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. (Sce 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-built vessel, admitted to American registry; (b) built in the United States. Figures in brackets [] are approximate.] British .do ....do 4,206 Steel 1885 do Belgic Oceanic 4.212 1885 3,808 Iron.. 1870 12, 226 [350] [$900,000] 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.] 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. Lower California Development Company (British).-Capital stock, $1,700,000. Six trips monthly to Ensenada and St. Quentin. Occasionally to British Columbia. LOS ANGELES. [(a) Foreign-built vessel, admitted to American registry; (b) built in the United States. Figures in brackets []are approximate. 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. 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. Atrato. Britannia Rescue Alamo Clyde.. Concho El Paso El Monte Lampasas. Neptune. Mount Waldo. Philadelphia, Pa.: Gladisfern. Norfolk, Va.: South Portland Charleston, S. C.: New Orleans, La.: New York Galveston, Tex.: Gila 1,372 Wood 1863 New York, N. Y. 471 do 1884 Bath, Me. 1,332 ....do 1841 New York, N. Y. 494 ....do 1892 Bath, Me. Boston, Mass. 1879 Newburg, N. Y. Philadelphia, Pa. 1883 Chester, Pa. 1870 Philadelphia, Pa. 1891 Chester, Pa. 1886 Do. 1883 Chester, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. 1882 Wilmington, Del. 1884 Camden, N. J. Willapa 1891 Portland, Oreg. City of Kingston 1884 Wilmington, Del. City of Seattle. 1890 Philadelphia, Pa. Pioneer Sea Lion. 1, 117 Iron.. 1,411 ..do 160 ....do 185 ....do 155 Wood. 1886 Seattle, Wash. APPENDIX N. SHIPPING IN GRAIN EXPORT AND FRUIT IMPORT TRADE OF THE ATLANTIC COAST. 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 Yorkin 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. 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.) 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. |