The San Francisco call., 1906-09-16
COAST SHIPPING NEWS.
Items of interest to Mariners
of the Pacific.

PORTLAND Sept. 15.-Six ships were char
tered this morning 10 transport wheat from Port
Carrying earn e Capacity e Of the aeet viii amount to
100000 bushels of the cereal, which viii have
were taken by Kerr. clifford & Co.. the French
bark Sully. 1880 tons net register: the French
French m ship Bayonne. 1907 tons Balfour. Guth-
rie e. Co. chartered the other three craft, the
French bark Eugene Fantrel. i705 tons net net
register: the French bark Emile Galline. 1905
tons and the. German ship Marie Haekfeid. 1Io5
tons. The actual CARRYING capacity OF the neet
new crop towing and will arrive during the lat
ter part of the fail and early winter Ihe rate
was not announced.
the owners for the. British bark Galgate to
transport cargo of lumber from Portland to
businesa during the last seven years. Captain
Griffths. master of the vessel says 1t VIII net
the owners much greater profit than had she
been engaged to carry cargo of grain to Europe
at the union rate of 2Is Cd.
The steamer Annie comings u being eonser,ea e
for several weeks She Is on the ways AT 81
Johns.
the drydock this morning to the North Pacific
mill. where she will take on cargo OF lumber
The steam schooner Redondo arrived In the
harbor this morning to load lumber Tor san san
FRANCISCO The steamer r a. hlieqIn nos sarte9 ReS
&C Captain Rule. master of the British steamer
tlSlEolO. DENIES udflhB euoue h1iNt As~s ANS--s
and Edward Smith. the two young men who ap-
piled at the police station Thursday night ior
shelter after having deserted the steamer upon
her arrival from San francisco he says the
boys were brought before the British Consul by
sailor boarding house keeper and di signed u.,..
sailed yesterday for San Francisco with 100000
CAPTAIN Omar ]. Humphrey Of the Alaska
Coast Company is now in San Francisco en-
deavoring to charter vessel 70 put on the run run
to Valdez. II unsuccessful the company VIII
nd frua
The Buckman viii sail for San Francisco late
tonight With full cargo OF general merchandise
and seventy y-nine passengers
EUREKA. Sept l5.-The steamers Pomona
and Rival, from San Francisco, and the Roanoke
Lott Iottie G Carson % arrived from Newport and the
steamer Lakne left for San Francisco
Aurelia sailed today With a cargo Of lumber for
San Francisco. The steamer Costa Rica of the
San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company
passengers. The steamer Vermont left today
with cargo of lumber for China.
The British steamer Gymeric. which arrived
at this port yesterday after running short Of
fuel took op eighty tons of coal aud left today
for Saaano. The British ship Braboek, with
cargo Of grain for Europe, was towed To sea
today. The steamer Aztec. which had been bar.
bound here for several days. got to sea today and
left FOR San Francisco The schooner ps compesr' sa
was towed TO today.
The Portland Asiatic steamer Arabia arrived
The lighthouse tender Heather left today With
supplies for the Tillamook Rock lighthouse.
San PEDRO. Sept l5-The schooners W. f.
Witzman, Captain Peterson; SausalIto, Captain
White. and Mildred. Captain Kindlen. which
nssa Waiting Eesn crews sailed today ii ballast for
Grays Harbor where they win load lumber
The ship MsLaurin, m CAPTAIN Fry viii sail to-
cargo The steamer pomo, from Albion, and
steamer Melville Dollar and schooners Mahukona
fun cargoes of lumber consigned to San Pedro
r. W. Bartlett finished discharging lumber
cargoes and sailed In ballast TO reload, the for
mer for Puget Sound and the latter for Ballard
TACOMA, Sept. 15---After six months delay
the dredging of Puyallup River channel through
the center Of Tacoma tide lands will commence
bukbeads na hs is in progress The dredging Isl viii be
done by Government appropriation. 1t will enable
the Chicago, milwaukee, and st. Paul Railroad to
and other construction materials.
At Port Townsend yesterday the steamer Aca-
American registry under her original name OF
Jennie Thelin. The vessel sailed last night for
San Diego With l,l lnm9sr Loaded at Everett
for Fremantle. with 100000 feet of lumber.
The schooner Aleyana e,s sal sailed today from Bel
steamships have been placed ON the Liverpool
Tacoma route by Alfred Holt & Co. The Bel
leTophon, the first of them, will arrive here In
The Alaska Coast Company Is preparing plans
for two new steamships to be operated between
Sound points and Seward and Valdez
Lumber rates TO San Pedro now quoted at
$3.50 thousand, breaking ali records on the
Pacific Coast.
The, Pacific Coast Gypsum Company is now
operating its Tacoma factory, thereby creating
market for an immense gypsum mine located
on Chicacof Island Alaska. Its chief produc-
tions are plaster and Fertilizer. The OUTPUT will
be Increased from twenty five to 100 tons daily.
shaft has been sunk in mine to u depth Of
100 feet with a crosscut OF lis feet through