The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-10-29
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

The tow boats will soon be having al
the work they can handle.
The State of California came in early
yetl5ertday morning and left for Portland
before noon.
Tho British bark Grlsmere, 10 day.
from Santos, in ballast, came into port
yesterday morning.
THE American bark Colorado, 81 days
from San Iiego, in ballast. was towed In
by the Relief yesterday and anchored be-
low the city.
The British ship Philonene and the
bark Beeim1h were towed up the river
together yesterday Captain PHI JOIN.
son piloted the vessels.
The German ship Ferdinand Fisher 146
days from London, was towed into port
yesterday afternoon. She has a full load
of cement and will start up the river TO-
day.
The British bark Drumb,an. III days
from Rio Janeiro, in ballast. arrived in
port on Sunday afternoon. She reports
very light winds and an uheventful pas
sage.
With five ships anchored along the wa
ter front and the near approach of doz-
ems of Others it looks as II we were going
to have a Lively winter In marine matters
at least.
The Northern Pacific Coal Company
has received an order from Captain Cot
ton, of the United States steamer Phila-
delphia, now at Port Angeles, for 25O
tons of Roslyn coat. Then came tele-
gram from the chief of the naval bureau
of equipment asking for fifty tons of
RcGlyn coal, free of cost, to be used in
making a forced draught test of hlga
speed. The coal companies and the
Washington delegation in congress are
making strong efforts to have domestic
instead of British Columbia coal used by
the Pacific squadron, which consume an
nually about 100000 hons of COAL worth
100000.
The advisability of "doctorfng up" The
old, obsolete war vessels of our navy
has Gong been open to serious doubts.
Great outlays are necessary, and even if
they are made nearly new it is doubtful
If the results attained are worth the out
l1y. A number of our old ships have
been patched and repatched until the
amount of money expended on them
would go far toward building a new and
modern vessel which would be formida-
bic and serviceable for years to come.
OF course, it may seem improvident to
chop into junk some of the craft which,
with repairs, can be made to do service
longer, but these repairs, when finished,
renovated, are of such an old type and
generally so vulnerable that the policy
of repeatedly repairing them at great
expense may be very seriously questioned.
Pike, Goodfeilow and other fishermen
exported the following fish to British
Columbia this year from Point Roberts:
One hundred and seventy-four thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one fish, weigh
ing 1,041 ,655 pounds, for which they re-
ecived the sum of $25, ,4422S The steamer
Angeles also cleared for British Columbia
with the following Twelve Thousand two
hundred and thirty-five fish, weighing
S5,575 pounds, worth $1,07S75, making a
grand total of 1S7,096 fish, weighing 1,127,-
2SO pounds, worth $26,521.OS. 1t does not
look as If any one had monopoly, when
a couple Of fishermen without capital, |
and with one trap apiece can in a short
season in the off year of the sockeye
run sell $4,000 worth of fish, or nearly |
100000 salmon. Off of Point Roberts |
$4,000 'sockeye salmon were taken by the
Alaska Packing Association, and from
these were canned $4,000 cases of forty
eight cans per case. The price of these |
cases would aggregate more than $500, 900.
At Fort Beningham l, 600 cases of the very |
finest kind of fish were niif I'm nv 1o.ool |