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NAVIGATING DETROIT RIVER. There is a new name for the Lime Kiln crossing. of the Lake Carriers' Association has FIG, referred to it as the Hell Gate of the great lakes. During the week Mr. Liv- ingstone and Mr. Goulder have urged upon the war department the necessity of providing rules for navigation -at the crossing and their enforcement by a patrol vessel. The war department has acceded to this request.. The com- mittee of captains, officially known as the Lake Carriers' Auxiliary Commit- tee on Aids to Navigation, have recom- mended that no loaded boats be al- lowed to pass one another between Mamajuda and Bar Point | bound down, passenger boats excepted; but that no downbound passenger boat shall pass another boat going in the same direction inside the stakes be- tween the upper can buoy abreast of Ballard's Reef and the lower end of Bois Blanc Island: This rule is not agreeable to the passenger lines, es- pecially the Detroit & Buffalo line, which maintains an express service be- tween Detro't and Buffalo. A. A. Schantz, general superintend- ent of the Detroit & Buffalo Line, and Capt. Alexander J. McKay, of the De- troit & Cleveland Line, visited Wash- President Livingstone TAE MARINE. REVIEW ington during the week to urge a mod- ification of the proposed rule, limiting the proscribed distance to that part of the river between the lower gas buoy ys Ne q er PAR LAT 178. 'below Ballard's Reef and the head of Bois Blanc Island. The whole matter is being consid- ered by Gen. Alexander McKenzie, FIG, 31 chief of engineers, and Col. Charles .E. L. B. Davis, :district engineer at Detroit, in conjunction with lake ves- sel interests. Undoubtedly the rules will be so defined as not to seriously in- | terfere with the express schedules of the passenger lines. CANADIAN SHIP CHANNEL. ~ That good progress has been made in deepening and widening the ship channel between Montreal and Quebec is shown by the report of the super- intending 'engineer, F, W. Cowie, to EP Golo Gourdeau, deputy minister of marine and fisheries. . The work-reported upon includes the dredging away of a shoal in Montreal harbor, a channel through Lake St. Peter and important work at Cap a la Roche and Cap Charles, where the work will be centralized this season. .The report says in part: "With the depth of 30 ft. completed between Montreal. and Batiscan, that depth is therefore available for 'the whole distance between Montreal and Quebee by waiting for high tide for the division between. Batiscan and Quebec. The announcement of the completion of an available channel for navigation, between Quebec and Mon- treal, of 30: ft. at extreme low water, cannot fail but be of very great im- portance to the trade of Canada. On the opening of the season of naviga- tion of 1907 the gage at Sorel will -be changed and an additional draught of nearly four feet given. Compared with the lowest stage of water in 1906, the- depth would be increased from 26 ft. 10 in; to 30 Th 6 in" 185.