Total cost of maintenance for the half year (Mexican currency) This division at the end of the fiscal year had the following number Total ports visited... of vessels, launches, and men employed: The following information has been furnished by the superintendent of the division of light-house maintenance: Light-houses, port lights, and lanterns.. There were under control of the light-house department at the commencement of the year: Unlighted beacons and range marks Buoys in position There were employed at that time in the care and maintenance of the lights and aids to navigation: During the year the following changes and additions have been made regarding lights and aids to navigation: The following changes in personnel at light stations were made during the year: At the end of the year there were employed in the division of light-house maintenance: During the year all keepers and apprentices have been put in uniform and all keepers, officers, and petty officers of tenders drawing a salary of over $300 per annum have been placed in the civil service. On June 30 there were in existence and under control of the light-house department: The cost (Mexican) of maintaining these lights for the half year ending June 30 was: At the end of the year there were in existence and under control of the light-house department: Buoys in position 43 (One buoy went adrift in typhoon June 2. Not yet recovered.) Unlighted beacons... 7 During the year there has been expended on buoyage $16,049.61, Mexican currency, made up of the following items: Overhauling and repairing buoys at Cebu . $832.00 15 second-class buoys, at $166 (gold) each.. 2 third-class buoys, at $100 (gold) each.. 17 cement sinkers, at $150 (Mexican) each 72 assorted shackles, at $5 each. 878.00 6,645. 29 532.00 2,550.00 510.00 1,400.00 1,800.00 360.00 542.32 LIGHT-HOUSE TENDERS. The Picket, formerly the Woo Foo, is a wooden twin-screw vessel of 109 tons and was purchased at Shanghai in August, 1902. She has since been continuously employed in transporting light-house construction and maintenance supplies, placing and overhauling buoys, etc. She has laid 7 new buoys, overhauled and painted 9, made 96 visits to light-houses and steamed 12,452 nautical miles on a consumption of 484 tons of Australian coal. Her crew consists of master, mate, chief engineer, 2 machinists, oiler, 2 firemen, boatswain, 3 quartermasters, 6 sailors, cook, and mess boy. The Corregidor is a composite single-screw vessel of 250 tons, built at Shanghai in 1902. During the year she has transported a considerable quantity of construction and maintenance supplies, laid 11 new buoys, overhauled, repainted, and replaced 8, and removed 2. She had made 89 visits to light-houses and steamed 10,869 nautical miles on a consumption of 726 tons of Australian coal. Her crew consists of captain, first officer, second officer, chief engineer, assistant engineer, 2 machinists, 3 oilers, 3 firemen, 3 coal passers, boatswain, carpenter, 3 quartermasters, 2 coxswains, 8 sailors, steward, 2 cooks, and mess boy. |