The San Francisco call., 1906-09-05
COAST SHIPPING NEWS.
Items of Interest to Mariners
of the Pacific.

san PEDRO. Sept. 4.-The schooner Transit
Captain Wolsted; has arrived thirteen days
lumber Consigned 10 the San Pedro TTmbsr or
Company. The schooner Commerce. Captain
Meyers, is in port, eleven days from Grays
Harbor. and is discharging 200 900 feet of lufn-
Der at the Southern Pacific wharf The steamer
Pomo arrived this afternoon with full cargo
schooner ". J. Patterson Captain Lancaster,
from Aberdeen. arrived today with $50, 600 feet
Of lumber. consigned TO the E. K. Wood Lumber
sen. finished dischsrEing & cargo of lumber con-
signed 10 the 4. K. Wood Lumber Company and
cleared today for Bellingham, where she viii
load return cargo
Rates on lumber continue to advance thar
from Tacoma to San Pedro now being quoted at
The schooner william Bowden sailed yester-
day from Port Blakeley with full cargo Of
Andrew Furuseth Of San Francisco. agent FOR
the Sailors Union Of the Pacific, arrived here
differences existing between the striking long
shoremen and sailors and the wholesale yards
and ship-owenrs operating at this port All
the local wholesale yards working lumber
esrgoes, although q number Of them are work
ing short-hsnded.
The steamer San Gabriel will finish diseharg-
ing her lumber cargo Thursday and Will sail
north 10 reload.
The following vessels are discharEing lumber
csreoes: Steamers Wasp, J. s. Higgins. Yo-
semitic. San Gabriel; barkentines Gardiner City.
Thomas P Emigh; schconers Sausalito. ". F.
Witzmsn, Louis. Ludlow. Mildred John Camp
bell, R. W Bartlett. Lucy The following YES
sels are on the way. Barkentfnes Lahaina.
Koko Head. James johnson; schooners Salem,
King Crr1s' Forester. Annie E. smale F. E.
Sanders, Iuzon. Comet. Defiance, Columbia and
william Bowden
tventv-four days. bound from Hamburg for San
work today on the Slade docks and put
ting lumber aboard steam schooners for the
Of things probably means that settlement Of
the trouble has been effected between the
union men and the Pollard Steamship company,
and local members OF the union are slreadS
predicting that the difficulty Will soon be set
tied in their favor at every coast port.
The union men at the big plant Of the Lind1
strom shipbuilding Company quit work today.
The men are not satisfied with the manner u
his business and are taking day on to see
whether or not they. win stand for it
and probably viii take a cargo at the Michigan
mill She will carry away more than 100000
feet Of lumber. The four-masted schooner Ed
from San Francisco She is loading J, 100 coo
feet Of lumber at the Slsde MILL Inc so steel EEL
feet Of lumber during the present week; she
loading ss the oe slsds no MILL PILL The ssF sssame5 Sd
the Centralia $4,000 feet at the Slade mill
The schooner Jessie Miner was towea tl.l tnis
load lumber for San Francisco: The steam
schooner Santa Barbara is loading lumber at
EndeaTor is loading at the Dryden Leitch
EUREKA. Sept. 4.-The steam schooner
South Bay departed today for San Francisco,
lumber laden The Aberdeen got in from that
port to load lumber at Arcata for return trip.
es bound for sam francisco and Port
land. The Kilburn viii go on drydock on her
arrival IN San Francisco. Repair work to be
schedule The British bark Melanope succeeded
in getting away for Mexican ports today
PORTLAND, Sept. 4.-The Norwegian steamer
Thyra Is expected to be ready TO san tomorrow
morning for the Orient The oil carrier Asun-
cion left this evening for San Francisco for an
The steamer Alliance may have TO go into dry
dock for slight repairs upon reaching port from
this morning, she lost propeller blade on her
way down. but left Eureka this morning for the
Columbia River.
The Hartman liner Aztec commenced diecharx-
ing freight at Ainsworth wharf this morning
Three OF the vessels that crossed ia over the
bar yesterday, the four-masted barkentine Amer
icans. the four-masted schooner Andy Mahoney
and the bark Hesper. were taken IN tow by the
the river TO load lumber. The Americana was
dropped at Stella. the Hesper is booked to re-
honey win come to one OF the mills in Portland
10 load. The Mahoney viii load for San Fran
cisco, the two other vessels for San Pedro.
After the tug Oklahoma was placed in service
the Harvest Queen was laid up 10 be given a
number Of minor repairs. She is expected to be
SAN DIEGO. Sept. 4-The hrst of the large
log rsfts for the Benson Lumber Company is
Spreckeis tug Dauntless. The two passed the
latitude Of Sar Francisco last Saturday.
bound south. The big raft contains some three
million feet OF lumber in logs, besides the plIinK
and lumber for the construction OF a wharf
and lumber mill for which franchise has al
ready been granted by the City Council and the
Board Of Harbor Comm issioners
VANCOUVER. Sept Accommodating in
January next a monthly steamship service he
tween Vancouver and ManzanflIo and Mazat-
Ian and miner ports on the west coast Of
Mexico will be inauguarated by an English
steamship company the identity Of which has
not yet been disclosed The line VIII be sub
sfdized TO the extent Of $50. 900 annually By
the Dominion Government, and It is expected
by the promoters that the Mexican Government
viii grant bonus OF like amount Captain T.
H. W0rsnop Of London is now In Vancouver in
connection with the service. He fs arranging
agencies here and st Victoria. and when the
line Is fnaugurated will be prepared TO handle
freight and passenger traffic. Evans. Davidson
& Co. were appointed representatives at this
port
SEATTLE. Sept. 4-The schooner William
Boxden towed TO Sea yesterday with full
lumber cargo for San Francisco The American
schooner Ariel towed 70 sea today with luul-
Der cargo for San Diego. The schooner George