Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . essly. They cannot be de-spatched either with their sides swellingwith corn or wheat or decks piled withthe white barrels of finished flour. Thehundreds of thousands and millions oftons of coal are not now conveyed west-ward from the Lake Erie ports. Theblack colliers rest darkly on the whitesnow, more grim of aspect even thanin the summer. Nothing moves on the Lakes whichhave been crowded highways of are regions of thick-ribbed be upon them is indeed to be im-prisond in the viewless winds. Still,they are not ab
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . essly. They cannot be de-spatched either with their sides swellingwith corn or wheat or decks piled withthe white barrels of finished flour. Thehundreds of thousands and millions oftons of coal are not now conveyed west-ward from the Lake Erie ports. Theblack colliers rest darkly on the whitesnow, more grim of aspect even thanin the summer. Nothing moves on the Lakes whichhave been crowded highways of are regions of thick-ribbed be upon them is indeed to be im-prisond in the viewless winds. Still,they are not absolutely deserted. Hu-man life and activity in a measurestill exist upon them. In a sense a lim-ited industry is still actively navigation of the waves may not offer gain, a profit may be drawn frombeneath them—or rather from beneaththe thick frozen coating. The fisherfolk, who are fully occupiedin summer, do not with the approach ofwinter give over their occupation. Onlythe method and manner of it has been said, Esquimau-like figures. For Hours the Fishermen stay at their Posts might indicate an arctic fishermen are the human element of the winter, and with them the dogsmight almost be included, they are somuch a part of the life and winter fishing, however, is rathera by-product, as it were. In follow-ing it the fishermen only work up so much waste material, employing useless fisheries of the Great Lakes existas a summer business—and something ofa business, too. Over six millions of dol-lars are invested in it. Over a hundredand thirty millions of pounds of fish havebeen caught in a season. Over two mil-lion dollars has been the value of the catch. The fishing in the winter hasnothing the same proportion. Still, froma large lake port in the dead of winterfrom five hundred to a thousand menmay go out in a day. The occupation is arduous enough, andnot to be followed without hardship, and 916 HAKPEKS MONTHLY MAGAZ
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