Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-08

and lot owners. The Westside Mill
Co. secured 10000 yards, and have
filled in the site of the lumber yard;
Mr.. Horr 5000 yards, which have
filled in an area of l20 by $50 feet, on
the south side OF Third street. The
city has filled in Third street to the
dock, and the residents on the north
side are securing the remainder OF the
earth TO be removed. The deposit re-
moved has been, first layer OF mud,
then sand, and afterwards a bank OF
shells. The excavation has been made
on contr&c. OF the General Govern
ment with the Bowers Dredging Co.,
Tacoma, who own all the rights Of the
patentee for oregon and Washington.
They purchased this privilege for the
sum OF SiJ 900 from Mr.. Bowers; but
the inventor has not disposed Of his
rights elsewhere and realizes a royalty
o one per cent. a yard on all other earth
removed by his appliances. The gov
eminent is represented in this tran
saction by Capt. Symonds, of the L. 5,
Engineers.
The capacity OF the Anaconda is
1000 cubic yards per day, but she has
il record of I5j, 900 yards in 4Sl work
ing hours, which is about 1850 cubic
yards per day. This result was
achieved at Tacoma, in March, 1891
Before coming here she worked -
months continually at South Bend,
Pacific county, where she covered %
acres of land with tive-ioot covering
from Willipa harbor. This improve
ment cost about $780, 00 and was met
by the combined efforts of the Willapa
Harbor Improvement Co., the North
ern Pacific Railroad Co. and the city
Of Willapa. The Anaconda has about
weeks work more here, when she
will be towed to La Conner, to perform
Il Government contract, OF removing
$1,000 yards, which will take about
three weeks TO accomplish.
Seven other dredgers like the Ana
conda have been built. but two were
destroyed by the flood at Kansas City
three years ago. One little larger
than this, has been employed the
past year on filling up the Union de
pot grounds, at Portland, Oregon. Two
are in Chicago, one at Duluth and one
at Washington. A smaller machine
is employed in the rivers of Florida, tc
pump up the sediment of the river:
for use as fertilizer
Capt. Chas. Bentzin, from whom We
obtain the data for this article, is wei
pleased with the progress of the worl
here. He favors the suggestion, wher
Congress makes another appropriation
of using the earth to fill in Fourtl
street, and to make it of a sufficient
strength by width and manner of con
slruction to Use it as a dam, and 10y
use OF a lock, to establish fresh wate
basin for shipping. The fill will b'
the main cost, and that will be pro
vided for by appropriation, and ther,
is plenty OF rock near at hand for con
struction OF the lock. The captain
would feel delighted to resume opera
tons in our harbor on another con
tract. He has been with the Ana
conda since built. He came up OF
the dredger in 1889, under tow of tn,
Vigilant, and was out in one of tn,
most fearful of storms. The captain
OF the steamer declared afterwards
that had it not been for the men OF
the dredger he would have cut loos,
and abandoned her to her fate. Sh,
was towed far asteln by SO fathoms o
anchor chain, constituting a bride,
100 fathoms Of inch steel cable an,
100 fathoms 5.inch hawser, maxim,
the tow about quarter of mile dis
tant from her tug. The waves ran sc
high that it was only at intervals tina
either craft was in sight of the other
While between the Columbia river an,
Cape Flattery they rescued l3 surviv
ors of the steamer Alaska, who ha,
been in the water 80 hours.