Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-05-07
Marine.

The barque Acorn is taking on a
cargo of lumber for Buffalo.
The Geo. w. Cuyler tOwed ont the
schooner Flying Cloud Thursday even
ing.
The schooner Susan G.. sailed yester-
day with general cargo of supplier for
DetOur.
The wrecking tug eviathan is at
work trying to raise the barge at the
mouth of Muskegon lake.
The tug Hancock, from ST.. Ignace
came over Thursday afternoon to be
hauled out for repairs.
The Van Raalte towed out the
schooner .Mears yesterday forenoon and
she sailed for Chicago.
= A steam barge passed up through
the straits Wednesday mOrnin G, probably
the first craft through the straits bound
west.
The Canadian Schooner Midland
Rover is awaiting sailors from COlling-
wood, expected on the first steamer from
that port.
The schooner NewsbOy cleared
Thursday for Chicago with cargo of
10000 feet of lumber from Macarthur.
Smith e Co.
The small schooner G.. Hart left Thurs
day with cargo of saw dust for DetOur,
Capt Hart expects to bring back cargo
of building stone.
The schooner W. B. Ogden completed
loading her cargo of cedar ties from P.
NJ. LathrOp and expects to leave during
the day for Chicago.
The scOw Minnehaha, Capt. Todd.
finished taking on cargo of cedar ties
from P. NJ. LathrOp, for Chicago last
Wednesday evening.
The ScOw Louisa left this forenoon
for Chicago. She finished relOading
the car stills and plank, that she dOcked
last fall, when sunk.
The tug W. S. Carkin towed out the
schooner HI. f. FOlger and Imperial
Thursday morning and they started on
their way to Chicago.
The tug W. S. Carkin towed out the
schooner Hinkley Tuesday night. The
steam barge Garden City was to pick her
up and tow her to Alpena.
The Detroit papers say that the
steamer Saginaw is going to run on the
shore route, from Detroit to st. ignace
stopping at intermediate ports.
Since 1860, including that year, an
N. T. steamer was the first boat through
the straits Ii seasons and counting the
Garden City this year, II out of the p
seasons.
The current caught the schooner
c. Hart, Thursday morning while she
was winding in the river, and carried
her foul of the jibbOOm of the Midland
Rover, breaking her fOremast.
The Chicago and Detroit papers still
insist that the straits did not open in
1880 until May 18th. This is wide of the
facts. The n. T. steamer Granite State
arrived at this port from Chicago April
9th.
The steamer Pearl arrived up yeSter-
day forenoon and unlOaded consider
able freight and large number of pas
sengers at this port. She uid not call in
on her return from ST. Ignace and
Mackinac.
Thompson Smith has purchased the
bark Parana. Capt. George Pollock, for m
erly master of the schooner Duncan City,
will command her. We understand that,
considering the demand for vessel prop
erty, she was bought at very reason
able price.
The steam yacht R. C. Wilson crossed
Mullet lake Monday and got to Indian
River. She st arted back Tuesday but
got stuck i'm the ice and had to return to
Indian River. She succeeded in getting
down on Wednesday, being the first
steam craft to cross Mullet lake this sea-
son.
The Van Raalte tOwad out the
schOOners Belle Brown ano John Miner
Wednesday morning and give them
good send off on their way to Chicago,
they being the first craft to leave this
port this season for lake Michigan port.
Both were loaded with lumber from Nc
Arthur. Smith & Co.
The Schooner Fl. G. WinslOw is
loading timber from JnO. w. McGinn
for the harbOr of refuge, Sand Beach.
This is the same timber Mr.. McGinn
loaded on the barge Ulster last fall and
then received word from Sand Beach
that they could not take care of it and
consequently it had to be unlOaded.
The steam barge Garden City, Capt.
Alva Shaver, arrived from Chicago Tues
day evening being the first craft through
the straits. Capt. Shaver says lake
Michigan was full of ice to the head of
the Beavers, some fields being miles in
extent and quite solid, these he lodged
around. Capt. Shaver took on 20 tons of
coal and left that night for Alpena.
The propeller Joseph L. Hurd and
City of Fremont arrived down from the
Sault Monday. They left the latter port
Saturday morning, found considerable
ice i'm Mud Lake but got through with
out much trouble. The Fremont loaded
lnmber at the Cheboygan Lumber Co.'s
mill, and MattOOn, Ogden & Co. loaded
day afternoon.
The new canal at Sault Ste. Marie
will be ready for use, it is expected,
about the 1st of July, with depth of
water at the present stage OF 16 feet.
The river has been dredged to Is feet for
40 miles southwark from its head. The
final appropriation of $150O0O by con-
gress for the completion of these i'm
prOvements will give shipping the in
creased draft of 16 feet of water through
out the entire channel between Lake
Superior and Lake Huron, excepting
two points-Lake George and the East
Neebish rapids.-Chicago Tribune.
The steamer Flora, the first boat
from below, arrived up Wednesday MORN
ing and landed about 125 tons of freight
and number of passengers. The Flora
has been elegantly fitted out and is one OF
the most handsomely furnished steamers
stopping at this port. She is command
ed by Capt. Conner, one OF the most popu-
lar masters on the lakes. nj. S. GagnOn,
former citizen of our village, is stew
ard and is the right man in the right
place. having occupied that position on