Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-06-29

THE RIVER.

lowstone-.List Of Steamers Plying
to and from Bismarck.-C0ndi-
tion Of the River, &c.
ARRIVALS.
Red Cloud, Fort BeRton.
Silver City, Fort Benton.
Silver Lake, Sioux City.
DEPARTED.
E.H Durfee, Benton.
Gen. Sherman, Tongue River.
BOATS ADVERTISED TO LEAVE.
Red Cloud, Fort Benton.
Silve1LAke Yellowstone.
Weaver, Yellowstone.
Victory, Yellowstone.
The Victory and Weaver are loading
for the Yellowstone, and will leave to-
night.
The Silver Lake arrived this morning
and is loading for the Yellowstone, and
will leave tomorrow.
The Red Cloud arrived from Ft. Ben
ton as is stated elsewhere, and is loading
for Benton. She brought down very
fine trip-the best of the season.
The Silver City returned foR Benton
yesterday, and is loading for the Yellow-
stone. She is an elegant boat and is do
ing successful work.
The Victory will take one barge from
Bismarck and will pick up the barge left
by the Savanna a few miles above Bis
marck.
The Sherman left this morning for the
Yellowstone, with Captain Charles A.
Wiseman in charge. The Sherman Is an
elegant boat, and Captain Wiseman is an
accomplished officer.
Captain ]. P. Clark is improving rap
idly, and will be able to take to the river
again next week.
Captain A. Carl Cox, of the steamer
Union, has gone to St. Louis, being
called away by the death Of an only
Captain Ed. Mcguire, Of the U. S. En-
gineer Corps, and party of fifteen men
leave tonight with the necessary outfit
for the purpose of improving the Yellow
stone. Captain Mcguire also has charge
of the Improvements at Dauphin's Rap
ids. -
The r1ver is falling slightly, but the
Silver City, which left Fort Benton on
Sunday, reports tie river rising At that
point, and that there is an abundance
of snow still in the mountains, (which
will carry the high water well into July.
She reports five feet of water in the
Yellowstone, and the same causes
which produce a rise in the Missouri is,
of course, operating on that river in
favor of the boating interests.
A. list of the boats operating on the
Missouri river, plying to and from Bis
marck, is given below. The Coulson
Benton and Baker lines, Capt. D.. w.
Maratta, Superintendent, have the
following: E. H..tDurfse, Josephine,
Key West, Far West, Western, Gen.
Meade, Peninah, Fontenelle, John n.
Chambers, Yellowstone, Bigl Horn,
Rosebud, Silver Lake, Benton and Red
Cloud
The Yellowstone Transportlon Com.
pany, Capt. John II. Reaney, agent,
have the following: Ashland, Arkan.
sas, B. F. Weaver, Alex. Kendall, Fan
chen! !Osceola, Florence Meyer, Jas. E.
Rankin, j. G. Fletcher, Savanna, Tidal
Wave and Victory,-12-and several
others.
Terry's Contract Line, Capt. 81. Sill.
yer, agent, has the Silver City, Kate
Kinney, r. W. Dugan, G. K. Peck and
Nellie Peck,-5.
The Kountz line, Capt. Jas. A. EN-.
mons, agent, has the Gen. Custer and
Katie P Kountz.
The Government steamer General
Sherman, Munger's Denver and Nc
Lean & Macnider's Union make the
SO steamboats, operating on the Missou>
ri river to and from Bismarck. Il.
The steamer Red Cloud left Fort
Benton June Oath, at II a. M, with
E225 tons of freight, twenty passengers
Co. B, 7th infantry, for Dauphin's
Rapids. At the time she left the Katie
P. Kountz was in port. Shegmet the
Josephine 20 miles below. the mouth OF
the Msrias; on the 25th She met. the
Gen. Custer ten miles aboveCow Island;
on the 26th the Fannie Tatum below
Poplar river; on the 9th the Fanchon
ten miles below Buford, and the Far
West just Behind, the Mead at Scott's;
the Fontenelle below and the Dugan at
the Slides, the Nellie Peck at Little
Missouri !; on the 26th the Durfee. at
Berthold.3 Arrived At Bismarck at III
q. I'm. or1sthe 28th. + S;sS E'tz Z
-. MANIFEST OF STEAMER RED CLOUD.
Fort Benton to Bismarck, June %, 1S17.-Con-
signed to Northern Pacific &. r.:
MIR M Barrett, sedalia, Mo, box mdse; Mrs
boyd, Liverpool, England, bale furs; N Per! ms
Bryon, Ohio, bale furs; 81 Richison, Ottowa,
Canada, bale bear SKINS; Stinson and Frechette,
Montreal, Canada, bale bear skins and L ches.
furs; Pope. Cole Co, Baltimore, 161 bags or e;
Harding, Gey 4 Dewey, Boston, 81 bales wool; y s
Brooks & Co, St Louis, 702 dry hides; J Baker &
Co, St Louis 2166 bales buffalo robes and skins; Geo
Baker, St Louis, 90 bales buffalo robes and skins
Claxton 500. Montreal, $50 buffalo robes. :
The Fort Benton Record says "The
good folks ofBenton had heard so much
about the steamer Red Cloud, since her
purchase by Mr.. j. H. Conrad, that
every one expected she would prove to
be an unusallT fine craft; but we ven
ture to say few of the residents of our
little burg were prepared to believe