Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-10
Marine,

-bOtU passages Ol tlt SlIdltS are IT,
ported closed with ice.
The st. Paul reached Alpena Mon
day but came no further.
The N. T. steamers City of Concord
and Oswegatchie are both due.
The range lights were hOisted last
Saturday night for the first time this
season.
"A vessel reported ashore this morning,
near Mackinac City, bound down, loaded
with wheat.
The first sail vessel of the season,
put in her appearance yesterday morn
ing bound up.
The tug ]. W. Bennett cleared from
Cleveland Monday with four harges in
tow for Bay City.
;hipyard. Every person wants his craft
ixed ready for business right away.
The steamer Pearl came only to
Alpena this trip. The Granite State get
ting stuck in the ice scared them away.
The John KelderhOuse, owned by the
ChebOygan Lumber Co., left Chicago
Monday morning, with load of grain
for Buffalo.
The tug Bismarck was the first boat
belonging at this port to get up steam.
this season. She passed down through
the bridge Monday.
"A steam barge and tow passed up
yesterday morning, taking the south
passage. She passed right along, SEEM
ingly without difficulty.
"A dispatch received at the board of
trade rooms, Detroit announced that the
Welland canal would be opened about
the 1st or Sd of May, or sooner ifpOssible.
The Mary tried her new wheel and
new arrangements of her engines, last
Wednesday evening. With seventy
pounds of steam she turned her wheel 12O
revolutions a minute.
The government propeller Dahlia
left Detroit, Thursday of last week to
begin the work of laying buOys in the
Detroit and ST. Clair rivers, Straits of
Mackinaw and Green Bay.
The barge Queen City cleared from
Bay City for TOnawanda claiming to
have 100000 feet of lumber on board.
The Bay City Tribune says vessel men
say she cannot carry that amount.
The two Canadian schOoners, Muir
and Antelope, that went into winter
quarters here last fall, have been fitted
out and are awaiting the clearing away
of the ice in the straits, when they will
sail for Chicago.
The first cargo sale of lumber of the
season i'm Milwaukee was made last
week. The cargo of the steam barge
Crippen, consisting of $4,000 feeet of
scantling and jOists, was sold at $40 80
per thousand. The first sale last year
was made at Sc so.
The Detroit papers say that private
letter from Capt. Spalding, superinten-
dent of the Sault canal, states that the
canal will not open before the 1st of
May and it might be, not before May 18th.
This is not very favorable for the boats
on the Lake Superior lines.
The Marine City was the first steam
er to make this port. She returned from
Mackinac Sunday afternoon and after
seven or eight hours work succeeded
In getting through the ice and make
ing port. Hundreds of our citizens
visited the dock during the afternoon
and evening, all anxious to welcome the
persons were going and coming, anx-
lOuSly watching uCl cfcly AOtC, duu
Notwithstanding she did not get in un-
til half past ten, quite crowd were on
hand at the dock when she arrived.
The Northern Transit steamer
Granite State arrived from Chicago
Tuesday afternoon, being the first boat
through from Lake Michigan and the
second steamer to enter the harbOr. She
passed around north of Mackinac island
and found the channel clear. The Cham
plain, of the same line, broke some
of her machinery this side of Fox
4 islands and was taken in tow by the
Granite State and tOwed to Mackinac
The Granite State got stuck in the ice
in going out from this port and was un-
til nine o'clock yesterday morning in
g citing out.
The propeller LOthair and barge
COrrisande were the first Canadian craft
to report at the custom house, at this
| port this season. They arrived in the
straits Friday of last week and Tuesday
, the officers came ashore, having to drag
their yawl over about two miles of ice
, and landed up the straits several miles
, where they hired team to bring them
to town. This was reporting under diff
{ ficulties and we do not think that such
efforts and running such risks are re-
quired or expected by the government
/ Wednesday the LOthair, with her tow
| turned around and took the north pass
age and will undoubtedly get through.
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