Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-11-28
TO BUOY CHANNEL DEMAND new Deal
Bar TO Be PROPRLY Protected
IS GOVERNMENT ORDER
THREE NEW MARKS TO BE SET
TENDER MANZANITA AT ONCE
SAYS ELLiCOTT WHO VISITS
HARROR

HAReOR
Three buoys which will properly
mark the channel over the Grays
Harbor bar and afford protection to
incoming and outgoing steamers and
sailing vessels, will be placed in posi-
tiOn at once, according to state
ment issued by the Seventeenth Light
house district and made public last
week. The order for the buoys was
sent out from Portland and is as fol-
lows:
"Washington-Grays harbor en-
trance-South spit jetty buoy HIS first
class can, will be permanently dis
continued about November % and re-
bered "2 jetty," which will also mark
the Ely side of the new south chan
mel over the bar.
"GrayS harbor entrance-TruStee
spit buoy, g. first class nun, will be
replaced about November 29 by a
PS first class can about 1,o00 feet
NE'ly of the present station of No.
2.
"Grays harbor entrance-Trustee
spit buoy 21a, reported missing No
as practicable"
Inspector J. M. EllicOtt, of Port.
land, head of the lighthouse bureau
visited Grays Harbor last Friday and
Saturday, coming to look the matter
over and assured the business men
of Aberdeen and HOquiam that pro-
per steps would be taken at once, in
accordance with the above order to
relieve the present dangerous condi-
tions on the bar. He said that the
lighthouse tender Manzanita would
proceed to place the buoys immedi-
ately. He declared that the govern
ment had taken up the matter with
the least possible delay as soon as
the conditions had been reported to
them, and assured the people that
1t is the policy of the lighthouse board
to afford every possible safeguard
to navigation at all times.
g., Chamber Protests
Spurred to action by the continued
complaints from captains of vessels
entering the HarbOr of the lack of
channel marks President L. G. Hum
bargar, of the Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday sent message of pro-
test to the lighthouse officials in Port
land. whose duty it is to place buoys
and mark the channel. The message
was worded as follows:
81. w. Ellicott. inspector thirteenth
lighthouse district, Portland, Oregon
Shipping interests on Grays Har-
Dor demand that immediate action be
taken to properly mark the entrance
to this harbOr. Captains report only
one buoy in sight and that one out
Of position. When may we expect
relief? Chamber of Commerce"
1t is reported that buoy No. 2 has
disappeared and that there is only
one buoy on the bar and that is far
out Of position that shippers who lay
their course by it are liable to go on
the shoals. The lack of proper buoys
causes much easiness among cap
tains who make the Harbor and that
the government authorities who have
charge of the matter have been dilat.
Ory in making move to safeguard
the shipping interests of Grays Har.
Dor caused much dissatisfaction. Such
course. it is declared, cannot fail
to injure the Harbor and seriously
menaced the business of the mills
and the Harbor industries generally
The damage to steam schooner Sho-
SuOuc, WHlCIl IcCcIlly SOI OuJ VI tllS
channel in trying to enter the har-
Dor and bumped on the bar, causing
considerable damage and for the re-
pair of which the vessel is now on
the dry dock in Portland, is said to
have been hte direct result of i'm
proper marking of the channel and
1t was feared that other ship mas
ters would experience like trouble
unless the matter was attended to.
The ship masters also took an ac-
tive hand in the demand for buoys
and drafted dispatch which they
sent to Portland last week, asking
for relief, as follows:
1--WE the undersigned masters of
vessels making the port of Grays
Harbor request that you take imme-
diate action to have the channel over
Grays Harbor bar properly buoyed.
No. 2h buoy has been missing since
November l, and within the last few
days No. buoy has disappeared. The
remaining bar buoy is so far out of
position that it gives no bearing, and
in entering Grays Harbor it is neces-
sary to wait for high tide in order that
an entrance be made without danger
of striking the shoals. We request
that buoys be placed to mark the
south channel and those now remain
ing be moved so as to show the deep
water not the shoal places on the