Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-06-25
Marine.

The Keweenaw'was in on time Sun
day morning. = ~ c. Z - -
The Idaho called mat Duncan Thurs
day evening bound down. ale' 1910
The schooner Imperial loaded lum-
Der at Duncan City this week for Chi
cago.
The Flora was in yesterday morning
and called in the afternoon on her way
down.
The Pearl arrived up on time Thurs
day evening and went down yesterday
forenoon.
The steamer Saginaw arrived up
Monday night and called in Tuesday
forenoon going down.
The propeller Lawrence arrived Sa-
turday afternoon from Chicago and left
on the return the same evening.
The schooner John Miner, with a
cargo of cedar ties from Georgian bay,
passed up Wednesday night leaking
badly.
The schooner Ellen Spry arrived
Thursday morning after cargo of rail-
road ties from P. NJ. LathrOp. She car
ries 25,OOO ties.
The propeller Champlain arrived
last night with considerable freight.
She is loading cedar posts, lath and
pickets for Chicago. .
The Nashua stopped to load on her
way up and consequently, did not arrive
until Monday morning. She called in at
noon on the way down.
The steam barge Burlington with
the barges Heating, Church and Hale
arrived early this morning and are load
ing lumber for Chicago.
Are we going to have a new tug at
this port. The Post and Tribune says
the tug Dina which tOws logs at Cheboy-
gan was inspected Monday.
The schooner Fleetwing arrived
Tuesday evening, loaded lnmber from
the Cheboygan lumber Co. and cleared
yesterday forenoon for Chicago.
The tug John Owen passed down
Thursday afternoon with two large RATS
of timber in tow. One was from Char
leyoix and the other from Millecoquin.
The schooner VIM. Home and Belle
Hanscom, that brought the railroad
iron, finished loading lumber and clear.
cd Tuesday for Cleveland in tow of the
tug Lyon.
The barges s. H. Orton, L. ]. Farwell,
Golden Rule, Ajax, and Richard Martin,
loading lumber at Duncan City, take g.
100000 feet of lumber to TOnawanda, New
York. They expect to get off this even
ing
The tug AlansOn Sumner, arrived at
Duncan City Thursday forenoon with
five barges in tow. They load lumber
for TOnawanda. The Sumner came up
to this harbOr Thursday afternoon. She
was formerly an ocean tug, brought from
New York through the st. Lawrence
river.
The propeller Ste. Marie has made
her regular trips this week arriving
Tuesday and Thursday evenings and de-
parting Wednesday and Friday morn
ings, Capt, Monder is much pleased at
the prospects of a good business on the
route.
The new dredge went to work Thurs
day morning on the harbor. There is,
or was, about H. 900 yards of dredging to
be done under last seasons contract
The dredge works well, some parts a
little stiff yet but will improve by use.
The steam yacht R. C. Wilson has been
quite unfortunate recently, striking
snags and bending her shaft. She had
to be hauled out again last Monday. The
logs running in the river is great i'm
pediment to the navigation of the inland
route and cause many delay and often
damage.
The tug W. S. Carkins arrived Wednes-
day night with Carkin, Stickney &
Grams new dredge, No. 6, and new
dump scow in tow. She had bad weather
coming up and lay at Presque Isle a
couple of days. Got up once near Craw-
fords quarry and was compelled to turn
back. The Carkin went to Lake George,
in Sault river, Thursday and brought a
dump scOw from there.
The wrecking tug Leviathan arrived
at Milwaukee on Saturday night with
the schooner NabOb, recently released
from the beach near Cana Island. The
vessel was docked, and an examination
showed that she required considerable
new keel and bottom plank. Otherwise
the craft is in good shape. The Levia-
than will now attempt the release of the
schooner E. c. L., ashore in Sister Bay.
The propeller Caltlc OF the Merchants
line from Chicago to Montreal, called in
Sunday for the first time and had the
misfortune to get aground opposite Nc
Arthur Smith & Cos. warehouse. She
was drawing less than eleven feet.
Major Carr, Monday sounded the river
and found bar had formed, caused, he
thinks, by the suRken dredge turning the
current to the east bank of the river and
washing the sand out into the center OF
channel.
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