The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-02
RE- LAUNCHED TO-DAY.
Dredger Anaconda Ready to
Go Of the Ways.
PILES DRIVEN FOR eutKhGAp.
ooufA Canal ea1vsys ~ ConsRooe NO.
rhrss-Ths sounAngs- Python
Coming Nexs Week.

Rxa,ry On TIE big dredger AnacqpdA
WHICH II to begin excavation WORK 3oe The
.outh canal, have been nearly ceuSlDsed.
and this evening at nigh ida between
and Q O'clock, the hugo. unsainly vesea WIZ
bs launched yesterday the workmen At
sforan's foundry wsrs putting on the I'm
tshing touches. The outside was being
nsinted q whitish-gray. the boilers were
being set IN order. and the immense spu6
rack a, the stern was being made ready
for active operations
After being launched the Anaconda win
receive considerable more attention - to
minor details, and then she will be Ia first
class trim 20 pump up sand from tbs fats.
The dredger viii be ehip-shape several
days before the pipe line win have been
laid
A. L. Eorner, manager OF the Bowers
Dredging Company. which has the con-
tract for filing in the Cats and excavating
for the canal. was keeping close eye on
proceedings yesterday. He says that the
company will tomorrow start 20 drive piles
for the pipe line. and that the pipe will Ar
rive before many days. After the work
has progressed and a bank has been raised
above the water, the pipe will be laid along
that; but until then Q line Of piles VIII be
q necessity.
Thu heaviest piece OF machinery yet 70
pump. which will weigh about fifteen tona
1t will arrive from Portland Monday or
Tuesday OF next week. In form II looks
much like large turbine set upright, and
IL devours sand as an ordinary pump takes
in water. The pumps soon yield 10 the
continued friction OF sand and water, and
the one used on the Swinomish. now lying
on a dock near the foundry, although OF
solid iron two inches thick. is honey
h1 49, -.
adamantine teredoes and scored as II by
glacial action. The sands of the Swino-
nish are coarse and contain a great deal
OF quartz and in five weeks the grind OF
the little particles had told so badly on
the pump that ii was cased up. The sands
of Elliott bay contain comparatively little
silica, and it Is thought the pumps will
last much longer here than on the Swino-
mish.
After the Anaconda Is In trim she Will
take a position TO the southwest OF Moran
Bros, near the site of an old dock belong
ing 10 the Puget Sound & Alaska Steam
ship Company. The location is fairly on
the edge of the east waterway. The big
dredger will from that point slowly work
along the line of the waterway toward the
Duwamish.
Before the Anaconda has been busy very
long the Python. the dredger now being
boxed up at Astoria, will be here TO assist
in operations. The Python is half again
as large as the Anaconda. II is thought
she will cross the Columbia bar July S, as
settled weather is expected at that time
and Immediately on her arrival she will
be put on the dry dock for thorough
overhauling.
Although neither of the dredgers IS yet
active, a great deal of work has been done
on the flats. Day before yesterday the
boom of 500 piles arrived from Hood canal.
and yesterday Howard & Eagan began
driving piles on the bulkhead line begin
mig Just south OF Jennings stone yard A
triple row OF piles was started, and before
dark last evning had been extended quite
distance to the south. When the fill be-
gins q great quantity of fir and cedar
brush will be needed and II will be OBJ
tanned by the waterway company as fast
as required
For some time past Engineer Savage OF
the waterway company, mas been taking
soundings OF the parts of the bay to be
filed. In order to find out the exact IN
to be required. and he has up 10 date gone
over about 100 acres. The soundings are
taken evry ten feet, and now the planking
over a portion OF the flats contains hun
dreds Of augur holes where measurements
have been made. Mr.. Savage Ia accom-
panied by W. y. Chase, who has been APP
pointed by the commissioner OF public
lands 10 verify the soundings. The ques-
ton OF the soundings IS important, as on
1t depends the amount OF money 10 be as
sessed by the waterway company against
the reclaimed lands.
While this has been going on the cross
sectioning work OF the surveying party
under Deputy County Surveyor A G. Mo-
sier has been nearing completion, and IL
is thought that surveying on contract No.
viii be finished up toward the end OF this
week. The tide lands bordering on Com
mercial street south OF the bunkers are
now divided up into twenty-foot squares.
Tho line Of the east waterway and OF the
hulkhead ia marked out by numerous red
flags. Much OF the surveying has been ex-
treTnely unpleasant and difficult. particu-
iarly of the fats under the buildings and
planking Just south OF the bunkers. Mr..
aosier says that under the roadway there
are hundreds of logs piled upon each other
in a confusing mass. and they are as slick
a. a CREASED pole. The surveyors wore
shoes with heavy nails in the soles. ana
got along in the wilderness OF logs as best
they could. Operations have been retard-
ed 10 some extent by the tides. and the
last OF the work will be done during low
water at the end OF this week. The sur
veyors viii then be prepared 10 take up
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