cargo is handled, may be absorbed by the terminal.

Line Handling, Fresh Water, Electric Current.- See these items in Everett section of this report.

LABOR

Waterfront labor of all categories at Bellingham is affiliated with the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Wage rates and working conditions for longshoremen and dock workers are the same as those effective at Everett, for which, see page 26. There is a general correspondence between the wages and working conditions of Bellingham checkers, supercargoes, and supervisors and those of the same categories of labor at Everett, described on page 36.

STEVEDORING

The Bellingham Stevedoring Company, 800 State Street, Bellingham, is the only local stevedore. However, many of the stevedore companies located in Seattle also serve Bellingham and other Puget Sound points. A reference list of Seattle stevedore contractors, with their Seattle addresses, follows.

Bellingham Harbor is on the eastern shore near the head of Bellingham Bay, an arm of Puget Sound. The flats at the mouths of Whatcom and Squalicum Creeks have been bulkheaded and filled and further improved by dredging channels from deep water in the bay nearly to the shoreline and by the construction of breakwaters where necessary. Dredging operations shoreward from the pierhead line have also created the I and J Street Waterway.

The piers, wharves, and docks at the port of Bellingham are described in detail under 33 reference numbers. Fifteen of the facilities are located on Bellingham Bay, six being in South Bellingham; nine on the Whatcom Creek Waterway; eight on the Squalicum Creek Waterway; and one on the I and J Street Waterway. Docks facing the open water are mostly of the pier type, and those on the waterways are restricted generally to the marginal-type of shore wharves. Many of the docks are open timber pile structures - some with mooring floats built out from the shore to serve the needs of the fishing fleet, the seafood handling plants, and recreational craft. Other docks, also of open timber piles, are built out from either a multiple-step bulkhead or a timber railroad trestle. Tracks of rail lines serving the port follow the shoreline of the bay area and are generally accessible to the water terminals by spur connections. Equally accessible are roadways for motor carrier service.

Four terminals are engaged in handling the port's general cargo traffic. Bellingham Warehouse Co., Pier B, is located in South Bellingham, and the Municipal Dock, Port of Bellingham; Central Avenue City Transient Dock; and Citizens Dock are all located on Whatcom Creek Waterway. Bellingham Warehouse Co., Pier B (P.W.D. Ref. No. 3), is an open pile, timber-decked pier with berthing

on its three sides in greatest depths alongside of 37 feet and least depths of 9 feet, A bulkhead wharf at the inner end of the west side provides additional berthing Receipts and shipments of general cargo and seafood are handled at the terminal in both foreign and domestic trades. Warehouses 5 and 6 are 10cated on the pier and provide approximately 11,000 square feet of transit shed space; Warehouse 8, operated for public warehousing, is situated at the pier's shore end.

Likewise engaging in foreign and domestic trade for seafood and general cargo is the Municipal Dock, Port of Bellingham (P.W.D. Ref. No. 13). It is an irregular-shaped wharf fronting a multiple-step bulkhead and has a total of 1,430 feet of berthing in depths of water ranging from 30 to 28 feet. Two transit sheds having a total of 57,600 square feet of floor space occupy part of the wharf, together with a grain elevator having a bulk storage capacity of 2,000 tons and a sacked grain storage capacity of 1,000 tons. The conveyor

system connecting the elevator and the wharf is temporarily out-of-service; grain for elevation or storage is received entirely by highway or rail carriers. Berthing is also available on both sides of a finger pier extending shoreward from the inner end of the wharf. It supports a fish unloading conveyor systen connecting with the seafood processing plant at that end of the wharf. Originally this terminal was an offshore marginal wharf reached only from the foot of Pine Street by a timber trestle approach which still serves as a rail and highway access. The area in rear of the wharf is being filled to provide an additional highway approach in line with Oak Street.

Located near the inner end of Whatcom Creek Waterway is the Central Avenue City Transient Dock (P.W.D. Ref. No. 16) and the Citizens Dock of Puget Sound Freight Lines (P.W.D. Ref. No. 17). Each is maintained for the receipt and

Squalicum Creek Waterway (left). Bellingham Shipyards Co. at inner end; Bellingham Cold Storage Co. and Columbia River Packers