Identifier: seeingamericafir418colb (find matches)
Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ut it was as quiet as a mill-pond,for our boat merely sailed into a sort of box or lock and the water was slowly lowered till wesailed out on Lake Huron without even a jolt. There are locks between Lake Erie and LakeOntario, too, for Niagara Falls would not be very easy for a steamer to climb or descend. It is wonderful to watch the loading and unloading of the huge freight barges. There aregreat derricks which reach out giant arms and pick up monstrous loads and carry them up or downto deck or dock. Before the Erie Canal was built, the steamers could only go as far as Buffalo and there thefreight had to be taken from the boats and loaded on trains in order to be sent farther east. TheErie Canal crosses New York state like a great water boulevard and connects with the Hudsonat Albany and a boat sailing from Chicago can go clear to New York City and get a glimpse ofthe ocean before starting back to the inland seas. Mouth of the Erie C&nsJ ad: Buffalo N.Y TRAFFIC ON THE GREAT LAKE/*
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We Berry Wagon Boys thought we had seen big machinery before, but when we went to thehuge steel mills at Gary, Indiana, we felt about as small and unimportant as a couple of undersizedants standing before the Pyramids of Egypt! Gary is called the steel capital of the world, yet only a few years ago the spot where thecity stands was just miles of dreary sandy beach on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Colum-bus discovered America all ready-made, but Judge Gary and the other men who were in the bigsteel company did not discover Gary, they actually made it! Way up in the Lake Superior countrywere enormous stores of ore, but there was no coal and no limestone, so the ore had to be takenfar away to be made into steel, and the freight made the steel very expensive. These men decidedto find a place where the materials could be brought together more cheaply. It had to be on thelake, so that steamers could haul the ore. It had to be near several railroads, so that they couldbring the coal a

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