The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29

age is over $500 more than it was at the
sane time last month. Nearly every
berth is occupied or spoken for. and The
grain sheds at sections ! and Of the sea-
wEli are taxed to their utmost capacity
Apropos Of grain. at Lombsrd-street
wharf the North American Navigation
Company's steamer Keweenaw is loading
with one of the largest cGrgoes of grain
ever carried OF a Panama line steamer.
McNear's corner on the grain market may
have something to do with the keweenaw's
big grain cargo, but cheap freight rates
and quick transportation are really the in
centives for the shipments.
About fifty stevedores aud employees of
the North American Navigation Com
pany labor on Lombard-street wharf
daily. One year ago no person with
any other occupation than that Of An
angler could have been found beneath the
big dockshed. So much for competition
and the dawn Of better times.
Next door TO the bard-street pier
are the offices of the OREGON Pacific Rail-
road Company. d. r. Vaughn, general
agent of this line, had brand-new piece
of intelligence to convey to the public
through the columns of THE CALL. Traf-
fic arrangements have been perfected be-
tween the North American Mitigation
Company and the Oregon Pacific Railroad
whereby hop-growers OF Southern Oregon
can ship their cargoes TO New York via
Il
lines for 81 46R per hundred, or S32 cents
cheaper than they can ship them from
Oregon to New York by rail. Arrange
ments TO handle this class of business are
now being considered.
"Ano her thing l wish TO tell you" said
Mr.. Vaughn. Zone OF the finest sand.
stone Quarries on the Pacific Coast has
been discovered on the line of our road.
We have arranged with the corporation
that owns the quarry TO transport the
stone for go cents cubic foot laid down at
San Francisco. All or nearly all of this
stone will come TO San Francisco. 1t is
the finest quality of silver gray stone and
unsurpassed for building purposes. Now
you can readily see what our business
prospects are; and as to an increase of
business, yes, it has been particularly no.
ticeable during this present month. Ore
gon wheat is little behind on account of
the early rains in the Willamette Valley,
but last trip our steamer brought down
| $50 tons, and we expect full cargo next
week Times certainly are better"
Broadway wharves / and 2 are full of
freight and the Pacific Coast Steamship
| Company has forgotten that it intended to
| cut down its list of help and is now hoping
Freight business is not only good. but it is
actually brisk. and passenger traffic
| never was better.
The California Navigation Company,
operating a line of steamers to Stockton,
| is doing a land-office business. Their
| steamers, the j. ID. Peters and Il. G.
| Walker, have made their regular trips to
| Stockton this week loaded to their utmost
capacity and have returned with equally
| large cargoes. Stockton is buying and
| shipping at a lively late, and Washington
street whalf and the State are getting the
full benefit Of its rapidly growing traffic.
do you see that freight? asked j. ID.
| Pierson, a San Joaquin wheat-raiser. point
! ing to lot Of merchandise marked for up
river points. "Well, that's more merchan-
disc than I've seen moving to points out
side OF the city of Stockton for a long
while. You will see ten times that amount
/ of freight piled up on this wharf If the
Stockton and San Joaquin Valley road is
| built"
| There was not space enough yesterday
morning on Jackson-street wharf to turn a
! two-wheeled cart around in. Teams have
to take their turn in line now when they
want to go on Jaekson-street wharf when
| river steamer is 10.
AS to Deep water shipping, the wharves
south of the ferries have been transformed
| from large expanses of dust-laden plank
ing to merchandise-cOvered freightre-
| ceivers. HarrisoD-street wharf has enough
general merchandise on 1t TO start half
dozen good sized stores.
The ships Sterling and j. b. Thomas
are making the Southern Pacific envious
by discharging merchandise that the rail-
| road used to have exclusive control over.
| One month ago Harrison-street wharf was
| almost deserted.
Heward-street piers / and 2 are filled
with busy workers. and at Steuart-streel
wharf tho little Russian steamer Katie Is
discharging b er cargo of sealsklns. About
fifty men are employed packing the skins
in barrels for shipment to England and
taking out the vessels cargo. About