Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-30
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY CARGoEs OF LUMBER AR
RIVE IN PORT.
Steamer Reported is a Schooner - On
the Marine Railways-Among
Cargo Carriers.

The growth Of the lumber business at
this port has been heavy in the past two
or three years and Washington is now the
supply point for lumber and building ma.
terial for large territory. Hardly day
passes without two or three schooners
laden with lumber coming into port. Be-
tween noon yesterday and am. today six
vessels. bringing about half million feet
Of pine boards. arrived and are at the
wharves unloading their cargoes. The lum-
Der comes from the nearby points In Vir-
ginia, as we'll as from North Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
The daily supply Of fresh fish received
by the dealers at the 11th street wharf
market from the fishermen working their
nets in Chesapeake bay and the Potomac
has been very light during the past two or
three days and the demand has been par
ticularly good. Rock. tailers and trout
have been the principal varieties on sale
and prices have changed but little. This
morning they were as follows:
For small trout. $50 to 50 per barrel;
medium trout, Sc to 81 per barrel; large
trout to Az cents per pound; butter fish,
So per barrel; spot. 81 to 81 per barrel:
founders. to I cents per pound; Spanish
mackerel. 10 to IL cents per pound: pan
rock. 10 to - cents per pound; medium
rock, 10 to ii cents per pound; boiling
rock IS cents per pound sturgeon to 10
cents per pound: green pike, to cents
per pound; porgies, 2ia to cents per
pound; bluefsh, 5 to cents per pound
pompaCk. Is cents per pound: bass. Is to -
cents per pound: white perch, 10 to IL cents
per pound; white perch, small, 20 to p
cents per bunch; catfish, large. % to 80
cents per bunch; catfish, small 10 to 10
cents per bunch; catfish. small, 10 to 10
to 80 cents per bunch; yellow perch. small.
10 cents per bunch: carp. 10 to % cents
each: cells, cents each.
Soft crabs We're sale in fair quantities
this morning and there was excellent de
10, TO,
The smaller crabs sold at Is to % cents
per dozen Hard shelled crabs were also
in demand and sold at $50 to 81 per bar
rel Prices on CLAIMS remain at 40 to 80
cents per dozen.
The three-masted schooner Waccamaw.
laden with asphalt in barrels. from New
York was brought into port yesterday In
tow of the tug Camilla. The vessel Is con
signed to one of the street paving com
panies and has been taken to Georgetown
to unload. The schooner Waccamaw was
reported to be a steamer of the same name
when the charter was made.
The Camilla also brought UP Barge NO
of the Consolidated Coal Company and
took it to the Georgetown piers of the Con
solidated Company to load coal for New
England port. All the coal coming down
the canal from the Cumberland mines ls
now being shipped north in these large sea-
going barges the use of schooners as coal
carriers from this city having been entirely
discontinued.
General News of Port.
The schooner Sidonta Curley has been
chartered by H. l.. Biscoe to go to the Rap
pahannock river for a cargo of lumber
The terms of the charter are private.
The coal-carrying barge John l. Brady.
which was hauled out on the marine rail-
way at Alexandria for attention to hull.
was put overheard yesterday. and two
masted bay schooner took her place on the
railway for caulking.
The longboat Mary Ann Shea was hauled
out on the railway at Benefits boat yard
yesterday morning for some minor repairs
to her hull.
The steamboat landing at Riverside
Charles county, Nd, is being rebuilt and
put in thorough order for the landing Of
freight. Both the Randall and Weems line
steamers use this landing.
The schooner r. NJ. Leonard with car
go of about $1,000 feet of pine boards from
the James river. has arrived and will I'M
load her cargo at the wharf of L. X. Riley,
foot of 9th street southwest.
The schooner E. l. Evans came into port
last night light. and will load cargo for a
doWn-river point.
The steamer Lily and Howard will sail
for Occoquan to load a cargo Of railway
ties for Philadelphia.
The schooner Rover has arrived with a
full load of pine boards from a Virginia
port loI the
The two-masted schooner Walter P.
Snow consigned to II. l.. Biscoe, is expect
ed to arrive in port this evening. She
brings large quantity of pine lumber
The Philadelphia barge John r. thinner
man is at the wharf of VIM. A. Smoot g.
Co unloading a cargo of hard coal.
The two masted schooner Travers has ar
rived In port with cargo of lumber from
the Rappahannock river for H. l.. Biscoe
The schooner Ella, laden with cord wood
has arrived from lower river landing for
dealers here.
The schooner Bertha May, laden with pine,
lumber from Virginia lumber port has
arrived. She IS consigned to Johnson &.
Wimsatt.
The schooner Mayflower will load cargo
of general stores at Alexandria and will
take them to a down-river point.
The tug Eugenia brought three scows
laden with sand into port yesterday, and
the tug Dalliance came in with one laden
with brick clay.