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230 in length. The total dock frontage is now 37,023 ft. The minimum depth of water at the docks is 18 ft., while the average depth is 40 ft. Below is Tae Marine REVIEW way are equipped with an elevator and special facilities for handling grain. The several export flour mills located at Seattle each have special S° = SEWARD LEAVING SEATTLE FoR ALASKA, LoapED WITH RAILWAY SUPPLIES, IncLtupiInG Two Locomotives. a list of the principal docks, giving their dimensions and warehouse area: Sect ot 5 wn ae on a uw Sco ° Ocean Docks. 499.2 e ao aa 9 s a od Yu = } aose og. (3 oH' Oo roe i Ue Se 4 oo = A. 4h nN a8 1C. M. & Puget on : Ryo eee 501x115 58,600 Pacific 'Coast -Co., = Bunkers 450x100 ~ Pacific Coast <o Bunkers 33033. 350x 40 370x80 Pier B Pec ek 450x180 46,800 130' wide Pier Cork 5 370x120 33,600 90' wide Pier , eases ca Ghee 380x120 31,400 110' wide Pier Noe 1.203: 480x140 45,000 100' wide Pier Nos 230. 750x140? 60,000 90' wide Pier Niow4e dr: 320x110 § 19,500 Pier Nob. a ee 350x130: = 29100 Pier INO: 36: . 22.4. 320x130 27,000 Pier Noi7 32.3. < 400x110 29,600 Pike St. Wharf.. 450x100 23,400 Pier No. 10... 380x200 44,100 Pier No, Te... 130x400 39,000 Wall St. Dock 450x120 34,400 Roslyn Coal & Coke Co., Bunker <>. 250x720 Pret Nowdd es. 400x170 30,0090 Great Northern R. Smith Cove (1).18°0x200 10%,5°0 Smith Cove (2).1800x200 Local: Piers: 50,0008 1750x80 Colman Dock . 705x110 54,000 90' wide Flyer "Deck 2... 170x 70 Ga braith Dock .. 290x150 20,€00 On East Waterway near Lander Street. *Pier being rebuilt, dimensions approx mate. 8Elevator. The freight docks are all provided with spur tracks and ample railroad connections. The spurs are arranged so that freight may be directly trans- ferred from the cars to vessels or vice versa. Several of the docks have cranes for handling heavy freight. The piers of the Great Northern rail- facilities for shipping grain and flour. The bulk of the passenger traffic centers in three 'piers, the Colman dock, Flyer dock and Galbraith dock. The Galbraith dock hasan over- head walk and other special facilities for handling passenger and_ light freight traffic. The Flyer dock is used eexclusively by the steamer Flyer op- erating between Seattle and Tacoma. The Colman dock is one of the finest passenger piers on the Pacific coast. This dock was completely described in the Dec. 3, 1908, issue of THE Ma- RINE Review, The pier is. 705 ft. in leneth and 110 ft. tn width. . There is a completely appointed waiting room on the second floor. 'The pier has adjustable slips to compensate for the rise and fall of the tide. The dock has its own heating plant, lunch room, toilet accommodations and oth- er facilities appreciated by travelers. Seattle harbor is more favored from a fuel standpoint than any other Pa- cific coast port. The mines are close, the fuel is cheap and the bunkers are unusually large, well equipped and modern. There are three coal bunk- ers in the harbor -for vessels: the Northern Pacific railway bunkers at West Seattle, the Rosyln Fuel Co,, at the foot of Clay street, and the Pa- eife coast Coal Co., at Dearborn street. The bunkers of the Northern Pacific and the Roslyn Fuel Co. are July, ag ample for Sound steamers and medium sized vessels engaged in the coasting trade. The bunkers of ile Pacific Coast Coal Co. are the largest in the har. bor and can accommodate the largest ocean-going steamships. The daily output of the mines of the Pacific Coast Coal Co. is 4,000 tons. The bunkers consist of a _ storage house, situated parallel to the harbor line which has a capacity of 5,000 gross. - tons. This storage. house is reached - by an inclined trestle which has a ca- pacity of 20 standard coal cars. Built at right angles to the storage house and extending into the bay for a distance of 450 ft. are two piers, each carrying a conveyor and a loading tower. There are two loading chutes on each tower, so that four ocean steamers may coal "at oneé. Hace chute has a loading capacity of 400 tons per hour. The outer end of the conveyor, the tower pockets and chutes are capable of vertical ad- justment to correspond with the tide. This is done by carrying the pockets on a hinged trestle and counter weighting. There are three chutes for coaling tugs and also 14 individual _ pockets for tugs, each pocket holding two carloads of coal. Most. of the steamships burn Black Diamond mine run coal. This fuel is delivered f. 0. b. bunker tips for S375 per eross ton. (2,240 Ib). ive steamers either trim their own bunk- ers or have the trimming done by the coal company. The cost of trim- ming bunkers varies from 15 to 25 Gels 2 Lon. Below are analyses of Black Dia- mond and Roslyn coal taken from the Twenty-second Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey: Black Diamond, _ Roslyn, Per cent. Per cent. Moisture at 110° Cent.. 3.040 2.05 Volatile matter other than water <2... ..: 36.566 33.55 Bixeds. carpon iss <...2. 56.084 54.55 Pp ee ge Sea yee al 4.166 6.85 Sulit 2. 6 ee es 0.144 0.106 IPROSUMORUS . 4... scr. cs 0.023 not det. Increase in weight at Pose Waites as eae 5 a8 0.402 The small amount of sulphur 1s worthy of note. The increase in weight shown in the last line is a measure of the tendency of the coal toward spontaneous combustion. While Seattle has no public dry dock, such as is possessed by Port- land, the harbor is abundantly sup- plied with repair facilities. Four dry docks for large vessels and a number of marine ways for smaller craft are available. The dry docks are owned by the United States government, The Moran Co., the Heffernan Dry Dock Co., and Hall Bros. Marine Railway