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TTTE SUNDAY OTCEGONIAX, rORTLAXD, APRIL' 17, 1921
eiPSEiivicE
BOOITOFIlEfJ
Shipper in Closer Contact
With Foreign Dealer.
PORTLAND TO BE CENTER
TTay Opened for Complete Develop
ment or Markets for Xorthwest
Products Abroad.
APPLE SHIPMENTS VIA CANAL
EVIEEU EXPECTATIONS.
During: the past season north
west apples were shipped to
Kurope via the Panama canal.
This was the first direct move
ment of the kind ever under
taken and was successful be
yond all expectations. A total
of about 175 carloads were
shipped. Future service In the
way of refrigerator steamers
is assured and definite eched
ules for the coming season ar
ranged, with a heavy demand
for space already developed.
Nine steamers, including those
of the Holland-America com
pany and the new motor ship
fleet of the Royal Wail Steam
Packet line, will afford a total
carrying space for close to
three-quarters of a million
boxes. Sailings will take place
every two weeks during: the
shipping- period. ' The present
annual production of northwest
apples alone requires an export
shipment of not less than five
million boxes annually. Our
heaviest shipment in any pre
vious season was less than
1,000,000 boxes.
partial to the Newtown, nor are they
generally Inclined toward small-size
apples of any variety. Thus the
Newtown Pippin produced here, and
in other sections of the northwest,
is, in the smaller sizes particularly,
rather ill adaptable to American mar
kets and ideally adaptable to Euro
pean markets. For that character of
tonnage, then, we annually look to
Europe for its consumption.
M7 Red Varieties Exported. .
Export markets have also taken to
tha red apple of the northwest, and
our shipments now include quite a list
of the best known varieties. These
Include the Jonathan. Spitzenberg and
VVinesap. each moving in its respec
tive marketing season. The smaller
3izes are likewise a feature in the
production of these varieties, and
again that same export trade is -relied
on to absorb some of it every
season, whether the crops be large or
small. As illustrating this, a consid
erable percentage of the 1920 crops
ran to so-called five-tier apples, or
the smaller sizes packed. This fruit
has been exceedingly hard to market
at home, but owing to transportation
costs and exchange irregularities pre
venting only a limited volume of it to
8 BOUTS TO L
BIG CARGOES FOR EUROPE TO
BE WORKED THIS WEEK.
West Momentum Allocated to SerV'
Ice of Columbia-Pacific
Shipping Company.
To take a full cargo of wheat to
Europe for the Pacific Grain com
pany, the steamer West Nomentum.
which was recently turned back to the
snipping board by the Columbia-Pa
cific Shipping company and has since
peen idle here, moved from the moor
ing ground at the Victoria dolphins
yesterday afternoon to the Montgom
ery dock, where she will start loading
as soon as she is lined. The spotting
of this vessel on the berth for im
mediate loading was a surprise to the
waterfront, as a report circulated yes
terday morning was that she would
be selected as the "unnamed steamer"
be exported, the remainder, amount-1 which i was allocated to the Columbia-
ng to several thousand carloads, naai"-'"c company jrriaay to take a
BT CHARLES A. MALBOEUF.
Refrigerated steamer service from
Portland to Europe for shipment of
fresh apples, as recently established
by the Holland-America line, prom
ises to fill the most crucial need of
the grower. Direct service by water,
which affords frequent callings' on
regular schedules, adequate tonnage
space and rates in harmony with the
economic requirements of the traffic.
will revolutionize our export meth
wis. It will enable the producers to
retain control of their product up to
shipping time, draw into closer con
tact the local shipper and foreign
dealer and narrow the margin of
competitive advantages the eastern
barrel apple has hitherto had over
wurs. I
Portlaad to Be Center.
The service will make Portland the
shipping center for Oregon's exports,
where it properly belongs, instead of
being located in Atlantic coast mar.
kets, where it has too long been. It
will offer the fruit industry a host
of other benefits, the most important
being the opportunity to develop those
overseas markets in an Intensive
manner. It should result in our prod
uct being laid down at destination
in a uniformly sound and attractive
condition, one of the foremost neces
sities in successful foreign trading.
Shipping fruit by water over
rtretches materially greater than
that lying between Portland and Eu
rope, and under physical and climatic
difficulties immeasurably more acute,
is not an unknown element in world
trade. Australia's apples cover more
tban 13,000 nautical miles between
their ports and the British markets.
The banana traffic from Central
America is handled upward of 3500
jniles to English ports, and two-thirds
of that distance to North. Atlantic
ports.
Soft Fruits Travel 60O0 Mllea.
South African soft fruits, including
peaches and otlr highly perishable
varieties, travet close to 6000 miles
by sea en route to Great Britain,
after covering a thousand miles by
railroad from their producing dis
tricts to Cape Town. Fresh fruits
have made the circumference of the
srlobe in vessels' cold chambers. We
ourselves have eaten New Zealand
pears, of our Bartlett type, in the
very pink of condition, after their
journey across the equator of some
7000 miles. Shipment via Panama,
involving 8000 miles movement, trav
erses a distance not exceeding 500
miles in tropical waters. This route,
then, offers little or no climatic im
pediments to safe and speedy 'trans
portation. Outlet Has Hazards.
Our rail and water outlet via At
lantic ports, efficient as it is in most
respects, and which we have used
exclusively up to this season, has its
disadvantages and hazards. The
strain upon the physical structure
of the fruit incident to the overland
rail trip, of 3600 miles, is necessarily
considerable. The bulk of our ship
ments take place during the fall and
winter months; a good portion of the
crop moves under hot weather con
ditions. Daily variations of tem
perature en route have their due ef
fect on the product. Excessively cold
weather, blizzards and other adverse
climatic elements, that cannot be
avoided In their seasons, must natural
ly be apprehended. The freezing of
apples in transit results in irrepara
ble economic losses estimated to run
between 2,000.000 and $3,000,000 'an
nually. Car shortages leave in their
wake records of deteriorated or
frozen fruit at shipping points with
consequent irrecoverable losses. De
livery of overripe and otherwise af
fected apples to steamer at Atlantic
transshipping points, is reflected by
depreciated values at destination, be
sides affecting the stability of those
overseas markets. In the light of
climatic conditions alone it is clear
that a rail journey of such length,
prior to transfer to ship, is one
wherein the soundness of the fruit
is subjected to more or less danger
nd unavoidable losses, even though
Infrequent.
Export Demand Persistent.
In a broad sense, apple exporting Is
Dot a new departure for the north
west. For more than a third of a
century Oregon apples have been
chipped To Europe. During the last
0 years the growers have actually
depended-on those markets to dispose
of a part of their crops. Good and
bad seasons alike, that need has never
failed to exist. Indeed, our present
(treat apple acreage in Oregon was
built up largely on the strength, of
an export demand established in the
90s for the product of some of the
pioneer orchards. This has been the
case in Oregon to a greater extent
than in other northwest growing dis
tricts. The reason is that more New
town Pippin apple trees were set out
in this state than elsewere, and the
Newtown happens to be a ' special
favorite in the British markets. It
also happens to grow to a high state
of perfection in Oregon's soils and
climate.
Rrltiaa Prefer Medium Size.
The British trade prefers a medium
to small size apple. The Newtown
Pippin by nature has a tendency to
grow to those s'zes. The United
states markets, aa a whole, are not
to be forced on the domestic markets.
This has had a lot to do with making
the present season a disappointing
one in returns to the grower, the low
prices brought severely affecting the
general average for all grades and
sizes.
Enlarged Market Needed.
These facts, especially rapidly in
creasing apple production throughout
the northwest, now averaging close
to 23.000,000 boxes yearly, plainly
emphasize the necessity for a greatly
enlarged export market to take care
of a correspondingly growing volume
of adaptable tonnage- Therein lies
the greatest problem of the northwest
fruit industry today. The solution
rests wholly in our ability to de
velop all overseas markets along true
economic lines. We should be in posi
tion to reach the masses in those
countries, not merely the upper
classes. In a practical sense the task
will always be an impossibility inso
far as consumption of our apples by
the European people generally is con
cerned. Their economic conditions
and local apple and other fruit crops
will always stand as barriers to any
such realization on our part. That
these markets can be materially ex
panded, however, is indisputable to
the same extent that it is true we
have thus far lacked the opportunity
to do so In any measure adequate
with our needs. The insignificant
volume of our past shipments is ample
proof of that statement. For in
stance, the consumption of our boxed
apples in Great Britain the year of
our heaviest exports, was only three
apples per capita, spread over a
marketing season of from five to
six months.
Low Lald-Dowm Coat Is Key.
The key to intensive exploitation in
all European markets, and indeed all
other overseas countries, is a low
laid-down cost of product, one as
closely abreast of their economical
conditions as it is practicable to
reach. The freight charge is the gov
erning factor. No direct service by
sea, however efficient, that seeks to
obtain for an uninterrupted move
ment, the same revenue from Pacific
ports to Europe, as the combined
revenues of the trans-continental rail
lines and Atlantic steamers, with
their naturally higher costs of opera
tion, will ever build up a business of
the magnitude demanded by our cir
cumstances. Only a reasonable charge
will aid the fruit industry to invade
properly and successfully conquer
the commercial field abroad. Nothing
else will, however high-sounding the
project may be.
Percentage of Exports Small.
Northwest apple exports have aver
aged but 5 to 6 per cent of the local
production during the past ten years.
In 1914 the quantity was 10 per cent;
in 1919, 2 per cent. This fluctuation
from season ten season is readily ac
counted for. Our main competitor
overseas is the eastern barrel apple.
Their exports are governed by the
size of their own crops ours, or neces
sity, by the national apple yields. The
freight rates from the barrel appie
districts to Atlantic trans-shipping
Dorts is very low; our rates to the
same ports, much higher. Transporta
tion advantages, in costs ana otner-
wise. thus help intensify the competi
tion of the barrel apple, and the com
bined handicap of lower producing
and transportation costs, is, under
certain conditions, either prohibitive
to any extensive export shipment on
our part or destructive to profitable
returns for our apples.
Shipping Rates Hindrance.
The greater the aggregate volume
of exports, the lower the foreign mar
ket, and the heavier the burden of
freight costs fall on our product. This
cLearly explains the years of disaster
In foreign markets the northwest
growers have suffered from, and they
have not been. rare. Relatively, at
least, such losses have been largely
due to the expense of transportation
being greater in such cases than the
traffic could bear. This is why we
have not heretofore had opportunity
to develop more fully the foreign
trade, and why no definite export
policies, dealing with specific ship
ping quantities per year, nave oeen
possible. The past season was one
of low prices in the British markets,
and generally unprofitable to the
growers. Both rail and steamer rates
via Atlantic ports were almost pro
hibitive. Even the rates charged for
direct shipment from Pacific ports
were too high to meet our require
ments, and depreciated foreign ex
change was a further and destructive
ally in the whole scheme oi costs.
Rate Basis Essential.
It is confidently expected that
among the advantages of direct water
service a rate basis lully adequate to
the industry's needs will be the clear
and unmistakable policy of the
steamer companies. If so, no doubt
can possibly exist that it will prove
immensely helpful to the situation.
Northwest shippers have warmly ap
plauded its coming and general pat
ronage in the new route is certain.
It should bring about many important
changes in the present order of
things.
The psychology of salt-water con
tact, so to speak, between the shipper
and the trade abroad ought in itself to
effect a new type of relationship here
tofore but faintly and indirectly ex
isting. Interests of both should be
more common, more co-operative.
more susceptible of better under
standing. It will undoubtedly en
gender more direct trading, as should
be the case, and the mutual confidence
that is the foundation for greater
business. It should restore cash buy
ing f. o. b. shipping point to a larger
degree than has prevailed for some
years and in a corresponding way
lessen the present common practice
of merely consigning shipments
abroad without prices, guarantees or
similar protection. Thus many risks
will be minimized, greater stability in
prices result and less discriminating
dumping of deteriorated product on
the loreign markets.
cargo of wheat to Japan the latter
part of next month.
The West Nomentum, prior to being
order to enable the company to main
tain its schedule of sailings.
The allocation of an "unnamed
steamer" to carry wheat from Fort
land to Japan was made Friday by
H. H. Ebey, director of operations for
the Pacific coast district of the ship
ping board.
OCEAX GRAIX RATES REVISED
Shipping Board 'Announces Impor
tant Tariff Changes.
Revision of the shipping board
rates on wheat from the Pacific north
west to Europe was announced yes
terday by the district office of the
operations division. The principal
changes are a decrease in the rate to
the Antwerp-Hamburg range and the
naming' of rates to Scandinavian
ports, for which no formal tariff had
formerly been published. .
The new rates are: To Bordeaux?
Antwerp range, 70 shillings; to Antwerp-Hamburg
range, 65 shillings; to
Mediterranean ports not east of the
west coast of Italy, 70 shillings; to
Christianla, Gothenburg and Malmo,
ib shillings; to Stockholm, Riga and
other northern Scandinavian ports, SO
shillings, and. to the United Kingdom
70 shillings.
The adoption by the shipping board
of the practice of quoting grain rates
to Europe In shillings instead of In
DREDGE FLEET COMPLETE
DIGGER COLUMBIA LAST T7XIT
OF MUNICIPAL BATTER V.
aboard, the schooner H. K. Hall, which
bas been bar-bound or a week at Eureka,
was towed over the sandsplt this morning
at 7 o'clock and proceeded under sail to
Sydney, j. j. Moore a- Co. chartered the
vessel at the rate of 1-0.
Carrying 13.000 bafts of coffee In addi
tion to a heavy shipment of nitrate of
soda from Valparlso and Mexican ports,
tha Japanese freighter Tokuyo Alaru
arrived here today. ,
To load a cargo of grain on the Colum
bia river for the United Kingdom for the
Pacific Steamship company, the shipping
board freighter Eastern Guide sailed from
this port after lying idle for several
months.
The West Notus sailed from here late
today for Buenos Aires via San Pedro,
for Swayna & Hoyt account.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 16. (Special.)
The gas launch D & M. was sold at
auction by the United States marstial to
Julius Nelson, fisherman, tor $735 today.
The sale waa the outcome of a libel action
filed by 2. H. Williams. The launch form
erly waa owned by the Washington Bat
company.
Captain J. C. Foster, a veteran ship.
Modern Craft Built Principally by
Portland Labor Material
and Equipment of Best.
Wit the completion of the dredgo
Columbia, which will begin her 400
hour trial test Monday, the Port of
Portland now has a fleet of four mod
ern dredges. With this equipment, the
port is in a position economically, ex
peditiously and efficiently to conduct
t a .nnftnA harhnp nnd nhnnnel main-
tenance. besides handling the new master. dled.t hi. hom.hetoday He
projects Including the opening of the He wa, 69 year old The Kreater part of
west channel at Swan Island. his life was spent in Atlantic waters. The
The Columbia was built ana funeral will be Monday.
equipped by the Pacific Marine Iron The schooner Azalea, owned by J. A.
works of Portland, and, so far as pos Mathieson of Anacortes was towed from
. . , T, . , , . '. a(B,0 OTlf her moorings in Lake Union to the Todd
stole, Portland labor, material and drydock or overhauljng. The Azale, wlll
equipment were used In the worn. be prepared for her annual voyage to
from the fabrication of the stee" Alaska waters.
framework to the refrigerating eys- Captain N. K. Wills, who left Seattle
tern and cabin furnishings. 15 months ago in command of the steel
This dredge represents the latest "rV- " r""'"'" v
, , , , , . I of nine iut a oiioi l rem. ro icit me xwutu
word in suction dredge design, equal- G , Baltlmore 10 aay. aE0. His
family resides here.
In tow of the new steel tug sea mob-
MORE GRAIN GOES SOUTH S-?!si-? sSiSi-"
CEREAL TRADE WITH LATIX
AMERICA IMPROVES.
ACT v-xTrT "VT7 njtTVTt TrniT xttcj ttti-h-x t.t t.i .ii vi-tt titt nfr t tt-w rTT?iy 1TIAVC I 1 rl
"am u.ni ur r Uftl ut ruaiLMUO ymutaUli r L.CjE,1, nnibn Tl XiCAjl.l urt.naiiu.io arch, the cannery ship Santa Clara,
TOMORROW.
r -
if imkmmiMi
DREDGE COLUMBIA.
turned back to the shipping board a
few days ago, had been operating for
several months in the Columbia-Pacific
Shipping-company's North China
times when ocean freight rates in all
trades were made in shillings. This
practice facilitates comparison by
shippers of the rates offering in
line. She was delayed on her last America and for American and for-
homeward voyage and the steamer eign tonnage, and also eliminates the
West Kader was substituted to enable
the company (o maintain their sched
ule. Besides the West Nomentum, seven
other large steel steamers will be
loading lull or part cargoes of wheat
or flour here this week for Kurope.
Three of these were en route to Port
land last night from San Francisco.
The shipping board steamer Hanley,
under charter to Kerr, Gifford & Co.,
was . expected at the mouth of the
Columbia river at 7 o'clock last night
and will come up to Portland this
morning. She will be the first vessel
to dock at the Globe elevators since
that property was taken over recently
by Kerr, Gifford & Co. The British
steamer Eurymachus of the Blue Fun
nel line and the Danish motorship
Asia will be due here Monday from
San Francisco to take cargoes of
grain.
Following these steamers before the
end of the week will be the shipping
board steamers West Nimrod and
Eastern Guide for full cargoes of
grain, and the British steamer Moer
dyk of the Holland-America line, for
cereal shipments of several thousand
tons each.
Thirteen steamers in all, including
those above mentioned, have been
booked to take cargoes of wheat or
flour from. Portland to Europe in the
remainder or this month ana in May.
In this period at least one cargo of
wheat will go to Japan and several
part cargoes will go to the west coast
of South America.
fluctuation of rates because
changes in the exchange rates.
of
BIG TANKER IS LAUNCHED
CALGAROLITE TAKES WATER
AT STANDIFER YARDS.
Auto Driver Faces Two Charges.'
Ole Berg, resident of Tillamook,
was arrested at Broadway and Alder
street yesterday afternoon, charged
with driving an automobile while in
toxicated. A further charge of driv
ing a machine equipped with de
fective brakes was lodged against
him after William Tully. traffic of
ficer, had driven the machine to the
police garage.
Bead The Oregonian classified ade.
SHIP ALLOCATED FOR WHEAT
West Xomentnm to Carry Cargo to
Japan Xext Month.
The idle shipping board steamer
West Nomentum, recently turned
back to the snipping board by the
Columbia-Pacific Shipping company
In exchange for the steamer West
Kader. was named yesterday as the
vessel allocated to this same com
pany to carry a full cargo of wheat
from Portland to Japan next month,
The West Nomentum was delayed on
her last trip home from North China,
and the West Kader, which was idle
here, was substituted in her place in
dollars follows the usage of pre-war
Port Calendar.
To Arrive at Portland,
Vessel From
Hlene San Fran...,
Celtlo San Fran....
Str. Hanley San Fran...,
Str. Alaska San Fran.. ..
Str. Statesman Seattle
Str. Eastern Marlner.San Fran....
Due.
.Apr. 17
Apr. 17
.Apr. 17
-Apr. 17
.Apr. 18
.Apr. 19
.Apr. 19
.Apr. 20
.Apr. 20
.Apr. 20
.Apr. 20
.Apr. 20
Apr. 21
West Himrod Seattle
Eastern Guide San Fran..
Str. Steel Ranger Seattle ....
Str. West Ivan Seattle ....
Str. MoeVdyk ...Europe ...
tr. Tokuyo Maru.... Valparaiso
Str. Waliineford San Fran. .
Str. Curacao S. F. and way. Apr. 22
Str. Kose city aan rTan Apr. 11
Katrina I.uckenbach. San Fran Apr. 23
Str. Willhllo N. Y. - S.F...Apr. 24
Str. Yalsa .....Seattle Apr. 24
M. 8. Indlen. ......... Yokohama .. .Apr. 24
Henry S. Groves. ...San Fran Apr. 25
West Haven Seattle Apr. 25
Str. Eurymachus. ... .San Fran.. .. .Apr. 5
M. S. Asia San Fran ..Apr. 25
Str. Bakersfield.....Europe-S. F..Apr. 26
Str. Alaska San Fran Apr. 27
Stanwood San Fran Apr. 28
Str. Northland San Fran... .. Apr 2S
Str. Birmingham City Orient Apr. 30
Str. Julia LuckenbacASan Fran May 1
Str. West Isleta Boston-S. F...May 1
Str. Rose City Sun Fran Ma 2
Str. Mount Berwyn. . .Vancouver ....May 3
JvoDe May 7
New . York. ...May 10
Hull May 15
W. C. S. A... .May 15
Europe May 15
Pt. Said Maria
Str. West Xivaria..
Str. Anna a. Morse.
Str. Klna
Str. Seditepool
Str. Eastern Sailor.
Formosa
To Depart From Portland.
Vessel ' For Date.
El SeRundo San Fran Apr. 16
S. O. Barue No. 93.. .San Fran Apr. 16
Str. Alaska San Fran.. ...Apr ()
Celllo San Fran..... .Apr. 21
Str. Moerdyk .Europe Apr. 2'
Rose City San Fran Apr. 25
Katrina Luckenbach. Phlla. Apr. 25
Str. Willhilo New York.... Apr. 29
Str. Yaiza Boston Apr. 29
vessels in fort.
Vessel-
Anvil (g-as sen.)...
Sch. David Evans..
Str. El Sepundo. . ...
Str. a. C. Llndauer..
Sch. K. V. Kruse...,
Sch. Mindoro. ......
6tr. Pawlel
S. O. Bario No. 93.
Str. Wahkeena.... .
Str. West Keats.
Berth
. Ukase dock.
. Inman-Poulsen mill.
.Standard Oil dock.
.Weetport.
. Terminal No. 8.
Supple's dock.
. Terminal .No. 4
.Gasco.
.St. Helens.
.Inman-Poulsen mill.
Toronto Woman Acts as Sponsor
for Craft Built for Imperial
Oil, Limited, of Canada.
VANCOUVER, Wash., April 16
(Special.) The Calgarolite, 12-000
ton tanker, built by the G. M. Standi
fer Construction corporation here for
Imperial Oil, Ltd., of Toronto, Can
was launched at 12:30 o'clock today,
Weather was ideal, the sun sh-'ning
brilliantly. Mrs. W. B. Elswoth
wife of the marine superintendent of
the company, with her husband, came
here from Toronto to christen the
ship.
The gift from the Standard Oil
company, of which Imperial Oil, Ltd.
is a subsidiary concern, was a plat
inum wrist watch. The Stand'fer
company gave ta the sponsor a gold,
platinum and diamond brooch and a
bouquet of roses.
The Albertollte, sister tanker, is to
be launched in less than a month
which will mean that the last con
tract has been completed and the
yard will close down.
Report From Mouth of Colnmbla.
NORTH HEAD, April 16. Condition ef
tne sea at a M., smooth; wind north,
io miles.
four-masted vessel, was enroute to Blaine,
Washinirton. for outfitting;. The Sea Mon
arch is one of four new steel tugs built
at San Francisco for the Shipowners' and
I Merchants Tugboat company.
Two units of the Alaska fisheries fleet
I departed for the north when the bark W
B. Flint, in the service of Libby, McNeill
and Libby. g;ot away for Ekuk, and the
schooner John A of the Pacific Coast Cod
fish company's fleet sailed for Bering; sea.
The ship Benjamin F. Packard, of tne
Northwestern Fisheries company's fleet,
shifted from her winter quarters at Port
Blakeley to Seattle Friday, and now is
being overhauled and refitted preparatory
to departure for Bering; sea stations oper
I ated by that concern. The Packard will
I likely get away during the week.
HAN PEDRO. Cal.. April 16. (Special.)
I The United States transport Hancock
I arrived this morning from Norfolk with
more than JOO men of the crew of Tne
I battleship Mississippi. The men became
sick white the warship was on its Soula
American cruise.
The steamer Yale broke her own rec-
I ords on her trial trip yesterday, accord-
I lnff to official figures announced today.
I She steamed 24.6 knotB.
Struthers & Dixon have announced that
the steamer West Islip will touch here
en route to the orient, tihe now la in
San Francisco.
PORT TOWNSBXD, Wash., April 16
(Special.) The tank steamer Lyman
Steward arrived early this morning from
Port San Luis via Vancouver to enter and
then proceed to Point Weils. Some time
ago she failed to comply with this re
quirement, wild the result she was lined
by the customs authorities.
Bringing a fuli cargo of general mer-
chandijie from San Francisco, the steamer
Mukilteo arrived this afternoon, proceed
ing to Seattle to discharge. She will load
cargo at Everett for San Francisco,
Two vessels of the V illiams-Diinond
Co. European service arrived on Puget
sound from San Francisco. The Eelbeck
proceeded to Vancouver to discharge
quantity of Scotch whisky. She wlll come
to Puget sound next week to discnarge
some freight and also load a part cargo.
The Bakersfield brought a number of
small consignments for Seattle from ports
of northern Europe. About 2000 tons ot
, it, , i . , Bcictm Lai .u uaa ucvu tuMcmuitni ai oc'
ng miytning m tne country tor in- atth) for her. Sn8 ta scheduled to leave
land waterway operation, it was ue- I next Saturday,
signed and constructed under the di A wireless from the Alabama Maru
rection of General Manaerer Polhemus states that she will reach here for quar
of th nort nf Portland I antine Inspection next Tuesday. Included
the Columbia is expected to dredge lhe illc , s.at'.ie '.h . nc,i train
and discharge sand mud and gravel will be waiting to carry the silk to the
witn power ana equipment sufficient east.
to dump the dredgings a distance of
Steamers Listed to Carry Wheat
and Flour to West Coast of
South America.
The American steamship Windber,
owned by the Pacific-American Fish
eries company, is listed by the Gen
eral Steamship corporation to come
here May 7 In the service of that
company to the west coast of South
America. The Windber came to Port
land twice last year under charter to
W. R. Grace & Co., both times taking
full cargoes of lumber to the orient.
Preceding the Windber In this serv
ice will be the steamer Wallingford,
which is expected here about April
25. Space for 2000 tons of wheat or
flour for ports of the South Ameri
can west .coast has already been
booked here for the Wallingford. It
is expected that the Windber's freight
from Portland will also consist prin
cipally of wheat and flour.
A recent falling off in the buying
of lumber in Peru and Chile caused
a virtual suspens'on of the General
Steamship corporation's service to the
west coast, but a resumption of regu
lar sailings Is promised by an in
crease in the demand for cereals in
that section.
The Japanese steamer Tokyo Maru
of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, which
cleared from Portland last week for
the west coast of South America, car
ried large shipments of wheat and
flour. This was the first wheat to
go from Portland to iSoutli America
for several years.
flated, efferv.-j.rrnt war vlu' and
adjust our bUNirn'Mt to the cliar.K''! conili
lions, industries that were nuli'l ri-k.'il l
the war will be r'-vlvett. n'dfd IniprnVf -mnt
that wera ht-ld In alrance will in
completed, and an era of good buxlnr-"
tuned on a fair and reasonable n-.argm r
profit will ensue. We believe the tide of
depression has reached its ehb and tlvtl
the flood of a healthy commercial pros
perity already has et in."
Coffee Future lVrllne.
NEW YORK. April 1(1. Tim market fnr
coffee futures was lower toilay un.ler
scattering liquidation. The opening was
at a decline of 4 to 8 points and dosed
with 'the general market showing a net
decline of It to 11 points. Close: M;iy .Vtltie,
July 6.10c, S-ptember B.4(c, October l!4e,
December U.U5c, January 7.0;lc, March
7.20c.
Spot coffee dull; Rio 7a, O'uC'.c; Santos
-is II ! ti0 c.
Duluth Linseed Market.
DrT.tTTIt. April 1H l.lnsee.i. Jl Rl1 5.1.
TRAVKI.KIIS1 OI'IKK.
a mile from the point of operation.
The completed dredge represents an
expenditure or f.432,000.
Pacific Coast Shipping Notes.
DAILY METEOROLOGICAL BEPOBT.
PORTLAND. April 16. Highest temper.
ature, 68 degrees; lowest, 43. River read
ing, s A. M., i.s feet: change In last 24
nours, u.o-ioot rise. Total rainiau (o p.
M. to 5 P. M.). trace: total since Sep
tember 1. 1920. 41.93 Inches: normal. 38.46
inches; excess, 3.47 inches. Sunrise, 5:23
A. M. : .sunset. 6:50 P. M. Total sunshine.
11 hours and 28 minutes; possible sun-
bnine, lh nours ana oo minutes. Aioonrise,
2:04 P. M. Sunday; Moonset, 3:18 A, M.
.Monday. Barometer (reduced to sea
level), 6 P. M., 29.98 Inches. Relative hu
midity: 5 A. M.. ss per cent: noon. 41
per cent; 5 P. M., 32 per cent.
THE WEATHER.
STATIONS.
Baker
Boise .....
Boston ....
Calgary ...
Chicago ...
Denver .
Des Moines
Eureka ....
Galveston
Helena ....
Juneau . . .
Kansas City.
Los Angeles.
Marshfield ..
Medford
New Orleans.
Minneapolis .
New York. . .
North Head.
Phoenix ....
Pocatello ...
Portland ...
Roseburg ...
Sacramento .
St. Louis ...
Salt Lake... I
San Diego...:
an r'ran....
Seattle
Sitka
Spokane . . ..
Tacoma ....
Tatooah
Valdez
Walla Walla
Washington
Winnipeg
Yakima ....
Wind
4Sj(1.00:. .NE
S6i0. 00 : . 8
7210.02 10SW
....... .Tt....
SH.B6iS0 NB
30,0.02 . .I.SE
SO 1.321. .IN
5410. 10i..
78 0.00120 NWi
6210.00 . . E
t500.04 . ... ..ciear
Weather.
Rain
Cloudy
Cloudy
Snow
Clear
Snow
Rain
Pt. cloudy
Clear
34 0.78 26!N
6fi!0.0O. .ISW
42 0.001. . NW
66 O.OO . J.NW
80:0. 461.. IW
42 O.OOilSfNE
6ll;0. 00122 SB
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42 580.00lO!N
42) 50jO.OO:20!NE
3 t42!0.00. .SV
38 56 0.001. .rKE
601 76 0.00. .SW
, . .1 50:0.00;. .W
34 660.00l. .W
Snow
Clear
Clear
Cloudy
Cloudy
Pt. cloudy
Cloudy
Clear
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
Kain
Cloudy
Cloudy
Clear
Rain
Clear
Clear
Cloudy
Pt. cloudy
IClear
Cloudy
Cloudy
Kain
Clear
Pt. cloudy
A. M. today: tP. M. report of preced
ing day.
Str. Willamette St, Helens.
FORECASTS.
Portland and vicinity Occasional rain:
cooler; winds mostly northwesterly.
Oregon Occasional rain; cooler west
portion; moderate winds, mostly north
westerly. Washington Fair; cooler east portion;
moderate northerly winds.
GRAYS HARBOR. Wirt.. April 10.
(Special.) The steam schooner Everett
completed her Journey from San Pedro
yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, when
she entered the harbor to take a cargo
at the Grays Harbor Lumber company,
xloqutam.
ASTORIA, Or., April 16. (Special.) I The steam schooners Solano and Charles
Carrying a cargo of 1,100,000 feet of lum- Chrlstenson arrived last night from San
Der from the Hammond mill, the steam I Francisco. The Solano will take on
schooner Santiam sailed at S o'clock this cargo at the Bay City mill and the
afternoon for San Pedro. . I Christenaon at the American mills, Aber-
The steamer Colorado Springs sailed at deen.
Ships loading In port tonight include
the steamers Solano. Charles Chrlstenson:
Everett and West Ivan.
Movement of Vessels. .
PORTLAND, April 16. Sailed at 2 P.
M., barge 93. for San Francisco. Sailed at
10 P. M., steamer El Segundo, for San
6:15 o'clock this morning for Leghorn,
iiaiy, witn a cargo or wheat from Port
land. The steam schooner Tamalpais will be
due Monday from San Pedro and will load
lumber at Westport.
The steamer Hanley was due from San
Francisco, en route to Portland.
The steamer Alaska will be due tomor
row rrom ban t rancisco, with freight and I Francisco.
passengers ior Astoria ana Portland.
i no eam scnooner ceiiio was en route ASTORIA, April 16. Sailed at 6:15 A.
from San Francisco and due tomorrow M-i ateamer Colorado Springs, for Europe.
"e 18 "ringing general irelgnt Arrived at 7 P. M., and left up, steamer
S. i lumuer at Hanley, from San Francisco.
w I. """ana-America line steamer SAN FRANCISCO, April 16. Arrived at
fr as expeciea to arrive irom San 9 A. M gteamer Ohioan. from New York
irancisco in time to begin loading cargo for Portland. Arrived at 10 A. M.. steamer
. i..j iern..uio dcjli. monaay morn- Johan Poulsen. from Portland. Sailed at
I 8 A. M., steamer Moerdyk, for Astoria from
ii.e yanisn moiorsnip Asia, irom san Rotterdam.
riauciBto ior roruana, win De due at the
mouth of the-river at 4 o'clock tomorrow
aiternoon.
COOS BAY. Or.. April 16. (Soeeial.)-
The steamer Curacao, which sailed from
the upper bay late yesterday afternoon,
departed from the bar for Eureka at 8:25
in the evening. The Curacao had a full
passenger list out of here and turned
away a number of applicants.
SAN PBDRO. April 15. Sailed Steamer
Ohioan, from New York tor Portland.
OAVIOTA, April 16. Arrived Steamer
W. F. Herrln, from Portland.
NEW YORK. April 16. Arrived Steam
er Steel Inventor, from Portland.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 15. Sailed at 3
T U n.iti.h ateamee Kiievmaehus. fnr
'1AUUMA, Wash.. APrtl 16. (SDecial. I cil.J , a J M mlnr.l,ln
o...,UB nun. monaay tor iok- Asia, for Portland,
hama, Hongkong. Shanghai and Manila- I
the Africa Maru of the Osaka Shosen Kai- I PHILADELPHIA, April 16. Salted
bus uiie wiii iaae a xuu cargo ox general 1 ijioeraior, lur oenuit:.
iretgnt out tnis voyage. The cargo is
made up of wheat, lumber, cotton, some
llvestocK and machinery.
The Alabama Maru. inbound from the
orient. Is due here Wednesday and Vic
toria Monday. On the present voyaare of
tne AiaDama tne vessel was In the storm
of April 6 which drove her ashore in the
harbor at Yokohama. No damage was
done tne vessel and, as she was just ready
to sail, the big craft proceeded on her
voyage.
The Santa Rita returned from Dupont
SHANGHAI, April 14. Sailed West
Ivis, for Seattle.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 16. Arrived
Bakersfield. from Hamburg via Ant
werp, Liverpool, London, Ulasgow, Balboa
and San Francisco; Yosemite, from San
Francisco; Washtenaw, from Port San
Luis. Departed Mandasan Maru, for
Darien via Yokoha.na and Kobe; West
Ison. for Manila via Yokohama, Kobe,
Shanghai, Darien and Hongkong: Yose-
this morning and resumed loadTngT The "r, Francisco; W. B. Flint, for
vessel will sail for Peru and Chile early
next weeK, towing tne bark Belfast south.
The Belfast Is taking a cargo of lumber
at Everett. The Northwestern and La-
touche of the Alaska Steamship company
line are due nere witn ore from the north.
The Mukilteo is looked for here Sunday or
Monday from San Francisco with freight
for local and southwestern Washinarton
xirms.
Among the larger vessels listed for load
ing next week is the West Keene of the
Matson line and the Balierafieid of the
European-Pacific line. The Bakersfield
has considerable local freight to load for
Europe, l.eports are current here among
local shipping men that the schooner Betsy
Ross, bound for Tacoma from Singapore,
nas put Into an Australian port.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., April 16. (Spe
cial.) On lier maiden voyage the Pacific
Mail liner Granite State sailed today for
southwestern Alaska.
SHANGHAI, April 13. Arrived Steamer
Bear port, from Portland.
BALBOA, April IS. Arrived Steamer
Iowan, from Portland for Boston.
YOKOHAMA, April 12. Sailed Steamer
Coaxet, for Portland from Hongkong.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16. Arrived
Tokoyo Maru, from Valparaiso; Ohioan,
from New York; Wilmington, from New
York; Pleiades, from Philadelphia; Johan
Poulsen, from Astoria. Sailed Moerdyk.
for Rotterdam: West Islip. for Manila:
Willhllo, for Seattle; Granite State, for
Calcutta.
8AN PEDfftO, Cat., April 16. (Special.)
-lArrived President, from San Francisco,
3 P. M. ; Carlos, from Grays Harbor. 4
P. M. Sailed Coqulhe Klver. for Fort
Ship Reports by Radio.
(FurnUhed by Radio Corporation of
America.) ,
Positions reported at 8 P. M. yesterday,
unless otherwise Indicated, were as follows:
WILLUM V. HERRI V, Gavlota for
Llnnton, 24 miles from Gavlota.
AROMOKE. Talare for Vancouver, 600
miles south of San Francisco.
ALASKA, San Francisco for Portland,
off Heceta Head.
HANLEY", San Francisco for Portland,
6o miles from Portland in Colum-bla river.
ADMIRAL EVANS. San Francisco lor
Seattle, 272 miles from Seattle.
AVALON, Grays Harbor for San Fran
cisco, 37;t miles from San Francisco.
OELII.A), San Francisco for Portland,
12 miles south of Columbia river.
COLORADO SPKINUS. Portland for
San Pedro, 120 miles south of Columbia
river.
J. A. MOFFETT, Port Wells for San
Pedro, 58 miles north of San Podro.
E. D. Kl.NGSLEY, San Francisco for
Victoria, 200 miles north of San Francisco.
HAKTWOOD, Grays Harbor for San
Francisco, 210 miles north of San Fran
cisco. WAPAMA, Portland for San Francisco,
100 milee north of San Francisco.
ADMIRAL DEWEY. Seattle for San
Francisco, 125 miles north of Sau Fran
cisco. NORTHLAND, Portland' for San Fran
cisco. 200 miles north of San Fruneisco.
ATLAS, Richmond for Tacoma, 327
miles from Richmond
FRED BAXTER, Everett for San Pedro,
4tH) miles north of San Pedro.
ELDORADO. San Francisco for Seat
tle, 98 miles from Seattle.
NORTHWESTERN. Ketchikan for Se
attle. 125 miles from Seattle.
KENXECOTT, San Pedro for San Fran
cises, 155 miles north of San Pedro April
15
LIBBY MAINE, Seattle for Cooks In
let, 430 miles from Cape Flattery April 15.
WEST JAPPA. Yokohama for Van
couver, 1431 miles from cape t lattery
April 15.
CHEPADOS. Sydney for New York. 80
miles southwest from Tutuila April 16.
LANSING, Honolulu for San Pedro, 604
miles from San Pedro.
MANOA, Honolulu for San Francisco.
130 miles from San Franci-o, April 15.
P. J. HAvNNA. San Francisco for Ka-
hulul, 16.10 miles from San Francisco,
Aor II 15.
COLO.VEii E. L. DRAKE, Richmond for
Honolulu, 'HI miles from Honolulu,
April 15.
ENTERPRISE, Hllo for San Francisco,
1055 miles from San Francisco, April l,
RICHMOND. Honolulu for San Fran
Cisco. 1014 mllea from. San Francisco,
April 15.
NANKING, Orient for San Francisco,
1170 miles west of Honolulu, April lo.
WEST CATANCE. Panama for Hono
lulu. 117S miles from Honolulu. April I
IMLAV. San Francisco for Shanghai
1004 miles from San Francisco. April 1.1.
HVADBS, Hllo for San Franciitco, 15311
miles from San Francisco. April 1...
GKIFFCO, San Francisco (or Honolulu
63 miles from San Francisco.
RAINIER, San Francisco lor Belling
ham. 10 miles from San Francisco.
Tug SEA MONARCH towing saiiing ship
SANTA CLARA. San Francisco for Jtlalnes,
Wash., 60 miles north of San Francisco.
ROSE CITY. Portland for Sun Fran
Cisco, 224 miles north of San Francisco.
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TIDE OF DEPRESSION"
REACHED ITS EBB.
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5 P. M. ; Whittier. for Port San Luis,
5 p. M. ; Santa Monica, tor t-ureka, &
p. M. ; Daisy, ior coos -oay, tj t. ji.
TACOMA. Wash.. April 16. Sailed
Washtenaw, for San Francisco via ports.
KOBE. April 18. Sailed Wheatland
Mon tana, for Portland.
Indian ports via Honolulu and Manila. Brag, P. M.; Siskiyou, for Bellfngham,
'ine cratt went out in command of Cap-
ms Henry wallis, formerly of the
sieamer oama uruz.
The movement of westbound careo on
Intefcoastal freighters continues heavy.
despite the 70 odd large steamers operat
ing on regular schedule, as the manifests
of two freighters arriving here today
from the east coaflt show.
The Lrtickenbach, freighter Pleiades
made port from Philadelphia via Boston
and San Pedro, with a full cargo for dis
charge at this port and other harbors of
the Pacific coast, and the Ohioan, of the
WilUams-Iimond fleet, arrived today,
carrying a capacity cargo from New York
and Boston via San Pedro.
Heavy shipments of steel bars, oils.
drugs, rope and other commodities arrived
In the holds of both steam era, while 25
cases of champagne and 600 cases of wine
of pepsin wera in the cargo of the
Pleiades.
In tow of the red stack tug Sea Mon
arch, the ship Santa Clara was towed out
of here today. The tug will tow the
fishing vessel as far north as Blaine,
Wash.
In the customs house today the Star of
Scotland cleared for Larson Bay and the
steamer Alitak cleared for Chlgnik. The
Star of Finland was towed out today and
set her course for Alitak. Work is being
rushed to sign up the crews and place
the fishermen, their paraphernalia and
supplies on board as rapidly as possible
in order to get tho vessels out for the
north, doe to their being held in nort
over the question of wages to be paid to
the fishermen.
W1U 1,000,000 leet of lumber stowed
Price Readjustment Xearing Final
Suige and Sales of Staples
Show Marked Increase.
While declines still outnumber advanres.
in the wholesale grocery list, it is to be
noted that the recfHsions are less marked,
showing that deflation in this branch of
trade has about run its course, in dis
cussing general conditions ana pronpeuin
the monthly trade letter of Wadhams &
Co. of this city says:
The declines in wholesale prices, espe
cially on staple food products, have been
more rapid in the la.st six months than
ever before In price history. This has not
only wipftd out all profits, but ato has
jeopardized capital, and would have pro
duced widespread commercial disaster wre
it not for the strong financial condition
of the whole country. Heavy declines In
several basic farm products have brought
down the balance of the list, and drastic
liquidation of stocks of financially weak
holders hastened the general recession.
Several important items already have
reached pre-war levels, and should the
past rate of declines continue this banis
ill be reached Dy ail commoames oy
September. However, there already are
unmistakable signs of improving condi
tions. Liquidation bargains are not o
numerous. The pace of price recession
has slackened In the lata month, and
sales have shown a marked increase.
"We believe deflation will continue in a
more orderly manner. The resistance
caused by holding of crops for higher I
prices, by combinations or producers, oy
manufacturing groups and labor organi
zations may temporarily hinder this re
adjustment process, but they cannot check
it .Commodities that have been artifi
cially sustained, or have not yet responded
to the demand for a sane reduction of
prices, will surely seek their level, and
all lines must eventually reach a basis of
true values founded on the law of supply
and demand.
"The nation is financially and eeonom
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