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SHIP BUILDING ON PACIFIC COAST. Office of the Marine Review, 302 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash., Sept. 10. Plans are being drawn at the office of Sloan Brothers, ship builders, Se- attle, for a big daylight excursion steamer with a capacity of 3,100 pas- sengers to accommodate 'the visitors at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposi- tion which will be held 'at Seattle next summer. The steamer will be screw driven and_ elaborately fur- mished. The plans aré not yet fin- ished and it will be six weeks before more definite information regarding the new steamer will be available. Sloan Brothers recently laid the keel of the Vashonian, a passenger steamer being constructed for the Vashon Steamboat Co., which will op- erate a line between Seattle and Ta- coma via Vashon Island. The Vash- onian will be 125 ft. keel, 22 ft. beam and 11 ft. deep. expansion 600-H. P. engines which are designed to drive her 18 miles an thour. She is designed to carry 300 passengers and will cost $35,000. Iit is expected that the Vashonian will be finished the latter part of Novem- ber. ; The British steamer Beechley, 3,811 gross tons, which was badly damaged by striking an uncharted reef off Sledge Island, Alaska, last June and She will have triple-_ has since been lying wp at Quarter- master Harbor, has been surveyed and bids for ther repair have been submitted by various local ship build- ing firms. be faired and 20 new plates put on the Beechley's bottom. It is also un- derstood that the steamer's frames and beams are more or less bent. 'The: job involves an expenditure of ~ $35,000. be. announced in the near future Thirty plates will have to ethe: successful bidder © a n ne ine a dense ee Su day ""TAE. Marine. REVIEW equipped with wireless. The Sarah is the first boat on the Yukon to be so outfitted. Next season it is ex- pected a number of other Yukon steamers will be provided with wire- less apparatus as there are now four land stations in the Yukon district with which the steamers may com-- "municate. A spirited revival in the Oriental flour trade -and a record. catch of sockeye salmon in Puget Sound and Alaska waters at present the two most encouraging features of the shipping situation on the Pacific coast. After a long period of inactivity the mills at Walla Whlla, Wsh., and other inland points, which make a specialty of grinding for the Oriental trade have nese have long maintained against American flour seems to be raised. On Sunday last 2,000 bbls. of flour were loaded on cars at Walla Walla and consigned to the Orient. flout goes 'by rail to: Tacoma and Seattle where it is transferred to sail and steam vessels for the east. As a result of this renewed activity the docks on Puget .Sound and the Co- lumbia river will be busier than for some time past and eastern \ chasters th will be firmer. ; "The catch of "sockeye: alow Puget Sound and Alaska waters, which 2 influence on coastwise te shipping and the minor marine inter- ests of the Pacific northwest, is break- 'Belling -- has a large ing records this year. The ham companies alone report a ' of 75,000 in a single day. Tis. pected that the 1906. pack of cases of canned salmon will | terially bettered | this year. near Double Point, 'was but slightly damaged and floated resumed operations and -- are working daily, including Sundays. The informal embargo which the Chi- hhas been ordered back to the Brem- This: 19 days from Wilmington, Del. ° The ship met severe weather off Cape Horn, where she struggled 40 days to get into the Pacific. On May 26, when off Valparaiso, a sudden squall ° carried away all the- yards and nearly all the sails, forcing the crew to com--- plete the voyage with a jury rig. Capt. Peter Erickson and 12 men comprised the crew. . The vessel was. long over due and was quotes at = per cent. - At 9:50 A. M. Aug 15 the United States cruiser Colorado ran aground Puget Sound, 25 miles north of Seattle. A dense fog was the cause of the accident. She with the high tide at 4:50 P. M. She erton navy yard for repairs. Le Three lightships, Relief and aes. 88 and 72, will leave 'Tompkinsville, Staten Island, Se he A, Tor the long voyage 'through the Straits of | Ma gellan to Seattle, A will make eight ae 3 ed the Be will |