Transportation by Water, 1906 Volume 1906 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...Sound. San Francisco bav, and other waters of this character that are not otherwise specifically covered. 2 Less than one-tenth of 1 percent. The vessels piled on both of these rivers, and therefore the statistics can not be separately credited to either. In accordance with this division there were 86 vessels engaged wholly, or nearly so, in foreign trade, carrying a total of 880,194 tons of freight; they formed 3.4 per cent of the total number of vessels reported, and carried 6.6 per cent of the total amount of freight. The tonnage, however, of these 86 vessels amounted to 26.8 per cent of the total for vessels of all classes on the Pacific coast, with other features as follows: Horsepower, 33.7 per cent; value, 36.3 per cent; income, 20 per cent; number of employees on vessels, 19.2 per cent; wages, 14.6 per cent; and number of 500 1,358 1,178 2.047 143.977 2,000 43.198 54.095 45. 101 passengers curried, two-tenths of 1 per cent. Of all vessels reported at the census of 1906, the number of those which were at any time during the year carrying freight to foreign ports from the Pacific coast, whether such service represented the whole, the major part, or only a small fraction of the business, amounted to 171 vessels of 348,748 tonnage. These vessels were valued at $34,589,562 and carried 961,382 tons of freight. Thus the additional 85 vessels had a tonnage of 86,450, while the freight carried by them amounted to but 81,188 tons, compared with 880,194 tons for the 86 which have been classed as engaged wholly in foreign trade. Steamers plying in foreign waters were credited with 35.6 per cent of the tonnage and the sailing vessels with 25.5 per cent. Coastwise vessels formed the most important class, and were very evenly divided between steam and sail vessels...