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®-----------------------------SB=m--------- Cracks Record 1924 1925 1929 1929 1947 On First Trip On her first trip of the current seasin of navigation, the Canadian steamer Donnacona passed down at the Sault on May 1 with the largest cargo of barley ever loaded on the Great Lakes, which also means the largest cargo of that grain in. the world. Loaded at Fort Willam-Port Arthur for delivery at Kingston, Ontario, the cargo consisted of 589,844 bushels and displaced the former record of 542,076 bushels established by the Emory L. Ford in a winter storage cargo delivered at Buffalo in 1929. Prior to 1922 barley shipments from the upper lakes were snipped in part cargoes with other grain. The first full load of barley, of which there is a record, consisted of 399,000 bushels and passed down at the Sault in the Herbert F. Black, now the Joliet, on November 26, 1922. 1 rom the Black's cargo down to the -Uonnacona's record, cargoes of barley have been transported as lolEws: Year I Vessel Bushels 1922 Herbert F. Black (now Joliet) .......399,000 Emperor ..............401,000 John A. Topping (now W. A. Reiss) 537,346 Emory L. P'ord (in midsummer) ........ 53.0,371 Emory L. Ford (in November) ............542,076 Dondnacona ..........589,844 The Donnacona, 625 feet in over all length, came out in 1915. She then was known as the W. Grant Morden, and for several years was the longest vessel on the lakes. Almost immediately she began to establish new cargo records. In her first season she came down the lake's with 760,066 bushels of oats, a record that still prevails. She was the first ship to move as much as ,a half million bushels of wheat, having established a record of 504,908 bushels in 1919. Several times during her early career, the Donnacona established a new iron ore cargo record. Her final record, in 1928, of 14,859 gross tons was moved from Marquette to the Canadian Sault. As a matter of interest to the men aboard ship the following is a record of present best records for bulk freight cargoes on the Great Lakes and the year in whicii the records were established: Iron Ore, 1945, Ben]'. F. Fair-ess, 18,593 gross tons, 20,824 net tons. Soft Coal, 1944, Lemoyne, 18,-116 net tons; Soft Coal into Lake Superior, 1943, Lemoyne, 17,009 H net tons; Wheat, 1929, Lemoyne, 571,885 bushels; Corn, 1938, Lemoyne, 534,000 bushels; Rye, 1927, Lemoyne, 538,817 bushels-Mixed Grain, 1928, Lemoyne,' 235,333 bushels wheat, 360,188 bushels bailey, Note:—The iron ore cargo rec ord represents the bill of lading weights. Under railroad ' weight the cargo totalled 18,790 gross tons. Sh Cfl m ^S S-1.2. J-*