Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-08
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SAND DIGGING OPERATIONS ON
THE POTOMAC RIVER.
Ice-Laden Vessels Arrive - Steamer
Wakefield in Service-Gen-
eral News of Earbor.

| For several years past the sand-digging
| companies have been getting the bulk of
their supply of building sand from the bot
| tom of the river above the Long bridge, but
the building of the piers of the new bridge
| across the digging grounds and the exhaus-
ton of the other beds have made the Dig
gers seek other sand beds Fine building
sand has been found at several points down
creek, near Sheridan's Point wharf and on
the Greenway flats, near Glymont, and the
digging machines are now at work on
| them. Ten or twelve large barges are
brought into port daily laden with sand
| and gravel for the companies here The
James creek canal and Eastern branch are
the headquarters of the sand industry here.
The supply of fresh fish, both from tie
nets In the lower part of the Potomac and
from the fisheries about Norfolk, was but
fair this morning and the market was
quite brisk the stocks on hand We're quickly
sold to uptown dealers. Prices show but
few changes from those of Saturday and
are as follows:
| For gray trout Sc to 81 per barrel; butter
fish, s. to SO per barrel; founders, . to
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel IL to Is
cents per pound; salmon trout, cents
per pound; rock. IS to % cents per pound;
sturgeon, 10 cents per pound; green pike,
to cents per pound; white perch, 10
cents per pound; white perch, small, 20
to 80 cents per bunch; catfish, large, % to
n cents per bunch; catfish. small, Is to Is
cents per bunch; yellow perch, large, Is to
rs cents per BUNCH yellow perch, small s
to 10 cents per bunch; carp, 10 to 20 cents
each; cells. to 8 cents each: Potomac roe
shad 25 to 35 cents EACH buck shad, IS to
20 cents each.
There has been a slight increase in the
receipts of soft-shelled crabs, but the de-
mand has also been good and prices keep
| up. This morning they sold at 35c. to 40c.
per dozen. Hard crabs selling at 81. %
to 81. IS per barrel, and CLAIMS at 40c. to soc.
per hundred.
The schooner Sebago has arrived at Alex
andria and is lying at the marine railway
wharf there to load a cargo of railway
ties for Boston or a New England port.
From Boston she will go to New Bruins
wick to load laths. The Sebago will be
the third large schooner to leave the Poto-
mac for the north with railway ties for
northern port.
The lighthouse tenner Jessamine which
had been in port for two or three days,
sailed Saturday evening for the lighthouse
service headquarters at Baltimore. On her
way there she will stop at several of the
minor repairs.
Ice Cargoes Delivered.
The schooners Zach Sherman and Horatio
l.. Baker, laden with ice from the Kennebec
river for the American Ice Company, have
pCCii oiOuSit put ny the tuS
Camilla. The Sherman is unloading at
the 9th street wharf of the American
company and the Baker has been taken to
Georgetown to discharge her cargo. Both
vessels had good trip down the coast with
facoring wines behind them.
The Randall line steamer Wakefield,
which has been out of service for the past
week to be overhauled and receive her
spring cleaning and painting, returned to
service Saturday morning, leaving here on
trip to Nomni. The steamer Randall will
take her place the river route soon as
she can be fitted out with carpets and other
furnishings.
The steam yacht Giavota, Capt. VIM. e.
Robertson having aboard her owner, Mr..
John R. Dos Passos of New York, and
party, left port yesterday evening for
cruise to the mouth of the river. Several
days will be spent at Mr. Dos Passes coun-
try place on the Coan river.
Mr.. George ]. Stafford has been made
cashier for the Randall interests at Colonial
Beach and has gone to that resort to pre-
pare for the excursion season.
Mr. VIM Hayden has been appointed
gineer of the War Department launch Mer-
cedes, which is berthed at the harbormas-
ters wharf.
The two-masted schooner Cadet, laden
with pine boards from a Virginia lumber
port, has arrived.
The schooners Belmont and Uriah Horner
are in port with cargoes of cord wood from
a river point for Carter & Clark.
The tug Peerless has arrived with the
barge j. II. McNally for Alexandria and
the barge Dorchester, laden with glazed
brick for this city.
The schooners Rockway and Ella are in
port with cargoes of cord wood from river
points for the dealers.
The schooner William Donnelly, laden
with Virginia pine lumber, has arrived in
port and will unload her cargo at the 10th
street wharf
The schooner Lottie Carter has arrived at
Alexandria with a full cargo of railway
ties from river point for reshipment to q
northern port.
The Baltimore tug Peerless, which brought
tow of laden barges into port, sailed Sat
urday evening light.