The morning call., 1894-04-05
RUSTY MACHINERY
The Willamette Valley in
More Trouble.
NOT PROPERLY CARED FOR.
Owned by No One, Yet Claimed
by Everybody.
DOCKING OF THE SOMALI,
Ping Suey to Be Analysed = Some
Interesting Facts About Coffee
Shipments.
DOCKING OF THE SOMALI

There is S125, 600 steamer that will not
be worth more than half that amount
before long if something is not done to
preserve her machinery.
Ii is the Willamette Valley, erstwhile
the property of the Oregon Pacific Railroad
Company. but now SO plastered with at
tachments that almost everybody asserts
a claim upon her.
The Willamette Valley is at Beale-streeJ
wharf. where she is in charge of deputy
Sheriff pending the settlement that may
never come of the Oregon Pacific's tangled
business.
None of the Oregon corporations credit
ors cared to expend any money in insuring
the steamers running gear from the en-
croachments CT rust, nor did the corpora
ton itself have the means to prepare their
ocean carrier for such long state Of
siege as that to which she has been
subjected by those who are clamoring for
the money due them from Receiver Had
lev ct al.
1t was learned yesterday that the VIII
lamette Valleys engines need immediate
attention to save them from destruction.
Quite crowd gathered at the Oriental
dock yesterday TO see the big ship SomaIi
come in to the wharf. The tugs Vigllant
and Fearless brought her from the stream
and placed her alongside the pier without
any trouble.
Such of the Somali'S cargo as is Ping
Suey tea will be analysed TO ascertain
whether it is highly adutrrated or not.
If it comes up to the required standard of
excelency it will be allowed discharged
by the Custom-house authorities.
The Japanese exporters are throwing all
the blame for Ping Suey expectations
upon the American importers, and make
the statement that the trade demanded
the furnishing of brand of cheap teas.
1t come TO light through the japanese
papers that the authorities of Japan are
determined TO put stop TO The exporting
of adulterated teas, and will aid our local
revenue men in suppressing the traffic in
them.
The merchants of lower Spear street
were treated to a genuine surprise yesteT-
day when piledriver was set to work re-
pairing the ruined roadway that has been
an eyesore to that neighbOrhood for sew
eral months.
Some time ago THE CALL invited the at
tension IF the Street Department to the
thoroughfare, and shortly aflerward the
Board of Supervisors made an appropria-
ton for its repair.
Captain Seabury was on the bridge of
the City of Sydney wnen she sailed yes
terday for the Orient. Captain Frank II.
Johnson, formerly of the City OF New
York, who commanded the Sydney during
her last trip south, will wait his turn for
another ship.
Captain Jobnson's friends are all anxious
to see that the Mail Company Will promptly
provide for him.
Workmen are making some pretty ex-
tensive repairs to the City of Puebla at
Broadway wharf, including the strength
ening of her hurricane deck and the plac-
ing Of new main-deek bulwarks where the
old ones have become decayed.
Coffee imports and exports have created
some interest of late.
For the month of March, 1898. the i'm
ports of coffee were as follows: Per City of
Sydney, 1912 sacks. on March 6; per Aca-
pulco, March Is, 1920 sacks, and per San
Juan, on March "a. 752 sacks, making a
total of 1884 sacks
From February IA to March ii of this
year As, 561 sacks of coffee were received at
Panama from Pacific Mail steamers while
from Central America 53,551 sacks were
shipped to Europe dirpct-a total Of 102. 212
sacks, against the 1892 sacks received at
San Fran cisco during March. This leaves
d ference in favor of European ship
meDts of $500 sacks.
Captain Drisko took the steamer South
Coast out yesterday, vice Captain Hig-
gins, who remained in the city to attend to
his father. Captain James Higgins ST.,
who narrowly escaped drowning Tuesday
morning and who is now in precarious
condition.
When the little steamer Arctic bound
for Labraska Bay, got outside the heads j
yesterday mol ming part of her machinery
broke down. She had to be towed back
to port then to the Fulton Iron Works for
repairs.
The bark Coryphene leaves section of
the seawall to-day for Alaska with 800
tons of freight for the Alaska Packers
Sixty-fye Chinese will be sent north on
the bark.