Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-09
Puget Sound Shipping.

the shipping interest on Puget
Sound can best be shown by Il COM
parative statement, which is FORUM
atelv at hand, compiled by DIR. L. I.
Minor, of Port Townsend, from Off
cial sources. He states that during
the year ending June 30, 1873, there
were SO sail and 80 steam vessels
documcnted AZ that port, with rar-
rWng capacity of 81 900 tons, which
is exceeded by that of only IS of the
l25 collection districts III the United
States, and exceeds the shipping of
more than nne-half of the States con-
sidered separately. The tonnage of
American vessels in the foreign
trade, which entered and cleared for
the same period, is as follows: En-
tered, 2G3 vessels, tonnage l52 ,S2S;
cleared 2S4 vessels, tonnage 167,-
IFS; which exceeds that of such
vessels 50 entered and cleared for
this same year at 120 of the 125
ports of entry in the country. The
tonnage Of foreign vessels i'll foreign
trade for the same period, was: En-
tered 46 vessels, tonnage 1895
cleared 81 vessels, tonnage 80, 1862,
exceeding that of the same year in
81 of the 125 ports Of entry. The
tonnage of American ocean steam
vessels, in the foreign trade which
entered and cleared at said port in
the same time, were: Entered IT'S
vessels, tonnage 1870, All; cleared 1873
vessels, tonnage 13l ,432, which is
exceeded by that of only two ports
in the United States, Now York and
Sad Francisco. The tonnage of
foreign ocean steam vessels in the
foreign trade, entered and cleared
for the same year, was exceeded by
that of but ten other ports of the
whole country. 1t is further noted
that Their are employed in the Puget
Sound trade at least IS deep-sea
vessels in the general coastins trade,
which are enrolled and licensed, thus
rendering it unnecessary to make
entry or clearance at the Custom
House. One.third of these vessels
are documented in the Puget Sound
District, and nearly all the remain
der in San Francisco.
In the year 1880, there cleared
from Port Townsend, American YES
sells for foreign ports during the four
months ending Oct. 30, G6 vessels,
with a tonnage of 49, pa, and for
the same period in 1881, itamounted
to Ill vessels and 65,393 tons, an
increase of As vessels and 10, 149
tons for the period taken for COM
parison Just closed. In 1880, for
the same four months there entered
American ships from foreign ports,
G2 vessels, with tonnage of AZ, 219,
and in the same period of the present
year 116 vessels, with 6S,365 tons,
an increase of SO vessels and &c, LAG
tons. The total number of Amer
lean steam vessels for the same per-
iod of 1880 entered from foreign
ports, was 80, with tonnage of 90
1923, and for a like period of the sue
ceeding year Y vessels, with tom
mage of 1893, an increase of ~
vessels and 2O,271 tons. There
cleared for the same period in 1880,
of American steam ships for foreign
ports, 33 vessels with n tonnage of
80. 339, and of that class of steamers
for foreign ports in the same months
OF 1881, 70 vessels and so, 2SS tons,
an increase of 40 vessels and 9,949
tons, or over 100 per cent. in one
year.
These figures indicate not only a
remarkable growth of our maritime
tlade, but an exceedingly satisfac-
tory commercial standing when CON-
pared with the great ports of the
Atlantic seaboard.