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530 MONUMENT ON BOIS BLANC. The Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co. has erected a monument on Bois Blanc Island from designs made by Walter E. Campbell, presi- dent of the company. The monument is located on the Amherstburg side of the island in plain sight of passing "steamers. It is composed of concrete, e SAILOR'S IsLAND. stone and iron and has an elevation of about 35 ft. At the base there is a fender wale and guard iron repro- duced in concrete. Six feet . above this is the main rail and 12 in. above the main rail is the monkey rail. On the side towards the river is an iron hawse pipe out of which the big chain leads to the large anchor on top. On each side of the hawse pipe and also on the ends of the base are full sized iron chocks molded into the concrete. On the shore side is a modern patent anchor drawn up into position, as it would be in the bow of a steamer. An iron chock is placed on each side of this anchor. The large anchor sur- mounting the whole is a relic of the past. It is 10 ft. from fluke to fluke with 16 ft. of stock and shank. NOVEMBER LAKE LEVELS. The United States Lake Survey re- ports the stages of the Great Lakes for the month of November, 1909, as - follows :-- Feet above tide-water Lakes. New York. ROC UIOM os Fo os oe hg hh kkk 602.25 Mivemigan-HUtOn 7 6... oes ee eel css 580.13 OS es lee ele nc ke 571.60 Ontario 245.35 Lake Superior is 0.06 foot lower than last month, 0.02 foot higher than a year ago, 0.73 foot below the aver- age stage of November, of the last 10 years, 1.26 foot below the high stage of November, 1909, and 0.59 foot above the low stage of November, 1892 It MonuMENT on' Bors. BLANC TAE MaRINE RoVIEW will probably fall about 0.3 foot in De- cember. Lakes Michigan and Huron are 0.25 foot lower than last month, 0.23 foot lower than a year ago, 0.41 foot below the average stage of November of the last ten years, 2.67 feet below the high stage of November, 1885, and 0.95 foot above the low stage of November, 1895. They will prob- ably fall about 0.2 foot in December. Lake Erie is 0.19 foot lower than last month, 0.11 foot lower than a year ago, 0.24 foot below the average stage of November of the last ten years, 1.98 feet below the high stage of November, 1885, and 0.90 foot above the low stage of November, 1895. It will probably fall about 0.1 foot in December. Lake Ontario is 0.49 foot lower than last month, 0.57 foot lower than a year ago, 0.04 foot below the aver- age stage of November of the last ten years, 1.34 feet below the high stage of November, 1883, and 1.94 foot above the low stage of November, 1895. It will. probably fall about 0.1 foot in December. | FACTS ABOUT A WATERWAY. A publication that reflects credit upon all connected with it ts the report of the Georgian Bay ship canal survey, which has recently been issued in: its entirety. The survey itself has been described by contemporary engineers as perhaps the most complete of any ever made of so extensive a project. The report in its printed form is in keep- ing with the excellence of the engin- eering feat of which it. forms the rec- ord. Some .idea of its. completeness may be formed from the fact that be- sides the report proper, which consists of over 600 pages of admiralty com-. piled letter press, there are separately bound, 56 plates covering every detail of the survey, and a volume of 24 half tone reproductions of photographic views, illustrating the various points of scientific and scenic interest along the route, The main features of the survey, in- cluding the recommendations and _ tech- nical testimony of the engineers, have been dealt with in the press from time to time. But the following data, synop- sized from the report of the chief en- gineer, are worth remembering: A 22-ft. waterway from Montreal to Georgian Bay will cost $100,000,000, It can be built in ten years. Its length would be 440 miles, of which 346 miles are of navigable river and lake. December, 1909 There are only 28 miles of canal to be excavated and 66 miles of chan- nel to be dredged. Its construction with a storage sys- tem, as planned, would render available a reliable water power supply of 1,000,- 000 horsepower. It would save a day and a half in the voyage from the head of lake navi- gation to Montreal, as compared with the existing St. Lawrence route. From Fort William to Liverpool, via the Georgian Bay canal route, the dis- tance is 4,123, which is 282 miles short- *er than by the present Canadian route, and 806 miles shorter than via the American. water route. The canal would be open to navigation 211 days in the year. Practically slack water navigation will obtain throughout the entire route. The rise from Montreal' harbor to the summit, 659 ft, can be overcome by 23: locks, -gangine .. from: 5: ft toc: 50) ft: in lift; the descent of 98 ft. from the summit to Georgian Bay can be made by four locks of from 21 to 29 ft. lift-- 27 locks in all, connecting 23 navigable pool levels. The waterway would be entirely in Canadian territory, far removed from the boundary and independent of in- ternational waters. TRADE NOTES. P. .. Delany ..& .Co., «marine. boiler manufacturers of Newburgh, N. Y., have recently closed contract for two large Scotch marine boilers, to be installed in a new ferryboat for the Ramsdell estate. This ferryboat is run between Newburgh and_ Fish- kill-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. During November the -Welin Davit and Lane & DeGroot Co. 17 Bat- tery place, New York, booked orders for 48 lifeboats, the majority of them being 24 ft. in length and upwards, and also for a number of rafts, life preservers, launches and power dories. The company also recently booked several orders for equipment of Wel- in quadrant - davits, including the new auxiliary steam yacht Aloha, building for Commodore Arthur Cur- tis James, of the New York Yacht Club, at the yard of the Fore River Ship Building <Co+ the passenger steamer Alabama, building' for the Goodrich line at the Manitowoc Dry Dock Co's yard: the passenger and freight steamer building for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. at the American Steel Co.'s yard, and the ocean-going tug building for the Lackawanna railway at the Staten Island Ship Building Co.'s yard. EE eee ee ee Ne ee