The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-31
River News.

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The Minnesota arrived down at $50 A
NJ. and left at 8 A. NJ. today.
The Red Wing, arrived down at $40 A
n. and left at 10 A. NJ. TO day.
The Alex Mitchell. is due down to-mor.
row morning.
The Minnesota is due up on Sunday
evening".
The Annie, is due down on Monday
morning early.
The Clinton is due up on Monday
afternoon.
The Libbie Conger arrived up at P. N.
last night and left at 8 A. N. to-day.
The MARY Morton. will arrive up on
Monday morning early.
The Josie. is due down tonight.
The Minneapolis arrived up this after
noon and left at S P. NJ.
The Victory with tow of barge arrived
up at noon. she left this afternoon.
The Victory, came in collision with the
Viola lying at the wharf, :.and did some
slight. damage to her rail.
The Keokuk. st, Croix. Saltwater and
| G. j. Caffrey with RATS came down en-
Friday.
The st. Croix. went up on Friday.
The G. J. Caffrey and Saltwater went
up to-day.
The Viola and Maggie Reaney made
their usual trips.
The Viola and barge. will take an excur-
sion Of the temperance union. from Buffalo
TO Muscatine. and back this evening.
| Stage of water yesterday at 6 A. NJ. $40
at 6 P. n 4.95.
| The st Louis Republican says that the
Bald Eagle is the fastest packet on the
upper Mississippi.
| A barge loaded with ice, that was 10
tow of the steamer Victory here last week,
and was moored at st. Louis. broke from
its fastenings on Tuesday. foated down
the river, and was sunk at Widow Baird's
The ice which belonged to the Annenser
Busch Brewing Association, was valued at
$4,000, and will prove total loss. The
barge belonged to Ause, Loomis & Co.,
st. Louis,
The St. Louis Globe of Wednesday says
that large raft brought into that port
Monday by Capt Robert Dodds, of the
Schu!enburg, comprised fourteen strings,
twenty SIX feet deep, and contained 1000.
600 feet of lumber, 5000. 900 laths, and
1000, 900 shingles. The Helene was six
teen days on che round trip to St, Louis
and back. This is the largest raft that
ever reached st. Louis.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says the boss
tow boat is coming out.
| One of our most euterprising and live
coal firms have decided to build tow
boat that will eclipse anything that was
ever heard of on the western waters That
is saying good deal. but then we mean
| just what we Say, and before you finish
| this article you will come to the same con-
clusion. The hull will be 2l0 feet keel. 38
feet beam, 6 feet hold, engines 80 inches
in diameter. 10 feet stroke; seven steel
| boilers. 80 inches in diameter. % feet
long. The famous j. N. White was built
| in 1874 Her engines were so inches in
| diameter. 10 feet long. This machinery
was ur to this time probably the largest
on the western waters. Yet large as it
undoubtedly was, the new tow boat will
have the same length of stroke, and two
inches more in diameter. What will our
| st. Louis neighbors think of the new craft
that will make her appearance in the near
future and will undoubtedly work an entire
revolution in tow boat building on the
Mississippi and other rivers. There are
other movements under way that will be
| announced 10 due time. Pittsburgers will
be found wide awake, and don't you for
get.