Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-03-31
RAILWAY a. NAVIGATION NEWS.

ing repairs.
A steamer has been ordered built to
take the place of the lost Tacoma.
The new barkentine VIM. Renton will
bring to San Francisco 100000 oranges
from Guaymas.
The Port Gamble tug Cyrus Walker
will he sent up here shortly and put on
the ways for repairs.
The barkentine C. L. Taylor and her
cargo of lumber are to be sold at Port
Townsend on the afternoon of the 9th
inst.
Jay Gould's yacht. 1t is expected, will
be launched in about week, and the i'm
nense iron mo.itor, "Terror," was
launched on the 2Sth inst.
Capt Simmons, first officer of the lost
collier Tacoma, has accepted the com nand
of the ship Oriental, now lying at Tacoma,
loading lumber for Melbourne, Australia.
The ship Three Brothers, from San
Francisco for Antwerp, arrived at Ply
mouth, England, on the 18th. Ten of the
crew refused to do duty during the entire
passage.
Messrs. Morgan aud Huxley, inspectors
of bulls and boilers, have been ordered
over to the Chehalis river to inspect a
steamer called the Montesano, which is to
ply on that stream
The steamship George W. Elder sailed
for Puget Sound on the Goth with full
freight and passenger list. after having
been obliged to ref Sc d litonal fir right
in ION equeI ce If the Leavy demand.
R. II. Robe.ts, third officer OF the steam-
ship Belgic, was rby,1ted in San Francisco
for smuggling oFaan. Search in his room
on board the vessel revealed fifty tael
boxes of prepared opium, valued at $500.
The clue was obtained by new screw
between the lining of the wall.
The American bark John Smith has
been chartered by New T.coma firm,
and is now on her way from Hong Kong
to that port with cargo of rice. teas, etc.
This is the first instance If the kind on
record, and is highly complimentary to
the enterprise of the firm and the city in
which they llve.--C Commercial Herald.
The number of vessels belonging to or
bound to or from ports in the United
States reported totally lost and missing
during February is 3S. OF this list, .1S
were wrecked, 10 abandoned, 0 missing.
burned, foundered and / capsized.
Among the list are the wrecked steamer
Tacoma, II. s. Gregory, British Bark
Glaramara, and the barkentinc C. L. Tay-
Tor, all in the Pacific coast and foreign
trade.
The Alta reports that work il about to
begin with vigor on the extension Of the
California railroad northward to Oregon
Workmen are being forwarded to X .,ldii
in large numbers, and there will soon be
several thousand hands al W rk upon the
gia ling and track-laying. In order to
enable the prosecution of the work to
greater advantage when spring open ii,
force of carpenters and masoRs has been
employed oil winter in building bridges
on the line OF The read. Next fall there
will be all rail connection between Seattle
and San Francisco.
a Salt Lake City dispatch of March Ia
says: There is great activity along the
Oregon Sho Line railroad, and large
numbers Of men and teams are bcin.: sent
out from this city aud other points TO
work on it. 1t is the determination of
the company to complete thr line to d ,kcr
City this year. BY the 1st Of April il is
expected that trains will he running
through from Granger, on the Union Pa.
cific, to the Wood River country over this
line. Tho present junction where trains
Of the Utah and Northern connect with
this new line for Wood river is at Mar
shall.
The Philadelphia Ledger of the 18th
inst. says of the launch of the steamship
Mariposa: As the immense ship glided
into the water she was christened Mari.
posa by the wife Of Capt. Joseph Stule,
Superintendent Of Construction OF the
Oceanic Sta amshiP Company. The Mari
posa will be ready for sea about the 1st of
May. On the hurricane deck, forward. 10
social hall, the pilot house and state-
r'ems for the captain and officers. The
grand saloon 10 on the upper deck, for
ward, on ths m, chinerY space, extending
ffem side to side, with state-rooms for leo
ffrst>class passengers, arranged fore and
aft on both sides Of the machinery. The
principal woods used 10 the finish will be
oak, relieved with maple and mahogany.
The incandescent electric light will be
used On hoard. The cost OF the ship will
be about 100000. Her sister ship, tho
Alameda, will be ready for launching in
about three weeks.
WRANGEL ABOLISHED As A PoRr oF
ENrRY.-Capt. Carroll, If the steamship
Eureka, has received official information
to the Ell. ct that Fort Wrangel has been