Three or four vessels can be seen on one side of the harbour as the rail are manoeuvred under the loaders.
"7962 Piles of iron-ore between docks of Lake steamers (right) and railways to mills, Conneaut, Ohio. Copyright Underwood & Underwood U-95935"
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Reverse "7962. We are looking north toward Lake Erie. The steamers over there at our right are on Conneaut Creek. Over 4,000,000 tons of iron ore are brought down here every year by Lake freighters from the richest iron mines on earth, up at the west end of Lake Superior. here are some of the last 4,000,000 now, forming the long line of stock-piles before us on either hand. Those gigantic arms that reach out over the railway track from their anchorage alongside the creek are part of the huge unloading machinery by whose means the ore in all these piles was taken out of the ships' holds and dumped here. Those long steel girders can reach away across the tracks to stock-piles on the west side.
The long string of ore-laden cars is on its way to one of the big blast furnaces to be reduced to pig-iron; most of it will go through the huge converters at Youngstown or Pittsburgh and become transformed into steel -- perhaps for a railway track in Africa, a bridge across a Himalayan gorge or a new office building in San Francisco.
In order to see the underground mining of iron ore, use Stereograph 7947. For "open pit" mining in process, use 7954. For gigantic ore docks at the head of Lake Superior, use 7957. For the process of unloading a steamer in 10-ton handfuls, use 7970.
The melting of such ore in a blast furnace can be seen with 5520. No. 5523 shows the shaping of steel beams in a rolling mill.
From Notes of Travel No. 37, copyright by Underwood & Underwood.