The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-21
Lumber To Islands
From North Coast
!. Jumps Still Higher
April 8 Quotation Is Thirteen
Dollars a Thousand Feet;
I, b. Australia Up

Thirteen dollars a thousand feet is
the rate for lumber from Gray's Har-
Dor, Columbia river and Puget Sound
to the Hawaiian Islands. This QUOTA
ton is in the latest weekly freight cir
cular Of the Shipowners' Association
Of the Pacific Coact received here
dated April s. 80 s..s..., -.
One schooner is under charter for
twelve dollars next voyage, q dollar
less than this quotation, but she will
receive fifteen dollars for voyage af-
ter next, which indicates that still fur
(ther increases in general quoted rates
flay be expected within few months.
A twelvedol rate was putt into
effect March 25. That was only three
weeks after ten-dollar rate was made.
The increase of March 4 was the frat
since December i. when nine dollars
and fifty cents was declared. 81. =.
Six Dollars Last Year Tsa- &fr- =.
On April 8, 1915, the rate was six,
dollars; il went to seven dollars May
L; to nine dollars August 90; dropped
lack to eight dollars and fifty cents
October 2; and climbed again to nine
dollars November Is. sc. -
Even at the great rates difficulty Is
met at fixing vessels for the Islands,
for other voyages also are attractive.
All Australian ports are 100 shilings,
roughly thirty dollars, except Mel.
bourne and Adelaide. now 1870 shillings,
by the April s circular. Chile ports
are 10 shillings; South Africa Is up
to 200. March '25 rates were ITO and
1870 shillings for Australia; 100 for
Chile and 200 for South Africa. Aug
ust 90, 1915, showed ninety and 100
los to Australia; eighty five to Chile,
and $50 to South Africa.
Some recent fixtures are: March IL
report, schooner Alpena, now bound to
Port Allen from Newcastle with coal,
lump sum of $4,000 for Manila AMI
return; schooner Columbia $50, 0nd.
same voyage; steamer Jim Butler.
twelve-month time charter, coasting,
1925 a day. ..
Must Pay Big Rates
Besides the greatly increased cost of
lumber that comes to the Islands IN
other significance.
1t will be difficult to fix windjam-
mers for transporting pines to the
Coast, at any reasonable rate. Take,
for example, the case of a schooner
that is receiving thirteen dollars y
thousand feet for lumber. A single
voyage brings her $4,000, if she ear.
ries 100000 feet. To attract her to
the pines trade. for Seattle delivery,
steamer rates of three dollars and TWEEN
ty.hve cents a ton and perhaps more
probably would have to be offered, u. =
even then the receipts for the voyage
! would be only ne.third or one-fourth
of what she would receive for lumbfr.
"A recent prefer to schooner was
for two dollars ton for canned pine :,
Seattle delivery. IL was refused and
she sailed in ballast,
Delivery at San Francisco hardly is
TO be thought Of Going to that port
would necessitate another voyage TO
the North Coast for lumber, and the
delay would not be worth the candle.
| Even discharge at Seattle is not at
/ traetiye, for few windjammers loaf
lumber there. =. III.
Perhaps They Cant Wait
Still another reason is that vessels
J are being chartered on close ealcula-
tions for former voyages, and some
times they cannot delay for other car
goes. Much the same conditions pro-
baby will operate against chartering
Of windjammers for sugar, and there is
the added disadvantage that many
would not be fitted for sugar. carrying
! without caulking Ind boarding the hull
inside. Steamers eligible for coast.
wise trade are not in the same cate
CORY as sail, however.