The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-26
LUMBER FOR ABROAD.
Busy Scenes at Blakeley Mill
and Shipyard.
WHERE THE VESSELS ARE GOING
Cargoes for All Parts or the World and
More Vessels on the way-New
Ship Okanocnn.

The wharves. mill and shipyart; a. Fort
plzkeley did not look yesterday as II
business was duh. Some OF the lumber
men said. Times are very quiet but
the busy appearance on every hand SEEM
ed 70 contradict the statement. There are
eleven vessels loading lumber at the mill
for all parts Of the world. eleven more ara
81 the way there. and a new ship is just
being completed al Hall Bros. shipyard.
Hall Bros. are building a four-masted
schooner for the Puget Sound CONNER
oiai company. OF Port Gamble The vessel
r. rapidly approaching completion. and
will prohs big he launched the first week
in October. The dimensions are Us fol-
lows: Keel. IL feet beam. IS feet: hold
Is feet: carrying capacity. soo 90 feet OF
lumber. She is TO have the peculiar rig
known among seafarers as "bald-h headed"
that is. she carries no topmast other
wise there IS no difference between her
and the other boats built at this yard The
terms on which she Is constructed are
peculiar in that no written contract or
voucher exists on either side The owners
are satisfied with the former work OF the
builders and the latter entertain no
doubt about the pay. The name of the
schooner. announced yesterday for the
first time. is TO be the okanogan.
Two other schooners are lying in the
same yard for repairs the Maria f.
H
r s RedaeId. loading and repairing. The
new masts are worth going 10 see. and
there are some pretty pieces of lumber
living about the yard. In the John 4.
Campbell the last schooner completed by
Hall Bros. are two planks moro than 100
feet long.
Further I'D the beach the Port BIakelev
Lumber company is getting out a choice
lot OF spars for the ship Guy c. Goss.
bound for Boston. The largest OF these
measure thirtyfour inches square and
eizhty-fve feet long. though some of the
smaller ones run out to ninety-five feet.
The stocks from which they are being
taken measure over four feet in diameter.
Not included in the list of vessels now
loading at Port Blakeley is the schooner
Salvador. which is 10 be lowed out 20 Port
Gamble today. to load there for San Pc
dro
Close beside her lies the trim little Spin
away. remarkable because she is going to
take out the smallest cargo ever cleared
from this port for foreign parts.
The following is a complete list OF the
vessels now loading lumber at the Port
Blakeley wharves and their destination:
Feet.
Schooner F. S. Redfeld. for San
Pedro Observation-Disclosures. $50 600
Ship Invincible. for San Fran. 900, 900
Steamship Yanariva, for South AZ
RIGA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000
Schooner f. X. Wood, for New
port Observation-Disclosures. go, 600
Bark Top Gallant. for San Fran 500 nn0
Bark Omega, for China. ......... $4,000
Barkentine Spjnaway, for Aus
tralia OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 21i,00o
Bark sonoma for Australia 800. 500, 600
Schooner Fanny Dutard, for Ven
tura ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s75,o
Schooner Laura Afadsen. for New
port OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $4,000
Bark BERTHE, for South Africa. 5000
Total to be loaded. 1855, 900
The fhllnulnp LIST shnrvs the vAsseis en-