630 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



D— CHARACTER OF THE STREAMS OX THE NORTHERN 

 SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGxVN. 



By J. F. Ingalls. 



Waukeg^an, III., August 23, 1872. 

 Dear Sir : I have gathered some informatiou in regard to the rivers 

 emptying into Green Bay, and also of soaie of those which empty into 

 Little and Big Bays de Noquet and Lake Michigan. Some of them 

 were visited by myself, and others by reliable parties, who gave me the 

 information. I think the following report is essentially correct. 



PENSAUKEE RIVER, 



The length, following the coarse of the river, is seventy-five miles ; it 

 is rapid, clear, and comparatively cold, with sandy and gravelly bottom, 

 and in some places rocky ; the banks are high, except near the mouth 

 where there are marshes; the depth, except near the mouth, is from two 

 to three feet. There is one water-power mill about one mile from the 

 mouth. 



OCONTO RIVER. 



This river has a length of about one hundred miles. There are marshy 

 shores extending up the stream for about three miles from the mouth ; 

 it is comparatively dead water for about one mile from the mouth, which 

 has a width of about 150 feet. Above the marshy region is a considera- 

 ble stretch of the river, having an average depth of 6 feet; farther up 

 are rapids and shoals, with gravelly bottoms, the water being clear and 

 cold. There are seven steam-mills at the mouth ; about twenty miles 

 up the river is a mill-dam, which does not reach entirely across; and 

 above this, there are a few driving-dams, which are open except in the 

 spring. 



PESHTIGO RIVER. 



The length is about seventy-five miles ; its shores are marshy at the 

 mouth, where it has a width of about one hundred and fifty feet. Above 

 the marsh are high wooded banks, and the river is clear and cool, with 

 sandy and gravelly bottom and frequent rapids. There is one steam- 

 mill at the mouth, and one water-mill with a dam eighteen miles above 

 at Peshtigo Village. 



MENOMONEE RIVER. 



The length of this river, measuring either of its branches, is about 

 one hundred and fifty miles. One and one-half miles from the mouth 

 are rapids, and in the shoals are placed three log-dams, with open chutes 

 at the sides for the passage of logs. Thirty miles up the river is Grand 

 Rapids, with thirty feet fall in two miles. Fifty miles above these are 

 the White Rapids; twelve miles above the latter are the Pemina 

 Falls, with a nearly perpendicular descent of thirty feet. Twenty 

 miles above these are the Sturgeon Falls, with a descent of forty 



