The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-16
TO DRAIN THE SQUAK
The SammamiSh River Is to Be
Strengthened.
THE DIsTRIcTwILL ISSUE BONDS
County Commissioners Issue IN Order
Authorizing tho Work-Survey
to Be Made 1T Once.

The county commissioners yesterday
passed an order authorizing the straight
ening of the channel of the Sammamisn
river from Lake Sammamish to Lake
Washington. The work is to be pushed,
and the engineers who are to make the
surveys will take the field at once.
The action of the commissioners is
In response to q petition of q number Of
property-owners along the Sammamish
river. which connects Lake Sammamish
and Lake Washington. The river has a
sluggish current and a winding course of
about sixteen miles in length through
swampy ground. The intention OF the
property-owners is to form drainage dis
trict. under the state drainage law and to
bond 1t to obtain funds to carry out their
objects. The main channel is to be
Strengthened and q strip of land mile IN
width lying along the channel is to be
ditched and drained, 80 as to be fitted for
cultivation. A small steamer can now go
up the river from Lake Washington to
Bethel, and with the Strengthening of the
channel and the drainage system it might
be navigable clear through to Lake SAM
mamlsh. The order as passed by the COM
missiOners read as follows:
In the matter Of the petition of Lauron Ingels
ct al, praying for the construction OF q certain
ditch or drain along the route between the ter
mini set forth in the following description, viz:
Commencing in deep water of Sammamish lake
at point which is three-Quarters of q mile
south of the section corner common to sections
IL and Is, township % north, range east. and
sections and Is, township % north, range s
east; thence in northwesterlys direction for .
distance of 200 feet TO point marking the mid
course OF the Sammamish river and at the out.
let of said lake; thence along the medal line of
said river through its length and course to Lake
Washington; thence in the waters OF Lake
Washington until such q depth of water 10
reached as will allow good and sufficient drain.
age OF all lands named in the petition, together
with all lands lying contiguous thereto and to
said Sammamish river.
The board having received a copy Of the petit
ton from the clerk OF said board, and having on
tine eth day of August, 1892, viewed the line OF
the proposed improvement, do report rs fol-
lows:
We find by actual view OF the said line that
said improvement is necessary and practicable
and will be conducive to the public health, con-
venience and welfare; that said line is the best
route, and the clerk Is hereby directed to enter
this order on the records of the proceedings OF
this board.
And the clerk OF this board il hereby further
directed to cause an entry to be made on the
Journal of the proceedings of said board, direct
ing +. +. Ames. the county surveyor, and a
competent engineer, with the assistance of NJ.
stixrud, as consulting engineer, to 90 upon the
line described in the petition and as described
in the above findings of the board, and survey
and level the same in the manner provided in
sections 8, 9 and 10 of the act governing the con-
struction of drains and bitches, and file said re-
port with the clerk or this board.