Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1877-04-14
BISMARCK AND BEYOND.

Coulson's Missouri River Line OF
STEAMERS Ready for Business-Great
Pranarations for an Immense Trade
Some Interesting Items OF News
About the Great Northwestern
TRANSFORMATION Route.
st. Paul Pioneer-Press.
The tide of trade and travel has turned
towards the West and Northwest, and the
stream of business in that direction is dali
ly assuming larger proportions. st. Paul,
being one of the principal commercial en-
trepots for the region of country to which
many thousands Of the unemployed labo-
rers of the east are daily focking, is likely
soon to reap considerable advantage from
this new field of enterprise. By reference
to the advertisement OF the Northern Pa
cifc railway it will be seen that daily
trains en- that road will run through to
Bismarck, with sleeping cars attached,
and that the arrangements are completed
for accommodating the gold seekers and
all others who are seeking the shortest
and best route to the Black Hills, or to
Montana, and all other places on the Up
per Missouri. kunping in connection
with the Northern Pacific is
ScoULsoN'S LINE OF MISSOURI RIVER
' PACKETS,
a notice of which also appears elsewhere
in this paper. Captain u. w. Maratta,
the superintendent of this line of steam
ers. reached s.. Paul yesterday from
Yankton, from whom the interesting facts
are cleaned wh:c.l follow below.
Coulson's Missouri River Iransporta-
ton Company will at once enter upon its
duties, seven steamers being ready to take
their places in the line. These boats will
run from Bismarck to Fort Benton, and
will form, with the Northern Pacific, a
through freight and passengei line to
Montana. The steamer Josephine, OF
this line, left Yankton on Sunday for the
mouth of Tongue river, loaded with sup
plies for that locality. She also had on
board for Fort Pierre two hundred pas $
engers, and one hundred and twenty-five
tons of freight, destined for the Black
Hills. The Josephine will leave Bismarck
on Wednesday OF next week, the 18th, for
4 Tongue river, and military officers and
others will avail themselves of the oPPor-
tunity for making speedy trip to that
locality After making this special trip
she will run upon the Missouri river as
regular packet.
The steamer General Meade left Yank-
ton on Friday last tor Cheyenne, loadec
with Indian goods. after discharging
which she will take her place in the line.
On Friday next the steamer Key West
will leave Yankton for Fort Benton di-
rect. -. q ---...'t I......st IL. ..-...:.
The Missouri River Transportation Co.
will run a line ofsteamers during the sea-
son between Yankton and Bismarck, and
also between Bismarck and Fort Benton,
Captain Maratta says that the prospects
for successful and heavy business this
summer are excellent. The rush to the
Black Hills is unpr precedented, and thous-
ands of passengers are already seeking 4
route to the Hills from points on the Mis-
sour, below Bismarck. In addition to this
all the freighting business between the
East and Montana will be transacted over
Coulson's line of steamers and the North
ern Pacific railroad. The ice has all run
out of the Missouri, and Captain Maratta
will leave for Bismarck tomorrow morn
ing, where he will remain during the
summer to superintend the business Of
Coulson's Missouri River Transportation
Company. The Captain has many busi-
ness friends in St. Paul who will be glad
to avail themselves of the transportation
facilities which he can afford them in
dealing with the multitudes of people
who are seeking homes among the noun
tains and valleys of the west and north
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