_The “Thomas F. Cole,” 11,200 Tons, Being Fitted with Engines and Boilers after her Launching_ 16 _The “Cole” is the largest ship on the Lakes. Length, 605 feet 5 inches._ _Her First Trip--Off for the Ore Regions of the North_ 18 _This Shows Some of the 800,000 Rivets that Go to the Making of a 10,000-Ton Leviathan of the Inland Seas_ 22 _Ice-Bound. Thirty-two Boats Tied up in the Ice at the Soo_ 26 _From a Photograph by Lord & Thomas, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich._ _A Network of Tracks Running through the Ore Lands_ 28 _Captains of the Vessels of the American Steamship Company_ 30 _The “Montezuma”_ 32 _The largest wooden ship on fresh water being towed out of the Maumee River, Toledo._ _A Coal Dock at Superior, Wisconsin_ 34 _The pile of coal is 1400 feet long and 30 feet high._ _The Record Load Hauled by One Team out of the Michigan Woods, 20,000 Feet_ 36 _One Steam Shovel Keeps Three Locomotives and Trains Busy_ 38 _Steamers at a Modern Ore Unloading Plant at Conneaut_ 40 _The Main Slip in the Harbour of Conneaut_ 42 _Conneaut is the second largest ore-receiving port on the Lakes._ _One of the Huge Open Pits of the Mesaba Range_ 44 _A Raft of Five Million Pulp Logs on the North Shore of Lake Michigan_ 48 _Scooping up Ore from the Mahoning Mine at Hibbing_ 52 _The largest open pit mine in the world._ _A Mining Town on the Mesaba Range, where a Few Years ago the Deer and Bear Roamed Undisturbed_ 54 _Harbour View at Conneaut, Ohio, Showing Docks and Machinery_ 56 _A Steam Shovel at Work_ 58 _This removes from 4000 to 8000 tons of ore a day._ _The Old and the New_ 62 _A modern freight carrier passing one of the old schooners._ _A Shaft on One of the Ranges_ 66 _The “North West”_ 68 _One of the finest passenger steamers on the Great Lakes._ _The Stop at Tashinoo Park, St. Clair Flats_ 70 _The Landing at Mackinac Dock, Michigan_ 72 _Hickory Island at the Mouth of Detroit River_ 74 _From a Photograph by Manning Studio, Detroit._