EXTRACT FROM RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN RELATING TO PETROLEUM.

SEC. 2. No license shall be granted for manufacturing, refining, mixing, storing, or keeping said articles, or any of them, upon any alley, sidewalk, street, or wharf within the limits of the city, nor in any part of a building, occupied in whole or in part as a dwelling house, nor upon any floor of a building above the first floor, but the chief engineer of the fire department may grant a permit for the storage of kerosene oil in transit upon any such of the wharves in the city of Portland as he may deem advisable for a period of not exceeding six days.

ADMINISTRATION OF WHARVES AND PIERS.

The wharves available at the present time for trans-Atlantic shipping are controlled by the Grand Trunk Railway and the Portland Terminal Co. The ownership of the other wharves which are used for storage and miscellaneous business rests largely in private hands. No control is exercised by the municipal government.

PORT AND HARBOR FACILITIES.

PIERS, WHARVES, AND DOCKS.

The harbor has a water front of about 8 miles, rather more than one-half of which has been developed. There are 46 wharves, all but 10 of which are in the city of Portland. Seven wharves are used for transportation terminals, 14 for coal and lumber, 8 for manufacturing purposes, 4 for marine construction, and the remainder for general business.

There are two publicly owned ferry landings, besides which the city of Portland has a wharf in Back Cove under construction, which, aside from municipal use, will be open to the public. Seventeen of the private wharves are open to the public upon equal terms. Twenty-five have mechanical appliances. Thirty have physical connection with railroads and in the cases of 14 others, railroads run either to the heads of the wharves or adjacent thereto. Five of the wharves have a depth alongside of 6 feet or less at mean low tide, 22 have from 10 to 15 feet, 5 from 16 to 20 feet, 5 from 21 to 25 feet, 5 from 26 to 30 feet, and 3 have 33 to 35 feet. One berth is bare at mean low tide.

Many of the wharves are of solid fill within stone walls and with wooden pile extensions, while most of the larger ones are built entirely on piles. The transportation terminals are efficient, but in some respects are not of sufficient capacity to handle the class of vessels offering. The coal wharves are efficient, though somewhat crowded for room in one or two instances. Most of the remaining commercial wharves are of considerable size, but are of an old type with shallow berths and are not very serviceable. While existing facilities accommodate the present commerce, need for betterment is evident. There is abundant space, but to increase terminal facilities it will be necessary to revise and rebuild a portion of the old system.

Beginning at the eastern end of the city on the main harbor front are the remains of two wharves known as the Great Eastern Wharves. These are in disrepair and are not available for any practical use. They are quite exposed and are difficult of land approach.

The next wharf, the Portland Co.'s wharf, stands back from the harbor line and is used only for repairing small vessels.

The next three wharves are excellent and belong to the Grand Trunk Railway system. They are about 500 feet in length and are used for both passenger and freight traffic. They are of pile platform construction, in uniformly good condition, affording, by means of six slips, a dockage of about 3,000 feet and by using the

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berths across the ends of the piers this is increased to about 4,000 feet with an available depth of 33 to 35 feet at mean low tide in the slips. Package freight is handled by ship's winches and booms and by two-wheeled hand trucks on the piers. This method, in so far as it relates to the handling of freight on the pier itself, is slow, wasteful of labor, and expensive, but the installation of modern freighthandling machinery has been regarded as of doubtful expediency in view of the fact that the piers are in use only about 6 months each year. There are two derricks with a capacity of 2 tons each. There are eight steamship sheds, total area 219,177 square feet, with a capacity of 20,000 tons or about 175 pounds per square foot. The bulk freight handled at these piers consists of outbound grain for which the loading facilities, comprising elevators, conveyors, and discharging chutes, are of high efficiency. There are two elevators having a joint capacity of 2,300,000 bushels. Unloading from cars to elevators averages 140 cars per day of 10 hours. The average delivery capacity from elevator to steamships is 10,000 bushels per hour over each delivery belt and five belts can be used at one time.

The fourth, known as Galt Wharf, is the most westerly of the Grand Trunk piers. It is an uncovered pile platform, the greater part of which is in good condition. This pier is used almost exclusively for the transshipment of copper ore from rail to water carriers. It is provided with a raised platform, the top of which is at the level of the car floors and with hinged loading stages, but has no mechanical appliances, the ore being loaded on barrows at the cars, wheeled by hand across the platform onto the stages and dumped into the hold of the vessel or barge lying alongside. From 5,000 to 10,000 tons of this ore are handled per month. The facilities afforded at this pier are crude and the method of ore handling is slow and expensive, but more modern methods are probably not justified by the present volume of traffic.

Franklin Wharf which comes next is used by the Eastern Steamship Lines. All the boats of this company land here and conditions are very congested. Galt and Franklin Wharves have been purchased as a site for the new State pier.

The next wharf is occupied by Randall & McAllister Co. in an extensive coal buisness. This is a good wharf with fair depth but the owners are badly in need of more room.

Customhouse Wharf next above is a good wharf, but without great depth of water.

Portland Pier, the next above, is much used for local traffic and has a ferry slip with a public landing for small boats at the head of the dock. There is good water at the outer end but the inner ends of the docks are shoal.