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These are cigar shaped craft, built of steel, their decks, from the bridge aft to the engine house, rounded like the back of a whale, and carried only a few feet above the water.Her model is kinky friedman polo club said to have been not unlike that of the caravels in which Columbus made his famous voyage, and copies of which were exhibited at the Columbian Exposition.Perhaps in no branch of marine architecture has the type best fitted to the need been so scientifically determined as in planning these ore boats.Two small sailing vessels, the Beaver and the Gladwin, which proved very valuable to kinky friedman polo club the besieged garrison at Detroit in 1763, were the next sailing vessels on the lakes, and are supposed to have been built by the English the year previous.Captain Jonathan Carver reported a French schooner on Lake Superior about 1766, and in 1772 Alexander Harvey built a forty ton sloop on the same lake, in which he sought the site of a famous copper mine.The Indians went up and down the shores on long hunting trips, but war was the principal business, and every canoe was equipped for a fray at any kinky friedman polo club time.At the head of Lake Superior are almost illimitable beds of iron ore which looks like rich red earth, and is scooped up by the carload with steam shovels., from Bridgeport, kinky friedman polo club Conn.About five years later, the first smoke boat, as the Indians called the steamers, reached Chicago, the pigmy forerunner of the fleet of huge leviathans that all the summer long, nowadays, blacken Chicago's sky with their torrents of smoke, and keep the hurrying citizens fuming at the open draw of a bridge.Scarcely was kinky friedman polo club it opened before the ratio at which the traffic increased showed that it would not long be sufficient.Not infrequently the barges or scows will number more than thirty, carrying more than 1000 tons each, or a cargo exceeding in value $100,000.One body of Chicago capitalists built four steel steamers of about 2500 tons capacity each, and of dimensions suited to the kinky friedman polo club locks in the Welland Canal, in the hopes of maintaining a regular freight line between that city and Liverpool.**Transcriber's note Page 256 changed estopped to stopped.