The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-14

The rail- captured oHal,
And hurrah for Chinook in the spring!
The Iris goes off the Ilwaco route to-
day.
In few days the Relief will be out
of service here and her place will be
taken by the old Escort.
The Alice Blanchard with seventeen
through passengers arrived in from San
Francisco yesterday and tied up at Fin
layson's dock. After dlscharging q tons
of freight she left up the river for Port
land
The Coos Bay News says the fishermen
on the Coquille are receiveing two cents
per pound from the cannery for their
salmon
The customs officers on Tuesday took
possession of what was billed as eight
cases of liquor" on the schooner Eiwood,
which sailed for Alaska yesterday. The
liquor was found to be whisky, and there
were eight coal oil cases of it, amounting
to eighty gallons of liquor. The schooner
was loaded by Capt. johnson with lum-
ber and general merchandise, to open
trading post at Cooks Inlet.-Post-Intel-
iigencer.
The Florence West says: Protection
to salmon is much talked of, but SEEM
ingly no law can be passed that the jeo-
pie will observe. If the law is not better
observed many of the rivers now teem-
ing with salmon will become depleted.
For the first time in our history the
Siuslaw is to have traps. This is the
outgrowth of competition in canneries,
which has grown into a rivalry during
the past few years.
The fishing season opened much better
than had been anticipated, states The
Dalles Times s-Mountaineer. The Herrick
cannery yesterday put up about SIX tons
and today has something like seven TONS
most of which was caught In the selnes
and traps. At least ten tons were eX-
pected down from Taffe's this morning
but up to 2 o'clock this afternoon the
train had not arrived. We were told by
parts who have visited Mr.. Taffe's
fishery that he is catching about ton
an hour; if so, he would alone be able to
keep the cannery running. The Everding
| cannery Is not yet running but may start
up in a day or so. At Herricks every
| thing is running full blast and if the run
| keeps up the cannery will be kept going
night and day.
There Is an unusual scarcity of macker-
el in the markets, and mackerel are
being imported from Ireland to supply
the demand at Philadelphia The search
ty of the new American catch has al
ready become known abroad, and the
first invoice of Irish mackerel, covering
100 barrels, have arrived at Philadelphia
| q ~ Uirtnnl,V sold
to a firm in that city before it was land
ed. The Irish mackerel are smaller In
size and not so full and plump as the
American fish, and being somewhat in
ferior in quality, do not command the
same price as American mackerel. In
case of a prolonged scarcity of the lat
ter, however, the foreign fish Will be
shipped here it Is believed. in large
quantities to make up the deficiency AT
present the August catch of American
mackerel is hardly within fifty per cent
of that of former years. The eaten con-
tinues through August and September
and in some instances as late as NoVem-
ber and is usually taken from the waters
of the Atlantic from Maine to Cane Cod.
The entire receipts of mess mackerel
for one week at Philadelphia will not ex-
ceed 200 barrels, which is unusually small
for this time of the year.-lnterstate
| Grocer.
The British bark Wythop, 124S tors,
arrived at Steveston September 10 load
salmon for England on account or H..
Bell, Irving & Co., and Evans, Coleman
& Evans, says the B. c. Commercial
Journal. She was rechartered at 36s I'd.
Advices state that the Fiery Cross put
into Montevideo partially dismasted, and
viii take so long to repair that she may
miss her cancelling date. The tonnage
now engaged for England will, it Is es-
timated, carry 100000 cases. The over
land shipments are expected to be oOVOO
cases. which will bring the amount LOT
England fully equal to last year. EAST
ern Canada consumes about I5,OOO cases
annually, and shipments will be In the
neighborhood of that amount. Australia
is also expected to lake so.he SO,OOO cases
The reciprocal treatey with Ne" Zea-
land puts canned salmon on the 1ree lst
in place of a former duty OF "a per TO-
Supplies for this market have formerly
zone from San Francisco but the British
Columbia Gamers can reasonably count
on a demand for nearly 5000 cases year
FROM New Zealand, as the past consump-
tion has averaged over 4,5O0 cases; and
from the fact that fish will be free in fu-
ture. gives every reason to look for an
; increased demand From the above estl-
, mate of the disposition OF this years
, pack it will be seen that there VIII be a
small balance of say 1900 cases carried
! forward by the Gamers.
The ocean commerce OF the ola Gays
!, was a formal and solemn thing. accom-
. panied by many documents and mucn
: red tape, and carried on with constant
pious reference to the power which ru'es
the winds and waves Sometimes the o.o
Ellis of lading have a queer look, when
the character Of the merchandise ltseli
is taken into consideration; for the yes
sells which carried rum to Africa and
) brought back slaves, we're not less pune
e tilnous in ell these formal regards tnan
o others. The United States consul al
: Funchal, MADEIRA, has lately been look
4 ing over some old bills Of lading. Issued
!. in MADEIRA in the last century, and in
e report to the state department at Wash
ineton, gives a fac simile Of one OF them
He also gives copy Of another. which
is dated in Madeira September IL, 76l
and which Is significant Of the old-tim'
j, customs. 1t is as follows:
SHIPPED, by the grace Of God u