Show A bad place for when a vessel sinks in the channel through lake george flats near saulli st marie there is plenty 0 trouble the value of the vessels delayed by a wreck there recently ia estimated at and that of their cargoes at at one time seventy lake beeam vessels were anchored on the east side of the blockade and sixty on the west side and a new channel had to be cut through the flats to allow them to continue their ways four dredges worked day and night to make a channel feet in length 60 in width aad 50 in depth it is said that the onla way to prevent accidents like that which caused the wreck is to limit the speed of vessels in the channel there waa tha sama trouble at the st glair flats until mon were stationed at the ends of the channel to time the vessels new york sun |