The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-31

Tue ohhy CaPactty " thS Aumost uuis
b - follows:
Fed
otimson hiii Company. ....................i1 .cco
sssisis Cedar Lumber Company ........... 10000
Ninser Lumber Company .....-........... $500
Making daily capacity $4,000
sThsse mills employ tho year round on
IN average about 800 men; they have
shipped in round numbers during the past
rear over 5000, 600 shingles and 81, 600 900
feet OF lumber. by rail and water, to oil
parts Of the United States and foreign
countries.
"There are shipped annually into said
city by rail not less than 1000 cars of logs
per year, and there are towed into Salmon
bar about twice that number; most of tho
logs that are shipped in here by rail are
dumped into salmon bay and towcd to
other mills on Puget sound.
"0f the ship yards in said city and along
the bay four are nov in active operation;
In McClee's yard q new schooner Is being
butt. Messrs. Bangs h SON are building
schooner and steamboat. Mr.. Sorepson IL
baiiding schooner and at t. W. Lakes
yard a new steamboat Is being built and q
schooner and steamboat are hauled out for
repairs. During the last two months two
schooners and FIVE steamboats, have been
hauled out on Lakes ways for repairs.
"a list of the retail business houses in
the city Of Ballard 10 hereto annexed for
fstsrsnce:
.'salmon bay is an arm of Puget sound,
shout three miles long and from one
quarter tn one and one-haif miles wide,
sosnpietey laud-locked and sheltered at
al times. so that the strongest winds
scarcely produce ripple on It's surface. it
u asrTow ~ It's mouth, the channel Is
winding and the water very shallow; at
high tide il IN only fourteen feet deep. and
ID al
crA's or any purpose; all the shipping
must be done NJ high tide. and even then
u Is hazardous and dangerous; during the
last two months two vessels that had been
repaired nj the shipyards IN Ballard ran
aground at the mouth OF the bay and were
Efessly damaged; furthermore. ships aud
vessels that are chartered 10 load lnm-
a~s AZ the mills in Ballard cannot
eater salmon bay and load at the mills,
eol must anchor in Puget sound distance
Ct &o or three miles from the mills; the
lumber must be loaded on scows, trans
ported 10 the vessel and reloaded AT great
cost and expense: not less than twenty
Vessels we're loaded in this manner from
the tnllls In Ballard during the past year.
and II can be readily aseertsined that the
mals here cannot under present circum-
stances compete With the mills ia British
tosumbss aud other Sound ports where
Ms inaesF 10 shipped directly into the
.vsssel.
ssalmon bay at low tide 10 mostly tide
nai the bottom IS composed chiefly of soft
mud without any rocks; IL could DO
afedeed and improved ~ she expenditure
Aa small sum Of money and made the
Hsst perfect haEhor in the world, and the
hnes' harbor on Puget sound: IL could he
Msse shipping point that could not be
escrited anys here; with tao transcon;s-
hsata railways soag its shores, direct se-
a hH 4xk at ha q
RAJ
III an appropriation he made for the
PaFpese ot dredging Salmon bay there il
ne reason why The mills ~ Ballard should
ao' double or treble their capacity and
.naaA output aud the ship yards work
80 year ronnd and other improvements
% made: u would - the most desirable
Ieiat on the Sound for the location OF
sSwnouses. elevators. coal hunkcrs, etc,
80 acre the vessels could lie in perfect
sessy even in hurricane.
:, hereiorc, your fnenfoTialssts pray
49, reur honorable bodies appropriate
zee saEn az sla1 coo for the purpose Of
ssagas and otherwise improving Samoa
Ia Mag eounsy, state OF W Arlington.
1sSt he same Re expended a. sueh
a@ss ana N such manner SIS your honor
- e9lies NAV deem best. and urge that
s'lhoeaiAis steps he tsken for that purpose.
tssset hv ths council of the civ OF
~is'a The 23.n dave December. ISSa
a f. PRETTY. Mayor,
''WIAGfAs NJ. CUEriss,
a. LsaRNEr.
"A. McuosALr,
~ ". BAxsR
az. e safKfLfFr,
Members OF Council"
re following Is = statement OF the
,nsss houses. societies. churches, etc,
sss eisy Of Ballard. Eleven groceries,
asAse stores. shoe stores. uea; mar
go aFos stores. . general stores,
sIssss, bakeries. furniture store,
"&a furnishing seoss stsre, dry Soeds