Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-31
ON HE RIVER FRONT
DIGGING POTOMAC SAND FOR THE
LOCAL BUILDERS.
Buoy Tender Maple in Port - High
Tide and Heavy Gale
Other Matters.

The digging Of sand for building purposes
from lie sand bars in the river has been
resumed, after being stopped for three or
four weeks on account of the ice. The tug
Resale left port yesterday with one of Mr..
Lewis Shoots sand digging machines and
several barges in tow for river point be-
low Alexandria, where the digger will be-
gin work. The sand it takes will be ship
ped to this city. A sand machine Is re-
ported to be at work digging sand in Pts
Getaway creek below Fort Washington.
This machine has four sand-carrying scows
alongside.
The diggers have also resumed work
above the Long bridge. The demand for
building sand for the large number Of new
buildings going up in this city, is said to be
quite heavy just now, and this has made
the dredges start work early In this season.
The warm weather of the past two or
three days has enabled the fishermen to
work their nets in the river, and shipments
are being made to this city. The supply on
hand this morning was not large. but was
ample to meet the demand, and prices were
as follows:
For pan rock. 10 to 12c. per pound:
medium rock, 10 to 16c. per pound; boiling
rock, 10 to zoe. per pound; jumping mullet.
8 to Sc. per pound; Spanish mackerel, 10 to
12c. per pound; salmon trout, 10c per pound;
gray trout to &c. per pound; red snapper.
V " On. per pOuAU, SuecpSIcdup " OF. pCA
pound; founders, s to &c. per pound: Poto-
mac black bass, 10 to 12c. per pound; North
Carolina black bass, to 1Oc. per pound;
bluef1sh and tailors, 10 to 12c. per pound;
II to 12c. per pound; white perch, small,
40 to SOC. per bunch; catfish, large, 20 to
35c. per bunch; catfish, small, 10 to 15c.
per bunch; yellow perch, 20 to 4Oc. per
bunch; carp, Is to 40c each; cells, to &c.
each; Florida roe shad 75c. to 81 each;
buck shad, 40 to SOC. each, and herring, 4c.
each.
One vessel laden with oysters has arrived
mand is fair. TIE cooler weather has had
a stiffening effect on the market and prices
range from 65c. to $1.20 per bushel. accord
ing to quality.
The United States Vessels.
The United States dispatch boat Dolphin.
which arrived off Alexandria early yester-
day morning, was brought up to the navy
yerd and locked yesterday by the naval
tug Tecumseh.
The United States lighthouse tender Ma
pie, Captain Miles, arrived in port yester-
day from a cruise among the light stations
and buoys along the lower Potomac. She
has aboard number of new spar buoys,
which will be used to replace those broken
and carried off by the heavy ice. 1t is
stated she will take gas buoy, which has
been lying at the charging plant at the
foot of 18th street for the past ten days, to
the lighthouse storage station at Point
Lookout. Md. The Maple is berthed at the
lighthouse service wharf, at the foot of 7th
street southwest.
The United States naval tug Triton came
up from the naval proving grounds at
Indian Head, Md. yesterday with barge
in tow on which were three rapid-fire naval
guns which had been built at the ordnance
works here and taken to the proving
grounds for the regular tests.
The large sand and gravel digging ma
chine Of the Columbia Sand Company,
which has been hauled out on the marine
railway at Alexandria for repairs, has been
completed and was put overheard yester-
day.
There was an unusually high tide in the
river yesterday morning, the water cover
ing the seawail Of the Potomac Park; but
the heavy northwest gale which blew yes
terday and last night soon forced the water
down to low level. The gale is reported to
1ave been unusually heavy along the lower
river.
The wharf Of Mr. William M. Reardon at
Alexandria, the landing place there of the
Weems and Randall line boats, is being
raised about two feet in order to bring 1t
above the level Of the spring high tides,
which often cover the wharves at Alex
andria and damage the goods stored on
them.
Arrivals in Port.
The schooner Oyster Bay, laden with a
full cargo of Potomac river oysters. came
into port yesterday afternoon for the deal
ers here and she is lying at the 18th street
wharf.
The two-masted schooner Farmers Friend
has arrived in port with a cargo of pine
lumber from river point for the dealers
here.
The tug Minerva came into port yesterday
with the barge Daniel, laden with cord wood
from Upper Machodoc, in tow for Carter &
Clark.
The tugs Volunteer and Hoskns, with
lows Of barges, and the schooner Earl Bis
coe and the Mary Francis left port yes
terday
The two-masted schooner Sidonia Curley,
laden with about 100000 feet of lumber from
Norfolk for H. L. Biscoe, came into port
today.
Black Giant having a cargo of cord wood
aboard, arrived yesterday for the dealers.
The schooner Charles H. Dagger, from the
lower Potomac, with a load of lumber, has