Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-04-21
RAstwAt . NAVIGATION NEWS.

1t is proposed to run line of steam
ships between Hong Kong and Victoria
and Sound ports.
The Northern Pacific company has con-
tracts tor 100000 brick for Building
round houses at Livingston this year.
There is already iron enough at Liz
ingston to lay the Northern Pacific track
half way to Helena and car loads arrive
daily.
The American schooner Bstella and the
Mexican pilot boat Teodivits were lost
on the bar at Tucham, Gulf of Mexico,
on the 7th inst. All hands were drowned.
The Denver and Rio Grande between
Salt Lake and Ogden, has about twenty
miles of grating completed, and work is
progressing finely on the balance. The
road will be one or two miles shorter than
the U tab Central.
The Oregon Short Line company is pre-
pairing for large business, both in freight
and passengers, with the Wood River
country, while it will be the most direct
and best route to Boise and the country
beyond. Stages are now running from
Shoshohe to BOISE.
Tho new Board of Directors OF the
Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific have organ
lied a..d cl, cted Jay Gould President.
The Board authorized the executive c"m-
mittee to arrange with the St. Louis.
Iron Mountain & Southern for lease to
it of the Wabash Railroad.
The Alaska trade is growing rapidly.
Two steamers carrying freight and pas
sengers are now plying between the Sound
and Sitka. Last week the steamship
Idaho sailed from Port Townsend for
Sitka, and last Wednesday the Eureka
sailed from the same port for the same
destination.
Capt. Mitchell has the plans and speci-
ficatIons in hands for the immediate con-
structon of u steam prole Ter for Capt.
Scotland and Stetson & Post. This yes
s ! will be 60 feet keel, 70 feet over all, II
feet beam and feet depth of hold. 1t is
intended to have her completed 10y the
10th of July next. She will be con-
structed for towing purposes, and will be
provided with n 1890 engine.-Post Int.
The Oregon and California main line,
on completion of the southern extension,
will extend from Portland to the Caiior-
MIA boundary and form, with the Central
Pacific lines IN the Sacramento Valley,
ard the lines OF the Northern Pacific, west
and moth of Portland, "A continuous line
rom San Francisco to Puget Sound, rep
resentiug a total length of nearly 1000
miles. The road will be completed the
LIST OF August, and will be ready for bust
ness in September.
The ship War Hawk, which arrived at
Port Discovery on tie afternoon of the
l1th inst, on the night of the 18th was
found to be aflre. Every eff,rt was made
to subdue the flames, but as they contin
ued to gain Roadway, the ship was scut>
tied and sunk. She is now lying with
her stern completely under water and her
bow nearly submerged. very little
trouble will be experienced, il is thought,
in raising the vessel. and she is probably
not much damaged. She WAS partially
loaded with hay, and the fire, it is sup
posed, originated among this.
A prominent railroad magnatc says
in regard to the East India trade: "Ships
aim to sail the great circle, ~ il is called
which brings them nearer Puget Sound
than San Francisco, aid have an idea
that Puget Sound will ultimately become
the great cntrepot for the East India
trade. The harbors there are not excc!ed
by any in the world, and when the forty
miles of road remaining to be built to
connect Portland with Tacoma is COM
peted, the tendency of trade from the
East Indies TO this side OF the continent
will be by that route"
A large force of men was set to work
on the collier Mississippi imm. diately ON
her arrival in San Francisco in order to
discharge the vessel and get her in readi-
ness to sail Friday, for the accommodation
of those who were unable to obtain pas
sage by the regular steamer, the George
W. Elder. Despite the reinforcement il
was found impossible to get the vessel in
readiness on such short notice, and her
sailing has been POSTPONED till Saturday
morning. 1t is rumored IN shipping cir>
cles that increased regular steamer service
to British Columbia and the Sound will
shortly be made, and that the Mississippi
will he fitted ter q passenger steamer.
Merchants are disposed to regard the re-
port as authentic in consequence of the
largely Increased freight traffic.