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March, 1923 roads and preliminary drawings and esti- mates of the cost of several new wharves are being made. The J. F. Coleman Engineering Co., New Orleans, has been retained as consulting engineer. ae a Collections for the port of Galveston for the first six months of the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 1922 amounted to $1,- 913,526.09, an increase of $619,035.39 over the corresponding period in 1921. ke The erection of a large sugar re- finery at Texas City will be started in the near. future by the Texas Sugar Re- From the MARINE REVIEW finery Co. The building will be ready for operation in October of this year. * * Cotton receipts this year at the port of Galveston up to and including Jan. 29, amounted to 2,003,303 bales which corresponds to 1,764,363 bales to the same date in 1921. The total receipts for all American ports on that date were 4,490,362 bales so that the Galveston total closely approximates 50 per cent of. the entire receipts. Of the Galves- ton total 1,661,403 -bales have been exported and 341,900 constitute the stock on hand. Northwest - UE to advancing rates and the de- mand for labor, sailors on coast- wise vessels operating between Cal- ifornia and Washington ports have been given a wage advance of $10 per month, effective Feb. 1. : * ok Bound from Kildonan, B. C., for Callao, Peru, with 1,300,000 feet of lum- ber, the American barkentine JAMES Turt, encountered terriffic weather off the Washington coast during which part of the deckload was lost and the ves- sel became waterlogged. She drifted close to a dangerous shore and. was saved only by dropping anchor. After the crew had lived in a tent on deck “for five days, the vessel was towed in _hby a coast guard tender. In the photo- “Staph, she is shown lying in Seattle harbor, with a heavy starboard list, waterlogged and seriously damaged. * *k x American fishing vessels operating along the Pacific coast may sell their catches in Canadian ports upon payment of the duty, according to a recent or- der in council. Fish may be landed and transhipped in bond. x * & James Griffiths & Sons have purchased the famous naval collier CAESAR and will use her in freighting ore from Brit- ish Columbia mines to the smelter at Tacoma. The CAEsAR achieved fame by towing the drydock Drwry from Nor- folk to Manila years ago. re yee Puget sound ports are making united efforts for a congressional appropria- tion to provide a dredge for increasing the depth of a number of rivers flow- ing into salt water. At the present time no such plant is available for use in these waters. * ok x The former navy transport Dix, now owned by -the Robert Dollar Co. is freighting a full cargo of British Co- lumbia lumber to Atlantic ports. * * * Growth of passenger travel is a re- cent feature of steamship service be- tween Puget sound and the Hawaiian islands. Until a year ago. no. passen- ger accommodations were available from Seattle. Since that time tourist travel has increased to proportions that in- sure a permanent service. * * * Chinese cotton in large quantities is beginning to move through Seattle ter- minals. This is a new development of the Oriental commerce. It is esti- mated that 100,000 bales of this freight will be landed in Seattle for tranship- ment during the | present season. During a recent visit to Seattle, T. V. O’Connor, commissioner of the ship- WATERLOGGED BARKENTINE JAMES TUFT AFTER, RESCUE ping board, made a thorough survey of labor and_ stevedoring conditions. “The shipping board never again will permit its vessels to lie idle at docks during controversies between employers and longshoremen,” declared Mr. O’Con- nor, who has been a prominent labor of- ficial. x * x Port authorities of both Seattle and Portland are in active competition for the wool output of Washington, Mon- tana, Idaho and Wyoming. Both ports are offering improved facilities to the erowers of these states who are _ be- ing urged to ship to Pacific coast ter- minals and thence by water to the world’s markets. ae ae Vancouver, B. C., which has _ taken the season’s lead in grain exports from the Pacific ‘coast, will ship approximate- ly 75,000: tons of wheat to the Orient before the close of the export year. This is in addition’ to a still larger quantity shipped Cipe Europe. Both the port of Seattle and the Ad- miral-Oriental line are making offers to the government for the former site 121 of the Seattle Construction & Drydock Co. The former intends to erect a government immigration — station. The plans of the Admiral line include the construction of a $3,000,000 ocean ter- minal consisting of three piers, each 1100 feet in length, warehouses and gen- eral offices. eo a Inauguration of direct passenger and freight service to Porto Rico, Brazil and Argentina was the signal for dem- onstrations of approval at Seattle and other north Pacific ports, each of which sent a trade delegation on the PresipENT Hayes which sailed in late January. Heretofore, there has been no passen- ger service to the east coast of South America. Only within the last two years has freight service been offered. The line established by the shipping board has since then enjoyed a constant- ly growing business. *k Ox One of the features of the phenomenal growth of water commerce between Pacific and Atlantic ports is the move- ment of doors and other finished lum- ber products. Recently a steamer. car- ried a consignment of 14,500 finished doors shipped by a Tacoma factory to ‘New York. * * Unusually high water in the Willa- mette and Columbia rivers during Jan- uary resulted in some delay to ship- ping. This was particularly apparent at Portland where for several days no large ships could move through the drawbridges, pilots contending that “be- cause of the strong current naviga- tion was too hazardous. ; coe ee ea Chinese corn is again being import- ed into Canada through Canadian ports. Early in the war there was a con- siderable movement of this cargo but only recently has there been renewed movement. Several thousand tons of this cereal arrived at Vancouver dur- ing January. * x The steamer Bessie Dortar of the Dollar line bound for Yokohama, taken in tow by the Admiral steamer Pomona. It was reported the Bessie Dotrar lost her rudder. carried a cargo of lumber to the East. The accident happened about 1500 miles from Yokahoma. eo Arriving at Victoria, B. C., from Yo- kohama on Jan. 28, in approximately 8 days, 19 hours and ‘30 minutes, the Ad- miral liner PresipeNt GRANT established the fastest record ever made by an American steamer across the Pacific. The steaming time of the Present GRANT is close to the transpacific record of 8 days, 18 hours and 31 minutes held - by the Canadian Pacific liner Empress oF Russta since May 30, 1914. The PRESIDENT GRANT is commanded by Capt. M. M. Jensen who was suspended for one voyage séveral months ago because he exceeded the speed limit regulations of the shipping board. These rules have since then modified and on the last voy- age the PresipENT GRANT was “opened up” for the purpose of seeing what speed she could develop. Thick weather at the end of the transpacific run un- doubtedly robbed the American of es- tablishing a new _ speed record. The PRESIDENT GRANT brought $6,000,000 worth of silk in addition to much other cargo.