SAN FRANCISCO TO CHINA AND JAPAN. 1. Pacific Mail Steamship Company (American).-Capital stock, $20,000,000 (see annual report in Appendix L.) Express and passenger mail service to Yokohama and Hongkong, occasionally calling at Honolulu. Average period of round trip, 7 weeks. (See also New York.) NOTE. The company also has lines connecting Panama with Mexican and Central American ports, not touching the United States. 2. Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company (British).-Express, passenger, and mail service, alternating with Pacific Steamship Company's lines. SAN FRANCISCO TO PANAMA. [1]. Pacific Mail Steamship Company (American).—Express, passenger, and mail service connecting, via Panama railroad, with Atlantic service to New York. 3. Panama Steamship Line (American).-Chartered by the Panama Railroad Company. Express, passenger, and mail service connecting, via Panama railway, with Columbian Line, New York. SAN FRANCISCO TO BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA. 4. Pacific Coast Steamship Company (American).-Capital stock, $2,000,000. Passenger and freight service 3 times a month to Alaska. Usual period of voyage, 14 days. To British Columbia and Puget Sound: Passenger and freight service every 5 days. Usual period of voyage, 11 days. To Ensenada, Mexico: Monthly passenger and freight service. SAN FRANCISCO TO HONOLULU, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND. 5. Oceanic Steamship Company (American).-Express, passenger, and mail service 3 times a month to Honolulu; once a month to New Zealand and Australia. 1. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. [(a) Foreign-bu vessel, admitted to American registry; (b) built in the United States. Figures in brackets [ ] are approximate.] 3. PANAMA STEAMSHIP LINE (P. R. R. CO., CHARTERERS). [(a) Foreign-built vessel, admitted to American registry; (b) built in the United States. Figures in brackets [ ] are approximate.] Name. Saturn (b) Keweenaw (b) City of Puebla (b).. Walla Walla (b) Saint Paul (b) Alameda (b) DUNSMUIR LINE. Costa Rica.............. CHANDLER LINE. Empire (b).. Tacoma.. Name. Flag. Name. American.. ..do Manuel Dublan.... ..do American. ...do ...do ...do ....do ..do American. ....do ..do British Nicaraguan... American..... Flag. British .do Gross tons. 4. PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 2,268 5. OCEANIC LINE. Flag. Nicaraguan 4, 187 2,511 Steel.. 2. 624 Iron ..do 3,070 .do 1,057 ..do 2,728 ..do 888 .do 13, 437 3, 158 3, 159 14,994 Material. Iron Iron. do .do Steel. Material. Steel.. Year No. Wood. 172....do 1890 1885 Material. 1891 1881 1881 1881 1884 1882 1875 1883 1883 1890 1875 PORT TOWNSEND (TACOMA, PORT OF CALL). Northern Pacific Steamship Company (British).—Connected with the Northern Pacific Railroad. Passenger and freight service once in 3 weeks to Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe, and Yokohama. 1875 1873 [100] [50] 1870 1889 1870 77 81 81 44 103 36 422 [450] 1888 1886 [35] [20] Year No. built. crew. 53 53 159 Year No. Lower California Development Company (British).-Capital stock, $1,700,000. Six trips monthly to Ensenada and St. Quentin. Value. 20 36 $200,000 175,000 375,000 [250,000] $300,000 350,000 350,000 92.500 375,000 85,000 1,552, 500 [$1,500,000] [80,000] [30,000] Value. [$400,000] Value. $25,000 15,000 40,000 Occasionally to British Columbia. [(a) Foreign-built vessel, admitted to American registry; (b) built in the United States. Figures in brackets [ ] are approximate. Name. Mineola (a). LOS ANGELES. Flag. South Portland. Charleston, S. C.: Herbert. Pensacola, Fla.: REGISTERED STEAM VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES. Following is a complete list of the registered steam vessels of the United States which have not been included in the foregoing compilation, except 57 steamers (chiefly wooden) of less than 100 tons each, aggregating 4,000 gross tons. These ply chiefly on Puget Sound, the Mexican border, and are registered merely on account of the propinquity of foreign territory. They are mainly ferryboats rather than vessels engaged in foreign trade in the broad sense of the word. Carbonera New Orleans, La. : B. D. Wood. American... Of the vessels tabulated below, many, though registered, have been engaged in coastwise trade and thus were not returned as means of regular communication between the United States and foreign countries; others are steam whalers on the Atlantic and Pacific, and others, though retaining, of course, their registers, have not been in trade during the year. Others have been one or two voyages to the West Indies, but have not been regularly employed in foreign trade. It is possible that three or four have been regularly employed in foreign trade to the West Indies, Mexico, etc., and were omitted in the replies of owners to the request of the Bureau for information on which the foregoing tabulation was based. Galveston, Tex.: Pearl Rivers. Gila Gross Tons. 2, 438 Steel.. Material. 1,372 Wood. Material. When Year No. 1873 1879 1882 1883 1887 1890 1892 1865 1862 1884 1841 1892 1879 Boston, Mass. 1883 1870 Newburg, N. Y. 1891 1886 Do. 1883 1875 1892 1872 Where built. New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. Bath, Me. 1886 1884 Camden, N. J. Chester, Pa. 1883 Do. Philadelphia, Pa. Value. England. Rocky Hill, Conn. Camden, N. J. Philadelphia, Pa. Do. $200,000 1878 Gainesville, Miss. San Francisco, Cal. West Bay City, Mich. APPENDIX N. SHIPPING IN GRAIN EXPORT AND FRUIT IMPORT TRADE OF THE The exportation of grain to Europe and the importation of fruit from the West Indies and Central America are two branches of the ocean-carrying trade in which, for various reasons, it may be assumed that American capital has been embarked with profit. While nearly all this trade is conducted under foreign flags, such examinations as this Bureau has been able to make shows the correctness of the assumption and demonstrates that both of these branches of trade are conducted by citizens of the United States, though the law refuses them the right to use their own flag over the vessels they own and in which they conduct their ventures. The following table shows the exports of grain from the port of New York in steam and sailing vessels and illustrates the disappearance of sailing vessels from this branch of the carrying trade. It may be observed that quantities of grain are still carried from the Pacific coast of the United States to Great Britain in American sailing vessels. The figures are taken from the annual report of Mr. W. E. Ferguson, who for some years has had charge of this branch of statistics for the New York Produce Exchange: Grain exports from New York in steam and sail vessels. Year. 1880... 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884 1885. 1886. Flag. American.. British Belgian Danish Dutch French German.. Italian. Norwegian Total Cargoes. Sail. 6 6 625 70 23 45 24 163 20 4 13 7 1890. The number of sailing vessels carrying grain in 1893 was 3 (1 British and 2 German). The following shows the number of cargoes and the number of bushels carried under the respective flags named: (Slight disparities in the totals of the years are noted, but they do not affect the general value of the figures.) Bushels. Bushels. 113, 343, 163 72, 276, 312 46, 162, 739 48,457, 945 45, 393, 787 42, 103, 264 52, 503, 373 302, 201 115, 511 30, 455, 226 788.388 1,485, 144 1, 231, 743 4, 210, 167 1,076, 717 Total. 97, 849 489, 092 445, 904 1,006 44, 592, 543 Cargoes. 25 1 787 61 25 74 34 143 10 Year. 1887. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. 1893. 1891. Bushels. 1,273, 724 28, 800 48, 242, 090 3,379, 088 982, 077 2,483, 692 1,711, 706 5, 117, 323 1,629, 877 Steam. 1,223 67, 622, 824 Sail. Bushels. 350, 007 9,949 49,906, 005 5, 305, 982 1, 190, 087 3,363, 765 2, 180, 921 5,981, 648 1,560, 452 1, 121, 737 1,044, 403 1, 112, 955 68, 504 1,193 73, 196, 415 Cargoes. 605 24 92 43 128 13 6 29 6 Total. 1,022 Bushels. 52.254, 487 25, 159, 064 37,906, 269 44, 592, 559 68, 483, 905 73,820, 506 55, 768, 726 1893. Bushels. 34, 276, 013 5, 240, 242 4, 651, 111 2, 400, 269 4, 292, 737 813, 516 124, 502 2, 213, 108 597, 149 55, 597, 299 Through the courtesy of Mr. Ferguson, the Bureau has been permitted to look over the detailed reports from which these tables are compiled. The examination shows that much of this grain has been carried in steamers owned by Americans, but, because built abroad, unable to wear American colors. The International Navigation Company of New Jersey owns practically all the stock of the International Navigation Company, Limited, of Liverpool, and of the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belge-Américaine. The Atlantic Transport Line has $3,000,000 of American capital, and is substantially an American corporation. A large amount of American capital is invested in the Mediterranean and New York Steamship Company. The Manhansett Line, except a few qualifying shares, is owned by Americans. |