Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1889 — Increased Lake Shipping. [ARTICLE]

Increased Lake Shipping.

The ship yards of the great lakes will exhibit active operations this winter, Fifty-nine new vessels are to be built and eleven of them will be entirely of steel. They will cost $7,124,000; and they will add 100,950 gross tons to the carrying capacity of the commerce of the great lakes. "