The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-01

| The ColumDine returned from trip
to Tillamook Rock yesterday afternoon.
Two barges loaded with sand and stone
for the water works arrived from up the
river yesterday.
The steamer Wenona was on the ways
at the DaIgity Iron Works yesterday hav-
ing her engines overhauled
| The steamer Harrison returned from
Thlamook yesterday at p. m. She has
large load OF lumber aboard.
The Port Blakely Mill company has ar
ranged for the construction of an ele-
waited electric railway for handling lum-
ber and loading vessels. 1t is estimated
that the new road wifi increase the facil-
tiles for loading fully one-half more than
at present
The British ship Marechal Suchet has
been driven ashore while in harbor at
Kuchinotzu, in Japan. She was bound for
| San Francisco. The Marechal Suchet was
a vessel of 1,7S5 tons burden and her
cargo was consigned to q. o. Evans. 1t
is said she will be total loss.
The Blohm & VCss company, Hamburg,
| is about to build a huge iron floating
dock at Kuhwarder in the port of Ham-
burg The structure Ais ito be 622 feet
| long, 50 feet inches wide, and 20 feet
deep on a draught Of 81 feet and win
have lifting power of 1850 tons.
The steamer r. r. Thompson ran into
the Old Goss trestle around Smiths point
yesterday morning and broke down part
of the trestle. The steamer sustained no
damage being delayed a couple of hours
oTly. The cause of the accident was the
slight arrangement of the steering gear
The August pilot chart for the Pacific
ocean published by the photographic
office of the navy department, notes the
appearance June q, 1896, of a derelict
large wooden ship at about so degrees
north latitude and $50 west longitude,
mast and wreckage adrift; also large
log observed June 20 at Sc degrees north
and 1873 west.
The tramp steamer City of Antwerp
which arrived in Port Townsend last
week without a clean bill of health, and
was put in quarantine, was released yes
terday and will proceed up Sound to
Port Blakely. She will load full cargo
of assorted lumber at the Blakely mill
for Delagoa bay, Africa, and it is esti-
mated will carry over 100000 feet.
Mr.. Herrick sold all the fish that he had
canned this season at a good price to-
day, and feels somewhat encouraged,
says the Times-Mountoineer On the
prospect of there being good run of
salmon this season he erected a cannery
this spring at great expense, and has
not had good days run since the sea-
son opensd. Another year the river may
be full of salmon and the enterprise Of
Mr.. Herrick will be rewarded
The Hawaiian Commercial Journal and
Maritime Report is the name of a new
weekly started in Honolulu. 1t is de-
voted to the agricultural, commercial,
financial, industrial and shipping inter,
ests Of Hawaii. The first number con-
tains a good deal of information valu-
able both to residents and non-residents
of the islands, and the publisher, w. ]. |
Gallagher, is to be congratulated on the
makeup and typographical appearance of
the new publication.
The United States steamer Mohican. |
now lying at anchor in Tacoma harbor, |
will probably remaln there for several |
days. Today the tug Favorite delivered |
IS tons of navy coal on board the gov
ernment vessel, and the work of testing |
its general usefulness will be proceeded |
with This grade of coal seems to be
about the quality necessary for general |
use aboard war ships as the Mohican
has ordered 168 tons to be delivered after |
tests Of the present lot are finished and |
to be used for her next "trip.
H. B. Weaver Of Baltimore has built
steam launch which he claims to be
the smallest in the world. The length
of the launch is nine feet and 1t will
carry three persons. The beam is thirty
two inches and there is a nine inch pro-
peEor. The engine which Mr.. Weaver
says has been declared the smallest mar
inc engine in the world, 1t is an erect pat
tern Of those used in large steamers, and
weighs only sixty-fve pounds. The water
and air pumps are concealed from view.
The complete weight of the launch with
all equipment is 175 pounds. Oak and
cedar were used in the construction.
The Standard OIL company will, some
time this month try the experiment Of
towing oil barges from the Atlantic ports
to Europe, something which has never
bsfore been tried, and which, " success
full, will have marked effect on the
foreign oil trade and towing business
The British tank steamer Lackawanna,
now bound for New York from Liver
pool will load at Philadelphia with 32l,-
900 barrels of petroleum and with the
large four-masted barge, No. 58, of the
Standard OIL company in tow, will sail
for Southampton. The barge will be
loaded with 100000 gallons of naptfa, gas
oline and other coal oil products
The dredger w. S. Lldd went onto the
beach yesterday. She will be laid up for
two weeks during which time her stern
bearings will be repaired and her ma
chinery overhauled generally. Since COM
ing down the river to get through her
dredging work IN the vicinity Of the Sly
via de Grace the purchase Of the steam
er's supplies, etc, have caused the dis
tributlon of fully 5000 a month In As.
torbl. The channel where the Ladd has
been operating Is now cleared to a depth
of q feet result that is considered
highly satisfactory by the engineers In
charge Of the work. When her repairs
are effected the dredger will continue
operations on the hogback above Tongue
Point.
Statistics recently compiled show that
American commerce passing through the
500 canal is far ahead of that using the
Suez canal, both in number OF vessels and
tonnage. In 1894 the tonnage registered
at the 500 was 1s,110.500 ond az Suez
3, ,Os9, ,1O6. The size of vessels On both
routs Is steadily increasing. Ships draw