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Excerpt from The American Elevator and Grain Trade, Vol. 9: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Elevator and Grain Interests; January 15, 1891
The manner in which these remarkable lake crafts outride the heavy seas is some thing new, both to amateur spectators and veteran sail ors; the graceful glide of a duck or a swan is about the only comparison that can be made to the manner in which these whale backs pass through the water.
A steamer from Cleveland arriving at Duluth had one of the barges in tow, and had averaged as high as twelve miles, with her own cargo of coal and a still heavier one aboard the barge. So far as regards their usefulness as towing consorts.
Last spring the Colgate Hoyt, or, as known to the com pany that owns her, No. 102, was launched at Duluth, the first one having her own independent steam power. The manner in which this experiment has vindicated it self is as interesting as anything in the modern history of naviga ion. Drawing fifteen feet of water and with a carrying capacity of tons and employing one-half dozen men, she was kept going continuously the entire season, making the best schedule time on the lakes of any vessel whatever, running frequently as high as eighteen miles an hour; when other vessels have been compelled to lay in for heavy weather she invariably pursued the even tenor of her way, as though the heaviest northeaster of Lake Superior or Lake Huron was made especially for her benefit. This revolution in lake commerce will make rates still lower and will largely increase an already te markable traffic on Lake Superior and the lower lake system.
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