The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-11
PILES FOR THECANAL.
The Bulkhead Has Crossed
Charles Street.
LONG STRING FOR PIPE LINE.
Bids for Poles and Brush Fascines to
Be Opened Tomorrow-The Big
Python Coming.

contract No. has progressed. 10 point
just beyond Charles street, about 10
yards from the beginning. and il is now
going southwark AT the rate of about
thirty piles a day. At Charles street -
strikes into the old piling in the Union
Pacific right-of-way. and cuts along its
eastern edge. The pile-driver at present
is at the northwest corner of the Variety
Iron Works. near the Moran foundry.
While the above work has been going
on another pile-driver has been busy on
a line Of single piling tending toward the
southwest from the foundry. and up TO
yesterday afternoon il had progressed
several hundred feet. This line is to ac-
commodafe the pipe for the dredger until
the filied-in land rises out Of water.
Specifications for poles and brush have
been prepared by Engineer J. r. Savage,
and July u the Bowers Dredging Conn
pany will open bids for furnishing those
materials. The poles are 70 be used in
the bulkheads, and are required to he of
live newly felled red or yellow fir or
cedar. and straight and sound, with knots
and branches trimmed smooth and ends
sawed square. AS nearly as possible the
diameters shall be the same at each end.
and shall not he more than nine nor less
than six inches measured inside the bark
The poles for stringers should Sc about
nine inches in diameter and from fifteen
20 twenty-five feet In length. and there
viii be required about 175 OF such poles
with total length of about $500 feet.
The poles for "tie-backs" are divided by
Mr.. Savage into two classes: Those with
the brushy end of the tree left on, and
those without Sich end and with the ends
sawed square. Those with the brushy ends
are to be from forty-two to forty-six feet
in length. with all knots and branches
trimmed smooth at the small end, which
for twelve fifteen feet shall be left in
its natural state so as TO imbed itself more
firmly in the sand. The company Will
need ls5 such poles, with diameters not ex-
ceeding nine inches and with a total
length of about loo feet The "tie- backs
without brushy ends are required to be
from six to nine inches in diameter. and
OF lengths approximating 20. % and q
feet There viii be needed of such poles
about $50. with a total length OF 500 feet.
The amount of brush to be furnished is
approximately 1900 cords and 1t Is TO be
delivered on scows alongside the bulkhead
line or as near thereto as possible. The
fascines must be of newly cut and live fir
or cedar. with butts all one way the butt
diameter not to exceed 31s inches. The
fascines shall be nine to twelve inches in
diameter. and In lengths OF about IL. Il,
is, Is %. % and "a feet equally. and each
fascine shall be well choked. firm and
compact anu pOuDl at intervals not great
err than six feet with two-thread bailing
rope, marine, annealed iron wire or a
satisfactory substitute. The measure
ment OF the brush Is 10 be made on the
scows at the work. and the brush is to be
piled all one way as compactly as posi-
bic. Ii is to be paid for by cords of rs
cubic feet, according to measurements of
the engineer In charge. who will make,
when necessary. proper deductions on ac-
n sNrn Inn tvrrr 11oI
of scows.
The specifications both for poles and
brush require that at the end of each
month the contractor receive 30 per cent
OF the amount due him for materials fur
nished. Ten per cent. Will be reserved I'M
I'll the completion OF the contract. The
dredging company viii require a suitable
bond In each case
II Is probable that the enormous dredger
Python. now at Astoria, will be in Seattle
harbor within the present week. She IS
now all ready for the voyage. and with the
continuance OF good weather. ought to
make an easy run OF the 1S0 miles from
I Hancock 10 Flattery. \. L. Horner. man
sger or the dredging company. has left
| for the Columbia. and IL Is thought that the
| Python may get out TO sea al the first fav-
| orable opportunity. In addition TO the
| Python. there will be trail" in the
| shape of scow loaded with needed ma
terlal and II the southwest swell sets in
! too heavy the second tow will be cut
| adrift. After the arrival OF the Python she
| will at once go into the Moran dry dock
| for thorough repairs.
The Anaconda Is getting into first-class
! shape. The big pump has arrived from
! Portland. and yesterday was being put in
| place. and at the same time there were
| being unloaded several car loads of pine
| The dredger ia moored off to the north
| of the foundry, and from all appearances
| Will be In ship shape. together with the
| pontoons. before many days have passed.
| The offices Of the waterway company
/ presented a scene yesterday Of somewhat
| more activity than usual. Vice Presiden,
| Heinrich Is preparing 10 move into one
| Of the rooms now occupied ny Dore a
| Cross. who will today go to the sixth floor
| OF the Bailey building. while the other
! room will he given over to the stenog-
| raphers OF the company.
| The surveying work. under Mr.. Gard
| nef Viii he closed on contract No. 3 Tho
| latter part OF this week Yesterday Mr.
| Mosler finished locating the meander lines
| and most OF the field work For several
| DAYS past force Of Italians has been
| employed under the roadways and wharves
! in the vicinity Of the Hall & Paulson and
/ Stetson & Post mill companies. and the
| Oregon Improvement property - deter
/ mine the depth Of the slabs accumulated
/ during the past many years. The great
| est depth so far has been found to he
| twelve feet