Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-06
STATE NEWS.


A 15-ton mass of pure copper is being
taken out of the Mass mine, in OntOna-
gon county.
There is $733, 3,664.SS in the Detroit city
treasury, or $18,707.28 more than the
city's net debt.
There are now only 725 convicts in the
state prison, the lowest number reached
since June, 1875.
Life saving stations are to be built at
Grindstone City, Middle Island, Sand
Beach, and Huron city.
1t is reported that vein of salt has
been struck on farm IL miles west of
Berrien Springs at the depth Of 100 feet.
LudingtOn business men are rallying
from the effects of the recent fires in
that place, and are putting up stores,
most of which will be of brick.
Michigan will be the only western
state appropriately represented at the
Yorktown celebration, no other western
state having made an appropriation for
this purpose.
Chief Engineer Eds has completed
the survey of the Pcv .!ity and Alpena
road to cOnnect.cr With the Flint Sc
Pere Marquette 1T Freeland, and will
now survey roth from Oscoda to
Alpena.
A salt well at Muskegon dug some
time ago was blasted out last week and
brine was pumped out that yielded
ninety per cent of salt. There is great
excitement over the prospect of new
industry springing up in that place.
Chas. Reitz, Of Manistee, will have his
salt works in operation in few days.
The block has capacity Of 400 barrels
per day, and is 124x208 feet in size. M.
Engleman has also struck brine at q
less depth than that found by Reitz.
John McHarry, light house keeper at
Old Mission Point, committed suicide
Monday morning by jumping overheard
from the steamer City of Traverse at the
mouth of Grand Traverse bay. No cause
is known for the act. The body was re-
covered.
The ontonagon Herald says that Messrs.
Holly, Cameron q ROssitOr have 480 men
and 65 teams at work upon their con-
tract on the first 20 miles Of the OntOna-
gOn 81 Bruel River railroad, and are
reaching out for men enough TO double
the force.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Joe BoOher, of
this township, one day last week, girl
weighing 171s pounds, with hair inches
long. This is no fish story, but the
solemn facts as related by both father
and nurses. If any of our neighbOring
townships, or the State, can produce a
child that can out weigh this girl, or can
beat the hair of her head let it be brought
forth now. This production, also, is
purely Cedar Creek, having been created
without the consent or knowledge of
Cadillac. Trot out your big babies
Manton Tribune.
There is fish curiosity contained in a
cage at Canham q Armstrong; fish
house on the st. Clair river dock, Port
Huron. 1t was caught in Lake Huron
in a drag net, with lot of sturgeon.
This peculiar fish measures over five
feet in length and weighs 200 pounds.
The body resembles that of sturgeon,
and its mouth is very much like that Of
a Goldfish, and is large enough to take in
a mans head. 1t has sword over foot
i'm length, which is three inches wide at
the place where it is joined to the head,
and about one inch at the point. Some
call it builder" while others give it
various names. 1t is a deep-water fish,
but got into shallow water, where 1t
mixed with the sturgeon and was caught.
Old fishermen say that they have never
seen anything like it. A great many
people have examined this curiosity.