Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-20
ON THE RIVER FRONT
DREDGE PUGH AT WORK ON MAT
TAWoMAN FLATS.
Launch Named for Capt. Capron-
Prices at Fish Wharf-Move-
ments of Vessels.

The large steam dredge Pugh is at work
on the shoals at the mouth of Mattawoman
creek, making a uniform depth of twenty
four feet where formerly existed but about
sixteen or eighteen feet of water. The
Pugh last fall deepened the greater portion
of this channel, but some few hard Jumps
were left in it, and the dredge is now en-
gagged in removing them After this work
is completed it is understood she will go
to the Kettle Bottoms and will begin the
deepening of the channel from Colonial
Beach to below Blackistone's Island
to this city.
The supply of rock, bass and other Po
tomac-caught fish Is reported very small at
the 11th street wharf market, hile the re-
ceipts of gray trout. butter fish and the like
from the shores about Norfolk fair The
cooler weather has caused an increase in
the demand and prices this morning were
as follows: For founders, 3 to DC. per
pound; salmon trout, to &c. per pound |;
blue fish, Sc. per pound; Spanish mackerel,
10c. per pound; pan rock. to 1Oc. per
pound; boiling rock. 10 to 12c. per pound;
white perch. to 12c per pound; sturgeon,
10 to lie. per pound; butter fish, $3.50 to
50 per barrel; trout, So to So per barrel
small white perch 20 to 23c. per bunch;
catfish, - to 23c. per bunch; carp, II to
15c. EACH eels, 8 to &c. each; hard crabs,
81. 80 to 81 per barrel; soft crabs, GO to 75c.
per dozen, and CLAIMS, 40 to SOC. per hun
dred.
The steam launch used as a tender by
the Engineer Corps stationed al the Wash
ington barracks is called the Capron, after
the late Capt. Capron, who lost his life in
the battle of Santiago. Cuba. The Capron
is used in making visits to the new station
at Fort Foote Md
A pile driver is at work on the Fort
Washington wharf, driving new fender
piles and otherwise improving the struc-
ture. The wharf is almost a new one, and
but little work is to be done upon it. After
the driver finishes the work at Fort Wash
ington she will be taken. ii is stated, to the
wharf at Fort Hunt, which is to be given
an overhauling.
Of General Interest.
The schooner H. s. Ward, laden with salt
herring in barrels, recently arrived at Alex
andria from the Rappahannock river for
Charles King & Son.
The two-masted schooner Alert is in port
with a full cargo of pine lumber from
Virginia lumber port and is unloading at
Forsberg & Murray's wharf
The steamer e. James Tun loaded a gen.
eral cargo at Alexandria and has sailed for
Aqua creek points.
The three-masted schooner Virginia F.
Hawley arrived in port yesterday evening
laden with lumber for Johnson & Wimsatt.
The schooner Irene, with a cargo of glass
making sand from the Severn river, has
arrived at Alexandria for the Old Domin-
ion glass works
The schooner Sidney Jones, having a full
load of cordwood aboard, is in port for Car
ter & Clark.
The Murray Vandiver laden with pine
boards from the Rappahannock river is at
T. r. Rileys wharf
The schooner Earl Biscoe has sailed light
for the lower river and will load a cargo
back to this port.
The steam barge Dennis Simmons laden
with shingles from Williamson, N c., has
arrived at Alexandria for Snoot & Co.
The schooner j. E. Cunningham lumber
laden from the Coan river has arrived in
port and is unloading her cargo
The launch Santa Barbara the tender at
indian Head, was in port for a short time
yesterday evening