Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-06-09
mARINE NEWS.
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June lst-PrOp. Annie Smith, Mureh, 10
tons iron ore, L Anse; Schr. Ishpeming Port
er, 715 tons iron ore, Escanaba; Schr. Orphan
Boy, Beckett. 6SI tons iron ore, Eseanaba: Sehr
Rush, Flett. 40 brls. salt, BufalO; Schr. c. P.
Breed, Young, $40 tons iron ore, Marquette:
June 2nd-Schr. Trenton, Cassady, light
Cleveland; Tug Relief, light. Buffalo
June 3rd-Vienna, Brown, 936 tons iron ore
IAnse; Sehr. Verona, Mills, fI20 tons iron
ore. L'Anse.
light, Cleveland; Schr. E. p. Beals, Collins
light, Bniialo; sehr. May Gulbery, Baker,
June eth-schr. frankie Wilcox. Smell.
light, Bufialo; Schf. A. Conklin, DOran, 500
m, shingles, Saginaw; Schr. NJ. j. Wilcox,
Miner, 6ls tons iron ore, Escanaba; Schr.
Senator Blood, light. Cleveland,
June 7th-Schr. Three Brothers, Porter, $50
tons iron ore, Marquette.
CLEARED. -. -
June 1st-Prop. o. Townsend, Kelly. light,
Marquette; schr. Ed. Kelly, Cummings, light,
June 2nd.-schr. Rush, Flett, 5sm slaves,
Buffalo
June Srd-Prop. Annie Smith, Murch, light,
Erie; Schr. Trenton, Cassady, 800 tons coal,
Detroit; schr. Farewell, Kelley, 4S7 tons coal,
doront9 rS % ! Scnr: Ishpsming, Porter, 400 tons
June 5th-Schr E. P. Beals, Collins.
572 tons coal, Buffalo; Schr. C. G. Breed,
Ycung, light, Marquette; Sehr. Lewis Wells.
Berutson, 1852 tons coal, Toronto.
June 9Th Sehr. frankie Wilcox, Smell,
800 tons coal. Detroit; Schr; Senator Blood.
Boy, Beckett, 65f tons coal, Milwaukee.
June 7th-Schr. Three Brothers, Porter,
light Marquette.
Notwithstanding the loud cry of hard
times, there is more business being done at
Ashtabula Harhor at the present, than at
any previous time. A gentleman from
Cleveland, largely engaged in the coal and
iron ore business at that city, said the 9th
er day, that there was now more coal and
ore being handled at this port than in
either Cleveland or Erie. This is a hard
pill for Cleveland to swallow, but it will
have to go down, if it does choke her.
Preparations are being made on the L. S.
& NJ. S. docks for handling ore, when the
business viii be greatly increased. Cleve
land used to boast of her harbor, its great
depth of water, ETC., and compare it with
Ashtabula harbor; but now the shoe is on
the other foot. We have uniform depth
of seventeen feet, and ample doekage,
while the larger class of vessels stick IN the
mud there and come to this port with their
large cargoes. The day is not far distant
when the harbor viii be made a uniform
width Of $50 feet, and the proposed cut at
Plum Point be commenced, which will not
only add greatly to the appearance of the
river, but VIII make it more easy to get in
and ont OF.
This is the way the Cleveland Leader
mourns over her loss of business, which
nowcomes to Ashtabula Harbor:
The prospects for better times are no
more fattsring than they were a week ago.
and, if that were possible, they might be
rated worse. Day after day the same old
story is told along the docks, of nothing
to do, while the general appearance Of
things does not in the least belle the state
ment, Ohe year ago, where all was hustle
and activity, nothing is being done. There
is no coal to ship, and but very little ore is
arriving, judging from the statement of
one gentleman, who said, yesterday, 81
never saw matters look more gloomy; no,
not even in the dark days Of 81" No
charters were reported Of any kind.
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