The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-09
IN LUMBER
FL SHIPS ON COAST
- iil
Capacity Of Carriers On Ways Of
Pacific Coast Now Is p.
100000 Feet e..

No less than thirty. seven lumber
carriers are now uIdrr construction on
the Pacific Coaat or have been defin.
itely planned, nccGr ling to statistics I
gathered from the various Coast cities,
which evidence n period OF shipbuild.
ing on the Coast not known before In
years.
these thirty.sevcn carriers will have
n capacity of approx imately so, 100
900 feet Of lumber, says the "Tacoma
l.edger.' One has already been launch.
ed at st. Helens, Oregon, and will soon
be in service With the majority of
the vessels ready for service late in
the summer or fall, considerable relief
| will be felt by the lumber industry
| in the scarcity of water tonnage.
IH nearly all cases the carriers un-
| der construction are Of the schooner
| type, equipped with auxiliary power.
| Following is the list of the vessels, with
| capacity and builders and location OF
the shlpyardsI
Tacoma-Bhbarc Brothers, one, l.!
500, 900 feet, Bnbure Brothers.
Astoria-Mnc Echeren Borthers, three
10000 feet, MaeEcheren Brothers.
| Mccormick Lumber Company, two,
800 900 feet, Wilson Brothers. g..
st. Hclens-- Mccormick Lumber Com.
pany, three, 100000 feet, st. Helens
Shipbuilding Company. ,.s..g
Eureka CFairhaven) - Hammond
Lumber Company, two 100000 feet,
Hammond Lumber Company. w.
Benicia--Andrew Mahoney, two l..
500, 900 feet, James Robertson yard.
Oakland. r. Hauify Company, one,
400 900 feet Frank Stone. K,
Sudden & Christensen, one, 100000
feet, Frank Stone. g. ..ra ..g
| MarshRcld-Byxbee Clarke Company
one, 500, 900 feet, Krause & Banks.
Chales Nelson Company, one, 1900
900 feet, Krausp Banks. at
Seattle - Washington bodybuilding
Corporation, four, 900 600 feet, Puget
Sound Bridge & Dredging Company.
Trnnspacrfc Marine, three, 100000
feet. ,tUGss.
Aberdeen and Hoquiam-Swayne 4
Hoyt, three, 100000 feet, Ward 4
Schubaeh. 49,.
\ Wilson Bros. & Company, two, 1,00O,'
900 feet, PETERSON yards. :.
Byxbce < Clarke, Que 200 900 feet
Peterson yards. 1.s.EAt
Bolfour, Guthrie, one 1900, 900 feet
Peterson yards. . ...-ssgI.
f. X. Wood Company, three, loo,
coo feet, Mathews Shipyards. gsiSEN,
= HARDWOOD Lumber Company, one
l. 800 900 feet, Mathews Shipyards.
t s. 8. Freeman, one 100000 feet
Mathews Shipyurds.
IS San Franciseo--Hind, Rolph q Com
=. pany, one, 100000 feet, Union IroI
u Works. ~ We '.' " 81"
/ The offshore lumber shipments from
l. the North Pacific for last month, a
II now tabulated by the West coas
e Lumbermen' 3 Association, were tn
/ heaviest for any month since Novem
her, totaling 3l,sl1 1852 feet. For tn
!. first three - months Of this yea
" the water shipments from the Paeih
y" Northwest amounted to 350,43D,4 40
> feet, as compared with 305, 1872, 40 fee
" for the same period last year. Tn
Puget Sound ports made the creates
gain of any district. .4.L#
A feature of last months lumbe
shipments was the gain in shipment
to Australia, the total cleared in Apr
being 1929, 602 feet. The China bus
ness also increased, exports totalin
1927 $50 feet. Alaska took more lun
her than in many months past, III
Anril shipments amounting to 5,SS1
305 feet. r.