The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-05
SEA AND SHORE.
Loss Of the Schooner Argonaut
Near Point MOntara.
Two More Whalers Arrive From the Arctic
0cean-Arrival Of Four-Masted Bark
entine-Va!uabls Cargoes.
A dispatch received at the Merchants

A dispatch received at the Merchants
Exchange last evening from Spanish
town says: "The schooner Argonaut
is on the rocks one-half mile south
of Point MOntara. She is lumber-aden
and is total wreck; all hands safe"
The schooner last left here, in command of
Captain Lovdal, on July 30th for Astoria
She arrived there on August 21st and left on
August 9th. Since then she has been trading
between coast ports carrying lumber. She
sailed from Coos Bay on October 8th for this
port and evidently drifted south in the fog
The Argonaut was built in this city in
1880, and was owned by the Simpson Lum-
Der Company. Her dimensions were: Length
105 feet beam 80 feet, depth feet; gross
tonnage 1914, net 1S5. 1t is learned that both
cargo and vessel were insured but whether
fully and in what companies could not be
ascertaned last evening.
The weather was thick and hazy at Point
Lobos yesterday. A calm prevailed until
noon, when light breeze sprang up from
the west, which at o'clock in the afternoon
hauled to the northwest. The barometer
read: o'clock in the morning, 1910; noon,
30O6; 5 o'clock in the evening. 90 S.
ENTIRELY BROKEN UP.
Incoming tug captains report that the
schooner American Boy, which struck on
the North FaralloneS on Monday is entirely
broken up, and her cargo of lumber is
strewn all along the rocks. Among those
on board when she struck was the four-year
cid son of the captain. When the crew left
in the boat the little fellow cried to go back
to his papa's vessel. Afterward when the
tug Sea Queen picked up the boat he said he
thought it was nicer to go to San Francisco
on q steamer.
The ship Lucille has on board for New
York valuable cargo of general merchant
disc. 1t includes 1850 gallons brandy, %, $50
pounds of infusorial earth, 1882 pounds
mustard seed, 1860 pounds chrome ore,
1l,90l pounds shells, $3.50 cases salmon,
S6,l27 gallons wine and 1913, CAB pounds wool.
The iour-mas ted British ship w. j. Pirrie
has cleared for Liverpool with a cargo of
salmon and wheat valued at S166.900.
THE EFFICACY OF OIL.
On the odd ult the steamer Mexico. Cap
tain Patterson, was detained outside the
Columbia River bar by the heavy breakers
After waiting ten hours for the bar TO sub
side the captain determined to try the eff
cacy of oil. A quantity of waste was placed
in the closet pipes and oil poured on, allow
ing it to slowly drip through to the water.
The tide was rushing i'll and the Oil. there
fore. was carried in over the bar. The YES
sci was soon able to cross without shipping
a sea on board.
The ship Two Brothers locked at Ala
media yesterday the Boutwell, came down
from Nevada Dock and anchored in the
stream, and the c. c. Funk went to Lom-
bard street.
The w. II. Meyer and schooner Bonanza
will go to Oakland Creek to-day, the North
ern Light will dock at the Arctic Oil Works,
and the S. N. Castle will tow to sea.
The steamer Iillamook has on board for
Mexican ports general cargo valued at
$685..
TWO MORE wHALERs IN PORT.
The whaling barks Ranger and Northern
Light arrived yesterday, the former eighteen
and the latter nineteen days from the
Fox Islands. The Ranger brought 5005
pounds of bone for Il. W. Bartlett and the
Northern Light 200 barrels of oil and 5000
pounds of bone for James McKenna. Neither
vessel made any report excepting her catch
Twenty-Five vessels arrived in port yes
terday. The list comprised steamers,
ships, barks, barkentine, briggs and 10
schoouerS.
ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE.
The new four-masted barkentine Willie
r. Hume, Captain Brigham, arrived in port
last evening on her maiden voyage from
Coos Bay. She made the passage in days,
and brought a cargo of lumber Tor the Siinp-
son Lumber Company. She reports that
she sighted the wreck of the Mayfower on
the North Faralone.
Three vessels laden with coal and three
laden with salmon arrived in port Yesterday,