The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-12-28


licensed Kanawha River pilots.
Unfortunately there are only half
a berth to every two of them.
The mouth of the Maskingum
has been dredged out from the.
Oaio up to the dam The old
channel on the Harmer side, that
has been obstructed since the old
look on that side was demolished,
has been dug ont and all the old
piling along shore pulled out. It
is now an excellent winter harbor
for all oomers
Clerk James Holloway has been
working on the packets running
out of CINCINNATI during the low
water, and is now resting awhile in
the Queen City.
Captain Esaw Eicker is in com
mand of the whole feet of pump.
boats across the river at the Camp
bell Greek landing. and blows all
kinds of whistles at IL midnight
and s M
There is only about room in the
mouth of Kanawha for % per
cent of the craft that belongs
here. The whole south side of the
river from above the bridge down,
past the Fry boat store needs
dredging out and when thus en-
larged twill still be too small for
the fast growing business.
When rejuvenated Valley Belle
comes down this way on the first
rise. you will have to look twice
before you will be able to recog-
nize her. She was rebuilt at the
Petersburg Docks
With all the cold weather and
ice, the fishes and minnows around
the boats in harbor here are just as
lively as in summer. The water is
swarming with them, all living fat
on the feed thrown them from the
steamers and shanty boats.
Harper Ferguson, once a resi-.
dent of this place. and former
steamboatman is prospecting on a
100-aore farm near Gallipolis He
has weak knee, but otherwise is
we'll and cheerful.
Among the veteran steamboat
men of Kanawha River are engi.
neers Henry Gay, of Charleston,
now 81 years old, and Uncle Phip
Ward Mr.. Gay was engineer of
the only steamboat that ever made
two trips from the Shrewsbury
furnace 15 miles above Charleston,
to Cincinnati in ons week covering
1 100 miles in the week.
Engineer James Martin, of the
towboat Lewis. has purchased and
moved into the house near the ice
plant.
Captain James Hunter. u. is
dead at WiIliamstown, opposite
Marietta He was mate on the
steamers Emma Graham, Fashion.
Andes and many others His last
boating was on the Buckeye State
in the Memphis trade in 1894 He
was good boatman and the father
of Capt. George Hunter of the
Williamstown bank.
The Gallipolis journal says:
Captain Sike Wood. has. through
Mr. Frank L. Sibley of this city,
sold the ferry boat Boone to Mr.
Stone will continue the business
which has been paying one
Captain Wood sold out ON account
of i'll health.
1t is thought that all of the coal
in the mouth of the Kanawha riv-
or, three million and q half bush
els, win be got ont on this rise.
The Lucy Marmet's crew left
here yesterday for Cincinnati. to
bring her up. Capt. j NJ. Hooff
will be IN command, as Capt. Frank
Saunders mother died at her home
in Charleston. and will be buried
today.
The new t. j. Hatfeld's Grew
left here for Cincinnati yesterday
evening to bring her up.
The steamer Frank Gilmore, be.
longing to the Budd Coal Com
pany. sunk at her landing at Mid
dleport Friday night, She came
off the ways at this place during
the summer and was taken to Mid
dIeport and tied up. She had not
made run since coming off the
ways She is fully insured, but it