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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

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        The Swain Wrecking Company operates the wrecking tug Favorite,
     which carries five steam pumps and twelve hydraulic jacks, capable of
     lifting from one to two hundred tons each, together with other wreck-
     ing implements and paraphernalia usually carried on such boats.
        The company has done some remarkable work during the time it has
     been in existence, one of the most extensive jobs being on the Neosho,
     wrecked off Spectacle Reef in the fall of 1894. The vessel was badly
     damaged, and it cost some $12,000 to release her, the repairs to the
     boat afterward costing over $50,000.
        The Alva, which sunk during a collision on the river Sault Ste.
     Marie, was raised after holes were drilled in her side by means
     of electric drills, and patches put on by a diver, and she was pumped
     out.
        The Choctaw, a boat which was sunk in same river in May, 1896, in a
     collision with the L. C. Waldo, was treated in the same way and
     raised.
        During 1897 the company released the Henry Chisholm, one of the
     boats sunk in a collision off Grosse Pointe, and run aground near the
     twenty-foot channel.
        The officers of the company for 1898 were L. C. WALDO, president;
     JOHN S. QUINN, vice-president; A. A. PARKER, secretary and general
     manager; J. W. MILLEN, treasurer.  A general wrecking business is
     carried on, and during the season the Favorite and her well-drilled
     crew are generally employed.
        The steel steamer Alva, light, bound for Straits, and running full
     speed, ran on South Manitou island in a fog, and had to raised with
     jacks eighty-four times to release her, costing about $10,000.

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