Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2018 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington Record Thursday, December 4, 1884 [extracts of marine news] Two steamers and two schooners all took cargoes of lumber from Lyons docks on December 1st. The schooner MERCURY arrived from Chicago yesterday, after making one of the quickest passages on record, and went into winter quarters at once. The steambarge MARSHALL F. BUTTERS, plying in the lumber trade between Ludington, Mich., and this port, netted $10,000 last year, and it is believed she will do as well this season. Steam- barges as lumber carriers pay the best. - N. W. Lumberman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, December 11, 1884 The steambarge MARSHALL F. BUTTERS will make two more trips to Chicago before the season closes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, December 18, 1884 Steamer F. & P. M. No. 2 arrived yesterday with a full cargo of freight. Harbor of Refuge The subject seems to have dropped from the public mind to a great extent, but not so with our faithful representative, Gen. B. M. Cutcheon. Knowing that the insuperable obstacle to securing an appropria- tion was the fact that though a survey had been made and two plans of improvement suggested, the improve- ment has never been recommended or either plan of improvement accepted by the chief of engineers, or the Secretary of War. To get the matter on the way to an appropriation Gen. Cutcheon has been laboring with Gen. Newton, chief of engineers, and a few days ago received a communication which we here reproduce. Washington, D. C., Dec. 10, 1884. Hon. B. M. Cutcheon. U.S. House of Representatives. Sir: Your letter of the 10th ult. in regard to the recommendation of a plan for the Harbor of Refuge proposed at Ludington, Mich., has been received. I beg to inform you in reply that in accord- ance with the clause of the River and Harbor Act of August 2d, 1882, providing for the sur- vey, application has been made to the Secre- tary of War for authority to organize a Board of Engineers to examine and report a plan for the proposed Harbor of Refuge and expense of same. Very respectfully, your obt. servt. John Newton. Chief of Engineers, Brig. & Bt. Maj. Gen. Until the proposed Board of Engineers shall have made their estimate and recommended some plan, it will be impossible to get an appropriation; but, when the time shall come, Gen. Cutcheon will (if in office at the time) be prompt and energetic in securing for us the necessary amount. ===========================================================================