The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-05
TO DRAIN A VALLEY.
Two bitches TO Be Dug From
Kent to Klack River.
WILL RECLAIM VALUABLE LAND,
Work May he Bekaa This Fsll-Con-
tract Let for = Bridge 1t
Mccullough.

The engineer in charge OF the eontem-
plated improvements in the White river
valley, which consists of the digging of
two big bitches for draining purposes. has
reported to the county commissioners
that his outside labers on the survey will
be completed during this week, and that
in about two weeks more he will submit
his maps, calculations of cost and assess
ment lists to the County commissioners.
As to the feasibility Of draining the
swampy lands OF thas region, the engineer
states that there is sufficient natural fall
from the town of Kent TO Black river to
enable two bitches of comparatively small
sixes to carry of all tI,e rain water as soon
as it reaches the disches. Swamps will,
therefore, be unknoan in that neighbor-
hood after this Improvement has been
made, excepting in the lands near Black
river, which may be- flooded by the back
water from Lake Washington.
As the ditch lines ran for the greater
part in the old slougfss tho cost of the
whole work will be light enough to offer
no obstacle in carrying it out without de-
lay. The surveying has been somewhat
impeded by the deep crevasses to be trav-
ersef and the dense brpsh lining the banks
of the sloughs; yet the total cost of the
survey per mile Of ditch will only about
equal the average cost Of surveying county
roads, the only extra expense being that of
making out the assessments. which neces-
STATED the running Of levels across the
region to be drained, 80 az to establish the
assessment district for each Of the two
bitches and to ascertain the respective
areas of high and low lands in order to fix
their ahares in the assessment
If the distribution of the cost according
to the assessment mest with no delay
through any objection en the part of the
landowners the county commissioners in
tend to push the WORK ahead, so that it
may yet be commenced before the rainy
season sets in.
County Commissioners Gasch, Wooding
and Taylor held an all-lay session yester-
day, and transacted much important bust
ness.
The contract for the bridge over White
river at McCullough's ranch was let to
Westerman Il Yeaton for $3.50 for the
span and SITS per foot for the approaches.
The contractors are Local men, and have
already done satisfactory work for the
county. The span of che bridge, which
will be made of combination Of wood
and iron, will be 15O feet long. The bridge
will DO eighteen feet above low water
mark, and there will be about 400 feet of
approaches to be built. The contractors
will 20 to work at once a1id finish the job
with all possible speed.
A contract for the Improvement of the
Fremont road for two miles was let to
Flynn & Rockmark for $3,94620. The
road will be sixty feet vide and will be
planked for fifteen feet wherever neces.
sary. For mile of the distance no great
amount Of work will have to be done, but
in this matter also the board will push
the work with all due speed.
Confederation Of q petition for q bridge
over tho Green river at Whites ranch,
about seven miles east Of Slaughter, was
laid over until tho next meeting.
The name Of Milton precinct was
changed to Star Lake. owing to q change
in the name Of the postof1ice there.