Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0212Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large boat about to dock. Above the image "T108 (Star)" is printed, below the image "16731 Large Iron Ore Boat Coming into Sabin Locks, Sault St. Marie, Mich." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
154 - (16731)
LARGE IRON ORE BOAT COMING INTO SABIN LCOKS, SAULT STE. MARIE, MICHIGAN
The Great Lakes furnish the most remarkable inland waterway in the world. To make this waterway navigable all the way from Duluth, Minnesota, to Buffalo, New York, our country has done several things. The lake and rivers connecting Lakes Erie and Huron have been deepened. A canal has been built around the rapids in the St. Mary's River, which is between Lakes Huron and Superior. This is known as the "Soo Cnal." Lake Superior is twenty-three feet higher than Lake Huron, so the canal is provided with locks which lift the boats going west and lower thos travleing east. This "Soo" cnal handles more frieght than any other canal in the world.
The odd looking "freighter" entering the locks is very well adapted to carrying ore or coal on the lakes. It is like a huge iron box with a flat bottom. There is a little house at each end. In one the crew lives. In the other is machinery. Some of these boats carry 10,000 tons of freight at one time.
What do they all carry? Many carry iron ore, which comes from the mines near Hibbing, to eastern ports. At Duluth and Superior the world's greatest grain elevators (store houses) are full of wheat awaiting shipment. Copper and lumber also make up many cargoes. The westeard bound boats carry a greater variety of freight. Coal fills the most boats. (Why?) Others are loaded with dry goods, clothing, groceries, automobiles, machinery, and many smaller manufactured articles.
I. Another Keystone Stereograph shows how ore obats are loaded by machinery. Which one is it?
II. Who has built a canal around Niagra Falls? Can large boats go through it and on to the Atlantic Coast?
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