Chicago, shipyards at, 10 _Chicora_, the passenger steamer, 42 “City of the Five Great Lakes,” the, 48 _City of St. Ignace_, the, a passenger steamer, 74 Cleveland, shipyards at, 10 Cliff stamp mill, the, 32 Coal, immense amount consumed, 27 Cole, Thomas F., President of the Oliver Mining Company, 32 Collisions, danger of, 94 Commerce, the, on the Lakes, 11, 49 Construction of a Lake ship, 23 _Cordurus_, the freighter, 100 Coulby, Harry, President of the Pittsburg Steamship Company, 12 _Cruise of a Lonely Heart, The_, 93 Cuyler, Lieutenant, defeat of, 187 D _Dacotah_, the loss of the, 104 Dakotas, the powerful tribe of the, 164 Daumont, Simon Francis, takes possession of the Lakes, 175 Davidson, James, mentioned, 40 _Dean Richmond_, the treasure ship, 108 Deluth, Daniel, a fort erected by, 1761, 176 Denonville, Marquis, 178 Detroit, shipyards at, 10; great industry at, 15; tonnage passing, 27; the defence of, 188 Detroit _Journal_, the, 42 Detroit River, the, 27 Detroit Shipbuilding Company, the, 17 Detroit _Tribune_, the, 42 Development, the, of the region, 6 Devil’s Hole, the massacre at, 189 Dining-room on a freighter, 144 Dividends on an investment in a Lake freighter, 61 Douglas, G. L., 14 Duluth, the “highway” to, 3; the great future of, 123 E Earle, Commodore, on Lake Ontario, 195 _Earling_, the loading of the, 43 Early history of the Lakes, 159 _ff._ Electrical Development Company, the, 133 Elevators, the building of, 63 Elliott, Commander Jesse D., 197 Elwood, H. C., of the Chamber of Commerce in Buffalo, 116 English, settlements of the olden time on the Lakes, 177; traders, 179 Erie Basin, the, 131 Erie Canal, transportation on, 7; the widening of, 63; the new era for, 132 Escarpments, the worn, of the Lakes, 162 Extent of the ore deposits, 36 F Five Nations, the Indian tribes known as the, 165 _Flagg_, a cargo of copper on the, 66 Flour, amount carried on the Lakes, 50 Flying Dutchman, the, of the Lakes, 103 Food, the various kinds of, on a freighter, 153 Forests of Minnesota, the, 53 Fort Niagara, the remains of, 84 Foxes, the extermination of the, 165 Freight, amount of, on the Great Lakes, 25 Freighters, the largest fleet of, iii; the luxuriance of the, 20 Fresh-water seas, iii Frontenac, Fort, built, 1673, 170; taken by English, 1758, 182 “Frozen Ship,” the mystery of the, 111 Fuel, the loading of, 65 Fur trade, the increase of the, 194 G _George W. Perkins_, the record of the, 45 Georgian Bay, a trip past, 86 _Gilcher_, the loss of the, 102 Gilchrist, J. C., the head of the Gilchrist Transportation Company, 13 Glacial Age, the, in North America, 162 Gladwin, Major, defends Fort Detroit, 186 _G. P. Griffin_, the burning of the, 105 “Grain Age,” the beginning of the, 63