Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-14
Marine News.
The insurance on vessels expires next
Sunday, tho 3Oth.

The schooner Perew left Green Bay
last Tuesday morning with grain for Buff
falo.
The E. B. Hall and L. c. Butler ar
rived in Chicago last Wednesday with coal
from Ashtsbula.
The slight decline in grain freights
and the increased rate in ore is causing
many vesselsto again enter the latter trade.
Three ''canalers," the C. P. Dorr, Pol
" Rogers and John R. Noyes, arrived last
Tuesday afternoon, with ore from Cape
Vincent. The schooner Timothy Baker
put in here wind bound.
The schooner David Vance was among
the large fleet of vessels detained at Esean-
aba last week. 1t was expected she with
about fifteen others would get away by last
Wednesday. Her cargo was for Cleveland.
The fine large steam barge Inter Ocean
was taking on cargo of coal at the new
a. & P docks last Tuesday. With her
two screw wheels she turns the sharp an
gels in the river with about as much ease
as a ting.
There has been considerable anxiety
concerning the whereabouts of the schoon-
er ]. Bigler, which left Buffalo, Oct. 25th,
with 600 tons coal for Chicago. It was
feared she was lost on Lake Erie, but she
turned up all right on the morning of the
4th when she passed Detroit. She was
commanded by Capt. Searles of Ashtabula.
-Freights on coal from this port to Chi
cago are $1.25 per ton; on ore from Escan-
aba S2.75 and Marquette S4 per ton, with
but few vessels to charter. Coal from Buff
falO to Lake Michigan ports 75c. per ton.
Wheat from Milwaukee to Buffalo was 7c.
last Wednesday. Lumber freights are 81. 75
from Alpena, 50 from Saginaw and $3.50
from Bay City to Ohio ports.
"A noodle, who has been humored by
the Geneva Express, attempts to tell the
readers Of that sheet about Ashtabuls Har-
Dor, and as a result makes sad havoc with
truth and facts. He says there never was
fourteen feet Of water in the uver, and that
it is unsafe for large vessels to enter, and
holds up Cleveland Harbor as far superior.
II the chap ever looked at the marine news
in the Cleveland papers he could not have
failed to have noticrd the items therein
published Of vessels grounding in the Guy
ahoga. These items appear almost daily
and the depth of water given is eleven,
twelve or thirteen feet; Cleveland has ad-
mitted time and again that AshtabuIa Har-
Dor mas a greater depth of water than
Cleveland, and that unless steps were taken
to increase the depth, Ashtabula would
soon receive all the ore that now goes there.
The average depth of water here is sixteen
feet at high water mark, and this we can
prove by soundings recently made and
which are shown on a map Oh file with the
Corporation Clerk. Ashtabula admits there
is one sharp curve in the stream, but ali
the preliminary steps have been taken to
have this removed and when spring opens
the work will, undoubtedly, be commenced
and carried to a speedy completion.
Neither Cleveland or Ashtabula has re-
ceived the amount Of ore up to the present
time this season, as was expected, owing to
the fact that nearly all of the larger vessels |
went into the grain trade when those
treights took such a great advance. Ore
freights are now taking the lead, and the
prospects are the amount of ore to come,
together with that already received here
this season will exceed that of any previous
season. Last Tuesday afternoon there were
three cargoes received here, while at Cleve-
land there was not one, notwithstanding
the intelligent q correspondent says the
season has closed.
Cleveland has one advantage over Ash
5abula and that is it being about sixty
miles nearer the ore mines; but vessel men
prefer to come to Ashtabula rather than to
be delayed and dragged on the bottom Of
The CuyahOga for days at time.
ARRIVED.
Nov. lst-Prop. Sparta, ore, Marquette.
2d-Sch'r Bradley, light, Buffalo Sch'r /
L. Hanna. ore, Escanaba. Prop. E. B. Hale
light Buffalo. Prop. D. W. Powers, ore,
L'Anse.
Sd-Sch'r A. Ford, wind-bound.
4th-Sch'r NJ L. Higgie, light Buffalo. |
Prop. Havana, ore. Escanaba.
5th-Sch'r HOboken, light, Buffalo.
7th-PrOp. Vienna, ore, L'Anse.
Sth-Prop, Inter Ocean, and sch'r Argonaut.
light, Buffalo.
1lth-Sch'r Nettie Woodward, light Buffalo.
Sch'r Tim. Baker, wind bound. Sch'rs E. p
Dorr, John Noyes, and Polly Rogers, ore,
Ogdensburg.
CLEARED.
Sch'r Snow Drop, coal, Detroit
4th-Prop. Sparta, light, Marquette
6th-Prop. ID. W. Powers, light, Toledo.
7th-Sch'r HObOken. coal. Chicago.
6th-Sch'r L. Hanna, coal, Chicago. Sch'r /
u. Hanna, coal, Chicago.
Iuth-Prop. Vienna, light Cleveland
llth-Sch'r Argonaut, coal, Chicago. Prop
Lnter-Ocean, coal, Chicago.
l2th-Sch'r ]. R. NOyes, light, Erie. Sch'r /
Nettie Woodward, coal, Amherstburg, Ont.
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