The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-16
ALONG THE WHARVES.
Big Shipment Of seaIskins
From Seattle.
STEAMER wALLA wALLA SAILS.
nssvy Cargo Brsssht ~ shs CITY u
Fsssla- suss.sainssr OFT As.i.--
Lsey Lsws 1giesise.

Fssbls-- Mesntsinssr OFT Ag.in-
Lsey Lsws lgiesiss.
In 6chwabaeher Bros Co.'S warehouse.
On Union dock. are ifty-seven barrels.
which. with their contents, are valued at
$4,000 The ordinary observer would not
b likely to guess at once what the barrels
contained, and probably few know that
seaiskins are exported packed in liquor
barrels. The shipment Is . lot Of 2,4l5
redskins which r. Petkovits has purchased
tins season, the largest lot ever bought
here Nearly I'll were brought in by the
Allie !. Agar. and Mr.. Petkovits consigns
them to dyer in London. The SKINS 70
BY way Of steamer to Vancouver, thence
By the Canadian Pacific East and pass
through New York Part Of the lot viii b
sold In London and the remainder dyed
and returned TO Mr.. Pesk0yits for his use
here. A year Is occupied in the process
before the furs can be manufactured
into garments. Mr.. Petkovits bought
. lot Of skins year ago which have been
dyed In London and we're shipped to him
on the 4th inst. They will be about sixteen
days on the way from London. Ill seal
skins Of value are dyed in London by 4
secret process. The skins bought this sea-
son, Mr.. Petkovits says, are shove the
average in quality. Az the seals grow
scarce the price advances. Raw skins had
advanced 50 per cent since last season,
and . still further advance Of 30 per cent
Il noted in the market. Manufactured seal
furs have advanced only Is per cent. g
Jet, but are likely to go higher.
The steamer Walls walla sailed for San
Francisco last evening with fair passen-
ger list and light cargo Of freight Thefol-
lowing il list Of those who took passage
from Seattle: Mrs E H. Perry, Mrs. II.
E. McGairie and child. ]. Z. Berg. E. N.
Oseigby. A. r. Wool, Miss l. A. ellis,
Mrs. w. K Mills. Mrs. T. Ashland, w.
Wetbered. Edward Role, H. w. Webb,
Fred B. Chandler. w. B. Shaw, J. H Nc
Claire, J. G. Eaton, Madame lie vanway
and companion, Mrs. G. D. Lane. Miss Ida
Lane. Miss L. Mccain. John Megrath, wife
and two children, Mrs. A. b. Conerty,
Mrs. Isabella McCord. Mrs. Carrie Horn
brook, O. b. Gourteilotte and wife, C.
Sheffield and wife, A. Murphy and wife,
Mrs. Amos, E. q. McLoon, J. J. Mitchell
and wife, n. 7. Crandall, J. C. Wiley. E.
A. 6hattuck, Charles Brown, William Ebel,
Mrs. A. 7. Smith and Mrs. T. Carlson and
child.
"A million feet OF lumber Is not much Of
load for ship" said Harbormaster
Rogers yesterday. Il loaded LOOT. 900 feet
on the old Enoch Talbot ct Yesler's mill,
in this harbor, fifteen years ago. ]. N.
Colman ran the mill then, and owned an
interest in the vessel. We took our cargo
to San Francisco. first came to this
harbor thirty-one years ago, as mate Of
ship. Ran from Portland to Sitka in 1869,
in the George 8. Wright, which was after-
ward lost in Alaska waters with al hands,"
The steam launch Nettie B., owned by
the Wilcox Fish Preserving Company, of
Port Townsend, steamed up from that
place Tuesday evening in four and one
half hours. The boat IS a handsome one,
il fitted with m extra large engine, and
can make ten knots an hour. She was
built at Port Townsend for the company,
and will b used to tow in its fishing boats.
She came 20 Seattle on her first trip to be
inspected. She 10 not finished yet. having
no house over her engine.
For seven weeks the bowling whistle of
the Mountaineer. Captain Ellis steamer,
had not been heard in the harbor, as the
vessel was having extensive repairs made,
but yesterday the echoes were awakened
by the wild wailing Of the old steam flute.
The Mountaineer has had its boiler length
ened. its pilot house enlarged and two new
rooms added for the accommodation of the
skipper and his crew. and the entire boat
has been dressed in new garb of paint
The Gasoline. . little steam launch owned
by John Boyle, of Tacoma, was towed in
yesterday by the Buckeye. The launch
was on the way to Neah bay when the
storm came on last week. and was forced
to tie up at Edmunds. where she was filled
with water in the gale and sank. She was
raised Monday, and will be taken back to
Tacoma.
The Wasp brought in . boom of logs
yesterday morning that broke apart after
getting inside the harbor, and in working
TO pick up the scattered logs Captain
Brooks slipped of into the water. His in.
voluntary cold bath acted as an invigor-
ator after his all-night voyage.
The Lucy Lowe went to the islands last
Thursday for cargo of lime for j. r. PEN
ningt0n and should have reached the har-
Der with her load Sunday, but she is still
out and no word has been received from
her.
The Washington met with q slight acct
dent while crossing into the harbor yester-
day afternoon, the key of her bed plate
slipping, but soon repaired the damage and
steamed up alongside the dock.
The Eastern Oregon had two changes in
her working force yesterday. +. NJ. Car
-oll succeeded f. T. Coulter as purser. and
T. f. Tanyon, formerly on the City of Pu-
ebla, is now freight clerk.
Captain r. s. Robinson has named his
new boat, building at Port Orchard, the A.
r. Robinson, and Almond & Phillips are
making her engine and ali the connecting
machinery.
The Wasco brought in seventy bales of
hops from Sehome for Jones & ellis, and
twenty-seven bales from Anacortes for the
Badere Milling Company.
The Dispatch towed Contractor Lang's
piledriver to Holmes harbor yesterday,
where he will drive the piles for a wharf
for Anderson & Kirk.
The General Fairchild and Rufus f.
Wood. loaded with coal, and the Fred Z.
Sander, loaded with lumber. will be ready
for sea today.
Lilly. Bogardus & Co. received twenty
tons of hay on the Quincy YESTERDAY and
1000 sacks of oats on the Henry E. Bailey.
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