The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-11

the oPtter won it too.
Then again several people are saying
that there was no race at all.
The Sierra Parma loaded an additional
1900 cases Of salmon yesterday at the
o. R. and N. dock.
The Alice Blanchard left San Francisco
Yesterday for this city. She should be
here on Wednesday.
The Bandorille Is expected down the
river today. A large quantity of freight
VIII be sent on her from here to Southern
Oregon points.
Inc salmon season wa sbrought to a
close at midnight with an excellent catch
as result Of yesterdays work. The
boats averaged fully II fish.
The steamer Truckee leaves Portland
this morning. She will probably be ready
TO go cut from Astoria on her trip down
TO San Francisco tomorrow afternoon.
According to the London Grocers' Ga
zette, the French sardine fishing con-
unues to be nil, and first-class sardines
are now almost impossible to obtain:
particularly in 1907. size. There are a
lew cases of quarters about, and a little
Improvement has taken place in the de-
lnand for better class stuff. The Port
ugese fishery continues to be very irregu-
lar, and since last May there has not
Deen single day of really good fishing,
Inc market for better class Portuguese
mas been slightly strengthened by the
failure of the French fishery.
The Chronicle says ''the new schooner
Kodiak, which was launched about two
weeks ago from Turner's shipyard at
Benecia, arrived here today, and was
locked at the foot of Stuart street. The
schooner was built for the Alaska Pack
ers Association, to take the place of the
vessel OF the same name which was lost
on Kodiak Island April 14th last. There is
yet considerable work to be done on her
before she will be ready for sea. When
completed she will carry supplies to the
nshlng fleet. The Kodiak has not been
measured yet, but it is estimated by her
builder that she will register about It's
tons.h
at San Francisco last month were disap-
pointing, says the Bulletin There are a
dozen vessels that ought to have come
in during that month, but did not. One
ship from New York saved the domestic
Atlantic from being a. blank The three
ships from Europe hailed from Antwerp,
Liverpool and Swansea, respectively. Ar
rivals from Europe this month promise to
be much larger. This is also true of the
Australian fleet. The arrivals last month
from unspecified sources include the Gar
net Hall, 2,1S6 tons, in ballast from Mex
ico, to accapt grain charter. Arrivals for
August promise to be considerably larger
than for July.
The American ship A. G. Ropes, while
OH Cape Horn in the midst of stormy
and freezing weather, was boarded by
and unusual visitor in the shape of a
green parrot. AS the wind was blowing
toward the shore, which was twenty miles
dlstant, 1t could not have come from that
wlntry land, and as no vessel was in
sight, the manner in which that bird of
the tropic zone got in that icy 1octlity Is
a mystery and its few words of Spanish,
'all its stock and store" cannot make the
matter plain. First Mate Boyd, says the
Call, is working during his off-Watch,
teaching the stranger sufficient English
to tell the fate of the ship it left, per-
cnance foundering off the stormy cape.
The era of marine telegraphy seems to
nave created new taste in the minute
organisms known as the "gribble." This
little creature has developed a liking for
the telegraphic insulating materials, just
as larger animals have acquired taste
for bananas. They find their way in be-
tween the sheathing of strong iron wire
and eat through everything in the way of
material till they get to the
copper strands, when, of course, the wa
ter destroys the conducting power of the
cable. To. prevent the ravages of this
tiny creature, says the London Daily
News, the five insulated copper wires
constituting the core of the cable, laid
across from Portpatrick to Donaghtdee,
nave been incased in sheathing of brass,
which is wound around them in the form
Of thin metal tape. The brass is an
barrier so far, but whether
these little denizens of the deep may not
by and by find even metal tape an addi-
tion to their diet remains to be seen.
The following is from a private circu-
ar under date of August I'd: During the
week there have been seven arrivals from
-he coast collieries with 1880 tons. AS
the yards were bare of Colonisf and
Swansea, these recent arrivals have baen
to consumers direct, none has
gone into the yard. The scarcity of these
grades is only for the moment, as there
will be fully due here this month, 5000
af
arrivals for September will be fully 25
Der cent more, hence consumers may be
assured their needs will receive prompt
attention. Quotations are unchanged, as
FULLY 80 per cent of the coal listed to load
n foreign ports, and now afoat, has
1een already contracted for by our job
,ers and large consumers, so that the
luantity in first hands now for sale is
very limited. 1t is singular how generally
Is being used for steam and
at the present time, 1t Is
Eating into the trade for bituminous very
effectively, as economy is claimed for II.
L has been very critically tested lately
IN our ferry steamers, but found ineffect-
We for short trips, as It is a slow-starting
'uel. This is the banner year for low
)riced Goals, they having touched the
owest figures known, with probable
for several months to come,
Is the quantity engaged already to ar
i've is fully equal to our extreme con-
The Nichi Snimbon, native paper pub
ished at Yokohama, in a recent issue
says: ''The Nippon Yusen Kaisha hav-
ng purchased 30 or 40 steamers since the
Of the war, including such
arge steamers as above 500 tons gross as
he Tosa Maru, it Is evident the company
must extend its navigation In order to
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