- AMERICA LEADS
IN BUILDING
OF VESSELS
% WASHINGTON, Dec., 26.—The Am
erican flag has been restored to 41
of the world’s ocean trade routes, the
Shipping Board records is its annual
report to congress. Most of the ships
* are plying trans-Atlantic and South
American lanes, the report said, but
some of them are in waters where
the Stars and Stripes has not been
seen on commercial vessels for more
than generation.
t Distribution of the government fleet
of 1,230 vessels, aggregating 6,791,
080 tons, shows 236 vessels in the
northern European trade. The trans
Atlantic tra(Je was next with 197 ves
sels of 1,204,950 tons, enggaged in the
ft
# food relief service and 176 ships with
■ a tonnage of 1,175,614 were still in
* \:se by the army on June 30 last.
Another 188 vessels were engaged in
the South - American trad; 73 plying
to Brazil, 92 to La Plata and 23 to
the west coast of South America.
Sixty vessels were making- regular
sailings to southern European ports,
14 to Africa, 6 to India, 77 in the
v trans-Pacific, 143 to the West Indies
and 44 in the coastwise and New
England coal trade.
The total gross revenue for the year
was approximately $500,000,000 as
compared with $80,000,000 for 1918,
but no comprehensive statement show
ing the profit and loss was available
Expenditures totaled $2,512,691,002
compared with $770,694, 057 for 1918,
$1,971,367,078 being for ship construc
tion. Next heaviest was for inven
tor of materials amounting to $177,
-•* 734,648 and plant and property ex
penses were placed at $167,786,559.
It cost $6.,065,935 to furnish ade
uate housing accomodations for the
employes of 24 shipyards and 1 turbine
plant, 8,644 houses, 94 dormitories, 3
hotels, 6 boarding houses, 849 apart
ment houses stores and other struc
tures, having been built, the report
said.
Loans to utility companies projects
aggregated over $955,000.
When the armistice was 3igned the
United States had become the lead
ing shipbuilding nation of the world
in tonnage capacity and rapidity of
construction, the report said. During
the second quarter of 1919, 48 per
S .. .
cent of the world tonnage under con
struction was in American yards in
cluding 44 VS per cent of the world’s
steel ship construction.
Vessels of the 10,000, 12,500 and
15,1)00 deadweight ton classes will be
the most efficient to meet modern
trade requirements, the report said,
and provision for steaming radius of
13,000 nautical miles has been made
in new American ships." The pro
gram for the establishment of oil fuel|
stations calls for tank facilities at
St St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Hon
olulu, Manila, Ponta Delgada, Azores,
Bizerta, Tunis and Constantinople.
OIL WELLS IN STREET
CAUSE LEGAL PROGRAM
LOS ANGLER. Bee. 27 (By Asso
ciated Press).—Three oil wells lo
cated in a street, adjacent to Sly
sian park here, which the city pro
poses to pave, have brought a
knotty problem.
City Attorney Stephens has ruled
that the city possess only the right
to use the property for street pur
poses and that the wells under the
street are private property. But he
has not ventured an opinion as to
how the owners are to get their oil
if the city puts in a concrete and
asphalt pavement over the wells.
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Mrs. Dunham’s home-made mince
meat at Finkelstein & Sapiro’s. 10-tf
ALASKA REINDEER
ARE NOT FOR SALE,
SAYS SUPT. LOPP
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 16, 1919.
The Cordova Times, Cordova, Alaska.
Dear Mr. Steele: It has been called
to my attention that in your issue of
November 20, 1919, the statement ap
peared that “the chief of the reindeer
industry in Alaska is offering reindeer
for sale at $33.33 per head, and sev
eral white residents of the territory
are making arrangements to enter the
business,” etc.
■ The statement is incorrect. The
only reindeer for breeding purposes
tyhich have been sold to white resi
dents of the territory are those in the
hands of Laplanders. None of the
reindeer owned by the government and
the natives of Alaska are for sale to
whites for breeding purposes. Very
sincerely yours,
WILLIAM T. LOPP.
Chief of Alaska Division.
Mrs. Dunham’s home-made mince
meat at Finkelstein & Sapiro’s. 10-tf
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address to the office.
SMITH &
M’CONAGHY
Plumbers and
Steamfitters
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