The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-12
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
local and General News of ships
and shipping.

Local ana GeneTHl NEWS Oh ShhpS
and shipping.
The Planters Line expects to have
their steamboat, the Two States, out
for a trial trip tomorrow. AS previ-
ously stated, she has been at Rourke
& Sons docks for the past few weeks
having her engines set up. and this
work has been about finished. If she
is found to be in condition to make
the trip to Augusta, the company in
tends to put her on the line without
delay. She will play an important part
in the hauling of cotton from up-riVer
points to Savannah, which the Plan
ters' Line has not been able to give
proper attention owing to the fact they
have but one boat. This one, has at
times, been overloaded, and has caused
delay and inconvenience in the service.
During the past week the schooner
John Rose cleared with 503920 feet of
lumber, Philadelphia, and steamers
took out 366 900 feet for Baltimore $685.
900 feet for New York and 263, 365 feet
for Philadelphia. Freights by sail con-
tinue easy, with a tendency towards
a lower range Among the charters
during the past week were the follow
ing: Schooner j. G.. Schmidt 450 tons,
from Savannah to Philadelphia, with
lumber at IS; schooner Penobscot. 3O6
tons. from Savannah to New York,
with lumber at Sc. 10000 feet a day;
schooner George NJ, Grant, LAS tons,
from Savannah to New York, with
lumber and ties on private terms, and
schooner Harriet c. Kerlin, 491 tons,
from Darien to New York, on private
terms.
The Manufacturers Record says of
the Seaboards Savannah terminals:
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company has already spent in the
neighborhood of $1,2OO,0 900 upon it's Sa-
vannah terminals, which were begun in
April, 1899, and put in operation in
July, 1900, since which time improve
ments costing about $780, have been
made. Hutchinson Island contains
about 1900 acres. OF the 1,200 acres
owned by the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
way, 100 have been improved and raised
eight feet above the original level, the
filling in having been done largely
with material derived from dredging
three slips about 200 feet wide and Il
feet deep at mean low tide. and 1907
feet, 1859 feet and LISP feet in len=th,
respectively. Here there are four
piers. On the south end of pier No.
131, 533 square feet; on its east side,
covering about 67,S75 square feet, is
the rosin inspection shed, and between
it and slip No. l. is the rosin yard,
with a capacity for $4,000 barrels. a
railroad track on the east side of the
pier connecting with the yard at it's
north end.
Pier No. 2. for the storage and ship
ment of lumber, is l, 400 feet long by 309
feet wide, with saw-tooth wharf, hav-
ing eleven insects on it's east side and
four connecting railroad tracks.
"On pier No. 3 are eight open sheds
for the storage of cotton congresses,
the machinery and boilers of which be-
long to the Union Shipping Company,
with which the terminal company has
a five years contract. Six railroad
tracks are on this pier.
-Four more tracks connect with the
yard pier No. 4. on which are two
warehouses, both rs feet wide, one soc
feet long and the other $50 feet long
An electric water pump is on this pier
THE total water front of these ter
minals is two miles. and the total
trackage 1852 feet long"
The steamship Elwick sailed Oct.
for Bremen and Antwerp.