Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-08-11
t;AILwAT q NAVrGATiUN NEWS.


The Washington Steamboat and Trans
portstion company hare purchased tie
steamer w. X. Merwin, recently running
on the Skaget.
The Northern Pacific railroads branch
to Yellowstone park was finished on the
Sd inst. Tue fare from Helena to the ter
minus is $1"fO.
f. Blanchard, of Skaget valley, is about
to build at Seattle 40 ton schooner,
which he will put in the general height
ing business on the Sound.
The Northern Pacific track has reached
point 80 miles east of Missoula. 1t will
not be long before the stage distance will
he reduced to daylight ride.
The Puget Mill company has sent from
San Francisco to Port Gamble a nice
steam yacht 80 feet long, for the use of the
resident partner, Cyrus Walker.
The wrecking steam schooner Whitclaw
arrived IN Seattle lately, and will raise the
hull of the steamer Mississippi, after which
she will raise the scuttled Warhawk at
Port Discovery.
The Canadian government has written
to Sir Charles Topper that 10000 men
are -7Gnted to work on tie Canadian
Pacific railroad to complete the construc-
ton by the end of 1885.
A new steamer, called the Willie, wi II
run from Whatcom on us Nooksack and
Samish rivers. She will carry frolr 40 to
80 passengers, and is owned and will he
sailed by Capt. w. IL. Ellis.
The new collier, to take the place OF
the wrecked Tacoma, is being built at
Philadelphia by Cramp Il Sons. She Will
probably reach the Sound, to enter into
the coal business, early in the winte..
A new steamer, called the Samac, Capt
j. w. Baker, is waiting at New Tacoma
tor her machinery, which Is being manu-
featured by Lister, Houshtcn Il Co. The
Samac will be used for towing ut Belliug-
ham BY.
There is move on foot, among some
OF the prominen: citizens OF Walla Walla,
to raise subscriptions TO run IL preliminary
survey for railroad from that city to the
Snake river, to connect with the Oregon
Short Line.
The snag- boat now being built foT ths
government at Port Madison, by Cashier,
Mckay & Co., will be finished in about a
month, and will cost between $4,000 and
$4,000. This boat is Iii feet long and 81
feet wide, and will be immensely strong i'll
null and machinery.
On she 81 inst the end of the Northern
Pacific railroad track reached the mouth
of Bear river, forty miles east of Missoula,
Montana, and Was opened for traffic to
that point last Tuesday. Intervening sta
tions are Strngham, ten miles east of Mis-
soula, aud Cramcr, twenty miles east. On
the other end, the track is laid to a point
twenty miles west of Helena. This leaves
the gap less than sixty-eight miles.
The Cheney Tribune says that while
there is not general inclination to war
with the Northern Pacific railroad COM
pany, the most conservative and fairest-
minded citizens see many things that call
I,r o,itin,Sn,a Tho - s.Iys
that more favorable freight and passenger
rates would be found advantageous to the
company as well as much more satisfac-
tory to the people. Complaint is made
that the price of lands has been raised
from - to 81 per acre, and that the sub
ordinate officers of the company Interfere
in local affairs.
There is being built at the Wllamet q
Iron Works a steamer Tor the Shoal water
Bay Transportation company, to ply on
Gray's harbor and the Chehalis river
She will have full cabin and eight state
rooms. and her carrying capacity is about
200 tons. She will be finished about the
middle of August and shortly after hei
trial trip will steam to Gray's harbor
About year ago the steamer Montesano
was put on the bay 6y the company, and
the trade has so increased that two steam
ers ale necessary. Both will run in con-
nection with the cossting steamer General
Miles. Gray's harbor is enjoying steady
prosperity, unaffected by bottomlesa