, 1883-09-27
SHIPPING NEWS.

| Snip DANIEL L. Ienney, coal laden a
Seattle for S. F.. was towed to sea toda,
! by tug Escort No. =
| Tug Bla kelley went to Pt. Moody {,
tow mp ship Campbell to PIT. Blakeley-
loads lumber for west coast S. A.
The steamer Gazellle, it is announced
is about to resume her trips between Sc,
attle and the NoOksack river.
The ship Siren arrived last night (Fri
day. from Shanghai, via Royal Roads
She will load a. Seattle for S. F.
The Eliza Anderson, Capt. Tom Wright
is about to go on theWestlninister route
50 says the AnacoTtes Enterprise.
Bark Montana and barlzentine Graee
Roberts are now on their way to Puget
Sound from Guaymas, Mexico.
The Wilmi ngton reports having had t
rough passage from San Francisco tc
this port, owing to heavy northerIy
weather outside
Sailed today ODD Bktne. Emma
Augusta lumber laden at Port Madison
for S. F. Schr. Excelsior, lumber laden
at Port Blakely for Townsville, Aus.
tralia.
The bark Nanaimo was sold last week
to w. G. Ward. of the Bank OF British
Columbia, at Namaimo, for $4,000
She is a new vessel, and probably cost
nearly or quite S40,00O.
On Saturday last the tug J. B. Libby
succeeded in getting the bark Forest
Queen off the sand point on which she
had drifted- The bark Was towed back
to Tacoma, and after undergoing the
few needed repairs will put to sea again.
Seattle Chronicle.
The bark Martha Rideout. which ar
rived at Tahiti leaking and in distress,
sailed from there August 18th. At the
time of sailing she was leaking three
inches per hour, and new crew had to
ipc engaged to work her to Honlulu.
From there she will probably go to Pu-
getSound.
'The new iron side-wheel steamer
Olympia, just launched by the Harlan Il
HcIlingsworth Company, of Wilmington,
Del, for the Oregon Railway & Naviga-
ton Company, and for service on Puget
Sonno', will be, when completed, one of
the fin, ,7st steamers of her class ever con-
structed for the western coast OF the
United States. She is 260 feet between
perpendiculars, go feet over all, 40 feet
beam of hull, and II feet inches depth
from base line to top of deck beams. She
is fine nc del, and OF unexcelled work
manship AMI material throughout.
1t will be remembered that about a
year ago the English steamer Escam-
bia upset while going out of San Fran
cisco harbor, and sunk. The English
Consul called together board, consist
ing of English ship captains, who ex-
onorated the officers, and declared the
Joss of the vessel due to the peYils of the
sea, and ON this finding the insurance
companies were made to pay about S40,-
600, for the loss Of the steamer. The
courts of England took the matter up
and have reversed the findings of the
improvised court and compelled the
owners of the Escambia to pay the money
back TO the insurance companies.
SCHOONER SOLD Capt. G. w. Morse
and G. c. Bartlett. Esq, owners OF the
schooner Granger, have sold her to Capt
Hickman. We learn that the purchase
price was S2300. Capt Hickman will
keep the schooner in the local trade. He
will carry two more loads of lumber from
the saw mill here to Whatcom, probably
bringing building stone from Chuckanut
ON return trips. She is staunch craft,
is in excellent condition, and is consid-
cred quite cheap. We are told that u
larger schooner will probably lie built,
however. to take her place III the Alaska
trade, and that steam engine will be
used to aid in calm or unfavorable
weather.
DIFFICULTIES OF NAyIGATIoN.-Ag ger.
tleman who went around to Portland on
the steamship Umatilla, in speaking of
the trip said: "Our steamer did not
take full cargo of coal for fear of get
ting stuck on the bars in the Columbia
and Willamette rivers. When we reached
the mouth of the Columbia the Una
tilla was drawing nineteen feet of water.
Catching the tide full, we crossed in over
the bar without difficulty and proceeded
up some distance, when we hung on a
bar, but at high tide floated off, and got
up to the mouth OF the Willamette,
where we stuck and had to be
lightered. While there, the Oregon came
along bound for San Francisco, but as
we had the channel and could not get
out of it, the passenger steamer laid by
for six hours watching us discharge our
coal on the lighters sent to our relief At
IS feet We again floated, but stuck again
within sight of Portland, and again had
to be lightered, We were thus detained
on our trip nearly two days by the sand
| bars in those streams.-P0St- InteUigeR-
Ger. ia