Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-19
THE RIVER.

and J B. Keenan, clerk, will leave /;
Yankton to-morrow evening for Fl, Buford
and intermediate points. Col. H. &. Akin,
at the Contract office, upper warehouse, is
icr agent.
The steamer Big horn, from P~ittsburg,
will reach Sioux City tomorrow and Yank-
ton on Thursday. The Big Horn and the
Rosebud are Conlson's new boats, built for
the Upper Missouri river and Yellowstone
river trade and are said to be perfect mod
els Of a correct steamboat.
The new and lively steamer Rosebud,
Mart CoulSon, master, and John A. Dales,
clerk, reached Sioux City today, from
Pittsburgh, and will reach Yankton to-
morrow. She is advertised to leave Yank-
ton for Bismarck and Buford, on Friday,
the 22d inst. Capt. McYay, at the 1st Ma
tional bank, is her agent. This is the Rose
buds first trip.
Charles Blunt, who was sent for ts pilot
the Silver Lake up, arrived last night from
Bismarck, and left to oYcrtake the boat
this morning. He says that five of the Da-
wilson boats are laid up on bars. The
Yellowstone and Missouri are falling rap
idly. When they begin TO go down, they
subside with a rapidity which is liable to
overtake lower river steamboat men unac-
quainted with this peculiar trick of the
western waters.
The Coulson line Of steamboats, are all
busy in this employ of the govern
ment, from Bismarck, and are working
by the Gay. The Du1fee was ordered
up river TO go into government employ
The government is discovering that con.
tractors can not rely on large, lower river
boats to do work on the upper Missouri
a.di Yellowstone. iney were not built iol
the trade, and will fail every time, except
ing during the spring floods.
The steamer G. K. Peck, Andy johnson
master, and j. b. Keenan,, clerk, arrived
this afternoon at two o'clock from Bis
marck, bringing one hundred passengers
= 300 packages of miscellaneous freight 70
Hedges, of Sioux City, and a quantity o
hides, The Peck was one day too late t.
get the large number of discharged sol
q diers at the posts above, and Commodor
Terry, who was on the boat, says they ar
> coming down ia skiffs aud overland. Tn
y Peck left Bismarck Saturday morning, wit
:" les tons Of government goods for Rice
'o She is running in the contract line.
y Sioux City journal: The citizens q
Narrriiliop apd v;o;r;t, ,,a -a.t.,.I- Ia.
ted ever the reported presence of a verita
bic sea-serpent in the river there. The SC
entitic men of the locality, the doctors an
the wiseacres, are giving the terror consiC
's arable attention. The mildest descriptio
of it given by any one who processes Il
ee have seen it, is, that it is twenty feet long
with a colossal head, and magnificent tai
while others report that it is 100 feet Ions
u with two colossal heads, and enough tai
'st to run a story paper a year, We do M
mean TO surmise any unkind thing of We
million people, but we fear there is a Who'll
y sale case Of jim jams up there.
Bismarck Tribune, June 18th: I'll
Benton will leave for Benton on the 15t,
~ She will carry the engineers who go up
look the upper Missouri over with a vie
to determine the work to be done under ii
appropriation for improving the upper Mi
souri,. A large detachment of the NortI
western mounted police will also go up c
d. her. -. The Nellie Peck returned from B
ar. ford Monday evening, and is loading.
The Mead left for the Yellowstone last ev
ming, carrying Gen. Terry and staff to B
se ford, and a handsome Yellowstone trip. =.
he The river is at q stand still, but is still LII
i1Cya11u 1,rt Uha az, N. yIr
Benton, Western and Nellie Peck are
port. The Far West is loading for tt
ity Yellowstone; the Nellie Peck for Bufor
he and the Chambers will com nencs loadin
Ter to morrow for up river. The Foatenel
is past due. and the Kendall, Weaver an
Victory were expected some days ago, BIT
gu will not reach Bismarck for several days.
'ps A Bismarck correspondent of the S
d Louis Times, who is evidently connecte
with the Davidson contract work, writes
Or follows: We are giving the coal on th
III Missouri river a thorough test, and SO far
Wv is doing well it beats wood at SO per cor
ng We have to use it with wood, but the Ye
lowstone coal will make good steam /
en itself. If we have good water till July /,
ny we will have our contract filed witho1
- any trouble. What / caa learn, with
very little work on the rapids the Yello,
stone can be navigated as well as the Upp
oo Ohio river. and it will be from now henc
I'D forth. The barge towing business is Sc
nd tied to our entire satisfaction. The Sava
in ma and two barges started up stream
is Saturday, having on board roo tor
Against a flood, high river and a strol
head wind she made about two miles
hour. AT a medium stage of water 8
,eo will make the same tow So miles an no,
10 Quite a crowd gathered on the levae to S
%. her start. The majority of the crov
.ha would have bet she would go down streal
iii but the majority were very anxious to S
N, her go up stream but am sorry to S
there were some that wanted to see her
down stream (they were steamboatm
IA but they were disappointed. She went
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