Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-05
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WHY -.o-s ss1i,,5zll1s2g Il Lot d0zae o.
p-.<s sozod : az enigma isss1
,,,ss,s~s ia dsns. but tsss-s n ro'n le1
an immense trace,
More ,hzr q dozen nsz steam aso.l.
VII be bsiss 3. It's Fsoint TINS ye>'
Five have already been laaHrt7a eIaa
sig are no~ o. TIE stocks Tbs = oss-
,,hsn ersr VAS done before, bet $ =
-.,s, z,tE.iu tie ds1ards 20 ssprs5 Enscs
eastern shipyords have been called Up
xs5s- bosts .rs Constantly benz
ssy,, herr from Oregon and Csifornis-
IL. really unnecessary 70 iraf'5r' AZ :
erzf.. So far fro1a do.ag it.is- ~e stao'ao
he constantly tailding 30 soPssF oe1s'
waters. Bo4.s can be b1sli better e-o
cheaper than anrzters else On fns rH-
rise o,zs.. and j: is I'd credit 10 local
en.ervri,e tbs. they are no< boilt-
A considerable number Of se9ooiasfsr
hykertiues and barks have beelI e'1il' %
Page. sound during the pass fsS years
and two fine large ships These st.1]
wins. can be done, and Eo1ld be xorfn
t.,astiu0 Of we're no. a greater number
~ Ike vessels built during the same
,er,od Of tine at the less advantageous
IL located port IF san Frarcise1.
A ship yard here has tbs pick OF its
,umber from tbs yard Of the NIL, OF
shat il better can 90 10 the logs IN Tue
boom and have cut the dimensaon-
wanted. Better sticks are ostainso' AID
the Waste is less. Further, the home
yard saves - Thousand feet on the
TRANSPORTATION Of Lumber compared
with the San Francisco yard. lhis
makes A difference in favor Vi the f1-
oet Sound builder of from Slr5p 10
10 1900 on every vessel built OF from
90 10 800 tons measurement.
In repairing old vessels there - per
baps more money than in bniiding new
ones. Beyond repairing the ordinary
Sound craft. almost absolutely no'tinl
is done in this direction. Were the op
portaiii.y afforded them OF rep .iring
here, one half, m1ybe. the lumber ane
coal droghers plying in our trade wouif
be Annually pa. in ship shape" In ia
Puget Sound yard.
What is needed, and what would pa,
here, is a yard on q large scale, cover
ing q surface Of twenty acres. and hay
ing front 10 the SouBd Of several hun
bred feet, perhap, q thousisd. Her
should be steam power and shops, ant
ways for the hauling oot Of vessels o
ton or twelve hundred tons measure
Inent. They should be able TO repai
any mishap 70 any ordinary woodei
ship. They shoald be able 10 build ane
equip, from keel TO masthead. sail YES
sells fit for coas.wise or foreign trade
and they should he able 10 turn out
machinery and all, steamers like thu
Washington or North Pacific, and eyei
BlYGtf hIu DfbtfE OHcEs ~ uo a'i ibA
would require capital Of over hun
dred thousand dollars, and would ns
eessitate the employment u st leas! tv'
hundred men. There is nothing vision
AIRY ia what ve have written. The pro
position il based upon the present trad
Of the coast, upon work nor bsing done
partly here, bat principally in the dock
and yards Of San Francisco.
With increased facilities OF that kins
work could DO done cheaper and in |
superior manner and the trade wouls
grow. II might. and We see 40 reason
for doubling it. expand until. As viii
Goss d Sawyer. the Cramps. and TIL
Itoschs of the Atlantic. the yard wouit
Tsqaiie Doubling and trebling in area
tbs force Of operatives would reach fy,
hundred and thousand in number
and until the largest vessel that Aoat
could be built or repaired.