Photo by Radium Studio, Muskegon.

lake and Its entrance. Pentwater lake, although not as large as Mus- kegon lake, has some advantage over Muskegon lake.
For years the town has fought to keep its harbor open. It was about seven years ago that the boat line., ceased operations here, and only t he smaller fishing craft now enter the harbor. It requires about S2.000 a year to keep the channel dredged of the sand that flows In and. of course, an expense of $2.000 is too great for the town to shoulder, year after year.
Ten years ago the Northern Michigan Transit Company operated boats into Pentwater and later a three year contract was made with the Hill steamship company of Milwaukee. During that time arrangements were made for another boat line and the result was that competition drove them both out and no more did the large boat, glide through the channel and into Pentwater lake.
But Pentwater still has hopes, even though the channel is yearly adding more sand and, the many docks are going to ruin. It has 

hopes that some day boat lines will come into the harbor. once more.
A government life saving station is still located at the mouth of the 

channel.

PENTWATER harbor, in a
'sense, is the third "white elephant" of the town. Much money
has been spent in deepening thee channel and keeping it open for
boats of deep draught, 'and it is known as one of the safest and best harbors of the great lakes. But its greatness at present lies almost wholly in its reputation—not at all in its volume of business.
Pentwater harbor is a dream that has been shattered for the present, although it is difficult to believe that the day will not yet come when it will teem with commerce.
So far as the United States government is concerned, its Pentwater project has been abandoned, and the harbor facilities are being allowed slowly to go ruin. The government engineers have reported adversely to proposals of further development or maintenance and the result is that no more federal appropriations are available for the port. Abandonment, of course, means ruin,

Pentwater lake, however, is xsi wonderful .natural harbor with anh entirely practical entrance. This entrance. or the channel as it is known. is but a quarter of a mile in length. The channel and harbor considerably. resemble Muskegon