Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-26

The following article from the pen Of Gen John N Baldwin, now a clti zen Of San Francisco but for many years a resident of Los Angeles. own CT with his brother of the famous los Feliz rancho, a part or which Is owned by the city and called Griffith park, will be of interest 10 many old timers.
 Every now and again the news comes to that tha European com paniss which handle the passenger traffic Of the Atlantic are competing and building larger and yet larger steamships. and the same seems to hold Oa the great lakes of this con tinent-for which 'tis said a steamer of t3.Oo0 tons capacity Is under con Struction
 The English are said Co have one laid down which shall be SSO feet long. capable Of carrying 5O,OOO tons and 4700 passengers. What does this mean? one naturally inquiries, and the answer comes back that those who navy 14OANgs nAtAAANA III A<uAORCf N&A ada, the United States or elsewhere, will make such combinations for the use thereof as will pay. and among other things engaging their attention is the ocean carrying trade.
 shiPbuildins improves.
 ship building has advanced side by side with house construction. Exper fence has proved that great steam CTS having quadrupIed the capacity or those in vogue fifteen and twen ty years ago, can be operated sue cessfully; that is to say, they can make a greater speed. carrying freight and passengers so rapidly and at such rates as in a measure to mo nopolize the business
 Those of us who remember the beau tif1l clipper ships of the fifth decade of the last century. such as the Fly ing Cloud, the White Squal and oth CTS built by Daniel Mckay of Boston, are aWestruck when We cross the At lantic on the Mauretania which is about equivalent to ten of the White Cloud We are thus forced to the conclusion that the modern. steam leviathans will ere long cause the construction of sailing vessels in a great measure to cease. Even here in San Francisco we can see that something of inc kind has happened, for the number oi sailing ships which enter the port IS shrinking from year 10 year and the numbers Of steam CTS is increasing, as also their sizes.
 As yet such steamers as the Mature tania can only be proftably employ ed between the Atlantic ports of the United States. Now New York has the monopoly, but in time they will put in an appearance wherever they can enter a port offering trade.
 Enormous Capacity.
 Assuming that the Panama canal when completed, will be available for such vessels We may live to see their arrival awaited, as were the steamers before railroad communica lion was established across the con tinent, for it is easily figured that it will not take many steamers, each of 4O,OOs capacity. to transport abroad what we of this generation have to offer the world, nor would many such steamers hither bound be likely to ind full corgoes unless they distrib uted coming north either from Pan ana or Cape Horn.
 There is no danger of such i'm mense ships interfering in the Pacific coast trade of the United States, for, even admitting that the trade were many times greater than 1t is, railroads competing, the probability is that they would soon find it mon ey losing business, notwithstanding the fact that railroads are handicap ped by the necessity of earning inter est on their roadbeds, whereas the ocean maintains itself in perpertual condition.
 Effect of Canal.
 The foregoing considerations nat urally lead one to inquire what will be the effect of the Panama canal. Ac sune that it is available for the pass age Of any steamer or sailing vessel afioat. Further assume that those who own the ships and the cargoes manage them according to their own ideas and not according to the die rates Of other people Such being Fhe case. will the tendency be for Bos ton, New York, Philadelphia, Bali more and so on with the Atlantic cit ies to trade direct with Japan, China, Mexico. South America and the Paci fc Islands, or wife they continue to send their goods overland for us to ship from this port or Portland, the sound cities, the port of Los Angeles, -~. p,os- 5o.stf,,t5cD9 The orastiou fs