The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-22


The steamer Signal is due in the morn
iEg from Vancouver, B. c., via Puget
Sound. She brings several tons of freight
from the C. P. r. China steamers, and
a mile of rails for the Astoria Street
Railway CO.
The Chlfan bark Young Eagle, Capt.
McKluth, sailed Thursday from Tacoma
for Coluimbo, Chill She took 357, ,4O5 feet
of lumber from the st. Paul & Tacoma
mill, valued at $780, large amount 0f
leth and plckets and 200 clses of Puget
sound salmon.
The Manzanita is now in Portland TAX
ing on supplies for the Puget Sound light
house district. She will as soon as
her cargo is ready leave round fer the
sound, and in the courseof the trip Capt
Gregory will collect the annual reports
from every station he visits, for trans
mission to Commander Farenho.t.
The nsw lake steamer Northwest, steel
built al Cleveland, Is as large, handsome
and luxurious as many of the transltlan-
tic ships. Her tonnage is $780, she is 3SS
feet long, her speed is twenty-five miles
an hour, and she cost $S5O,OOO. Like the st.
LOUIS she is wholly American, and pre-
sents fine example Of the wisdom of
encouraging home industry.
1t was announced on Thursiiy that the
Puget Sound & Alnska Steamship COM
pany had chartered the steamer Sehome.
Capt. Herbert Beecher, it is understood,
has failed in his scheme to get the boat.
What the Puget SQUAD K Alaska com
90 a., Itch ff,a Ca1,s
no one knows. Steamboat men are puz-
zled over the question of what route tile
vessel is to be put on.
The premium" record of Messrs. w
Cramp & Sons show that for saven ships
the total contract for which VAS S12,IIs,-
500, a bonus of no less than N,2S2, 724.05
was earned, being over 10 per cent on the
cost. On. one vessel, viz, the protected
cruiser Minneapolis, the contract price for
VIII ch was S2,69OOOO, and ;he guaranteed
speed p knots, premium was earned OF
no less than si14,6OO for an excess Of speed
of 205 knots, being at the rate of $5o-
900 per quarter knot.
The following Is list Of vessels that
have been sold to japan from January,
1895, to April of this year: Charters
Tower, Nestor, Ores.es, Oopack, Pailas,
Teheran, Islam, Diomed, Moray, H ,ctor,
Moyune, Dardanus, IsmnIa, Avochis,
Benalder, CArd.ganshire, Sarpedon, Mo-
gul, Tartar, Kaisow, Antenor, Denbigh-
shire, Gwalior, Proms.heus, Bengloe,
Straits Belle Isle. Leanox, Metapedia,
Fl.ntshire, Kintusk, PAX Ling. Port Al
bert, Port Hunter, AInlawa, Nanshan,
SIrat Carradale, Rsnown, Diamond
Hongay, Paitroclus, Altoaover, Assam,
Cathay.
During the five months of the calendar
year the arrivals Of grain and -four il
Great Britain from Pacific Ccast points
were S,571e93 centals wheat, 6S,O0 centals
barley and S1,651 barrels of -four, snow
ing a considerable falling off from the
same months of 1894, when arrivals were
9,21,5S6 centals wheat, 1,3O6,S6G csntals
barley and 2562l5 barrels flour. During
May the arrivals out comprised eight
ships from San Francisco with 544,S99 CEN
tais wheat; 13 ships from this port with
7S5,370 centals whelt and 21,179 celta1s
barley, and four ships from Washington
with 254.176 centals wheat and 1888 bar
rels flour.
A ship Of I, ,925 tons has just been char
tered in England to proceed to this r-ver
in ballast that she may load back 20
England with wheat For this service
she Is to receive 36s Sd. This is not the
oply ship that is making an equally long
voyage to this coast in 5lllas: under a
similar charters There are several now
on the way out from Europe and less
remote points. Two are known TO be
coming from New York and one from
Boston. Several are heading th5ir way
in ballast from Brazil and other South
American countries, as well as from
China and Japan. When such rates at
tract ships in ballast from such distances
it will be readily conceded thlt the
ocean-carrying trade is not as good else
where as it is on this coast.
1t is difficult to keep a list of vessels
chartered to arrive on this coast fol-
wheat loading. The LIST in sight is un-
usually large, and 1t is believed that mosr
of them are chartered outward. The Brit
ism ship Merioneth, 1856 IONS. now sup
posed to be at one of the Nitrate ports
in Peru, has just been fixed to load
wheat on Puget sound in October al
35s. The following iron ships have been
added to the Oregon list TO arrive Ut this
city for wheat loading: Auchencairn
Beemah, Marathon, Moxhan, Ortheo,
Riverside and two others Of 1888 and
1,623 tons respectively The names OF
the last two are not known, and the ton
mage does not correspond with any In
the published lists. They are to get Ses
Cd. The Auchencairu Is to get 35s 3d.
The Beemah is bark of e54 tons, 20 load
IN this river in November at SSs
Considerable interest is manifest in the
possibility that large quantities Of Wash
fngton and oregon wheat may find tts
way across the continent TO eastern NILS
and even to the Atlantic seaboard during
the coming season, as a result Of the ex-
isfing conditions as regards charters on
this coast. The California combine that
has put up charter rates to point where
Il Is not at al impossible that eastern
buyers can purchase our wheat and trans
port It a, distance Of some -hing Ike Loo
miles 20 market more sdvant8geously
than 1t can be handled with sO0-mile rail
haul 10 Pacific co1st ports. Eve years