The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-22
THE SAND SUCKERS.
New Ground Being Rapidly
Made by the Dredgers.
THROUGH THE RAILWAY TREsTLE
One OF the Finest snip Busssfnz Plants
In the Coantry at Moran's-Ready
Now for Material.

When Manager A L. H0r@ser promised
the Seattle Terminal railway people last
Sunday that he would cut through the line
OF their road with the Anaconda, they were
somewhat incredulous; nevertheless ne has
kept hts word and the dredger finished her
cut in the twenty-foot bank under the
trestle yesterday evening. She is now
south OF the trestle, and IN day or two she
VIII be joined by the Python, the latter
having been Unexpectedly delayed in the
repairs 10 her machinery
Few people seem TO know that for the last
few days the Anaconda has been emptying
her pipe line at an entirely new point
This point is out on the line Of the Seattle
Terminal. just west of the old mill, l.5eo
feet east OF the new waterway The place
at which the lines were depositing last
week near the intersection OF Second av-
enue south and Charles street was visited
All day yesterday by people who were sur
prised 10 find both the pipe lines standing
idle. and they would look first at the smoke
pouring from the Anaconda's stack and
then at the empty pipe line, and wonder
what was the matter. They did not know
that short temporary line has been laid
from the Anaconda, and that she mas al
ready poured vast volume Of sand on that
section of the MI known as contract No
/" one observer actually spied this dark
mass, lying far out in the bay, but, far
from suspecting what il was, he simply
said: Il wonder where that sawdust came
from"
An unfortunate boatman who had built
a 'gridiron" directly in the way OF the new
I'll has been harshly convinced of the
rapid rate at which the dredger does its
work. Last Saturday he was in the fail
enjoyment of his premises; yesterday only
one tiny end Of the gridiron peeped from
beneath the mound of sand, like some half
hidden ruin at Pompei
Meanwhile. a new pipe line is being laid
for the Anaconda, and in building it Man
aeer Homer is ayailing himself of the old
billing and trestle south Of the West Seat
tie Terminal road. The work is making
fair Roadway. although il has been much
delayed for the last four days on account
of the wind. The swell from the bay tossed
the scows bearing the pipe joints to sucn
an extent that the joints could not be hoist
ed into place. This new line is entirely
south Of the railway trestle. the mouth of
Il being as already indicated, near Charles
street. Close by il is the mouth of the PY-
thon's line, the dredger end of which is
north OF the trestle.
The Anaconda just now is cutting through
a pretty heavy bank. When she is cutting
only a few feet she moves along az the
rate of 400 feet day, bat when she has 10
handle from twenty to thirty feet, as she
has been doing lately, her progress is much
slower.
one never-ending source Of delight TO the
crowds that haunt the wharves - watch
the work of the dredgers consists in walk
ing about on the new-made ground. as If
10 make sure that it is neither quicksand
nor i mirage. Grown men will walk aim
lessly about on the sand for hours at a
time ploughing into it with the toes OF their
boots, as boys would sport on sandy
beach. Two rustic-looking strangers were
engaged in this harmless diversion yester-
day. when reporter hurrying by over
head on the trestle heard one of them say
banteringly: EFF you an me he'd ben walk
in here a month ago, we'd er had ter have
on rubber boots
"Yas," replied his companion, 'en' them
boots would or had ter be jes eighteen feet
frum the toe TO the strop.'
After all, while the acres of the fill al
ready up TO grade are giving proof Of the
work done by the dredgers, the greatest
part of the fll is TO come from the hill.
When the cut in the hill begins, just south
Of the brewery. the hydraulic process viii
he used TO wash the dirt down 70 the tide
flats. Manager Horner stated yesterday
that the exact method 10 be used in that
portion of the work had not been de-
cided on.