The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-01-12
SEA WALL PLANS
ARE NOW DRAWN
The Work Can Be Easily and Cbeaply
Done From Home Material.
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE
Concerns Every Citizen, Great and
Small Immediate Action Should BE
Taken IN the Matter

Al last tangible steps have been TAX
on TO forward the greatest Improvement
yet undertaken by the city Of Astoria,
and one which win bring Immediate
profit and beneAt % all Glasses OF cit
lzens
Tho details ~ the plan for the pro-
posed crib. or bulkhcad. or seawaii. for
the entire city water front. published
below. should be read and carefully
studied by every business man IN the
community. a blue print plan and and
specifications were drawn by one of
the most noted government engineers
and thoroughly cover all of the re-
duiremenis OF the city for a seawall.
4 large properly owner who was
shown the drawings yesterday said
that he had never seen better or more
economical plan. While at the frst
blush II might seem 90 be too great an
undertaking at present, yet now IL the
time to get the bill through the iegisla-
tur. and commence operations. Labor
In cheap, the work must be done some
time, II II Is ever expected TO find n
permanent solution Of the difficulties
entailed by the sliding hills, and the
reclaimed land at the foot OF the hills
along the water front Will furnish
room for city OF $4,000 people and
alone repay the cost Of the work. While
the work Is in progress an army OF men
will be employed whose wages Will be
disbursed for their living In the city,
any many OF them VIII become rest
dents and be engaged In other work
10 be commenced In the near future.
The present expensive system OF down
town streets. built on piles. viii be done
away with when the seawall Is built
and the entire business front Of the
city be placed on solid foundation,
like other great seaports. such as Liv-
erpool, London, etc With seawIl
II at once becomes possible TO grade
down our high hills by the cheap hy-
draulIc method and thus In few
years retolutionize the city and main
tain the value Of It's property,
Every citizen, big and little. high and
low. Is interested IN this project OF
projects and should make II his or her
business to see that the question is
put in proper shape at once for the
pas sage OF the necessary legislative act
TO make the scheme reality. The fol-
lowing are the details OF the work. as
figured by an eminent engineer:
The cribs are constructed OF ordinary
logs or piling, in courses, and the
spaces filled with rubble work The
sub-structure is made In sections OF
about 100 to l2O feet long. built directly
In the water and foated or towed TO
place and there sunk to the bottom by
rock thrown into the buoys provided
with flooring. The superstructure Is
then put on after the cribs are in place,
connecting the work in a substantial
manner.
Dredging may BE- necessary. possibly.
in few places, but not to any extent.
BY careful sounding OF the places the
cribs are to occupy the bottom courses
OF the cribs can be stopped to conform
to the bottom Of the beach, thus doing
away with dredging.
An average cross-section for a depth
OF about thirteen feet below low water
is shown, and extends to the level Of
about thirty feet above low water, the
average height OF the docks. and con-
necton may then easily be made for
any wharf or pier construction which
may be made after the bulkhead is
built.
The face Of the bulkhead will be built
about on line parallel with the estab-
lished bulkhead lines, allowance for
curvature being made by the offset at
the end OF each crib, The front OF the
bulkhead will have a batter of about
three inches TO the foot, and Its rear
will be vertical. At about every 100 to
l2O feet 1t win have an anchor crib on
its rear, twenty-four feet wide and fif-
teen feet deep, to the height OF about
low water.
The first bottom course of the crib
viii consist Of round logs, placed longi-
tudinally OF the crib in four rows, one
at the front and one at the rear and
the other two spaced equally between
them all with proper break Of joints,
Upon these rows of logs round log ties
will be placed transversely of the crib
running from front to rear in single
lengths, spaced vertically over each
other, about eight feet centers longitu-
dlnally, and properly notched down
upon the lower logs. From these tie
logs the crib will be similarly built up
of alternate longitudinal and transverse
rows of logs. with the batter given.
Below low water the logs in the crib
may be of either fir or hemlock and
above low water should be Of fir, not
less than fourteen inches at the small
end. Each longitudinal and each tie
log will be bolted to the log they bear
with one inch drift bolts. On the top
of the second full course of longitudinal
logs from the bottom OF the crib. and
anchor crib a close flooring will be
laid transversely of logs not less than