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Show BIG SHIPS ON THE GREAT LAKES Duluth statistician shows in tha News-Tribune of that city that 80,-000.000 80,-000.000 loaves of bread might be made from the record cargo of wheat brought down the lakes In the steaiu- 1 ship W. p Snyder Jr That Is OBS way to conve an adequate idea ol I the meaning of a load ..f lV4,iV) bushels, but the figures become all j the more impressive when the are of the wheat fields swept Into tha 1 hold of this like vessel Is taken Into account. The new record cargo of wheat Is equal to a fair aerage crop on 25,- 1 000 acres. It is as much wheat J would be grown, under ordlnarv clr- 1 umstances, on forty square mile of Ohio fields- The cargo of the Sn- f der Is equivalent to sweeping the crop of a vast field of whcit ten miles I long and four miles wide Into one boat. Viewed from this p.. hit It becomes j immensely Impressive, taken in con- I nectlon with the activities of hun- i dreds of lake vessels in the trans- J portatlon of grain during the season I of navigation It is plain to the most 1 careless person who glances at the j big facts of the times that water 1 highways which are open less than j eight months out of the twelve carry to market the products of an enor- mous extent of fertile country. And the grain trade S only on (f j the leading divisions of lake com- 1 merce an1 far from the most iro- 1 I portant Ore outranks grain heavdy 1 S in tonnage end the coal traffic d j X enormous. 1 I |