Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-13
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1881.
The new planning mill is getting quite

The new planning mill Is getting quite
a yard full of lumber.
The front in DR.. Champions new build
ing will be very neat one.
Kesseler's new block has the roof on
and the inside work is progressing,
Daniel Williams has rented his new
storeroOm to outside parties for boot
and shoe store.
The j. L. 81 s. railroad are having
stumps removed from DOdd's creek in
order to change the channel where the
railroad crosses that stream.
C. p. Sweet claims to have three miles
of this end of the Cheboygan and Cross
Village state road done ready for accept
ance by the State Road commissioner.
Monday of last week they had Jail
delivery at the Sault, two prisoners es-
Gaping. One was the notorious Jack Lee
who had been confined since midwinter
awaiting session of the circuit court to
be tried,
The board of directors of the county of
agricultural society were too busy with
their harvest to attend the meeting called
last week and the attendance was slim,
no two of them being present at the
same time.
The masons are at work laying up the
walls of O. B. Weeds new building and
and expect to have them up next week.
Mr.. Weed has already had number of
applications from outside parties to rent
the building,
Henry Amiot has another new lighter
underway for Mattoon, Ogden & Co., and
expects to have it completed in two
weeks. He is also repairing two scows
for Macarthur Smith & Co., and has two
to rebuild for Strohn & Kitchen.
The Detroit, Macklnac and Marquette
railroad company is ready to make con-
tracts with the iron corporations in
Marquette county to transport ores from
the mines to st. Ignace, in the straits of
Mackinac, commencing with the season
of 1882.
RObt Robinson has force of twenty
two men and number of teams at
work on west end of the Cheboygan and
Cross Village state road, the portion
under contract to him, and will have it
completed this fall providing C. P. Sweet
completes his portion.
The Spite driver has been kept busy at
work this week on the railroad dock. 1t
is now engaged driving spiles for the
foundation of the large warehouse the
company intend building on the dock.
The spiles used ,ro forty feet in length
and should give solid foundation.
Messrs. Hodge & Harrington have
located on the river at the foot of Elm
street and are manufacturing pleasure
boats which they keep on hand to rent
or sell. They also have the pleasure
yacht "Peachie" and are prepared to take
fishing or pleasure parties to any point
desired.
Notwithstanding number of new
business rooms have been built this
season and others are being erected, the
demand is largely in excess of the sup
ply. This speaks we'll for ChebOygan as
a business point in the opinion of those
who have visited the village looking for
a location for business.
The Chippewa County News says as
fine a sight as mariner would wish to
see, and at the same time showing the
Importance of the immediate use of the
new locks, was to be seen from Trempe
&Kemp's dock Friday, of last week where
no less than twenty-fOur crafts, with a
tonnage of $4,000 tons, were waiting for
passage through the canal.
The Chippewa County News says the
valves and gates of the new canal were
tried last week and worked like charm.
The gates were opened by hydraulic
power in one minute and twenty seconds
and closed in an equal time. The canal
will be i'm operation as soon as channel
sixty feet wide is eXcayated, approaching
the gates, which will probably be in
about two or three weeks.
John r. Clark, of Munro township has
left at the TRIBUNE office some specimens
of grain grown by him on his farm.
They include specimens of winter and
spring wheat, oats and barley. The
straw of the winter wheat is ) feet 3
inches high with heads inches long,
well filed The straw of tho sprino