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The Grand Haven Tribune
Thursday, 8 May, 1913

         Famous Old Schooner Sold
         
         The sale of the pioneer Great Lakes schooner LYMAN M. DAVIS
       to Capt. Colin Graham, representing Graham Bros. of Kincardine,
       Ont., comes coincident with the final chapter in the passing of
       the last of Muskegon's great lumber mills. The property of the
       Thayer Lumber company is now being dismantled and the machinery
       shipped to Grand Rapids. Stacks and burners are also shortly
       to be torn down.
       
         The dismantling of the Thayer mill, however, is causing not
       half the comment among lumbermen and sailors that the sale of
       the schooner DAVIS is. The boast that the LYMAN M. DAVIS can
       outsail any freight carrying vessel on the Great Lakes has
       long been a source of pride to local sailors. In the 40 years
       of voyaging, loaded or light, no sailing vessel has ever shown
       its heels to the staunch little craft.
       
         With a favorable wind the DAVIS has made 15 miles an hour,
       while in a fair breeze she averages 12 to 13. Once she made
       the run from Chicago to Muskegon with a cargo of lumber in
       eight hours. That record still holds. When the weather was
       good the DAVIS frequently made three trips a week from Muske-
       gon to Chicago or Milwaukee with from 250,000 to 300,000
       feet of lumber aboard.
       
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