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PACIFIC COAST NOTES, Office of the Marine REVIEW, 302 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash., Feb. 43. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. has let the contract for the con- struction of two car. ferries to Hall Brothers Marine Ry. & Shipbuilding Co., Winslow, Wash. The price was not made public. Several Pacific coast firms bid on the work, includ- ing the Moran. Co, and Philip. D. Sloan. The ferries are to 'be each 191 ft. long, 42 ft. beam and 11 ft. deep. They will have a small house for the crew and will 'be 'handled by tugs. Each 'ferry will have: 4 capacity of 12 cars. The vessels must be completed by June 15. The Norwegian steamer rived at Tacoma Pep. 3 unseaworthy condition. Many of her plates on the bottom were sprung, she was leaking badly and her ma- chinery was shifted. The Cecil ran ashore on the southern extremity of Santa Margarita Island on the lower California coast, Jan, 12; and after being pounded in the breakers for 32 hours was pulled off 'by the Pacific Coast Co's 'steamer Curocoa. The Cecil is 6,040 tons gross, was built at Newcastle-on-Tyne and hails from Bergen, Norway. She will be docked and repaired on Puget Sound. Cecil | ar- in "a> very The contract for tepairs to the steamship Admiral Sampson, recently bought on the Atlantic 'by the Alaska- Pacific Steamship Co. has been awarded to the Risdon Iron Works, 'San. Francisco. The specifications call for converting the vessel into an oil 'burner and also for making al-. accommodations. approximately finished in 45 terations in her The work will cost $75,000 and is to' be days. The St. John Shipbuilding Co., St. John (Portland) Ore, recently launched the new Columbia river ferry City of Vancouver. The new ferry cost $30,000: and will be ready for service in sixty days. It will re- iplace the old ferry operating between St. John and Vancouver, Wash., in connection with the Portland Rail- way, Light & Power Co.'s electric line. The new ferry was christened by Miss Velma Phillips, and the launching was attended by over 1,000 people. It was one of the most aus- Picious affairs of its kind ever held in Portland. Repairs to the extent of $20,000 will be made on the steam schooner A. G. Lindsay at Grays Harbor, Wash. The Lindsay will be fitted with two new "'TAE MARINE REVIEW boilers and will have the house al- tered so as to accommodate 15 pas- sengers. The work will require about five weeks, after which the steamer will return to Seattle to reswme her run between Seattle, Valdez and Seward, Alaska. Two unknown sailing ships are ashore about five miles northwest of the outside beach at False Cove, Cape Horn. One vessel is a three master and her 'mizzen mast is gone. The other is a four master and is: appar- ently uninjured. The bill which recently passed the senate: appropriating $140,000 for ad- ditional lights and aids to navigation along the Alaska coast thas been of- fered as an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill and will thus escape the usual delays an individual bill. Pacific coast ship- ping interests are anxious to have the measure passed. The bark Fort George is 196 days out from New York to Honolulu and it is feared that she is lost. One of the two vessels sighted at False cove, Cape Horn, may be the Fort George, 'but this point has not been deter- mined. J. B. C. Lockwood, chief engineer, Port of Portland, advises that the plans and specifications for the new steel bar and river tugs, described in the Marine Review, Dec. 17, 1908, have been nearly completed and that advertisements for bids wil be issued in a-short time. It is expected to construct two steel screw tugs 150 ft. long, one steel screw tug 120 ft. long and one steel, stern wheel river tug 195 ft. in length. of the tugs is $350,000. In eight hours, of coal were discharged from the British steamer Kish at the navy yard, Puget Sound. This is be'ieved to be the record for fast unloading on the Pacific coast. The work was done by two gangs of stevedores employed by Rothschild & Co. This concern has a contract for discharging 25,000 tons of coal at the navy yard. The steamer St. Croix, purchased at Fall River, Mass., by Schubach & Hamilton, Seattle, is reported to have left Newport News, Va., Feb. 4, on her long voyage around Cape Horn to Seattle. The St. Croix has been chartered on time by the Alaska Coast Co. to run' between Seattle, Valdez, incident to- The estimated cost. Feb. 2, 1,193 tons Seward and Kodiak. She is ex- pected' to arrive on Puget Sound in- 50 days; $50,000 has been spent on the St. Croix since her purchase and she will be one of the best equipped. vessls in the Pacific passenger trade. The latest ideas adopted on the At- lantic steamers have been followed. The time-honored 'captain's table has been abolished and the passengers will dine at small round tables, each ac- commodating five persons. The steamer Skeena, operating on the Skeena river from Prince Rupert, B. C., is undergoing extensive repairs at Prince Rupert.. The Skeena is owned by Foley, Welch & Stewart. It was found that she did not back well in the swift water of the river where it is often necessary to steam stern first, so her stern lines are being al- tered. When these alterations are completed her engines. will be taken out and replaced with new ones of 260 HH. PD. Phe oid ae were. 200... BP |. The. work ae being done by George Askew, Vic- toria, B. C. It is expected to have the steamer again ready for service when the ice breaks up. March 1. An arrangement between the In- ternational Steamship Co., of Seattle, and the Union Steamship Co. and the firm of McKenzie Brothers, both of Vancouver, B. C., has resulted in the sale of through tickets between Seattle and Prince Rupert, creating a line in opposition to the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. The through service will be twice a week. There will be three classes of tickets sold, first, second and third, and the rates will be $15, $11 and $7. The Canad- ian Pacific announces that its regular rate of $18 will be maintained. The establishment of the new line is sig- nificant as another phase of the big rate war that has been waged between the International Steamship Co, and the Canadian Pacific for nearly a year. The Boston Steamship Co.'s 10,090- ton liner, Tremont, which has been sold to the government, cleared from Seattle for New York, Feb. 2. Capt. Thomas W. Garlick commands the Tremont. He expects to arrive in New York April 1. The Tremont went out loaded with 5,000 tons of bunker coal and 92,904 cases of canned salmon. This is the second largest cargo of salmon that has left Seattle this season. The departure of the big steamer is another incident in the sad disappearance of the American mer- chant marine from the high seas. .