E. A. S. CLARKE (a.H.P.BOPE) from Pick- ands Mather. She was built at Superior in 1907. The old McAllister steam tug MATHILDA, built in 1899 at Sorel is reportedly going to New York City's South Street Marine Mus- eum. Retirement of the U. S. S. PARLE Naval training ship at Chicago, will remove the largest vessel in that service from the Great Lakes. So far no replacement is scheduled. LA MADELON (a. L'ILE D'ORLEANS, b. RIVIERE DU LOUP) has been raised at Montreal by Buckport Salvage Ltd. The former Quebec ferry was taken to Montreal for Expo 67. EDMUND FITZGERALD carried a tot- al of 1,349,404 tons of ore down through the Soo during the 1969 season - a record for any one freighter. Georgian Bay Line has given up office space on Cleveland's East Ninth St. Pier but report they expect to bring one of Arison's Norwegian-flag cruise ships into the Lakes -- possibly in 1972. Detroit Processing Terminal at Detroit and Morton Terminal at Ojibway have begun barge service across the Detroit River to per- mit U. S. shipments to take ad- vantage of Canadian railroad rates to Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax. Cargill's Cleveland office has been closed for good but John Greenwood will remain in Cleve- land with Freshwater Press. We January from a book he is preparing on the origins of U.S. and Canadian vessel names. carried an excerpt in HARRY W. ADAMS, a 147-foot for- mer Nova Scotia fishing schooner will offer day trips and perhaps extended cruises out of Toronto this summer under the management of Ship's School Association. The barge WILTRANCO II is now in Detroit after only $15,000 worth @