The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-23
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.


The Mlnzanita win leave out for Puget
Sound tomorrow.
The Harrison left out yesterday morn
Ing for Tillamook.
The Alice Blanchard is due from San
Francisco this morning.
Tile steamer Oregon leaves San Fran.
cisco for this city today.
An0ther week will puobably complete
the sounding work of the Lincoln.
Six car loads of salmon were taken ur
the river last night for shipment East,
Advantage will be taken of the Potter's
forced idlenests in Portland to thorough
ly clean her boilers.
The Rlthdown took aboard 1000 cases OF
salmon yesterday afternoon from the
Cutting Packing Co.
The r. r. Thompson will be down from
Portland this morning. The Queen will
be laid up in the boneyard for overhaul
ing.
The Lndd took aboard 40 tons of Bea-
yer Hill coal yesterday morning and
went out in the afternoon Ito continue
her dredging work in the inside channel.
Captain Jordan, of the steamer Queen,
has returned from his vacation, and
Captain Haslam was taken over on the
steamer yesterday to his ranch on Crook
ed Creek.
The steamer North Pacific took the
Potter's trip down the river yesterday,
the company's flagship being tied up in
Portland with a disabled wheel. The
Potter will be on her run again in few
days
The steamer Signal arrived in port yes
terdAy morning from Vancouver, B. c.,
via Puget Sound. She had aboard II
Cinnamon, 15 for Portland and two for
this city, and 10 tons of rails for the
Astoria Street Railway Co.
The British ship Wasdllle and the
American ship Belle O'Brien cleared on
Wednesday, from San francisco for
NSuCNuloNONult lllG IOllLNl MfuAl u-IViO NSh-
tails of wheat, Vllued at $57, 433, and the
latter with 6O,133 centals, value dat $62,-
400.
Columbia Harbor No. % met last night
and discussed several matters Of interest
to the organization. The Harbor Is an,
Xlously awaiting a reply to their last
communication TO the department with
reference to new buoys for the Blind
Channel and other localities.
The new British warship Terrible was
launched on the Clyde on the 17th of
May. She is a firIst-class steel cruiser,
copper shealthed, of 1920 tons displace.
ment, 5000 indicpfted horsepower, tsti-
mated to give her a speed of % knots,
is 5a feet long and has a II foot beam.
She will carry crew of 800 and have two
22-ton and IS quick-firing guns. The Ter
rlble is looked upon as the most powerful
vessel of her type in the world.
Two of the March wheat flett from
this port, says the San Francisco journal
of Commerce, have reported ait Queens
town. These are the ST. Enock, 1O7 days,
With 5000 tons, and the Stronsl 9S days,
with 1850 tons. The last named was
loaded and cleared by Eppinger & Co.,
She is the first vessel to make this trip
in two figures in two years. 1t is some-
thing of coincidence that the preceding
one, THE Andeluna, hence February 20,
1893, was also loaded by Eppinger e. Co..,
and made the trip in SO days. The
steamer Bendo, which left here May "a.
1898, made the trip in 81 days. Recently
several ships have been reported at Eng
land from this port in 105 to III days.
Last Friday" says the Yaquina Bay
News, 1--WE had the pleasure to see the
schooner Mary Bidwen being towed into
our bay, by the tug Robarts. The diff
ference between the two reports about the
depth of water at the bar is as yet unex-
planned. The captain of the tug gave out
that there was 8 feet of water on the
bar, while the mlte on the schooner took
soundings all along over the bar and
found not less than two and one-half
fathoms, that Is Is feet. People here are
inclined to think that the mate made no
mistake. The schooner brought about 30
tons of freight She loaded 100000 feet
of lumber nnd was ready to leave Tues,
day. Two more schooner loads of lum-