Arizona republican., 1901-09-19
SEATTLES'S SHIPPING
Gigantic Scheme of ConsoIi-
 dation Under Way
The Object Seems to Re to Place the Ocean Traffic in the Control of the Trans-Continental Com. panies.

Seattle, Sept 1S.-Recent transfers in the ownership and management of ocean steamships operating from Puget sound ports indicate that there are vast forces at work toward the consolidation of all the ocean shipping from this port into the han6s of few companies by the companies owning and operating the transcoE.inental railways.
 With this movement there is vast an4 seemingly irresistible tendency on the part of the ocean shipping of the sound to concentrate at Seattle as the port of call of the large lines, all of the business from the other sound ports to be fed to those linss at this port by a system of sound steamers owned and operated by ',hs' same companies or by companies under the same control as the enc which operates the ocean liners.
 The first significant event of recent occurrence in the carrying out of this program was the acquirement or the Alaska steamship of the Canadian Pa ciiic Navigation company, by the Cana dian Pacific railway company. This transfer gave the Canadian Pacific Railway company the direct control of line of transportation extending from Montreal to Skagway. Now it is re- poi tS-l tNo~ HS.SoiittiOiiS are ptii0ihe3 for the purchase by the Canadian Pa cific company of the rail and water lines of the White Pass and Yukon route, which would extend the zone of control of that company to the Klon- dike.
 In competition with this Canadian consolidation and in order to meet it 1 the more effectually there have recent y been effected transfers in the Alaska steamship lines operated from Ameri- can ports.
 One of these was the purchase by she | Pacific Coast company of the vessels and the good will of the Washington and Alaska Steamship company, thus | giving to the Pacific Coast company a | virtual monopoly of the Alaskan bus:- ness from ports on this side of .he in- | ternational line. As the stock of the Pacific Coast company Is held in prac- tically the same hands as are the secur- | itiGs of the Great Northern and North ern Pacific railways, the inference is ! pain that the Pacific Coast company
 will have the virtual support and as- sistanee- of those companies in the ex-
 eeution of it's plans for securing the | control of the business.
 ! But by far the larger movement is that which is now noticeable in the de- velopment Cf the oriental business. | Until recently the trans-Pacific freight carrying traffic originating on the line
 of ,he Northern Pacific railroad was given to Dodwelt & Co.'S steamships
 under a contract which had still twenty l years to run.
 But the purchase by the Pacific Coast Steamship company of the l steamers of the Dodwell company in
 cluded a satisfaction of this contract
 and now it is evident from many in dications that the Northern Pacific and | the Great Northern are banning to
 own and operate jointly their own line
 of trans-Pacific freight carriers. This | plan, on the part of the Great North
 ern, acting independently, was an l, nounced three years ago. and two inn
 menss. steamers for the use of this
 company are now nearing completion
 at New London. Conn. and will reach
 here in time to be paced on the run
 some time next summer.
 Recently the announcement has been
 made from the New York office of the
 had ordered the construction of two
 steamers of similar proportions and
 freight carrying capacf,y. This fact.
 together with the clase relations exist
 ing between the two companies, natur- ally led to the conclusion that the four
 vessels are being built for the same
 line, and that by the time they are completed the community of interest - scheme will be perfected to such a de- gree as will enable the operation of ths steamers of bc.h companies under one mana cement.