The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-23
IT. LIEN PERFECTED.
Waterway Company Now Has 'iabh
on five Acres of Filled Tide Land

II
~ the Cling of a certificate In the
satInty auditors office yesterday after
noon. the Seattle and Lake Washington
waterway Company perfected It's hrst
lien on about i've acres OF reclaimed iand
in the portion Of tide fats bounded ny
Charles Commercial and Lane streets
and the buikhead line east OF Railroad
avenue The certificate was atiested by
". I. Forrest commissioner Of public
lands and was filed for record al the
request OF Edgar Ames. general manager
OF the waterway company The amount
OF the lien II s2l.s5i.02. OF which Sls.@o.f
is the cost Of making the Improvement
and s2,S5G.i3 the - per cent. on tire cost
other recitationa summarize the proVi-
sions OF the act % March ., tsa3. whereby
waterways for the uses Of navigation
may 10 excavated by private contract,
and the cost made Hen against tide and
shore lands also allowing l. per cent.
profit on the cost and interest at $ per
cent. the sums due being payable IN ten
annual installments.
Under a recent decision ia a test case
before the supreme court companies
making improvements like that Of exea-
waiting the South canal and filling the
tide fats ~ Elliott bay are permitted TO
perfect Hens on portions of the I'll
brought np to the grade, before the entire
contract is completed The ruling is
held 10 apply 10 the undertaking as
whole. 50 that in the case OF the water
way company. which, is working on four
contracts. II IS optional with the company
10 proceed with the excavation of water
ways and reclamation OF tide land as Il
pieaseg. gaining the right 10 perfect a lien
as soon as the fiji IN any portion OF the
entire tract has been brought up To the
required level Accordingly. the contract
between the waterway company and the
Bowers Dredging Company provides in
detail tor the completion Of the fill on
Subdivisions OF the various contracts he
fore the work Is carried TO another part
of the tract. The five-acre tract covered
by the certificate filed for record yester-
day is a subdivision of contract No. 3.
Excavation of the east waterway has
gone steadily forward, and on one side
Of the ao-foot stretch the Anaconda. has
penetrated e1 feet. the cut being LIS feet
wide The drsdger swings across the $50
feet In three arcs of a circle, and the
other two ares are now being finished.
20 that the total excavation will soon be
in $50 feet for the entire breadth OF the
waterway. In the waterway the depth
of excavation is being made twenty eight
feet. instead OF twenty six. the minimum
depth under the provisions Of the statute.
and In this way the company viii avoid
having 30 make additional excavation at
the completion of the entire contract OF
sediment which In the meantime will ac-
cumulate. The pipe line has been extend
ed under Jenkins stone yard, and the
sand Is now poured into the slab pile Inn
mediateiy north.
II Is thought the Python viii tonight
finish the actual cut In Tacoma harbor.
and after a little cleaning up about the
excavation viii 10 returned 10 this city.
Manager A. X. Horner. of the dredging
company, was IN the city yesterday, re
turning % Tacoma ia the afternoon.
General Manager Ames. of the water
way company. left Yesterday afternoon
for 81. Louis. where he viii remain
fortnight.