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      Coaling Season at Sodus Point Opens _______ First Outgoing Cargo Bound for Ogdensburg -Lake Barges Coming SODUS POINT - The coal forwarding season at the port of Sodus Point has opened, the first outgoing cargo being sent to Ogdensburg in the steamer Iselin. She was ...

      Oswego Fleet Oswego's change from a commercial to a manufacturing city is best illustrated by a glance at the list of craft composing the Oswego fleet which sailed in and out of our harbor during the 70's The capacity of the schooners was between 20,000 and 25,000 bushels. The ...

      Well deserved, and persevering industry ever meets its sure reward. We have not been more forvibly impressed with this belief, or more agreeably interested in the Mechanics, and mechanic Arts of Oswego , than when considering the success of Messrs.

    Well deserved, and persevering industry ever meets its sure reward. We have not been more forvibly impressed with this belief, or more agreeably interested in the Mechanics, and mechanic Arts …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A Card. - Mr. James A. Baker proprietor of the Marine Railway and Shipyard, West Oswego, wishes to give notice to his patrons and friends, that the Marine Railway and the Canal Railway connected therewith are both in excellent ...

      A New Signal Lamp for Vessels. - We yesterday had the pleasure of examining the new Signal Lamp for vessels invented by Mr. J.R. Pierce of this city, for which application for a patent is now pending before the Department in

    A New Signal Lamp for Vessels. - We yesterday had the pleasure of examining the new Signal Lamp for vessels invented by Mr. J.R. Pierce of this city, for which …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A Remarkable Mirage. - The phenomenon of mirage on Lake Ontario was witnessed by many of our citizens yesterday to a degree we have never before heard of. From the high point near the Fort, Prince Edward's ...

      The advertisement of Messrs. Miller, Kitts & Moore will be found in another column. These gentlemen, at great expense, have fitted up a dry dock, lifting dock and canal boat railway for repairing the largest class of vessels and ...

      This was the launch of the Minnehaha

      The " Minnehaha ". - This is the name of the new schooner launched from Baker's ship-yard Saturday. As we have before stated, she is classed as an "A-1" vessel, which is the highest ...

      Strange Mirage on Lake Ontario To the editor of the Oswego Daily Times I see an extract from your journal going the rounds, describing the Mirage of Lake Ontario. May I add one? In the fall of 1842, just ...

      That "Sarpint." - The serpent has "arrove," not those terrible rattle snakes we were lately informed of at Redfield , but the veritable "sea serpent." We have been expecting to hear from him every day for some weeks past. He has left "Silver ...

      Presentation. - On the Fourth , Mr. James A. Baker , proprietor of the ship yard and Marine Railway, presented his Foreman, James Navagh , with an elegant gold ...

      The Lee & Lamoree vessel was the Matthew McNair. The Miller, Kitts & Moore vessels would become the Dispatch.

      Schooner Dispatch . - This is the name of the new schooner which was launched from the ship-yard of Miller, Kitts & Moore , Saturday last. her length of keel is 114 feet, breadth of ...

      This was the Matthew McNair.

      The new schooner built by Lee & Lamoree was launched yesterday afternoon in fine style. She is a strong and well built vessel. She is named the Matthew McNair , after one of our ...

      Obituary. ____ George Goble . To-day Oswego mourns one of her oldest and noblest citizens in the death of George Goble, for many years one of the best known shipbuilders on the Great ...

      Fire. - A fire broke out about 7:30 o'clock last evening in the long ship building connected with the Marine Railway of Messrs. Carrington & Pardee. It was occupied by Capt. Weeks and his ship carpenters and joiners, employed in preparing the upper works of the steamer. The ...

      Fast Elevating. - The grain warehouse of H. & G. Ames, on the east side of the river, elevated yesterday from the schooner Gazelle, 4,594 bushels of wheat in one hour and seventeen minutes, being the whole of her cargo, and discharged it into canal boats during the same time. …

      Capt. Week's newly invented wheel for propelling steamers, which we noticed a few days since, we understand is about to be tried upon the steamer Northerner, the Captain having contracted to put in a set of his wheels.