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October, 1919 South American Steamship line. This gives New Orleans what is virtually a through steamship line from those countries. Hitherto, southbound freight has been transferred, but not north- bound. New Orleans annually sends to Bolivia alone about $1,000,000 worth of merchandise, but the major part of Bolivia's annual exports of $150,000,000 worth of raw materials goes to New STA Up and Down the Pacific Coast NT UUNIUUNUUTNUUOUSNUUOACUNUUAT uy alll IRST of the Great Lakes-built ves- sels to come to Puget sound, the steel steamer GOODSPEED is in Seattle undergoing docking and repairs at the Todd Drydocks, Inc. The Goop- SPEED was built at Wyandotte, Mich., and brought a cargo of ore from the ea West coast to the Tacoma, Wash, smelter. For her outward voyage, the Pacific Steamship Co. will load her with a cargo of Puget sound lumber for Cuban ports. fe * * Losing her way in a dense fog, the Japanese steamer Suinpu Maru, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha fleet, went ashore on the shores of Vancouver island and was floated only after strenuous efforts had been made. The vessel is badly damaged and will require extensive repairs. Her cargo of general Oriental merchandise sustained severe damage by water. When she arrived at Seattle in tow, the vessel had 18 feet of water in her holds. ee Heavy fogs, due largely to extensive forest fires, have been the cause of two recent maritime mishaps in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. The new government- owned wooden steamer BLAKELY was seriously damaged by going ashore and returned to Seattle where she is. still undergoing repairs. It was necessary to discharge the entire cargo of lumber. The 4-mast schooner Mary E. FOosTER has just been floated after lying on the beach near Port Angeles for 10 days. This vessel will also require consider- able repairs. She was floated by tugs at a cost exceeding $15,000. * * * By resolution, the port of Seattle has decided to make no tax levy for port purposes for the year 1920. It is esti- mated that the cash on hand, estimated receipts and earning power of the prop- erties will take care of the expenses for the coming year. In fact, it is believed that there will be a-surplus if the port's business continues as .at present.. The expenses for 1920 are estimated as fol- lows: Salaries, wages, etc., $1,893,942; et on bonded indebtedness, $461,- . 7K *K * What is said to be the highest scale of wages in the world for similar work as just been granted the longshoremen of Washington, Oregon and_ British Columbia ports. The new agreement has just been signed granting a uniform Scale in the three districts involved. Heretofore, each district has had_ its Own agreement with the workers. Under THE MARINE REVIEW York... By the new arrangement, manu- facturing centers of the Mississippi' val- ley will have a chance "to get some of these raw materials. K One One of the longest trips ever taken by a dredge under its own power was that of the United States stee] dredge ES. Tapor, Capt. George C. Rogers which, late in August and early in Sep- the new scale, an increase of 15 cents an hour for straight work and 30 cents an hour for overtime is granted. About 7000 longshoremen are affected by this agreement, which provides for arbitra- tion in case of grievances. . The - em- ployers are insured against strikes or stopping of work. For general long- shore work, the new scale is 90 cents an hour and $1.35 for overtime. Check- ers, weighers and spotters are given the same wages. Those employed on a monthly basis are to receive not less than $150 with the regular rate for overtime. Regular working hours are 6 a.m. fo hoon and <1 to 5 p.m: his agreement clears a situation which has been threatening for some time, several local strikes having taken place in the last six months. ee For several weeks, some of the larger steel yards in the Pacific northwest dis- trict have been using their reserve sup- plies of - material. Consequently the shipyards have not had to cease opera- tions but the supply of steel has been greatly reduced by the strike of railroad shopmen. Many cars of steel, engines and other material required in shipbuild- ing were stalled for days but recently these shipments have been arriving more regularly. The Seattle and Tacoma yards ordinarily keep a month's reserve supply on hand. Oe After being ashore on Grays harbor since last January, the wooden motor schooner JANET CARRUTHERS has been | floated and it is expected that she can be repaired and returned to_ service. The vessel was pulled off the sands by her own donkey engines straining on cables attached to anchors placed in deep water. The wreck was sold last spring to J. H. Price for $21,000 and the first attempt had to be abandoned after the hull was moved about 80 feet. Prior to that, the engines and lumber cargo had been taken off. ef e Reports from British Columbia give a gloomy outlook for the pack of salmon on the Fraser river this. season. That district will put up. only about 7000 cases this year as against 18,000 in 1918. On the American side, the pack will be 20,000 .cases compared to 50,700 last year. .These figures are far below those for 1915, which was regarded as a normal season when the Fraser river had a pack of 91,200 cases and Washing- ton 64,500. The decrease is blamed by the Canadians on the American fisher- men who, they state, have depleted the 489 tember, 14 days in ally went from Lake »Charles,. La. fo St. Paul, Minn., by way of inland waterways and the Mississippi river. - Kee Neil Richard Sampson, 52, who had (Southern Pacific) steamship lines, died late in August in New Orleans. Ei iz supply by catching the fish while they are on their way to the spawning grounds of the Fraser. : ar , oa oo * * British Columbia courts have awarded the owners and crew of the fishing tug 'Iskum $1000 for saving the passengers and taking the mail off the stranded Canadian Pacific railroad steamer Prin- CESS ADELAIDE last October when she was ashore between Victoria and Van- couver. The sum of $6000 was asked. x ok * Pacific coast steel shipbuilders are. worried by the high rates on shipbuild- ing material. They state they are oper- ating under a heavy handicap as east- ern yards do not have to freight steel across the country. The through rate on steel from eastern points of origin to Japan is less than the freight by rail from the east to: Pacific ports. Ship builders assert that some _ concession will have to be made by the railroads if Pacific yards are to continue to com- pete with eastern plants. At the present time it is stated that it costs from $50,- 000 to $80,000 freight on the materials used in the averaged sized steel steamer built on the Pacific coast. a, *K * e is Inaugurating the shipping board's new service between Puget sound and Liver- pool, the steel steamer ExELsecx, built by Skinner & Eddy, has begun her maiden voyage from Seattle. She is carrying a general mixed cargo. eae The government has sold to a San Francisco firm of wreckers the remains of the cruiser MiILwAUKEE which was stranded four miles north of Humboldt bay on -Dec. 16, 1916." The sum paid for the wreck is $30,000. The Mn- WAUKEE was wrecked while attempting to assist submarine H-3 which also proved a total loss. sok & J. E. Chilberg and associates, Seattle, have purchased nine wooden motorships, built by the Sloan and Patterson & McDonald: yards for the Australian gov- ernment. They will be used in general Pacific trade. oes Three thousand tons of copper ingots valued at $1,440,000, said to he one of the largest shipments ever dis- patched from Seattle was shipped to the Orient recently by the Japanese steamers Totrat Maru and GENZAN Maru of the fleet of Frank Water- house & Co. '