Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — PACIFIC COAST HUMS WITH SHIPBUILDING [ARTICLE]

PACIFIC COAST HUMS WITH SHIPBUILDING

San Francisco.—The volume of ship construction on The Pacific coast is now five times as great as 18 months ago and 15 times as heavy as three, years ago. This became known from data gathered by a local shipping paper and forms the first complete record of shipbuilding activity on this coast. It is conservatively estimated that the total amount represented in ship-building on the Pacific coast is upward of $125,000,000. ’ - The total -number of ships building or contracted for at private yards on this coast Is 138. Of these, 75 are steel .steamers of from 3,800 tj 10,000 tops, and 63 are wooden -ships. Of the Tatter class 40 are motor ships of a new type.