Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-18
GREAT PACIFIC SHIP YARDS.
Cramps to Duplicate Their Philadelphia Plant
al Seattle.
Can Build the Largest Battleships-A
Movement Inaugurated, but taintly
Appreciated in New York.

New York Dec. 1S.-The Times says.
The William Cramp Ship & Engine
Building company of Philadelphia Is
going to construct u building plant at
Seattle to compete with the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco. The
establishment of the State steamship
line by the Cramps is but the preli-
minary step in an enterprise which
has been contemplated at an expendi-
ture of more than ten million dollars.
The new plant will be as large. II not
larger, than the one now operated by
the Cramps.
Among the persons who were on the
dock to witness the departure from
this city of the steamship City of
Columbia for the klondike region were
George L. Hammond Of this city and
Frank Chadsey of Chadsey & Young,
Seattle. with two representatives of the
newly organized State Steamship Co..
which purchased several OF ie Amer
can line steamers for the Yukon to-
day. The Significance which this
steamship movement toward the Pa
cific coast, of which the establishment
of the State Steamship line is the ini-
tial step, is but family appreciated In
New York, where 1t is regarded as sim
ply an adjunct of the present "klon-
dixie rush." said Mr.. Chadsey, as the
City OF Columbia receded from sight.
81 have been east for some days now.
and l am in active negotiations with
Mr.. Joseph II. Hoadley, first vice presi>
dent of the State Steamship line, re-
garding the purchase of certain valua-
BILE tide lands which our firm holds and
which the State line needs for the es-
Enlistment of the docks OF the com
pany. These tide lands, which are lSla
acres in length, are practically all that
can be had in Seattle with absolute
title, all the others being in reversion
to the state of Washington.
Vessels drawing so feet of water may
dock at any tide and the fact that we
have had to make this guarantee to
the steamship officials will Indicate the
size of the ships which they expect to
be running there before long.
The requirement of these tide lands
by the State Steamship company, while
necessary is but preliminary step in
this enterprise. The next move is the
purchase by the Cramps of the ship
building plant OF the Morans at Seat
tie, which is already very extensive.
The enlargement of this plant to per-
| init of the building of the largest bat
tleships will Immediately follow and
the San Francisco builders will then
sort.
Il can state positively that in en-
tering upon this undertaking the
Cramps have not done SO without
thoroughly looking over the field and
| assuring themselves of its entire prac-
ticability. For instance. in the item
of coal alone 1t can be laid down in
the bunkers at Seattle cheaper than
| anywhere else on the coast. The adj
TO hot ok .ifl IA
steamship line of great steam con
| suming plant is at once apparent. AZ
| to the harbor, its advantages are uni
| versally Acknowledged.
THE port is already of great import
ance as the headquarters of the Bering
sea patrol fleet. and owing to certain
| improvement in the way of ship canal
| and an, inland harbor now contemplate
| ed by the United states government
| 1t is likely to become much greater
"In addition, the increasing import
| ance of Japan as naval power. cou-
pied with the need for more ships
| which the almost certain annexation
of Hawaii will entail. has not beer
lost upon the Cramps.
| "This undertaking Is already far
more advanced than IL generally
| known, and is practically certain &c
be carried through
Mr. Cramp is now negotiating win
| Geo. Edwards & Co. of Water street
for one OF the largest sand suckers
| dredgers ever built. 1t will be shipped
overland on sections and it is figured
will be able to work with such raplditS
that at least one of the great docks
| proper will be ready for the occu'
pancy by the middle OF next summer
CRAAP MAKES A DEMAND.
Philadelphia, Dec lS,-Charles II
| Cramp. the head of the William CramI
(. Son ship building company, said to-
| day that there was absolutely no foun'
| dation for the published statement thai
the company contemplated construct
ing a ship building plant at Seattle.
Storm In Texas.
Dallas. Texas, Dec. 1.-THE first
moisture Texas has had in many weeks
fell last night in the shape OF sleet ant
snow. brought on by brisk norther
The thermometer fell about thirty de
rrees. Reports indicate that the
norther Is general over north anc
northwest Texas. a blizzard accom-
| panied by sleet and snow has been rag
| 49,. IL, tho vIo{nffy of DpuieOn. Texas