| Show new YORK city october 12 1883 editor deseret wems news every year between two and three thousand latter day saints are landed in new york from liverpool ono one hundred bundred missionaries mahe make the journey both ways during the fame time it occurred to me that a mormon steamship might prove provo a paying investment and with wilh a view of ascertaining I 1 made various inquiries of the managing owner of a wealthy coasting line whose steamers run from new york to rali rail halifax fax N S r and nd to new orleans la the result of my investigations are axe here with submitted naturally N the finest steamers are found on the transatlantic lines the gity city 0 of f roma eoma is feet long measures tons and traveis travels at the rate ef 20 miles an hour other steam steamers ers erF in the same trade may be described by dividing the above figures by two coasting steamers are smaller seldom with a displacement of more than 2 2000 tons they run from 12 to 15 miles achour an hour the mormon church could not afford a vessel versal of the firsta mentioned type the coasters are nine dine commodious steamers which are called upon to breast the storms of cape catteral Hat teraL terae a more severe than those of the rude Atlantic they are in every respect equal to the requirements of the european trade I 1 shall then discuss a vessel of of 2000 tons displacement first cost american build first cost british build crew all told 40 pay of crew VO per par d day by anci nuci and board considered total per annum 21 g speed 12 miles milea aa hour time required to cross crom ocean ll 11 to load and unload 3 days time for round trip 28 dayh days time per annum doyag ing lag days daye time lying lylus addock at dock 78 days fuel fuei 25 tons per day at would be per day per annum days 23 expenses ard nud repairs per 1 annum lor log befitting Re fitting with boilers once in 8 years at a total cost of 5 per annum food lor bior crew of 40 at 40 ois cis each per day la is tg 18 arday per fer day per annum lut itt food F d for fon or 2 immigrant and missionaries one trip 11 days daya at 40 cents a day total UK 78 days daya at lob iob Ae in loading and r discharging each voyage for the 28 voy agest age aggregate annual expenses tir jig this enumeration ot ol elvet j will perhaps be ba found liber ilber li beril rib oot b 41 based baerd on en the figures U oti oth first class line and oom com except in the one item of 5 which would be bce covered by or per annum we ma may eay y safely r assume vessel could eoon boon build up i tramm trammie le say Fay with the above ad she could beaure an average ha of 1200 tons per trip each woj figu figures resin in the first following tables are the tariff Bf per ton in dollars of the them merchia elat erdt di diee dlee ee mentioned in the haft these I 1 obtained from a 1 first clit cile C company amady the figures la in the C column 0 aan give the relative tji of the articles Impo leaa ilaA wa eidi ed derived burean bureau of gt ebi report for 1882 ir the kahree great items of HP eigi are ate wheat flour fand and and cotton of import the alti cleare dry goods aud aad ikin inin various shapes fic EXPORTS e wheat SO ia 0 1 1 flour cotton 1560 1550 5 from these figures we ve mho who a lc th the a average per tan ton egich which jsn lip r dry goods W 30 su 90 irony irons iron t average tug g average on both imports P w and exported ex porte butt tilt 1111 ll e 11 these averages are low bin I 1 0 getting them I 1 have consider consid do 1 a heavy staple articles arti cleb clea which ich iob bally overwhelm the jess less ink inka ia cagl ot articles ot of commerce buch buob b a uty wnm ware notions notion etc but bat wahn r si dering the latter in the gy e are no more Import important adi aDt telen ipa p former these wow gow bilog tiring nm higher rates and thus q ilg above average p U so bo 1200 tons at wa 14 V this is for one trip for 28 26 it vod god od and thia thiv ia dundei daib that the boat wai wat ic patronized up to lttie ittie mon one half her cap capacity city lis kis the average tariff per par ton ct only 3 35 which for the mar maar above stated bisted stated slated further farther ettero street cl by the opinion of the agent i ira lra ray inman line who assured ml 01 cl without direct calculate A thought the average would one pound sterling or V ilens batis satisfied fled fied is too small smail iak k if now our own pe pk ran rad an carried entirely free of bosl alad d chipta would woold exceed tle tid ors ars 1 tures by or the iod imd roller pay 7 per cent on cask casi et it orb ore 0 if our immigrants ma tsa A bl I 1 aries arios were charged the he ex ellot 1 I e their board the receipts V w x swelled by the item lg ig 16 neue 11 above of or would 9 n in all to more thu than 01 P benses 1 per cent per of br pi the fare would round numbers pa ail zil all present figures again if we charged ille tine 01 klat plat figures an aa the gulon guion line c we would pay for 2500 iko ibo ib at 1700 each ilir pr mi missionaries asio narles at say 1500 2507 2500 feet feel eel 5 in all ali 4 1500 gives us as ance the rapt i bide side of theof pr instead of losing as aa bobc nors no hc bc approximately per annab 4 av V it may be ahsu abt abs assumed umed in ed in inov viel mt great exodus of europeans 05 b united states that on thoss tl to of the steamship which chii V W ete eie used for our own people 0 we od k iother rother K other Immigrant grants granta ag thus swell ie 8 income by at a low bete kete lad iad ild ibl of running between new idd lod iod liverpool where it would to compete wilh the irest ireat companies plying be those ports sports jt it would perhaps ij much C in more ore lucrative to gennow new york and stock ersome other scandinavian ish sh port this thib would give ran bantages of less competition bone done in fact other than that g vea vessel bele sele would afford direct ai catlon cation where it u a now in iad lad d would be a source of AV abing ing to our scandinavian knish ish conver convert tp the vessel en ien touch at some congeni lilah sh port for the purpose of missionaries and bringing nd ad their converts bac back A tow IOTT maintain offices in liv hv adnew and new york and there be littie little additional cost on v can be raised from among ae pie ex except ce p t perhaps a compe etain in it r require one acquaint tj the le european european roads yours truly lil lii CHAR W YOUNG |
