ANNUAL REPORT—COMMERCE. 
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by tbe addition of the splendid screw steamer, Lac La Belle' 
1,150 tons, custom house measurement, now being supplied 
with a new cabin and fitted out in palatial style to take the 
place of the steamship Detroit^ in the Detroit and Milwaukee 
Eailway Line, in connection with the fine steamer Ironsides. 
Both of these are fast steamers, capable of making 15 to 18 
miles an hour, and accomplishing the transit of the lake in 
4 1-2 to 5 1-5 hours, according to the state of the weather. 
The other boats belonging to the company, the Manistee^ Mes¬ 
senger^ Bertschy and Barher^ will ply between this city and the 
east shore ports north of Grand Haven, Muskegon, Whitehall, 
Pentwater, Ludington, Manistee, Glen Arbor and Traverse 
City. 
“ The following will show the tonnage (new measurement) of 
each of the steamers now composing the lines of the Engle- 
mann Transportation Company : 
Lac La Belle, tonnage 
Manistee ........do 
Bertschy.do 
Ironsides.do 
Messenger.do 
Barber.do 
1,160 
661 
467 
1,124 
444 
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PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS CENTERING AT GREEN BAY. 
Every careful observer of the geographical features of Wis¬ 
consin must have been struck with the nearness of approach, 
at the city of Portage, of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, 
which, with the most trifling help of man, form an uninter¬ 
rupted line of water communication between lake Michigan 
and the Mississippi river. The Don and Volga present the 
nearest resemblance to this peculiarity ; but those two great 
rivers are not only a considerable distance apart at the place 
of nearest approach, but are separated by a mountain range, 
the piercing of which would be a most herculean task. 
There is, in fact, no parallel in the geography of the globe 
to these two rivers of Wisconsin, each of which sweeps far 
