The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-10-15
WORK In HARB0RS.
DREDGER FROM san FRANCISCO
For GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.
To Make Improvements at Olympia.
Expense of 95O.OOO-The Long
Tow Along the Coast-NIay BE
Left Here for Work ON the Lake
Washington Waterway.

'sSan Francisco Oct. l3.-The San Fran
cisco Bridge Company has a contract 20
reclaim a large tract of submerged land
on Puget sound and has decided TO send
Its largest dre9ger 10 the scene III WIZ
he the first TIME an attempt mas oeen iBaue
TO tow for any great distance AT sea u
craft Of that character, The tell derrick
VIII remain standing, but 10 make the
dredger more seaworthy buiwaTks VIII De
built around, the barge.
The above dispatch received by the POST
Inseliigencer Is misleading in the respect
that the San Francisco Bridge Company
has. no; secured a contract as stated j.
b. c. Lockwood. the Seattle manager OK
the San Francisco company. stated yestef-
day TO a Post-Inteliigencer reporter that
the contract referred 10 in the dispatch
was secured by the New York Dredging
Company, and that the work was the
government contracts let in this city Sep
TENDER 10 for harbor improvements al
Olympia, Everett and Ia Conner.
The interest that the San Francisco
Bridge Company has In the contracts Is
simply the use OF Its big dredger, which
has been leased to the New York concern.
The dredger Will be prepared for sea ny
taking off the house and psanking the
deck over solidly. Her trip north viii
commence during the present week, anu
the digging machine Is expected 10 arrive
on the Sound about October %, when she
shape for her work. After taking on her
supplies and having the decking removed
and house replaced, she Will be towed TO
Olympia where her first work UNDER the
contract will be done.
This work will be the finishing OF the
six-foo, basin and channel leading from
deep water to the Olympia wharves, the
two previous government contracts having
left the work uncompleted-
10 @ha A~a Iccr MT 10 taken
TO one of the other points covered by the
contract. The work that has been done at
Everett under the appropriation FOR river
and harbor improvements has been comm
cd TO a limited amount of p!iing, but the
present and contemplated work will create
A deep channel for the heaviest kind OF sea
traffic up 70 the city wharves.
The la Conner part OF the contract is
tho completion of work commenced IN
der previous contracts, and has been gem
erasly known as the work on Swinomish
slough The work that the dredger VIII do
will compete the channel between the
"Hole-in-the-WaIi." at deep water and La
Conner. II Is generally regarded by mari
ners az a matter Of great Importance.
Mr.. Lockwood. who furnished the insor-
nation relative TO the contracts. said that
while the present work ut Olympia will
complete the six-soot channel, II Is the In
tention OF the government 70 make the
channel. at some time. one OF twelve feet
at low tide. The twenty-five feet OF tide
now covering the Olympia mud fats at
high water viii make the channel. "a I'm
r1ediately projected, twenty-eigiIt feet in
depth. but II is desirable 70 make Il poesi-
bic For deep draught vessels TO dock with
out having to wal. several hours for the
Tong tide.
TIE area~er that is being sent up by the
San Francisco Bridge Company IS IN.
same size and has the same rating az the
Ansconda. now at work aflsrg in the tide
lands a. the head Of Elliott bay. Her stay
on the Sound, after the completion of the
contracts In which she is engaged, VIII de-
PEND upon the amount Of work found for
her. She VIII be available fer work on
the north canal. whom that lrrlrc-tant niece
OF engineering Is commenced and the COM
panies that are interested in her VIII take
her presence in Northern waters into CON-
sideration when bidding upon the work.
Regarding the matter Of .he long tow
Mr. Lockwood denies the truth 81 ne
statement that II - a greater one than has
been attempted before. and ci.rs the tow
or the Bowers Dredging COMPANY when
ts'e Anaconda. now here was hrourht from,
san DIEGO. Even longer sows have been
made on the Atlantic coast. and Mr.. Lock-
wood mentioned the case ~ tia New York
Dredging Cornary which sent arasve-
from - Augustine. Fla. 70 Galveston.
Tex.
The coming Of he new rrsrAs-. w-f,l y.
interesting. 'nssu1uch as Il win mean
sharper competition when some Of enc
heavy work projected IN the neiwhborhoo.s
~ THIS city IL brouxh: M for figures The
present contracts involve an ~roerSttur~
or something Nka So no