The morning call., 1892-07-12
ALONG SEA And Shore.
a Sparkling Fairy Story of Gold
i'm Alaska.
The Blackbirding Steamer Eontserrat Re-
ported ct the Gilbert Islands-Deep-
Water Ships Coming IL.

The cty-front wharves are beginning to
fill up at last. and yesterday the tOwboats
were kept busy for few hours with deep
water ships coming in. Among the latter
were the bark Harvester. 81 days from HilO /;
the bark Andrew Welsh, % days from Homo
lulu; the British ship Barcadale, G6 days
from Newcastle, n. S. W.; and the British
ship Port Stanley, 1877 days from Swansea.
The British ship Eurasis, 139 days from
London, with Il, ,2SS barrels of cement. also
arrived. In latitude deg. Al min. south,
on the Atlantic side, she experienced a
heavy gale which shifted the cargo.
The three-masted fishing schooner Czarna
came in yesterday after a run Of Is days
from Pirate Cove. Alaska. She brought
245, 900 pounds of Goldfish and two cases of
sea-otter skins.
The most interesting piece of news brought
down by the Czarina is the story of dis
cOyery which almost rivals the early DAYS
of placer mining in California. About 80
miles from Pirate Cove man named Burns,
while shooting bears along a cliffSida, came
upon ledge out of which-to use his own
expression-the gold was sticking out in
Jumps as big as his fingers. He brought
away some fragments of quartz very rich in
gold, and after sending the samples south to
be assayed returned TO bis find. Burns
says he wouldn't go to work now for $50 a
day. This is like fairy story.
Another report was brought down by the
Czarina to the effect that the prospectors in
the Apollo mines on Unga Island. in the
vicinity of Pirate Cove, have Struck it
rich, and have engaged all the available
labor on the island to get the stuff out.
Captain Schmalz OF the Czarina reports
the reyenue-cutter Rush at Sand Point har-
Dor, Shumagin Islands, on une 90, and that
the British sealing schooner Victoria, with
$50 sealskins, was In the harbOr at the time
In May the Helen Blum had 45 sea- otter
skins, the Emma skins and the Mary
Brown 6 skins.
1t has been learned that the blackbrding
steamer Montserrat. which went from here
TO Nanaimo in April and thence to Homo
lulu and the Gilbert Islands, has reached
the laSt-named group. King TubrmOTa
was very cordially received by his people,
and no time was lost in getting several
hundred Islanders on board en- route to the
Mexican coffee plantations at San Bealto.
The MOntserrat took away 1900 sacks of rice
10 feed the poor fellows on the voyage to the
Mexican coast.
Captain George Pease, who Is in charge of
the work of removing cargo Of $500 tons
OF steel rails from the wreck of the British
ship AbercOrn at Grays Harbor, has COM
peted the work. wharf 1900 feet long
with frontage OF 140 feet, had to be built.
and some of the piles were driven through
the wreck of the ship. Nearly the entire
cargo was saved, and as the rails have been
cast away nearly three years, there will be
no duty to pay on them.
Assistant Secretary SPaulding of the
Treasury Department has informed the
American Steel Barge Company of Everett,
Wash, recently established, that riyets,
iron or steel for use in the construction of
vessels cannot be admitted free under any
circumstances. section s of tile tariff act re-
ferring only to anchors, chain, cables, life
saving apparatus, nautical instruments, etc.
As soon as the regatta committee of the
Fourth of July have distributed the money
prizes the eity-frOnt boatmen will get UP a
Whitehall regatta Of their own, for which
seven entries are already promised at 81 a
boat.
The moves yesterday included the ship
Galena from stream TO Union; the ship
EuraSia from sea to stream the bark An
drew Wild from Fort Point to stresm; the
barkentine Tam O'Shan:er from Howard
TO Channel; and the schooner William Rem
ton from stream to the mud q ats.