Evening star., 1903-07-20
ON THE RIVER FRONT
PREPARING DREDaE FOR WORK
ON EAsTEHN BRANCH.
Heavy Demand forFRiver Sand-Large
Cargoes 6f Goal Coming
M1in8 News

pairing the Sanfordl & Brooks hydraulic
dredge Dewey fer service on the Eastern
branch, deepening the channel to the navy
yard and pumping the mud upon the por-
ton of the Anacostia fats which Is to be
raised above the tide level. The pipes
through which the mud and water will be
pumped are being placed Ia position on the
pontoons. and the mud cutting and pump
ing apparatuses are being. put in order for
effective work 1t is expected that by the
end of this week active operations will
have begun and will be kept up night and
day until the work is completed. Several
months will be required to complete the
work on the branch
The commission dealers at the 11th street
wharf wholesale fish market. through whose
hands the greater portion Of the fresh fish
used In this city pass, report the market
dull both this morning and yesterday, with
light receipts both from the fisheries about
Norfolk and from the nets in the lower Po-
tomac. Trout were on sale in good guam
titles and there was scattering supply OF
other varieties Of fish. Prices this morning
were as lows:
For small trout, So to S. per barrel;
medium trout, 81 to 81 per barrel: large
trout to cents per pound butterfish. $6
per barrel; founders to cents per pound;
Spanish mackerel. to IL cents per pound;
pan rock. to I cents per pound; medium
rock, to cents per pound: boiling rock,
12l2 to 10 cents per pound; sturgeon, to 10
cents per pound; green pike, 8 to cents
per pound; porgies, 2h to cents per
pound: bluefish. 3A to cents per pound;
bass, Is to % cents per pound; white perch,
10 to IL cents per pound; white perch.
small. 20 to 30 cents per bunch: catfish.
large. IL to Is cents per bunch; catfish
small, to cents per bunch: yellow perch,
large, 10 to 80 cents per bunch; yellow
perch, small, 10 cents per bunch; carp, 10
to 25 cents each. eels, cents each.
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slowly at 81 to 81. 80 per barrel CLANS are
in fair demand at As to 5Oc. per hundred.
They are coming In barrels from Norfolk.
The local demand for building sand from
the beds in the river. where it is washed
free from clay. is quite heavy and five tug
boats. fifteen or twenty scows and four
sand digging machines are kept busy sup
plying the market. Saturday afternoon
the tug Rosale brought four scows laden
with sand into port and the tug Baby ar
rived with three scows This sand is all
unloaded at the distributing station on the
Eastern branch.
The big four-masted schooners Henry s.
Little and Mary D. Quinby, laden with
about 2.Jo0 tons of ice for this city, are at
sea and should arrive here early next
week. Their cargoes are for the American
Ice Company
General News Of Port.
The Baltimore tug Emma Captain Paul.
Is expected to arrive7 in port today with the
barges James p. Easton, Katie N. Latta,
John l. Brady and two other barges, all
laden with coal for this city. They will
bring in all over Z OGB tons of the fuel. The
coal will be distributed among several deal
erS here and at Alexandria.
The muddy water in the Potomac. caused
by the frequent and heavy rains along the
streams tributary to the river is reported
by the steamboat masters to extend to
within few miles of Colonial Beach, but
not quite down to the main Oyster-groWing
grounds in the lower river 1t is now be-
lieved that the oysters will not be harmed.
The schooner Katie, which has been haul
ed out on the marine railway at Alexandria.
has been launched and will go to Virginia
lumber port to load.
The power yacht Stranger which has
been supplied with new naphtha engine
at Benefits boatyaTd, has been launched
and will be made ready for service as soon
possible. She is to go on an extended
cruise to the north:.,-
Mr.. William H. Yerkes. jr, has returned
from visit to Captain Case of the schooner
Independent at Baltimore.
The schooner James B. Anderson, laden
with pine lumber from Virginia humber
port, has arrived for the dealers
The schooner Magnolia, laden with cord
wood from the lower Potomac, came into
port yesterday for Carter & Clark
The Gilman Dove, laden with sand for
one of the paving companies, has arrived
from the lower river.
The schooner Irene is in port with a cargo
of cord wood for Robert Murphy.
The schooner Ada Cowart is in port with
a full load of cord wood from a Virginia
lumber port for the dealers.
The schooner .Seabright laden with rail-
way ties. is in port for Carter & Clark
The schooner John kelso, arrived here
yesterday.
evening for a lower river port and will load