The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-23
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES or INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The tug Britannia left yesterday
morning for Mobile. having a barge
loaded with $4,000 feet of lumber in
tow. The shipment was by the South
ern States Lumber Co. and for
steamer now taking cargo in Mobile
The steamer Belle arrived in port
yesterday from Vernon and way land
ings, bringing full cargo of naval
stores. which was discharged at Gen.
trail wharf The vessel will begin
loading a return cargo today. The
naval stores is for an independent firm
in Chicago, which not only owns
the steamers Belle and Vernon.
The schooner Lucy h. which brought
a large cargo of naval stores to port
Tuesday, finished unloading and NOV
ed to Baylen street wharf yesterday,
where she began taking a cargo for St
Andrews.
The tug Simpson sailed early yes
terday morning for Millville, towing
the barge Quincy loaded with supplies
for the mill there. At Millville the
Simpson win take barges in tow for
st. Joe, where a steamer is being load
ed by the German American Lumber
Co.
The steamer Katendrecht, hence,
has arrived at Hamburg.
The steamer Southlands, which en-
tered yesterday from Rosario. will load
solid cargo of lumber furnished by
the Export Lumber Co.
It is stated that a new steamship
line between Providence and southern
European ports will start on June 8
with the steamship Madonna, of the
Fabre Line. from the former port.
The Perth Amboy Dry Dock Com
pany, Perth Amboy, N. J.. has during
the past few weeks hauled out and
made general repairs to the schooners
Mary B. Baird, Goodwin Stoddard,
Gilbert Brothers; tug William Schau-
bel. Sr, and minor repairs to the
schooners Ada F. Brown, Emma Hen
dirk, lakewood, Alma e. A. Holmes,
Salhe C. Marvel, Estelle, Mount Hope,
Banner, Lizzie NJ. Parsons and Viking.
The gross profits of the Hamburg
American Line for 1910 amounted to
SO, 600, 900 as compared to $s,25o,0O0
for the previous year. An eight per
cent lividened has been declared, and
$425, 600 was added to the companys
insurance fund, which now amounts to
"a. 425. 900.
No Cod Famine In Sight.
The cod is probably the most prolific
of all sea fish, though its habitat does
not extend over as large an area as
other species It is found only in
northern waters and will live and
thrive only in certain temperatures.
Some day, owing to the wonderful
asset which Newfoundland possesses
in her cod fishery, says the Wide World
Magazine, she is destined to be the
great fish depot Of the world.
It is not alone on the great banks"
many miles of her coasts, that cod
are found in countless millions. but
around the whole island-on the
lodges and grounds" on the capes
and promontories that jut into the At
lantic, as well as on the Labrador
coast, for a stretch OF a thousand
miles.
In these regions you require no
hatcheries to aid the wonderful fe-
cundity of nature; indeed, it is doubt
full If you require any laws or regu-
lations to protect these fisheries, unless
It be in the shoal waters Of the bays
Notwithstanding that for 900 years
the fisheries of these waters have been
prosecuted by the rival fishermen Of
two hemispheres the largest catch OF
cod ever taken on the Newfoundland
and Labrador coasts was that secured
in 1909, the yield being estimated In
weight at 100000 quintals. or 201,-
900, 600 pounds. to which may be added
200, 900 quintals-the quantity locally
consumed in Newfoundland during and
after the fishing season The value OF