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Rh poorly constructed that she soon bankrupted her builder and for the past two years has been jobbing around Portland in charge of a receiver. The propeller Young America, length eighty-eight feet, beam thirteen feet, depth four feet five inches, with engines eleven and one-fourth by ten inches, was launched at Portland and has since been operated in the towing and jobbing trade by Capt, James Good. On the lower Columbia the propeller Grace was ,set afloat at Skamockawa by Colwell Brothers, the Queen by William Worsley & Co., and the E. I.

Dyer by William Rehfield. The latter is sixty feet long, seventeen feet beam, and five feet nine inches hold, with engines ten and twelve by twelve inches, and the Queen is sixty-four feet long, sixteen feet beam, and six feet two inches hold, with engines twelve by twelve inches. The propeller Irma was built at Hood River by Capt, H, C. Coe, the Inland Star at The Dalles by J. W. Condon, the Carrie F. at Kelso, the Volanta at Oneatta for service on Yaquina Bay, and the Fawn at Marshfield. The steamer Chilkat, which Capt. David Morgan constructed at Astoria for work in connection with his cannery, was rebuilt at Portland in 1812 and equipped with passenger accommodations. She is one hundred and five feet long, twenty feet five inches beam, and seven feet five inches hold, and soon after completion commenced running to Alaska, where her owner was interested in one of the largest canneries, which furnished sufficient business to pay her running expenses. Passenger rates were reduced, and, as the steamer was speedy and comfortable, she made serious inroads in the revenues of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, and, unlike any opposition they had hitherto encountered, could not be bought or run off the route. Capt. Charles Carlsen handled her until 1894, when he died suddenly at Seattle. He was succeeded by H, A. Matthews, and recently J. V. McAllep has had charge. L. Jensen has been pilot for the past few years.

The first lightship on the Pacific Coast, the Columbia River No. 50, built by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, was placed in service off the mouth of the Columbia in 1892. She is one hundred and twelve feet long, twenty-six feet seven inches beam, twelve feet eight inches hold, and has a steel frame with wood planking. The floors, keelson, stringers, beams and keel plate are of steel, while the stem sternpost, keel and rudder are of white oak. The planking and dead wood are Gerogia pine and the sheathing of white oak. The

vessel has no propelling power except her sails, but is equipped with two horizontal, return tubular boilers to furnish steam for blowing a twelve-inch fog whistle during thick weather and for hoisting the lights on the masts, Each of these is composed of six large lamps encircling the masts, so that, no matter from what point she is sighted, they are never hidden. During the daytime the lights are lowered into a room built around each mast and opening at the top to admit the lights, but closing again, air and water tight, when they have been lowered or raised. During the day the craft is easily recognized by two large, red lattice-work circles, located on the masts above the place where the lamps hang at night. The vessel was towed from San Francisco by the tug Fearless, Capt. Dan H. Haskell, and went into service in charge