McCullough-Fa$an's New Cargo Facilities

The McCullough-Fagan Lumber Company, of San Francisco and Los Angeles, is stepping into the cargo lumber limelight bigger and bigger w,ith every season that passes, until now they loom large among the very greatest of cargo shippers of lumber into Californ,ia ports.

Their latest spread is a most notable one. They ihave secured four converted Ferris type ships, and two great ocean going tugs, with which'they have inaugurated a lumber carrying service between the Northwest milling territory and California that they have tremend'ous hopes for. These boats are The Dacula, the Bertrand,'the Bayden, and the Nottingham. Three of them are big ships that have a capacity of 2,500,000 feet each, and the other carries onehalf that amount, and will be used for shallower lan'dings and loadings. Each of these barges is equipped with a powerful steam loading equipment, and can l'oad and unload lumlber by means of this equipment much faster than the ordinary lumber boat on this coast.

The two 'tugs are the Roosevelt an,d the Daniel Kern. The Roosevelt is the fa,m,ous tttg used by Admiral Peary on his lm7-8 dash for the North Pole.

These barges and tugs are already in active service. The Roosevelt brought the Dascoula to Hammond's docks at San Pedro for its first'trip about May 15th. The others are load'ing, or on their way south at present. The same system is being used in the hauling of lumber from the North to California is these boats as the big retail lumber yards of Los Angeles use for delivery of lumber, the tugs acting the part ,of trucks. The barges will load and unload at both ends, and the tugs will keep going steadily between north and south, hauling the empties north and the loads South, with very little lost motion. The way it will work is, one barge will be loading in the North, one unloading in the South, and the other two will be traveling either way-

McCullough-Fagan also retains the two steamers Daisy Freeman, and Egeria in their service, doing regular routes. They have released the steamer Forest King on account of their acquisition of the new barge line.

The new barge service will run between Los Angeles Harbor and Phrget Sound, and gives this firm enormous hauling capacity between'these points.

B. W. Bookstaver, a member of the firm of McCulloughFagan an'd their go-getting representative in Southern California, says that his firm has still other dhings of large caliber up their sleeves that will bring them closer and closer to the top of the heaP.

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