Evening star., 1901-02-21
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
PROPOSED TIN CAN FACTORY NEAR
LEWIsETTA, VA.
Wealthy New Workers Interested
Passing Craft-General Items.

! 1t Is stated that several wealthy gentle
! men of New York. who have properly in
! Westmoreland county, Va, near the mouth
| of the Coan river, are seriously contem-
/ plating the establishment of factory fol
! the manufacture of tin cans at point not
/ far from Lewisetta. Within radius of a
| few miles of this point there are some ten
! or more large canning factories that an
nualy put up millions of cans of oysters,
! toma oes and fruit, and it is to supply these
| plants the new factory will be started. All
The tin cais used along the river are now
supplied from Baltimore, and it is claimed
tnat the new factory could furnish them
much cheaper and on better terms. The
factory will give employment to a hum
dred more hands.
There was good supply of fish on hand
a. the fish houses on the 11t,I street wharf
this morning, and the market was quite
brisk prices about the same those of
yesterday. Since yesterday the dealers
aiong ,he wharves have received about
seven barrels of river fish from the neigh
borhood of Alexandria and on the ESStelle
Randall from the Gunston neighborhOod.
and ten barrels were brought up from the
shores about Norfolk and Old Point by the
Norfolk line steamer Fifteen packages of
frozen fish also came by express from the
shores On the Jersey and New England
coasts
All the fishing shores are now preparing
rectipts of fish from the river can be
looked for.
Prices his morning were: For black bass,
12I2 to 10 cents per pound; rock. 10 to 90
cents per pound: yellow perch. 20 to 40
GEMS per bunch; catfish 20 Gems pr bunch;
river mullets. - cents per bunch; buck
shad, 81 to 10 cents each; roe shad, 81
each; sand perch 10 cents per bunch; white
perch. l. to Il cents per pound; Sheephead,
u 10 Z cents per pound; green pike. cen
per pound green trout, 10 cents per pound;
haddock and blue pike, cents per pound
each; SmeltS, to Z cents per pound, and
frozen trout, cents per pound
There is again a plen.itui supply of
oysters at the i1th street wharf. a tow of
seven vessels. with about 300 bushels on
board, having arrived in port yesterday.
The market this morning quite brisk,
and several of the vessels reported arriving
early in the week are now about out and
ready to sail for another cargo. Prices
this morning ranged from % cents to 10
cents per bushel for the smaller oysters,
and from so cents to 81 per bushel for the
larger stock. The recent arrivals are the
Nettie May. Bessie Ford. Volunteer, Maggie
Elizabeth, f. P. Evans. Martin Wagner and
George B. Faunce.
The Norfolk line steamer this morning had
about forty barrels of oysters from Nor
felix for the local dealers.
Moving Tugs and Vessels.
The Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall line
steamer Charles Manchester resumed her
trips between this city. Mount Vernon and
Marshall Hall Tuesday, after being off the
route for about three weeks. While laid UP
she was overhauled and put in thorough or
der for her work this summer.
The Margaret Ann has sailed from this
port for the oyster beds in the lower river.
She will load full cargo back to this
market.
The longboat Five Sisters, which has been
a ar 4, uhar hara fp
several weeks, has started for the lower
river to load cord wood back to this port
The tug Stella has sailed for Baltimore
with lighter oil barge in tow.
The schooner S. l.. Bowen has sailed from
the fish wharf for the lower river to load
oysters back to this market
The schooner Alice Carlisle is IN port with
a full cargo of cord wood for Carter &
Clark. Th is the first wood-laden vessel
to arrive for several weeks.
The Silver Spray is at Alexandria loading
miscellaneous cargo for points along the
lower Potomac.
peted the dscharging of her cargo of
lumber and shingles at Alexandria, loaded
a cargo of stores from Charles King 4
Son and sailed for the fish packing houses
in the Great Wicomico.
The pungy Shining Light has gone from
this port to Alexandria, where she will
take on a cargo for lower river points.
The schooner William c. Tanner has been
Tampa for Alexandria, Va.
The tug Camilla sailed for the lower river
yesterday with tow OF light oyster boats
The Sunny South. Raymond Oliver and
Ruth and Ella have sailed from this port
and will load oysters in the Blackistone's
Island neighborhood for this market
The pungy Mcnamara. with a cargo of
oysters, has arrived up from the eastern
yesterday evening.
The tug NJ. NJ. Davis is in port waiting
to take the schooners now in port TO New
port News.
timore to New England ports have ad-
vanced from So to 80 cents per ton freight.
The manufacture of liquid air at the old |
power house building at the foot of 7th |
street southwest has been resumed
me steamer Potomac is in port from
Baltimore and river landings She brings |
up a large cargo.
Matters of General Interest.
The officials of the American Ice Com
psny are looking for the four-masted |
schooner Catherine Perry, which sailed |
from the Penobscot river for this port
about two weeks ago The Perry brings |
cargo of about 1400 tons of Ice, and will |
be the first ice-laden vessel to come into |
port for the American company since last |
TALL. Other vessels will follow from now on.
ara the ice houses will be overhauled and |
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The engineers in charge of the dredging
Of the Washington and Georgetown chan
nels are busily engaged in setting out the
marks to guide the dredge in it's excavating
operations. The pontoons, with the dis
charge pipes on them, are in the basin at
The foot of 1ith street.
The schooner Julia and Annie of this
'ort has been sold by Messrs Carter & !
Nlntz TO Mr.. Briscoe Of ST Mary's county.
Nd The Julia and Annie is a little two |
nasted schooner. 64.5 feet long. 21.5 feet
'eam and GA feet deep She is of 81 net
ons and was built in Talbot county Nd
n 1863. For the past two years she has
'een engaged in traffic on the Potomac.
md 1t is understood her new owner will
ontinue to use her .on the river
The steamer Harry Randall will resume
Ter trips to her landings along the river
n February 26 and the steamer Wakefield
vii also start running about the same
lme Ii is expected by that time all the
ee will be out of the creeks and the steam
RS will have no difficulty with IT,
II Is sta ed that there are now on the
wharf at Wakefield. Va, about go 900 feet
II lumber awaiting shipment to this city
or III. L. Bscoe.
Some little Ice formed in the river last
light, but not enough to Interfere with
navigation.
II is understood the Alexandria md |
Washington ferry steamer Belle Haven will
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