The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-17
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


The Steamer Star Undergoing Re-
pairs to Her Machinery Before
Sailing For HOnduras-CattIe
Ships For Cuba-ArrivaI, Clear
ance and Sailing of Vessels.
The British steamship Cairncrag, Capt.
Gibson, from Charleston for Liverpool, put
back to the former port yesterday with
her cylinder head broken.
The steamer Star, which put in here
Monday for coal. cleared through the Gus
tom house yesterday for Puerto Cortez,
Honduras. She finished receiving a sup
ply of coal, but was detained from sailing
on account of some slight repairs which
were being done to her machinery at
Rourke's.
Schooner Henry Lppett, Brunswick,
Ga, for Boston, while anchored in Vine
yard sound Sunday, had her windlass butts
so badly damaged by the heavy seas that
she could not weigh anchor. and the Gay
Head life saving crew went to her assist
ance. After working some hours, she was
finally gotten under Roadway.
Four steamships, the Ardanmhor Fols
jo Spero and Senior, have been chartered
to carry cattle from Galveston to Havana
for the use of the Spanish army. These
vessels will make a number of trips and
will run on time charters. Thousands of
beeves have been purchased in the south
by the representatives of the Spanish gov
eminent.
The, Iowa iron works of Dubuque, Ia,
has begun construction on the latest gov
eminent contract steamboat, the Nul-
can. This will make the forty-first iron or
steel hull boat that has been constructed
by the Iowa Iron Works The VAcan will
have a length of eighty feet and seven
teen feet beam, with depth of hold three
feet nine inches, and will draw, when her
boilers are filled and fuel and
stores all in, twenty-four inches. Her
cylinders are eight inches and quarter,
with forty-eight-inch stroke. She will be
employed by the United States river COM
mission below Cairo as a tender to the
big dredges and for towing the dump
scows The contractors expect 10 have
her in the water in three weaks.
A company has been formed in ST. Louis
which will construct a dredging steamboat
to be used on the Yukon river to dig for
gold, says an exchange. The vessel will
be of peculiar construction. She will be
10 feet long and will draw twelve inches
Of water. There will be a sand pump on
board which will pump up 22O tons of sand
an hour. The sand will be run through
patent sluice boxes and so back into the
river again. When the sand goes into
these sluce boxes it will be full of gold,
but when it goes out it viii be of no more
value than ordinary dirt, for the sluces
will have stolen its gold from it. All the
gold it is believed, can be extracted, how
ever fine. 1t is believed that the sands
at the bottom of the Yukon. will yield at
least $50 a ton. AS the boat will work
day and night during the seasos, it will
readily be seen that if the sluice pumps
raise 200 tons an hour the boat will, in
twenty-four hours. make the neat little
sum of $240, 900. The; boat VIII be built of
cedar and steel, braced every ten feet
with water-tght bulkheads. The expedi-
ton will be provisioned and equipped for
two years, and will have a gasoline
launch which will act as a tender 1t will
run down to the mouth of the river on
regular trips to keep open communication
with the base of supplies. 1t will also
carry down the gold washed out by the
expedition, so that it may be shipped
down the coast.