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lines entering the city and with the car ferry slips. The rolling stock consists of three modern switching locomotives, burning fuel oil. The belt railroad handles over 55,000 cars per year or about 150 per day. The Harbor Com-- missioners: think that the road is of great value to the public and in their last biennial report express themselves as follows: "This road handles cars from trans- bay railroads and delivers them to vari- THE MaRINE REVIEW cently constructed is sufficiently ad- vanced, and by this means give railroad car service between all of the docks now in the course of construction and those contemplated and the main trunk railroad lines, together with such ad- 'jacent properties as may be able to make rail connections." Coaling Facilities. Coal bunkers, accessible by all deep water vessels, are operated in San Fran- TABLE Ii. PORT CHARGES AT SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED WITH SIX EUROPEAN PORTS. Compiled from the report of the Royal Commission, 1902. For a cargo steamer London, of 9.040 tons gross, 5,146 tons net, laden with 5,000tons grain, 3,000 tons general merchandise and 1,333 M lumber (2,000 tons); discharging, PORT CHARGES. Bremer- aed Liverpool, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, haven, ondon, 3 Dave: 14 Days. 14 Days. 14 Days. 14 Days. 14 es "daar por. and © river (dues. 250734 ei Se SO9sOU 8 ates oe wrateese 3 Dock and quay dues...... $1,67A;66 --* $1,799.76" ss $ 730.80 $1,509.70 1,253.56 PUOtage 6 oe sie oe eae 120,60 117,30 219.15 277.59 83,94 147.54 Mae Mire es ete 116,90 76.43 43.83 7792 78,39 290.00 MVOATINGH 20 et is i 5357: 9 47 730°. 24.35 16,56 24.35 TOtAl fe Pe es $1,965.73 $2,002.96 $ 659.88 $1,110.66 $1,688.59 $1,793.79 DLOVECOLINR. fy ole os ac as $1,908,127. $1,695.27. $1,071.40 --$1,187:35 -- $1,339.80 $1,826.50 Overtime Pee ny 633.10 243.50 146.10 243.50 243.50 641,78 AUN oe ey tek, ee 214.28 292,20 292.20 292.20 275.00 Crane ite ee ee ee es Ce a a PAS AO eee 145.50 DOTA iS 6 le ees Sup ule $2 541,22 $2,153.05 - $1,509.70 $1,966.75 $1,875.50 $2,888.78 Average port charges. : Per wet: ton 6c. 3. os O38 S 0.389. $0127. $ 0.215 $ 0:327- $. 0.348 Average cost stevedoring per actualton (. 05...) .28 .238 .167 a7 .209 .318 Average total charges ... $ O66 3 0.626 $. 0294 $ 0.432 $ ° 0.536. $ 0.667 SAN FRANCISCO, i a a ee $ 659.04 Be oe s008 merchandise dnd -crain;. ,. ee 400.00 Bee eed ME Gbiber ro eae 133.30 ee ee OU ee ~$1;192.34 REE Per AO ee $0.231 ne ee ee es $3,200.00 ee re ok I tne a es 599.85 Pilotage (if foreign) ......- Pee sila Gee epee wena see Se ee 132.00 Oe ee ae $3,931.85 ee ee a $0.393 - Ore oe ea ah Ie ae re 1,750.00 eeu CO0e mercianiise ai 4c. oe i TS Mictooe Lis ea ei ee 666.66 10/000 tons 22. 2 Wea $3 . Mort charges, 44 : Pee ec ak Te © or ts oo RI A 1 ee eee $0.592 COMPARISON OF PORT CHARGES, Average six European ports Average at San Francisco *Wharfage charged for goods left on dock SR 4 5088 ele) a ae bh a6 gia. & CO BEB ALONG tab 8 a ao ie 8 he Port Dues. Stevedoring. All Charges. DP ge $ .297 $:..239 $ .536 eed ees oa b 393 -.624 exceeding 24 hours. ous docks, factories, packing houses and warehouses around the water front. The road was constructed in 1891 under an act of the legislature and has been Op- erated continuously by the state. Beliey- ing this state railroad to be of inestim- able value to the commercial interests, it will be the policy of the Board of State Harbor 'Commissioners to extend its Operations to the territory south of Market street as soon as the completion of the roadway behind the sea-wall re- cisco by the various fuel companies do- ing business on the Pacific coast. Thu Principal bunkers are operated by the Western Fuel Co., the Wellington Col- liery Co. and the Pacific Coast Coal Co. Owing to the lack of a local coal supply, San Francisco is at a disadvantage com- pared with other Pacific coast ports in furnishing fuel for steamships. All the coal used is imported, much of it from - Washington and British Columbia and some from as far away as Australia, 'Both IN Oe 805 February, 1910 New Wellington (B. C.) coal at the bunkers is supplied to steamships by the Western Fuel Co., for $7.00 a ton, This is an average price for good steam coal in San Francisco harbor. Fuel Oil Abundant and Cheap. San Francisco is the center of the Pacific coast petroleum industry and fuel oil may be had at very moderate prices, the Standard Oil Co. and the Union Oil Co., of California; an ip- dependent concern, have extensive plants on San Francisco Bay. Fuel oil can be delivered on board steamships for from 70 cents to $1.00 per barrel of 42 gal- lons. : During the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 1908, 429,515 tons of foreign coal and 226,186 tons of domestic coal were imported into San Francisco, the total importations amounting to 655,701 tons, Unusual Repair Facilities. In spite of the decadence of American shipping, San Francisco is probably bet- ter supplied with shipbuilding and repair facilities, including dry docks, than any other port on the Pacific ocean, not ex- cepting Hongkong and Kobe. Among the larger plants for the construction and repair of vessels on San Francisco Bay are those of the Union Iron Works Co., Moore & Scott Iron Works, Risdon Iron Works, Fulton Iron Works (closed), W. A. Boole & Son and D. J. Hanlon & Co. Among these plants that of the Union Iron Works Co. stands foremost. This plant has obtained a world wide reputa- tion in shipbuilding circles within a few years. A brief description of the works is given below. The Union Iron Works, The company grew out of a_ small shop, founded in 1849 by Peter Donahue. At present, the company owns 35 acres of land facing the Central Basin, San Francisco harbor. On this tract, ma- chine shops, foundries, blacksmith shops, boat shops, etc., have been constructed. The company also controls the dry docks of the San Francisco Dry Dock Co. These docks are five in number, three being floating docks for handling small coasting vessels, while two are graving docks of large capacity. The graving docks are situated at Hunters' Point, two miles from the main plant. ~The dimensions of the docks are as follows: Width Width Depth Length Length at at over at top. on blocks. top. bottom. sill. Ft. Ft. Ft. Ft. Ft. Graving docks: Novi. age 462 97 . 24 No; 25). 750 714 103: 86 30 Floating docks: Nowt.) . 301 ie 68 io 18 No. 2.4), 271 a 66 18 230 Oe 62 a 18 ------