Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Pentwater News Pentwater, Oceana Co., Mich. Friday, June 6, 1873 Volume III, Number 125. By looking in the proper column it will be seen that the Engelmann Line has established their time table, and they have taken consider- able pains to please the people on the East Shore and we think they have succeeded; they certainly have in selecting officers for their boats. All the boats are now in tip-top trim and are making close connections. The new Steward on the MESSENGER, Mr. Kaiser - not William but Fred, has made considerable difference in the appearance of the boat's cabins and everything shines now like a new pin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pentwater News Pentwater, Oceana Co., Mich. Friday, June 13, 1873 Volume III, Number 126. Marine Items The following are the arrivals and departures at this port for the week ending Wednesday, June 11. Arrived. May 29 - Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Mich City 30 - Schr FAWN, Sheboygan Schr MARGARET DALL, Chicago June 2 - Schr C. H. HACKLEY, Kenosha Schr DEFIANCE, St. Joseph 3 - Schr BELOIT, Mich City Schr RADICAL, Mich City Schr G. R. ROBERTS, Chicago Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Mich City Schr PLANET, Grand Haven 4 - Schr GERTRUDE, Chicago Schr NORTH STAR, Chicago Schr FLORENCE, Mich City Schr J. H. STEPHENS, Chicago 7 - Schr ROB ROY, Chicago Schr SILVER CLOUD, Milwaukee Schr NORTH STAR, Mich City Cleared. May 29 - Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Mich City 30 - Schr FAWN, Lincoln Schr MARGARET DALL, Chicago June 2 - Schr C. H. HACKLEY, Chicago 3 - Schr DEFIANCE, Chicago Schr RADICAL, Chicago Schr G. R. ROBERTS, Chicago Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Mich City Schr PLANET, Milwaukee 4 - Schr GERTRUDE, Chicago Schr NORTH STAR, Mich City Schr FLORENCE, Chicago Schr J. H. STEPHENS, Milwaukee 7 - Schr ROB ROY, Chicago Schr SILVER CLOUD, Chicago Schr NORTH STAR, Mich City Also the usual steamers of the Engelmann Line. The steamer METROPOLIS has arrived at Duluth. The schooner CITY OF MANITOWOC ran ashore at Racine, recently, and had to be lightered off. The schooner C. N. JOHNSON of Chicago, came in to Manitowoc last Thursday afternoon with a broken fore- mast, which was replaced by a new one. The schooner CASCADE is ashore on Point au Pellee, and thought to be full of water. On and after Friday, June 20, a fixed red light will be exhibited from the outer end of the south pier at the harbor of Pentwater, Mich. The first sailing vessel to reach Duluth this season was the schooner GOSHAWK, and she came on the fifth day of June. The ices has not yet disappeared from the lake. Wreckers are engaged in recovering the cargo of the schooner SALTILLO, which loaded with railroad iron, sunk in St. Clair river 20 years ago. As the vessel herself was well along in years her hull is doubtless now of little value. The schooner W. D. ALLEN, while being towed through the river at Chicago by the tug UNION, came in contact with the State street bridge, and both the bridge and the vessel were severely injured. Dangel (sic) Ahead. Captains of steamers passing up the St. Clair river with tows are cautioned against approaching too near the Canada side, opposite Hart's dock. By so doing they avoid the danger of coming in contact with two piles which have been driven in 16 feet of water, the tops of the same being within two feet of the surface. The shore from 500 feet below Capt. Neal's dock should be given a good berth until getting well beyond the wreck of the propeller BOSCOBEL. Port Du Mort - Port Du Mort, better known to lake men as Pilot Island, lies at the south entrance to Green Bay. A light is estab- lished on a yellow brick building. To enter this place from Lake Michigan brings the light at five miles distance, in 19 or 20 fathoms of water, to bear from N W by N W to N W 1/2 W, and steer for it until the light bears N 1 1/2 miles distant; then N W */* W five miles into Green Bay. This course will pass south of Plum Island. Strangers should not attempt to pass north of Plum Island. The north- east shores of the Peninsula of Green Bay and Washington Island are fringed with rocky shoals, requiring a vigilant lookout and use of the lead. Beaver Island light bears E by N 1/* N, distant 6* miles. South Fox Island light bears E 1/* N, distant *3 miles. (Transcriber's Note: As frequently happens with old newsprint, the ink has feathered making some numbers illegible. Numbers that could not be read with certainty have been replaced with *) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pentwater News Pentwater, Oceana Co., Mich. Friday, June 20, 1873 Volume III, Number 127. The light house is being built as fast as possible. There are now about 25 men at work. They have a part of the brick on the ground and a load of stone arrived from Chicago a few days ago. Most of the piles are driven. It is superintended by Mr. William Newton, a man who is master of the business, having been in the business many years. He tells me the probable cost will be about $40,000. It will be a great benefit as well as an ornament to this point. Marine Items. The following are the arrivals and departures at this port for the week ending Wednesday, June 11. Arrived. June 14 - Schr G. R. ROBERTS, Chicago 15 - Schr SPRAY, Milwaukee 16 - Schr J. H. STEPHENS, Milwaukee Schr JOSEPHINE, Milwaukee Schr FLORENCE, Chicago 17 - Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Mich City Schr NORTH STAR, Chicago 18 - Schr B. & B., Port Washington Cleared. June 14 - Schr G. R. ROBERTS, Milwaukee 15 - Schr SPRAY, Mich City 16 - Schr J. H. STEPHENS, Milwaukee Schr JOSEPHINE, Racine Schr FLORENCE, Chicago 17 - Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Chicago Schr NORTH STAR, Chicago Schr DANA, Manitowoc 18 - Schr B. & B., Sheboygan Also the usual steamers of the Engelmann Line. The propeller LAKE BREEZE broke her wheel on Friday last, and was towed to Grand Haven for repairs. The vessel that went ashore at Leland last fall, loaded with rail- road iron, will in all probability be raised within a few days. Her cargo has been removed, and landed on south Manitou Island, and the pumps are now at work on her. Joseph Russell, mate of the FRANKFORT, while at the mouth of the Platt river this week, was set upon by a man named Hannibal, on account of some old grudge, and severely cut. Hannibal has a brother in State's prison, and seems to be in a fair way to go there himself. Large Cargo. - The new schooner, HELVETIA carries 1,347 tons of coal on a draught of 12 feet 5 inches of water. Shipments from Racine during the past week, 3 tons hay, 100 bushels oats, and 1 wagon. Depth of Water At Various Ports Of The East Shore. - Manistee averages 8 feet 8 inches; Ludington 8 feet; Pentwater 9 feet 8 inches; Frankfort, in the new channel dredged on the 5th inst. by the barges FRANKFORT and FAYETTE, 13 feet close by the south pier. NEW VESSELS AT MANISTEE. - The steam barge of Crippen & Taylor, at Manistee, will be completed by the middle of August. The dimensions are 150 feet keel, 165 feet over all, beam 25 feet, depth of hold 10 feet. Will have a carrying capicity of 300,000 feet of lumber. Her power will be two engines 16x24 and 12x24, the smaller one being arranged to disconnect, and to be used to hoist timber and freight. Reitz Bro's new scow will be ready by the middle of July. Her dimensions are 125 feet in length, beam 25 feet, depth of hold 8 feet. Carrying capacity, 250,000 feet of lumber. Spectacle Reef, Lake Huron, is a rocky shoal entirely under water and is about seven-eighths of a mile in extent north and south, and one-fourth of a mile east and west, divided by a narrow channel with sixteen feet of water. The least water on the reef is seven feet. The soundings are irregular near the reef, five and twelve fathoms close to it. From the reef to the east end of Bois Blanc the soundings vary from four to twenty-four fathoms - rocky bottom. On the crib recently erected a temporary light has been established. From the southward the light should not be approached nearer than three-fourths of a mile. A ten-inch steam fog whistle will be sounded in thick or foggy weather as follows: A blast of three seconds, then an interval of twelve seconds, then another blast of three seconds, followed by an interval of forty-two seonds, and so on. NOTICE TO MARINERS. (NO. 25 of 1873.) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES. LAKE MICHIGAN - MILWAUKEE. Notice is hereby given that on and after Friday the 20th day of June, 1873, a fixed red light will be exhibited from an open frame- work structure, recently erected on the outer end of the south pier, harbor of Pentwater, Mich. The apparatus is a Fresnel lens, of the 6th order, illuminating 180° of the horizen. The focal plane is ele- vated 33 feet above the level of the lake, which corresponds to a range of visibility of 11 8-10 statute miles. By order of the Light House Board. Joseph Henry, Chairman. Treasury Department. Office Light House Board, Washington, D. C., June 3, 1873. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pentwater News Pentwater, Oceana Co., Mich. Friday, June 27, 1873 Volume III, Number 128. LAKE COMMERCE. Important Statistics of the Magnitude of the Tonnage and Freightage of the Lake Marine. From the Grand Rapids Eagle. It has been said relative to the commerce of the lakes, that more tonnage passes the city of Detroit during the season of navigation than passes any other point on the seaboard on this continent or any other foreign country. From the reports of the custom house it is found that at the close of navigation in 1872, there were registered 5,838 vessels, with a tonnage of 726,105 tons. The increase of ton- nage since the close of navigation for 1872, according to Captain Gyles' report, (Marine Inspector for the port of Cleveland), is 134 steam and sail vessels, with a capacity of 1,000 tons each. Add this to the 726,105 tons in commission in 1872 and it makes a grand total of 180,105 tons. The carrying capacity for this amount of tonnage, allowing two-and- a-half trips per month for vessels during a season of eight months of navigation, would, in round numbers, amount to about 24,000,000 tons. Deduct from this amount 20 per cent, for commerce that does not pass Detroit, but goes to other points, and we have 19,500,000 tons pass- ing that point during the season of navigation. This amount of ton- nage exceeds anything passing any given point on the seaboard of this country or any foreign country so far as known. In addition to the above tonnage by vessels and steam there is equal to 100,000,000 feet of lumber passing by Detroit in rafts, equal to 100,000 tons. What would our country do without our great lakes to move the vast products of the Great West? There would not be railroads enough if quadrupled and double-tracked to move the commerce that passes through them every day and month in the year at this time. And with the growth of the West in the same ratio as the past five years, and a like increase of tonnage on our lakes, which latter equals 20 per cent, yearly, we can see, even in the near future, wonderful develop- ments. It would require to move the commerce of the lakes for eight months by rail, 1,930,000 cars, or 101,000 trains of 20 cars each, or 325 trains of 20 cars each per day for 300 days in the year, which would be the working days, less Sundays and holidays, to move the tonnage of the season of navigation. Neighborhood News - Grand Haven The body of a man was taken out of the river near the foot of Washington street, on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday coroner Gray summoned a jury for an inquest, at which time the following facts were learned: The name of the man was Samuel Geddes, was a single man about 26 years old and a native of Glengarry Scotland. He was wheels- man on the CITY OF FREMONT, and was supposed to have fallen overboard on Saturday the 14th, as he was missed about that time. He was drunk the day he was missed and search made on the supposition that he had been locked up. He has a cousin in Chicago, and his parents live in Scotland. All that was found on his person was a silver watch worth about $10, twenty cents in money, a knife and a few small trinkets. He was on the propeller MESSENGER, six weeks in the ice last winter. The verdict of the jury was accidental drowning. - Herald. - Ludington. The dredge has had the misfortune to lose her crane and scoop, which broke off yesterday, and went to the bottom of the channel. The damage is estimated at not less than $1,000. Marine Items. The following are the arrivals and departures at this port for the week ending Wednesday, June 25. Arrived. June 19 - Schr G. R. ROBERTS, Milwaukee Schr TEAL, Milwaukee Schr PLANET, Milwaukee Schr RADICAL, Mich City 20 - Schr GARIBALDI, Milwaukee Schr J. H. STEPHENS, Milwaukee 21 - Schr JOSEPHINE, Milwaukee Schr FLORENCE, Chicago 23 - Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Chicago Schr NORTH STAR, Chicago Schr KITTY GRANT, Chicago 25 - Schr W. H. CHAPMAN, Milwaukee Cleared. June 19 - Schr G. R. ROBERTS, Milwaukee Schr TEAL, Milwaukee Schr PLANET, Milwaukee Schr RADICAL, Mich City 20 - Schr GARIBALDI, Milwaukee Schr J. H. STEPHENS, Milwaukee 21 - Schr JOSEPHINE, St. Joseph Schr FLORENCE, Chicago 23 - Schr R. J. SKIDMORE, Chicago Schr NORTH STAR, Chicago Schr KITTY GRANT, Mich City 25 - W. H. CHAPMAN, Milwaukee Also the usual steamers of the Engelmann Line. The schooner, NINA BAILEY, built in Pentwater, Mich., by Messrs. Bailey & Smith, took on her first load yesterday. She is a very neat, trim, little craft, of about 35 tons measurement. The schooner SOUVENIR is looking better than ever before, and competent judges pronounce her to be stronger than when first built. She has a new outfit, wire rigging, etc., and is estimated to be worth $7,500. She is painted green and white. Will be launched early next week. Mr. C. M. Page has bought a 1/4 interest in the SOUVENIR for $1,750. The red light on the south pier of Pentwater Harbor has been dis- played since the 20th. The permanent Keeper has not yet arrived, but is expected soon. His name we do not know, but we are informed that he has been Assistant Lighthouse Keeper in Chicago for some time past. Mr. Turner succeeded in hauling the CORLETT entirely out of the water on Tuesday last. She was filled with sand and consequently very heavy, estimates of her weight varying from 300 to 800 tons. She is not seriously damaged, but will be thoroughly rebuilt before she is again launched, having been in active service nearly seven years. Mr. James Corlett, her builder, is in charge of her repairs, and estimates two months work to be necessary for her thorough overhauling. ==========================================================================