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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1881)
October, 1881 THE WEST SHORE 961 rested by the breakwater t Port Said and de posited In the entrance to the canal, which would be closed to large vessels in six months but for continuous dredging operations. The cajmcity of these dredgers is three hundred tons a day, and I have seen them working while the tea a verv rouph. and freauentlv breaking) ill .round them. One of these dredgers on the Columbia bar would maintain a channel thirty feet in depth, and if Frenchmen can make them and use them, I am sure Americans can. There are many other dredgers designed expressly for work in the oien sea, and capable of making a voyage around the world. The question is now, can a suitable dredger be had to work on the Columbia bar in moderate weather, but is it belter to deepen the the bar by dredging or by contracting the chan nel ? ' Contracting a channel to deepen a bar as sumes that the difficulty to be overcome will adapt itself to your convenience. Providing adequate dredge-power for any emergency, means that you propose to pursue the difficulty to wherever it develops. Another question for you to consider is : Which Is the cheapest, to pny freight on your products to Pueet Sound for shipment, or maintain cJrctti;- Ing operations in the Columbia river so that the shipment .may be made at Portland ? It does not require much investigation to convince any one that you can better afford to build and maintain twenty dredgers than to lose the advantages of direct shipment!. Shipping points, where merchandise is transfer' red from land to sea and the reverse, are selected for the convenience of the producer, not the carrier, Four-filths of the most important shipping points of the world are notoriously inconvenient and dangerous of access for ships. They have been artificially created and improved at enormous cunt by the merchants and others who profit by the ex change, not from philanthropic motives or in a sentimental spirit, but for their own convenience and advantage. The majority of harbor improve ments in the world have been effected by private enterprise, and many of those that have been car ried on by governments, have been unnecessary for commerce. Myadvice to you it: don't wail for the government to deepen the river channels. You have had some experience of what this means. You have been waiting all this .summer and the ban have never been as bad as they are now. The government is not as much interested in the subject as you are, and it would be unreasonable to exnect it to be. Capt. Gorrinee then, at Mr. Villard s request, mad Ika Cnllnwinr? slatementl Mr. Vlllard called my attention several months ago to the Urge surplus ol grain inai was kctto latino1 nn ilia Pacific coast, owine to the Inadeuuatr, facilities for movinp it to European markets, and tumn-iiMl in mf to devise tome method of setting it to Europe at a cost within the difference of Portland and Liverpool. This A,Kmr m safety be estimated at il! per Ion, out of which must come the profit of dealers Insur ance and all other charges besides freight. Grain has hitherto been shipped to Kuiope by sailing ul. ih.i averaoed 110 days on the voyage, anil bt way of San Francisco. After estimating the mi tJ rtmnlna twn lines of steamers, one on the Atlantic and one on the Pacinc, and "" trans-shipment at the Isthmus, we offered the Panama railway $J 50 a loo for the we of their .n,l mniiv nower to transport the wheal over the isthmus. All transfer expenses from ship to can and cars to ship were lo be borne by as. No arrangement could be effected with them on any basis I then estimated the cost of wrmng the gram by steamer via - ft can be done at . rJ, if very Urge -earners re constructed expressly tor the trade. Tb"'? of onatalimr expenses of steamers is la inverse pro- , ik.1. nmin capacity. That Is, coats less lo carry 5000 Ions in one Ijh" in two. No marine architect can eonwnsct an ocean sterner such voyage to carry jooo torn of wheat and 1 coo Ions of coal and dsw only rnlTZl VhicH hhe det'h us lb. ehanne at present over two of the river ban. And lb m SuVu be sure of U that the channel wdl be 1 a- uu'ss f-awt Alibis draft, k, the steamers I nave d- Foa the very bct photogiaphs, either large or small, go 10 AlwII's gallery, Flist street, between Monlmn ami Yamhill. J. l. Foi'XTAlu, at Ahland, Oregon, la om of the leading dry goods dealers of that thriving town, and is in receipt of the latest novelllea In his line of business. TlIK bather shop of J. F. Presley, at Ashland, will be found a great convenience by the traveling public It Is neat and clean, and Mr. Pitslry It certainly an attUt In hit line. HARDWARE! Wliolcftiilc nml Itctnll, At 1IOTI 'OM PRICES. DAYTON, HALL & LAMBERSON, JIH Flrt St., ISnllaiul, Or. signed can carry enough to move the wheat with a profit at lower rales than you arc now paying sailing ships, I propose to run ten steamers, making twenty-live voyages, and move 115.000 tons of wheal in a year. The outward freights KuUiJ amount lo Vviv little and eiuuiiaot. uiiwl :n to pay the exicntcs of the outward voyage. The railway and land conianica in Ore gon would doubtless combine with the steamship company to establish emigiant agencies in Europe, disseminate information and secure the requisite numlier; anil, as an Inducement to families, the steamship conqiany would biinir all household goods and effects lice of charge. The nte for each adult would be hied at S.V, which Is slx.ut hall what it costs an Immigrant lo gel lo Oregon from urope over existing routes. In answer to a question concerning fuel lr the steamers proposed by one of the gentlemen pres ent, Capl. Goiringe said that he had designed a steamer to carry 5,50010ns of wheat ami 1,51a) Ions I coal. hhe would load at I J veronal, ileixiait half In the (Straits of Magellan and have the unkcrs full when site arrives in Portland. On the return voyage she would lake 01 in Magellan 1 t L -. v. straits anil, 11 nccrawy, iiiwn bi ri. iiucm s, where coal is nearly as cheap as In uveiiwoi, In answer lo another inquiry as to the rate 01 freight he relied on getting, Capl. Goiihtge said sixty shillings er Ion, although the average tale it) lo date 1 1 m I'm! land 10 r.umpe has Iwen Unit sevenlv-lhree shillini!s by sailing lii. In answer to the ntiesiion I What would lie done with the wheat ? Capl. dormice soul thai was the business of the shipiwr. He was only looking to -moving it. I le was awured of full cargoes by the fact thai the surplus sliipied and awaiting shipment Ihls tenr cscredt lkx,ux Iimm, and that the continental demand was increasing. An acenl of the Credit runcier had assured hurt that every ixiuikI of wheal brought lo Fiance would command ready sale at market rales. vi 1. la 11 11 Arraovka t ait. tJ3ii;ic t co- jmt. At the close of Capl. Corringc't remarks, Mr. Villard said 1 Respecting the proposed line ol iramsliiiM. I have declared lo the parlies with whom negotiations are (tending the readiness of our conqianles lo guarantee 5 irr cent. Interest on the capital lo lie invesird. Of course, we can well .fluid 10 do this. If we can secure an ex 1:.: . I. ; ,.f U.I.-.I l.u' In f'.i,itthaM ports, it will greatly facilitate our handling Ihe I J ALtsMJ-x 1 liil.r.t mass ol wheat mat rusnrs vm ui ai wn miuii notice, and so voluminously that we cannot pot. ail,1 handle It now. Of course. Ihe embarrass- ini will La erealer hereafter. A vole of thanks was lemlereti uy me laatu m Mr. Villard, after which Ihe meeting adjourned, ':ius' a . .,llH" il I. .atllal! MR. I. O. IKIDMORE 00, 151 FIRST STltKKT, Portlnml, Onxon Railroad Saloon, Our. ('allfirala a I Oraa ', ' t OKF.UO. ColTV meithanls can save ten r cent. I? 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