The San Francisco call., 1906-08-09
COAST SHIPPING NEWS.
Items of Interest to Mariners
of the Pacific.

ABERDEEN, Aug. s.-The report Of Collector
Of the Port Dorm shows that the strike Of the
sailors Of the coast materially Affected the ship
ping Of this port. In May twenty steam and
thirty-hve sailing vessels arrived here, while in
June the number Of steamers 10 arrive was nine
snd the number OF sailing vessels twenty July
has shown improvement over the previous month,
eleven steamers and twenty-six sailing vessels
TIE steamers Grace Dollar and Newburg ar
rived this morning from san Francisco They
masued steel barkenrine Hawaii VIII load lumber
81 Wilson Bros mill for Melbourne
A new lumber mill is being built here for
P F. O'Brien has been appointed Assistant
Deputy Collector Of Customs at this port
Tie steamer Centralia will tomorrow finish
lumber cargo Of 600, 600 feet for San Francisco.
PORTLAND, Aug. Slate this month barges
now busy carrying rock from ouarr1es up the
Columbia to the jetty at the mouth OF the river
VIII be impressed into the lumber carrying trade
between this port and San Francisco By Au-
gust IS. or a few days later at most the appro-
pria ton for hauling rock for the Government
work viii have been exhausted and the barges
viii be at liberty. There are now three at work
the Washtuca, Wallacut and Washougala. They
are towed 10 the mouth Of the river, rock-laden,
and back empty By the tug Sampson. The feet
will be able 10 transport 600 600 feet of lumber
barges at once They said to be the largest
craft Of their kind on the Pacific Coast.
The sale Of 5000 empty cosl-ol cans. which
have been collected by the lighthouse service in
tember..
Al daylight tomorrow the British turret deck
steamer Sutherland VIII leave this port for
Shanghai. carrying 2.3oo.oo feet Of lumber.
The schooner O. z. Coats has reached port to
load lumber for California points
Olson Mahoney. shipping firm Of San
Francisco. has just let contract for q steam
schooner at Aberdeen TO ply in the lumber trade
between Portland and San Francisco.
SEATTLE, Aug. 6.-The schooners William
Bowden, Luzon, Glory Of the Seas and winslow
tie brigs Geneva. Ssmar and Balboa and the
bark Carondelet arrived in port last night, and
this morning were distributed TO coastwise lum-
her mills 70 load cargOes for San Francisco and
San Pedro.
The steamer Tampico with full cargo Of
uGnber. sailed for San Francisco late last night
The steamer Robert Dollar sailed today for San
Francisco with over one million feet Of lumber
The Pacific Coast Steamship Conpany's
steamer Montara wiz sail for San Francisco to-
morrow with 2 fun cargo of general merchan-
disc The City Of Puebla, 10 sail 10 San Fran
TACOMA. Aug. s.-The Liverpool Tacoma
liner Osnfa. Captain J. Riley. arrived this morn
ng, bringing cargo Of general merchandise
from Liverpool, China and Japan. When last ct
Tacoma the osnfss stack was white but il is
steamers Of the Holt feet viii hereafter be
known as the Blue Funnel liners The vessel
las eighty-eight japanese aboard
The Northwestern Steamship Company's liner
Orizsba- which has just been renamed North
western arrived here and went on Ouarterrns ster
prepare tory TO voyage 10 Nome.
The United States army transport Buford re-
ceived orders 20 sail for San Francisco Saturday
and is oisehsrging army supplies here TO be in
readiness.
The cOsstwiss schooner Glendale, Captain q.