Arizona republican., 1898-09-14
Shi9 BUILDERS ARE BUSY.
Many Large Vessels Are Under Con-
 SfruCti0n in America.


 in the ship yards of the country is any sign of the times the upbuilding of the American merchant marine has com menced. Andrew Carnegie recently
 pointed cut to the American capitalists that he could get better and cheaper other country. because here We produce ihe material to build them more cEeaply.
 The American shipbuilder now sees in the opening without restrictions of
 the trade of the Philippines, Hawaii
 Porto Rico and Cuba demand for American bcttcms that should enrich him while placing the commerce of the land in American carrying bottoms. No
 better idea Of the enterprise of the American shipbuilder today can be conveyed than in the number Of bids submitted at Washington on Tuesday for the construction O. twelve torpedo boats and sixteen torpedo boat destroy CTS, the building of which will distrib- Ute in the industry six million dollars Fifteen firms offered to build the veS- sels. which is a remarkable showing, for shipbuilderS do no. like these little craft, because the required speed is so high that there is little chance of earn ing extra money for speed developed in excess Of the contract requirements. some Of the big yards did not figure at all on the construction of tbe boats, desiring to wait until the proposals for large ships of the navy are called for Ike Commercial has investigated the present conditions of activity in the leading ship yards of the country and finds that not since the decadence Of i lEe industry in the country set in has there been so much work either on the
 stocks CT about to be placed lhere. The
 heads of the various companies are simply enthusiastic over the prospects. Perhaps Lewis Nixon o; the Crescent ship yard voiced the sentiment of all
 when he said yesterday:
 '1 believe the greatest era of pros pcrity ever known in American ship yalds has set in, and the next few months will develop a most sensational boom
 Tie W'niam Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building company report that they now have building for Amer ican account seven vessels of 3e,16S tons displacement, and for foreign ac- coaht three war vessels of 23,600 tons and III addition four war vessels The seven vessels building for the home market are all steel steamships. The lconrny has numerous prospective or iders which will keep the big Philadel- phia plant humming for a long time to come.
 At MT. Nixons Crescen. ship yards in Elizabeth there is enough work to keep the plant going day and night in definitely. Under construction there are five steamships for American account of 2.a0J tons. two vessels for foreign account Of 6J0 tons, and one vessel of l ,H00 tons for the geodetic and coast survey service of the government. Tlie Harlan & Hollingsworth Ship building company at Wilmington are runnin. at full speed. They have under construction seven vessels for Ameri cans. Three are steel steamships, steamboat, two tugs and one govern
 rient vessel. The total tonnage IS 9,205.
 Down On the Maine coast the Bath Iron works are constructing steel steamship of 5,15O tons displacement, oIe tfaining vessel, the Chesapeake, of 1,i14 tons, built of steel and sheathed with woou and copper, two torpedo JC1to, tLG DdulSISl dilO luS VI idfCA, and one steam yacht of 1,730 tons. The Delaware Iron Shipbuilding and Engine works of Chester, Pa, are busy with the construction of six steel steamships fer American account. They have an aggregate tonnage of 10000.
 At the Columbian Iron works and Dry Dock company. Baltimore, in addition
 tc large amount of repair work, there
 are under construction al the yard yes- sells Of II .000 tons. There is one rev.
 enue cutter for the government and
 one large sea going tug for the Con solidated Coal company. The yard re-
 rorts remarkably busy summer, with
 large amount of correspondence,
 which may mean the placing Of big tonnage on the stocks this winter. ! At the Newport News Shipbuilding
 and Dry Dock yards six vessels, Of an
 aggregate tonnage of 49,500, are under l construction. Three Of these are steel
 steamships fer American account and
 the other three war ships for the Unit { ed States government. Negotiations
 are now pending between the company