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July, 1920 for this step and the company announces its aim to conserve the assets for the stockholders in this way. The proper- ties include the machine shops in De- troit, the shipyard at Ecorse, Mich., and the shipyard at Ashtabula, O. * * * Invitations have been sent out by the Detroit board of commerce for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater congress which is to be held in. Detroit July 22, 23 and 24. The tentative pro- cram includes Senators Townsend, Poindexter and Lenroot; Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of the United States engineers; Dr. R. S. MacElwee, chief THE MARINE REVIEW of the bureau of foreign and domesti commerce; J. W. Shorthill, former Ge retary of the Western Grain Growers' association; Harry H. Merruck, vice president of the Mississippi Valley as- sociation; Julius H. Barnes, former Eresident of the United States Grain Corp.; Gardner S. Williams, consult- ing engineer; and H. C. Gardner, presi- dent of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater association. Several gov- ernors and some members of the Presi- dent's cabinet have been asked to speak, x ok oe Joseph Wolters, who sold _ his ship- yards at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to the 419. Universal Shipbuilding Co. two years ago, is planning to build a new yard which he expects to have completed next fall. Prominent shipping men are reported to be financially interested in this project. _ sk «© The steamer James Watr was badly damaged when she and the barge JoHN Fritz were stranded on Graham shoal uring a recent fog in the straits. eee , The Ohio fish and game commis- sions patrol boat Oriver H. Perry was damaged recently by fire. She was towed to Put-in-Bay for repairs. en .U dD he Pacift : p and Down the Pacitic Coast | = = Ei 000 IFFICULTIES in obtaining fuel in the Orient are handicapping operating officials at the present time. Oil is unusually scarce and ship- ping beard vessels now leaving north Pacific ports for the Far East are carrying coal burning apparatus with them so that coal may be burned on the return voyage. Sufficient oil is taken to steam them across the Pacific "but in the Orient the change is made as it is possible to get coal while oil ig practically unobtainable even at pro- hibitive prices. Within the last month several transpacific freighters have been diverted to Honolulu for oil, adding considerably to the expense of the voy- age. Advices from the Panama canal report a price of $2.50 per barrel for fuel oil after June 1 at either Cristobal or Balboa. 0 * * *K Plans are being worked out by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. to send the passenger steamer Iroguors back to the Great Lakes. This vessel, with her sister vessel the CHIPPEWA, was pur- chased at Chicago in 1906 and came to Seattle by the Straits of Magellan. For some time these vessels have beea idle at Seattle and negotiations are under way for their sale for excursion runs out of Chicago. The Iroguors and Cuippewa for about a year were oper- ated by the sea service bureau for tranmg recruits for the merchant ma- rine. : hE ok * Delivery of the last wooden steamer Constructed in the Portland district for the shipping board was made when the Coron left the Columbia river to load lumber on Puget sound for Cuba. a. hk « The initial shipment of a heavy move- met of phosphate rock through Port- ae to Japan was made. on. the teighter Liverpool Maru. This is a New business and large quantities of 'his fertilizer have been purchased in eas Portland has prepared to han- this additional traffic by building unkers through which the phosphate rock is handled in' bulk. 3 : Rage' sections of the Skinner & Y wooden drydock, sold to the at Shipbuilding Co. at Oakland, a aes been successfully towed the les down the coast. Each sec- tion averaged. 12.days enroute and ar- rived without mishap. This feat has been closely watched by shipping ex- perts as it is establishing a new record for unwieldy tows over a long open Sea course : Ok oe Deadlocked negotiations between the owners of the schooner. Snow & Burcess and the underwriters are like- ly to prolong indefinitely the stay of the aged carrier at Port Townsend. With a chain around the hull to hold her together, the Snow & Burcess ar- rived from Manila in March and her status is still uncertain. The under- writers refuse to take the 'vessel over on the ground that she was insured on a basis: of total loss. The owners do not want the vessel as_ repairs will likely cost more than the vessel is worth. * * * Portland is furnishing heavy tonnage for the liners of the Isthmian line, the _ STEEL VoyAGER having leit. the Co- lumbia river with 3500 tons of wheat, 500 tons of flour and 1,750,000 feet of lumber consigned to British ports. '+ »¥ Sir Richard D. Holt, of Alfred Holt & Co. one of the foremost shipping firms in Great Britain, recently visited Seattle on his return to Liverpool from the Orient. Sir Richard's principal comment is that increased production is necessary in all countries. He as- serted that the nation which can get its exports to the waiting markets of the world first will place itself in a pre- eminent position. He found conditions in the Orient very uncertain. eS Ona bid of $48,605, time nine days, Todd Dry Docks, Inc., was awarded the contract for repairing, overhauling and altering the Japanese built steamer FASTERN 'TEMPEST, which _ will be de- livered to the shipping board. koe E. H. Beazley, managing director of the B. C. Union Steamship Co., and widely known in north Pacific pps circles. was killed at Vancouver, B. C., by falling 2500 feet from an airplane. ee. ; ast steel contract built in Seattle for ie Soe board, the 8800-ton steel carrier West MAHWAH, constructed by 'Viadivostok as J. F. Duthie & Co. has had her trials and been delivered. The West MAHWaAii will inaugurate a new service between Puget sound, New Zealand and Aus- tralia under assignment to the General Shipping Corp. xo he ! Five of the fast passenger liners now building for the shipping board have been allocated to the Pacific Steamship Co. and will operate to Siberia, Japan, China and Manila from Seattle. This arrangement places Seattle on a parity with San Francisco which has had an equal number of these new steamers assigned. The first sailing from Seattle is expected to take place in November. It is planned to have sailings for the Far East évery three weeks .with the terminal for one steamer every 60 days. This announce-_ ment is of great interest to Pacific coast ports as for years foreign lines: have dominated the passenger _ traffic out of these ports. [hk (kes _ Contract for constructing two stor- age oil tanks, each with a capacity of 250,000 gallons, has been awarded by the port of Seattle. This additional euqipment will give the port a storage capacity for bulk oils of 2,100,000 gal- lons. * * * The wooden auxiliary _ schooner BLAATIND, built at Seattle for Nor- wegian owners, is riding at anchor un- der a libel of more than $200,000. Claims for .unpaid accounts and for damages in failing to fulfill a charter are in dispute and meantime the vessel is idle. * ofc * 3 Coastwise service on the British Co-- lumbia coast has been generally re- sumed after a strike by sailors which tied up a number of vessels for several days. Higher wages were demanded but the companies generally succeeded in replacing the strikers. '+4 S ; Completing a round-the-world voyage that speaks volumes for her_ builders, the shipping board steamer OLEN has returned to the Pacific coast with a fine record for economy., The OLe=n was built at Tacoma by the Todd Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. Since. leav- ing Portland last December she has circled the globe, going to the Orient, »