The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-18
MARINE NEWS AND NOTES.

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lumber.
The schooner Eureka sailed yes
terday for San Francisco loaded with
lumber from Skamokawa.
The British bark Star of Denmark
and the British ship Selene sail fol
the United Kingdom to-day.
The schooner Norma arrived from
San Francisco yesterday to load lum.
Der at the West Shore mills.
The schooner JnO. G.. North ar
rived from Santa Cruz with load OF
lime. She will load lumber at the
West Shore mills.
The Gen. Miles arrived from Shoal.
water bay yesterday with |, 800 cases
salmon of the Aberdeen Packing com
pany's brand, to be shipped east.
There are ten schooners loading
lumber in the river. The lumber ex-
port trade of the lower Columbia river
to California is something extensive.
The steamer Lillian, in connection
with the government works at Coos
bay, has proved herself fully equal to
the task of towing and holding the
large scows of rock in position for
dumping.
The largest sailing ship in the
world, the PGlgTdCe, left Sandy Hook
recently for Java with cargo of 132,
900 cases of refined petroleum, OF
about 100000 gallons. tits the larg-
est cargo ever exported in any one
vessel.
The Willamette Chief brought
down a barge with go bars of rail
road iron. weighing 311,OO0 lbs, to-
gether with fist bolts, plates, etc. This
Will lay IA miles more and Will be
taken to Skipanon at five o'clock this
morning.
The Truckee Lumber company have
decided to build a light draught
steam schooner to carry lumber from
Tillamook to San Francisco. Her
dimensions are to be 140 feet keel, 81
feet beam and ii feet depth of hold
The cost is supposed to be about $38.-
900.
The British bark Star Of Denmark
cleared yesterday for Queenstown
with 55,752 bus. wheat, worth S41, 800
The British ship Seleile cleared with
16, 81 bbls -four, worth $66,284, and
the American bark COtOmG for Hong
Kong with lumber, worth $4,000. The
COlOma has 1872 Chinese passengers
and seven cabin passengers.
The building of the Eddystone light
house on a reef of that name in the
English channel has always been re-
garded as a triumph of engineering
skill, but the proposed erection of a
beacon light on the Outer Diamond
shoal of Cape Hatteras will be a task
of far greater difficulty. The shoal is
composed of shifting sand, into which
a caisson will be sunk, and the cylin-
der will then be filled with quick-set-
ting concrete, thus making the struct-
ure practically monolith. Work can
only be done when the wind is of
shore. In towing out the caisson il
will have to be lifted over an eight
foot bar, and when the site shall have
been finally reached the crOwning diff
ficulty will be in getting itsunk evenly
and quickly into the sand.
The bark COreG at San francisco
last Saturday had rough passage OF
30 days from the canneries at Kusillos
at Cooks Inlet, Alaska. Captain
Cook reports that he was seven days
beating out OF the inlet in the teeth
of a southeast gale. The gale became
so strong that 49S cases of salmon
valued at nearly $4,000, had to be
thrown overheard to bring the leak
above water. The COred was hove to
at one time for 36 hours. The gale
continued, though veering to the sOutE
and southeast, until September Dist
The wind then backed into the north
east and veered into the southeast
again, the barometer being about
29.10. No northwest winds were haC
until October 10th. The catch al
Cooks Inlet for the season was Sc,
600 cases, of which the COreG brought
down 21,608 cases.
The steamer Francis Cutting left
Cooks Inlet at the same as the COreG
but has not arrived at San Francisco
yet owing to breakdown in her ma
chinery, which necessitated her put
ting into port for repairs.
Captain Cousins of the bark Alden
Bessie, which arrived the same day
with salmon, reports that Harry Holt
an employee of the Alaska CONNER
cial company, was drowned som'
weeks ago at Karluk. Holt was en-
gineer of a eam-launch. While tax
ing the captain out to the launch in
boat the latter capsized and Holt wa.
drowned. The captain clung to tn
boat and was saved. Holt was
Swede.