Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-01-21

country, has called attention to tn 1
subject in an appropriate manner
The only relief that now seems pos
siblt is in the opening of water lines
of communication between The Mis-
issippi and the seaboard The Green
Bay and Mississippi Canal Company
has accepted the award of the hoard
OF arbitrstors authorized by Con.
gress, and the government is now in
the full possession of that work. To
make it effective. it will require to be
enlarged and improved, aud Con-
gress no doubt will make the neces-
sary appropriations the present win.
ter.
The government has been engag.
ed the past season in improving the
channel of the Wisconsin river, and
| am Informed, with great success
When this line is completed, as il
should be,so that the large Mssissip
pi steamers can pass from the Missis.
sippi TO Green Bay, the annual 50, :
ing to the producers of Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Iowa, will count up
many millions of dollars, and, with
tht complet on of ship Canal
around the Falls of Niagara, il il
safe to say that one. nalf of the sum
now last between the producer and
consumer by the excessive cost OF
transportation, will DO saved and |
respec fully recommend that you
memorialize Congress upon this sub
ject.
STURGEON BAY SHIP CANAL.
An important work is now in pro-
gress, intended to cOnRect Green
Bay with Lake Michigan, through
Sturgeon Bay, thus avoiding the ne
cessity OF doubling the peninsuls
and the hazardous passage through
Deaths DOOR," and shortening the
distance by water from the city OF
Green Bay to Milwaukee and Cnica-
20 about $50 miles. .urgeon Bay
Is beautiful inlet from Green Bay
penetrating the peninsula about s
miles, and 10 within one aud hall
miles of lake Michigan. 1t has q
depth of water almost to its head
sufficient to foat the largest steam
ers on the lakes. The process of cut
ting the canal has been prosecuted
with energy the past season, and
about one-iourth of the work is esti
mated as having been already been
accomplished, aud the company ex
pect 10 have the whole complete q
during the next season When com
pleted the necessity for q harbor al
the mouth of the canal on Lake
Michigan will be apparent. There
being no good bar Dor of refuge be
'waen Mnniinw~~ ~ad tho h>sad Vi
the ? sasula, distance OF about
100 n. lies, and as this will become
the great highway for the great AND
gro wing commerce Of Green Bay, the
construction of a good harbor here
will no doubt be al once undertake Ell
by the government.
HARB iR OF SUPERIOR
The Legislature OF 1871 appropria
ted the sum of S. 900 and the las
Legislature the sum of $4,000, TO
the protection of the harbor of SUI
perior. OF those sumo, 81 839 SO wa,
expended by my predecessor. anC
81 LOG so by me, of which last named
sum 50 802.82 was expended for co.
gineerlug services.
For the purpose of compromising
this subject, it ID proper to max,
some explanations.
The harbor of Superior is the on
ly natural harbor upon Lake Supe-
rior west of Bay field, o distance o.
fifty miles. l cannot better describ,
it than in the language of Col. J: b
Wheeler, of the U. s. Engineer Corps
in his report Of the Chief Engineer
of the Army. (See Executive docu-
ments 1868 part 2, pages so and 81
He says thai "this hsrbor is situated
at the western extremity of Lake
Superior, in the Bay of Superior
which is about six miles In lengit
aud one mile in width, and is separ'
ated fir I'm the head of the lake by /,
long narrow spit extending from th'
bluffs of the Minnesota shore, 10 a di
rect line to the entrance of the har
Dor, nearly seven miles. This rem
ders the Bay of Superior q safe bar
Dor in all winds. The channel of th,
st. Louis river runs diagonally an(
nearly in straight line across til,
Bay from the mouth of the Bay o
ST. Louis to the harbor entry, which
is the proper mouth of the ST. LOui
river. This channel has a width o
about 800 feet, aud depth Of from
IA to 80 feet. The Bay of Superio
is the most important harbor OF
Lake Superior, and one of the mos
important on the great chain of lake
with no point within so miles, wher
a harbor can be obtained"
10 1920, Gen. Lewis Cass. unde
Instructions from the q ). Govern
ment. organized an expedition t,
the head waters OF the Mlssissipp
river, and in July of that year reach
ed the mouth of the St. L ,uis river
Henry r SchoocrafL was attached
to that expedition. and ia his nara
tive says, "tne western termination
of the lake in the great by of Fon,
du Lac, denotes double or marke,
shore. which appears TO have beef
formed of pebbles and sand driver
up BY the tempest. at the distance o
a mile or two outside of the origina
shore. The results is shown by al
elongated piece of water resembling
q lake, which receives at the nortl
the St. Louis river, aud 'Agohe. o.
left hand river. at it's southern ex
treRry. The St. Louis river dis
charges large volume Of wster, an
il destined hereafter to be port o
entry for Lake Superior"
10 1923. Capt. Bayfield,, of tn
British photographic service, sur
veyed this harbor for the BIRTHS
Government, and his chart, wit
elaborate soundings, was found to b
as'onishingly accurate, by the lat
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