The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-31
PUGET SOUND SHIPS.
Scarcity Of Vessels in the Lum-
Der Trade.
INSUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF COAL.
information Wanted or Missing Sailor
seamen in Demand-First Arr,x.,
From Asiatic Russia.

roEr TOWNSEND, Aug. 30.-The freight
market Is exceedingly strong and export
ers are In bad fix, so far as obtaining
fresh supplies are concerned. This is
usually the busy season for lumber export
ing. but there are few ships to be had, and,
OF course, exorbitant rates are asked at San
francisco. Grain shipments and general
merchandise call for no comment I: is
now an assurance that the stock OF coal on
nand to meet our winter demand will be
barely sufficient. and it is so concentrated
mat liberal figures will be asked and paid
ior It. II quotations are marked mp unrea-
sonabiy, competition will spring up from
coal helds in this section. The Wellington
mine IS being worked by few non-union
miners, and the present output is required
locally IN British Columbia. There appears
to be formidable list to be loaded and
now afoat from Australia. Some of these
vessels viii not arrive here this year.
LATEST CHARTERS.
The charters made in the past week OF inter-
est TO the north coast are:
barxentine Quickssep, now on the way. 462
IONS, lumber from Burrard inlet to Shanghai:
Is as 6d-cher'ered prior TO arrival
British bark Guisna. 1.265 tons, now on the
Sound. lumber from Puget sound to Melbourne
C.
tered prior TO arrival
Norwegian ship Rubia. I.ol7 tons. now on the
Sound. lumber thence to Meibourne Is s. 3D.
chartered prior to arrival
German ship Columbus 1871 tons now on the
sound. lumber from Burrard inlet 10 Mel.
bourne; S7s Cd; Adelaide or Port Pirie, fs los
Chartered prior TO arrival
Bark Oregon, 4s4 tons. now at San Pedro, coal
from Nanaimo 10 San Francisco or San Pedro.
British ship Celeste Burrill, l764 tons, coal
nom Nanaimo TO San Francisco.
Barkentine Malay. 706 tons, coal from Port
Moody 20 San Francisco.
LUMBER EXPORTS DULL
The last week hes been the ligutest for the
export of lumber to foreign countries for some
time past Only three vessels have cleared in
eight days. The only explanation of the dull
ness in the trade is the large fur arrivals, az
chsrters are plenty, and there is lots OF tonnage
on the way. The CHILEAN bark Leaor cleared
August % for Valparaiso. She has 4i3.03i feet of
rough lumber. valued at si,iso "a. and 1850
feet of dressed lumber, valued at s., ss442.
August so the British bark Elizabeth Graham,
sos tons, Captain Hodge, cleared for Melbourne.
She has 1897 feet of rough lumber. valued at
s4692s7, and Ii, 800 la,hs and piekets, valued at
$4621s
August %. the British ship Anglo-American.
i.5Ss tons, Captain w. c. Smith. cleared for
Newcastle-on-Tyne. She has $40 o69 feet of
dressed lumber. valued at s3.ls742. 20o.70i feet
OF spars, valued ct s3,o1o56, and ,9o9 feet of
plank, valued at sle9s.1s. making the total
value of the cargo $l4, 9S6.s7
CHANGE OF MASTERS.
The following masters have been shifted since
the last report:
Jacob Scolander is again In command of the
Rainier +. Dibbern has charge of the steamer
Kliza Anderson. Chestoqua Petersen is in COM
mand of the schooner James g. Swan. T. E.
Schibbes has charge OF the steamer Union. NJ
D. Mccall Is in command of the steamer Lily
Captain John 0Brien IL back on the steamer
Premier. J. A. Williams is in charge of the
steamer Des Moines. Captain A. F. Sietson
temporarily commands the steamer George L.
Starr in lieu of d. I. Davis. George Wells is in
charge OF the steam barge Ludlow. NJ. B. Clark
is master of the tug Mascotte. and Captain ID
Troutman now commands the steamer Delta
INFORMATION WANTED.
Information is wsnted of the whereabouts or
fate of Daniel Heaiy, aged II years. He left
Puget sound last October in the ship Caronde-
let bound for Callao. He was paid eff from
the ship at Callso. and was last seen at Quay
aquil in a British steamer called the Santa
Ross. By certain meagre accounts which his
brother has gathered, the boy got frightened
about something, aud 1t evidently affected his
mind. It appears he ran away from the Santa
Rosa by lowering one of the ships boats and
has not since been heard of.
SHIPPING NOTES.
Demand for sailors continues lively. The
local agent OF the Coast Seamen's Union shipped
forty men during the past ten days in different
vessels for Australia and coastwise
The report that the schooner Maid OF Oregon
went down with all on board in Deception pass,
Monday, is pronounced untrue by the officials
OF the steamer Fsirhaven. They say the Maid
was In Whatcom Thursday.
The American schooner Vesta $50 tons Can
tain Friedberg, arrived yesterday, eighteen
days out from Honolulu. she brought ballast
and two passengers, and will carry lumber on
her return trip.
The barkentine Catherine Sudden arrived
yesterday from the east coast of Siberia. She Is
the first vessel TO enter Puget sound from her
port of entry on the Asiatic- Russian shore