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LARGE GRAIN ELEVATORS The new grain elevator of the Erie Railroad which has just been erected near Pavonia Ferry, New York, and which is to be open for business in a few days, is said to be the largest elevator in the world. It has cost nearly $750,000, and has a storage capacity for 1,500,000 bushels. It stands on a dock 1,000 feet long, 100 feet wide, and the building is 165 feet high, 275 feet long, and 80 feet wide. The stack is 180 feet high, and the motive power will be supplied by the two engines of 200-horse power each, and by means of steam shovels, the elevator will be capable of loading and unloading forty cars at once, at the rate of a car in three minutes. At the same time it can load four ordinary steamers in four hours. The elevator stands on pile drivers about eighty feet below mud bottom. Upon the foundation thus formed there are strong granite pillars, 10 feet high, 8 feet square at the bottom, and 18 feet square at the top. The timbers of the main structure rest on these supporters. Refering to the above the Chicago Inter Ocean says: An elevator completed a short time ago up the crooked, crowded, narrow, well-bridged south branch of the Chicago River, has about the same capacity as the new house in New York. The Chicago house is a little the larger, and can elevate and discharge much more rapidly. At present Chicago has the largest elevator in the world, but a monster is in course of construction at Baltimore for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which will have capacity for nearly 2,000,000 bushels. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN The tide of immigration from Canada to Cheboygan county continues unabated. The propeller LAKE ERIE from Collingwood landed quite a number of passengers Friday night at Cheboygan. There has been received at Chicago from the Saginaw river this season, 8,827,000 feet of lumber, an excess of about 3,000,000 feet over the receipts for a corresponding period last year. Nearly 1,000 excursionists from Detroit went to Toledo Friday on the steamer CITY OF DETROIT. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, July 8th, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 45 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 7 LOCAL MATTERS The schooner SKY LARK, lately chartered by J. Allen & Son from Buffalo with 600 tons of coal, passed Port Huron last Monday, and is expected here daily. The schooners HERCULES from Ludington, and ELBE from Lincoln, took a cargo of bark to Milwaukee this week for Crowley & Scott. The freight paid in each case $1.75 per cord. There is very active demand for dry, cross-piled lumber at present. The south mill is shipping as fast as possible. The schooner ROYCE took away over 300,000 feet last Tuesday evening. Light house keeper Hunter handed us the following as the number of schooners that have passed by, or in the vicinity of the light house, during the year ending June 30th, 1880; Schooners, 1,828; steamers, 1,399. The three masted schooner, FAME, of Detroit, Capt. I. H. Ingram, with a cargo of lumber cut to order, bound from Muskegon to Detroit, was struck by a sudden squall, off Little Point Sauble at 11 o'clock on Wednesday evening, June 30th, carrying away her bowsprit and masts, leaving nothing standing but the lower mizen mast, broken off at the doublings. The captain was carried over- board with the debris, but succeeded in getting on board again after sustaining several severe bruises. The crew made out to save a part of the rigging and sails by lashing them to the vessel. The vessel was discovered drifting about, several miles off Pentwater. The following day a telegram was dispatched to Ludington, when one of Caswell & Breinig's tugs started out immediately and towed the FAME into this port. It has been decided to tow the schooner around to Port Huron by one of the N. T. boats. They will start to-day. INDEPENDENCE DAY (extract of article) The MAGNET made two trips to Pentwater; the MESSENGER also brought and excursion from that place. The CORONA brought an excursion party from Manistee too numerous for comfort or safety. The Manistee guards chartered the tug WILLIAMS, while the German Aid society and a large crowd of Manisteeans came in on the tug WRIGHT. Mr. F. Blackmarr organized still another excursion from Whitehall, which was patronized liberally. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN Monday morning of last week Charles Hart found a small upright tubular boiler in Lake Huron, about 25 or 30 rods from Spectacle reef lighthouse. The diver on board the schooner, C. HART, went down and viewed it and placed chains around it, and they hoisted it on board with some difficulty. It has the appearance of having been in the water a long time. Elmer Sammons thinks it is the boiler of the MINNIE SUTTON, which broke away from the pier at the lighthouse in October, 1877, and was lost. MISCELLANEOUS The officers of the schooner KATE GILLETT report having seen, about 15 miles east of Manitowoc, on Lake Michigan, what seemed to be the flame and smoke of a burning vessel far east of them. The time was about sunset Monday. Nothing of the kind as been reported from other sources. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, July 15th, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 46 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 8 LOCAL MATTERS Crowley & Scott shipped a cargo of bark to Milwaukee this week, by the schooner JOSEPHINE. Adam Clark has just completed a very handsome little boat for Archie Hunter, the light house keeper. The tug SPORT towed the damaged schooner FAME to Frankfort on Saturday last. The N. T. boat did not call for her as expected. The following is a partial list of vessels taking cargoes from here, the last few days: Schooners SELMA, LIBBIE, NAU, C. P. ROYCE, MILAN, J. V. TAYLOR, MARS, CLARA and LILLIE PRATT The barge COLIN CAMPBELL arrived here last Tuesday morning with 1000 bushels oats, 10 tons feed and 100 packages of merchandise, and left again for Chicago with lumber in the hold; and a deck load of shingles from M. J. Danaher. The schooner SKY LARK arrived last Tuesday with a full cargo of coal of different kinds for J. Allen & Son. The coal will be sold at very *****timable figures and delivered during the months of July and August. For full particulars see their new ad on the eighth page. Mr. Thos. Thompson reports work plenty in his line of business. He will fit out the schooner ANN MARIN with a new main-boom sixty- five feet long, on her next trip. The WINNIE WING will get a new anchor stock. Ward's fleet of vessels furnishes work enough to keep Mr. Thompson busy most of the time. Last Thursday a special order for lumber was received by Thos. R. Lyon, from Milwaukee. It was sent to the camp, where trees were selected, cut down, shipped to Ludington, and cut into lumber on Friday, and put on board the schooner EMMA LEIGHTON the same day. The EMMA LEIGHTON sailed on Saturday. The schooner ****NENGO is now completely rebuilt and ready for service. She has been chartered for a cargo of bark from Peter Peterson to Milwaukee, and will sail to-day. After being dis- charged, the vessel will be measured of registration, and is expected to measure about one-third more than the old measure- ment, or about 100 tons. Mr. George L. Nichols, a young man who spent five or six years in the navy, and who came here a few months since immediately after receiving his discharge from the Hartford, has under- taken a little pioneer work, of a commendable sort too, in the maritime way; he has purchased the pleasure yacht NERIOD from Boston and brought her here to be used as a pleasure boat. For parties wishing to go fishing, for plen**, or for any pleasure or other excursion along the shore, this trim little craft will be just the thing. She was built for Boston harbor and the bay and is entirely sea worthy, having been tested in heavy weather. She is supplied with every appurtenance for a long run, carries a complete compass and case. Life preservers, small boat, &c. The yacht is fitted with one mast, is decked over and affords comfortable shelter for a party wishing to stay out over night. THE "CITY OF LUDINGTON" ----------------------- The following letter from the Goodrich Transportation company to G. W. Clayton, of this city, explains itself: Chicago, July 12, 1880. Geo. W. Clayton, Esq. DEAR SIR: - We expect to launch our new propeller in a couple of weeks, and will necede to your and other citizens of Lud- ington request, that she shall fly from her mast-head a birgee, on which the name, "CITY OF LUDINGTON," shall be inscribed, and long may it wave. G. D. Norris & Co. of Milwaukee, make as good colors as any- one, and as cheap. Yours truly, T. G. Butlin Mr. Clayton is at present engaged in circulating a petition among our business men to secure a sum of money with which to purchase a set of colors for the new steamer, and we have no doubt that all respond librally, as the object is one in which every resident of this city should feel a personal interest. HEAVY SHIPMENTS --------------- Never before in the history of the country have shipments from the interior by water route been as large as those this season. The gain is chiefly in wheat and corn, and the movement of these is out of all proportion to that of any preceeding year. Total receipts of all kinds of grain by all routes at this port, from Jan. 1 to June 20, were 53,584,004 bushels, against 47,187,2*9 bushels for the corresponding period of 1879. Of the amount re- ceived this year, 19,522,476 bushels were by canal, against 8,297,452 bushels by canal during the same period last year. Canal trade has been very large and prosperous. Boatmen have been kept fully employed during the entire season, and rates of freight have been satisfactory nearly all of the time. The suc- cess of the cable-towing system has not inspired boatmen with confidence in its working, but by reducing the cost of towing to its medium, and reducing the time required to make the trip, the capacity and efficiency of the canal has been increased. The demand for steam towing has been increased beyond the supply, and it is expected that when the cable is laid the entire length of the canal traffic will be doubled. As a result of the enormous grain movement, receipts from tolls have been much larger than in recent years. Collections on all canals of this State, from the opening of navigation to July 1, have been $308,754.89 against $296,027.35 for the same period in 1879. The number of miles which boats have moved is 3,450,739, against 1,764,224 in 1879. - N.Y. Tribune, June 7. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN Geo. Kerwin, an employee on the tug OSGOOD, while walking along the rail Monday at Manistee, fell overboard and was drowned. Deceased had been at Manistee but a month and has no known relatives. Andrea Wilder, a Polander, while piling lumber Monday fell off the dock at Manistee and was drowned. He came to this country two months ago and leaves a wife and six small children. Detroit and vicinity were visited by the severest rain storm of the season on Friday evening. Among serious accidents attending it was the capsizing of a sail boat directly opposite the college at Sandwich which resulted in the drowning of Mrs. Hennessy and her child, 2 months old, of Petite Cote. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- About 8 o'clock Friday night a severe squall passed over Lake Ontario, doing great damage to shipping and yachts in Toronto harbor. Four boats, containing four persons, upset a short distance from the shore, but the men were fortunately saved. A boat containing two women and a man upset half way between Toronto and the island. A tug immediately went to their assistance, but darkness coming on, could not find any trace. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, July 22nd, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 47 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 9 LOCAL MATTERS ------------- "Gus" Foster says he has chartered the GREAT EASTERN to carry away that "12,000 shingles." Crowley & Scott shipped a cargo of bark to Sheboygan this week, that sold for $8.00 per cord. Goodenough & Olney have shipped two cargoes of bark by the scows ANATOMINE and AGNES, the present week. The steam barge DAISY DAY arrived last Tuesday with flour and brick for Guyles & Nash, and has left again for Milwaukee with tan-bark for the same parties. The P. M. L. Co., has shipped all of last year's cut of lumber to Chicago, and are now shipping the first cut of this season. The first consignment inch, cut this spring, brought $15 per thousand. The schooner RALPH CAMPBELL left Chicago last Saturday night, and when opposite Muskegon on Sunday afternoon, lost her topsail-yard in a severe squall. The schooner was fitted with a new yard while loading at the North mill for T. R. Lyon. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- The ore shipment from the Lake Superior iron mines to July 7 amounted to 634,577 gross tons, against 384,192 to the same date last year. The Republic mine leads with an output of 87,000 tons. Capt. Hiram Waltman of the schooner ANTARES was sunstruck at Muskegon Wednesday afternoon and lived but a short time. His family reside in Chicago. The schooner UNADILLA, which left Detroit on Tuesday, had on board two locomotives for the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette railroad. They will be landed at Point St. Ignace where they will at once go into service. During the storm Friday night a boat containing a man named Miller, his wife, two children and a boy named Rose was cap- sized in Lake Michigan, near Milwaukee. The boy Rose was drowned. The rest clung to the bottom of the boat 20 hours, the woman having a 15-year-old boy lashed to her back. The boy died Saturday night and the others are in a critical con- dition. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, July 29th, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 48 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 10 LOCAL MATTERS ------------- A splendid new schooner, called the FORD RIVER, loaded at O. N. Taylor's dock last Tuesday, with 304,000 feet of inch lumber. Mr. Geo. W. Clayton, while in Milwaukee last week, selected and purchased the colors for the "CITY OF LUDINGTON," Goodrich's new propeller. They cost $125, and Mr. C. says they are very fine. The barge DAISY DAY left here Tuesday evening with a cargo of lumber and shingles for Manitowoc. A considerable portion of the lumber will be used on the new propeller, CITY OF LUDINGTON, now receiving her upper works. The revenue cutter FESSENDEN came into this port yesterday morning, having on board General Superintendent S. I. Kimball, Capt. J. H. Merriman, Sup't of Construction; Superintendent Sawyer, of the Tenth district, and Superintendent Wm. R. Louttit, of this district, officers of the U. S. life-saving service, who are on a tour of drilling in- spection. They visited Capt. J. J. Brown's station at this place, and pronounced themselves well pleased with the efficiency in drilling in which they found the boys, and paid some very high encomiums to Capt. Brown, for his good management, as a commanding officer. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- Ada Jacks, aged 12, of Ionia, was drowned at Muskegon Sunday evening by the capsizing of a row boat containing eight persons. The others were rescued by the river steamer MUSKEGON. ===========================================================================