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LAKE MICHIGAN. 187 The Shore from Twin River point to Ahnepee is generally bold, and can be approached at any place to within one-half to five-eighths of a mile. About 13 miles 8. 8. E. from the dock at Dean's, and nearly half a mile from shore, there is a shoal with only 3 feet of water on it. : There is a 6-foot spot about 1,000 feet N. E. from the outer end of the north harbor pier at Kewaunee. . Ahnepee Pierhead Beacon-Light.--A fixed red light, 5th order, vis- ible 84 miles. White, open frame tower, square in plan, upper part enclosed. Near the outer end of north pier, at the entrance to Ahnepee harbor. The focal plane is 87 feet above the lake level. | | Ahnepee Pierhead Range Light.--<A_ fixed red lens-lantern range light, visible 2 to 8 miles in clear weather. On a post 22 feet high on the outer end of the north pier. The light, with the Pierhead beacon-light. forms a range showing the direction of the pier and the course for entering the harbor. <A Life- Saving Station has been established in this harbor. ae Harbor Improvement.--The first project was for the formation of a | ¥. small harbor connecting with the lake by a channel, to be formed by the construc- | tion of two piers 100 feet apart. Also for blasting and dredging rock from the river bed. The original project was modified so that in extending the piers they were placed 50 feet further from the center line of the channel than the old piers, making the channel at the entrance 200 feet wide, narrowing to 100 feet. Direction of piers, S. E. by E. Along the shore from Ahnepee to within 2 miles of Sturgeon | Bay Ship-canal, shoal water extends from three-quarters to 14 miles from a shore. There is a shoal 1$ miles, E. 4 N. of the piers at Ahnepee, with ) ae 17 feet of water on it; another EK. N. E. 4 N., half a mile from the outer as end of the piers and one-quarter of a mile from shore, with 12 feet of Pic water over it. From 2 to 4 miles south of the piers at Sturgeon Bay Re Ship-canal there are several shoal spots 14 miles from shore, with from ne he 18 to 15 feet of water over them. : ee STURGEON BAY CANAL PIERHEAD LIGHT.--A be fixed red light, 6th order, visible 84 miles. White, open frame-work Ed tower, 29 feet high. On the end of the north pier, at the entrance to . - Harbor of Refuge and Sturgeon Bay Ship-canal. During thick and vet ho foggy weather there is sounded a 10-inch steam-whistle, giving blasts of aoe 5 seconds' duration at intervals of 25 seconds. Fog signals adjoining light-house on north pier. Point Betsey light, E. 8 8., 53 miles. South ea Fox Island light, N. E. by E. 3 E., 83 miles. In passing through Stur- Py geon bay from the eastward, black buoys will be left on the starboard ba hand and red buoys to port. | Harbor of Refuge at the Entrance of Sturgeon Bay Ship-canal.--The harbor works consist of two piers 1,200 feet long, 850 teet apart at the shore line, and 235 feet apart at the outer ends, inclosing a basin of 10 acres, at the lake entrance to the canal. Beyond the piers are two detached piers, each 150 feet long and 335 feet between their outer ends, which are in 18 feet of water. Hach detached pier is connected to the main pier by a double row of fender piling. Depth of water, last September, there was 16 feet at the entrance, thence to the canal on the center line between the piers there was adepth of 154 ; to 16 feet for a width of 75 feet. In the southwest corner of the basin, a 100 feet from the channel leading into the canal, there are rocks with only 114 feet of water over them. Entering the harbor steer straight in between the piers and into the canal N. W.4 W. Life Saving Station on eastern entrance of canal, north end. White Fish Point.--Red spar buoy, in17 feet of water. Marks tS the end of the shoal off the point. From White Fish point to Sturgeon