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.. Brn to.Ufctf•# Cfl^A FonriW ,*«r ttg 2ott* ; - •! Just at pr$*enktow* Is manifested a good 4eat of activity at th# old boneyard, wfech. fronts tW‘riv6r in the northern pari of the city. Yesterday ObMokUh reporter made * flying visit to that part Of the town, and found things ^lively the*© ah anywhere else within the olty limits. A small army of men are constantly at work on the new and elegant steamer Fannie Potter, which lies on the stocks. Carpenter*/' boiler makers, machinists, painters and glariers, were found mingling in a sort of 4‘ordejiy confusion,M if the paradoxical expression is admissible, and all Juafc as busy as bees in June.. The crash of saws, clatter of hammers, and the loud ringing clangor of the boiler makers, all combined to produce a bulf-deafening and bewildering did. However, this busy scene, and the loud notes of human Industry are sonic of the many cheerful indications that Portland is moving steadily forward, in the course of improvement.Mr. J. H. Stefleu, whofcns personal charge • of the work, was seen here, thpre and every-s where, giving directions to. tlie men. and . pushing the different departments of labor * as rapidly forward as possible. Practically,1 the Fannie Potter, when completed, will be a . new boat. In one sense, the onlt;re elegant and swift atcnmor Wide West hiis been re- 1 built, but when one comes to look at the new boat, which Is rapidly approaching the fin: going touches, there is very little of the \ ide West left—at least only email portions that are recognisable. Nearly all the traces of the old boat are obliterated—swallowed upand absorbed in the new work. And then the original plan has been almost entirely remodeled. Thn new steamer hrm hXnb■eiII:iafitb*TsmelwYt6\0SI01T. pi st: m . at to n* of in th fo dt th thdrE.
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Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Fri, Apr 20, 1888
Page 8
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Michael C.
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