Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-03-23
Marine Jottings.

mate on the propeller Men ominee.
-Advices from Sault Ste. Marie state
that the ship canal will open April lst.
The range lights were lighted last
Sunday night for tie first time this sea-
son.
The buoys marking the entrance to
the harbor channel were placed in posi-
ton the first of this week.
"A telegram from Detroit announces
that the Marine CITY will leave that city
next Tuesday evssasg for. Cheboyga'l
and Mackinaw
The steam barge Snook, which passed
up last Friday afternoon. arrived at Chi
cago the first Of this week. She made
the earliest passage through the straits
on record.
Captain Cyrus Sinclair is to command
the tug Crusader this season, and Capt.
John Cotton the Kate Moffatt. Both OF
these gentlemen are we'll and favorably
known in Cheboygan.
The Detroit Evening News says that
Capt Frank Leightoll, Of Port Huron,
is likely to receive the appointment OF
Inspector OF hulls, &c, Uicc John 5. Bots
ford, retired, and speaks of him as a gen
tleman. good navigator, an intelligent,
honest man. AMI first-rate shipbuildcr.
having built some of the finest vessels
now aflOat on the western waters.
Among the disappointed applicants for
the position were Capt. p. j. Ralph. OF
Detroit, and Hon. John Hibbard, of Port
Huron.
The usually reliable marine editor
of the Chicago Inter Ocean says: 1.-The
propeller Annie l.. Craig, of the Ward
line, has been sold to Macarthur, Smith
& Co.. of Alpend, for $4,000. 1t is iii.
tended to run her between Cheboygan
and Chicago Which is all true with
the exception that Macarthur, Smith &
Co. beiong to Cheboygan they did not
pay $4,000 Or any other sum for her, and
it is very doubtful if there is any inien.
ton to run her between Cheboygan and
Chicago.
F. w. Gilclrist, W, 4. Warrir er, and
others, have traded the propeller 81. 10,
for the propeller st. Paul, giving Sl4.0Gt
bonus. As the propeller St. Joe btought
IS, 600 last fail, it is considered that The
st. Paul's price was $4,000. The St
Paul will run between Cleveland ant
Msckinaw, and will be commanded BY
l.. r. Boy.ton, with A. B. McGill. clerk
| and James Savage. first engineer. Tht
steamer Marine City, commanded b,
VIM. E. Conner, will run in connection
with the st. Paul, and both will call reg
ularly at Cheboygan.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says th,
record OF the opening of the straits, an(
the names of the first craft Though, i
now as follows: 1850, April II, propcllel
Buckeye. first boat through, bound east
1861, April %, propeller Prairie State
first boat, bound east; 1862, April 19
same steamer, bound east; 1868, April 19
propeller Maine, first boat, bound eas,
1864, April %, propeller Maine, frs
boat, bound east; 1865, April 10, prOpelle
Montgomery, first boat, bound west
1866, April 20, same steamer first boat
bound west; 1867, April p, propeIle
City Of Boston, first boat, bound east
1868, April IS. propeller Lowell. frs
boat, bound east; 1869, April24, propelie
Young America, first boat, bound east
1870. April IL, propellers City of Con
cord aud City OF New York, first boat:
bound east; 1871, April 2, steambarg
East Saginaw, first boat bound east; lS7:
April 2S, propeller Champlain, first boa
bound east; 1873 May l, propeller
Badger State, Idaho. and others, firS
boats, bound east; 1874, April "a, pre-
prller Japan passes west, the st. Law
renee east; 1875, May 6, steamship ST
perior and consort, bound east; 1S7t
April 2S, propeller City of New Yorl
: ana others, bound east; 1877, April Il
straits open; the propeller City OF Coz
J cord, east on the 20lh; 1878, March l;
J steambarge Shook, first boat, boun
west,