The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-19
MAP OF THE HARBOR.
The Work Nearly Ready for the
Land Commission.
MEASURED DOWN TO A NICELY.
1sgtnsss ssixrsa's work Pat On Paper
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The map OF the harhcrs Of Seattle and
bsl4aru. which n Stixrnd has been pre-
parsng tor the state land com mission. will
oe ready for submission TO that body in
about week. and u viii thea remain to
LAY ont the harbor lines on il and Gle IL IS
the osaeiai map % the two haroors. That
VIII constitute the location Of the harbes
lines. and the commission can next pro-
csea 10 the survey. appraascnsnt and ssle
OF the tide lands not included within the
Limits Of the harbor strip and waterways.
Ar. stixrud has made two maps. one of
Seattle and the other OF Ballard harbor,
the two overlapping. and . third shows
the triangHiasion. gives the information In
tanuiaied form and shows the mon umen.s
oy which he has marked the stations In
MS work These monuments are pieces of
iron pipe driven deep into the ground and.
where there seemed 10 be any danger Of
their being dialodged. tied securely to trees
and stumps on the SHORE. They form
complese basis for the accurate location of
any point on the harbor. For the first
time on any such survey corrections we're
made IN the calculations for variations in
temperature, which naturally affect the
length OF the chain and the chain itself
was tested by the government standards.
The result 10 that the calculations check
up within seven-tenths of foot in q total
distance OF about eleven miles, while diff
fsrences Of several feet are not infrequsnt
on such work.
The map shows the profile Of the shore
from Duwamish head around the edge of
the tide fats, the city water front, Smiths
cove. West point, Salmon bay and on to
Me2SnW Mt
the northern city limits of Ballard. Ii
shows the high water mark in a deep blue
line. the low water mark in dotted line
and each increase Of ten feet in depth of
water up to seventy feet by another
broken line. The hign water line Is not
marked along the wafer front from Jack
sou street to about Pike. as filing has
formed an artificial line, aud the original
line Of high water can only be ascertained
BY the testimony OF old settlers. Each
station Is clearly marked and the build
ings on the shore are shown in black, salt
marshes and swamps shaded, and the
famous Smiths cove sand spit dotted.
Beginning ut Duwamish head the shore
along West Seattle Is shown to DO very
steep, then the low water line runs to the
north OF the terminal railway trestle,
the head Of the bay between it and the
high water line. The dividing line be-
tween the tide land and deep water is
strongly marked, the bank breaking off
abruptly and the depth of the water in
creasing to seventy feet in . width of
about 800 feet. The slope of the bed of the
harbor is pretty uniform along the
water front from Jackson street
to University street. though the
water increases in shallo wness about
Yesler avenue. From University to Mer-
Ger the slope Is more abrupt, about seventy
feet In 600. Further along the North Se-
attic front it shoals of towards Smiths
cove, where the stretch OF tide land
reaches far in towards salmon bay and
ends In salt marsh. The slope north of
the cove il more gradual than IL In on the
south. and within mile OF West point it
reaches depth of seventy feet In 400 or
500. Just north of the point, which is a
long stretch Of tide land running on. into
the water, part of 1t being diked and cuiti-
waited, the bed drops off suddenly to .
depth of seventy feet In about 200. Then
1t shoals out again across the mouth Of
Salmon bay. falling only ten feet in about
!, 500. and then grows sleeper again and
drops off sixty feet in $50. Salmon BAY
tself at low water Is only narrow, shall
low channel, with only pool in the mid
die. where there 10 ten feet of water, and it
ends at Its head in salt marsh. Along
Shilshole bay. north as far as Meadow
point, which 10 similar in formation to
West point. the slope Is slight, but from
the point to the mile boundary north of
Ballard, which 10 the iimi. of the harbor
line, IL Is somewhat more abrupt and is
uniform. The variations in height of the
ground above low water are shown by fig
ures, so that clear idea of the contour of
the bed can be formed