The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-16

never used as such. The white building
next further south Is the same one that
appears in the cut as Schmieg a. Browns
brewery, and stood on the present site OF
the Union block on First avenue, near
Columbia. The two pictures give a good
idea of how the street looked before and
after grading.
Plummer built a wharf out to deep wa
ter AT the foot of Main street Yesler one
On Yesler way and Butler one near Madi-
son. Plummer's and Buffers never
did business enough TO pay for the plank
ing on them, much less the piles and
stringers, as the teredo soon honey
combed the piles and the structures went
down with a crash; Yesler used the slabs
from the sawmill to MI under his wharf.
and continued the work for twenty years
or more, and In that way kept II safe for
travel and use. In fact. Yeslers mill
played an important part In all the early
years of the town, Its lumber brought
In most of the money In circulation. II
gave work to a good many loggers and
employees i'm the mill. Save few of the
first Lighthouses all the early business
houses and dwellings were built OF its
lumber. Its slabs and sawdust went to
make its first streets passahle Early In
the COS small gristmill was built BY It's
side, which used the steam when the
saws were not running, and turned out
small amount OF -four and feed.
Abundance OF good water for the needs
OF the place was had for many years
from springs on the hillsides and from
beautiful rivulets that flowed into the
bay. large ravine had It's head near the
present site Of the Sixth street school
house. down which a pretty brook flowed
and emptied into the tide marsh near
the Catholic church. on Third avenue
south and Washington. Just above Yesler
NREler made n -..f~
put Ia a line OF v-shaped troughs elevated
on poles, leading down TO his sawmiil
and wharf to carry the water The In
dian population was fond OF bathing In
the cold water. and before this had nee
essarily gone % the bay for that pur-
pose. but this new water supply thereafter
had IFS share of vls!tants. One cold win
ter morning the writer started out to-
ward Lake Washington In hopes of Sc
curing some pheasants or a deer and as
he passed the reservoir three cookbook
ing klootchmen We're partially Immersed
IN It's waters. CHEEKY tklahowyah" was
interchauged. the hunter went ND the
road and the batbers continued their an
lutions. As the water was used to feed
the boilers IN the mill and occasionally
By steamboats, or ships no thought was
entertained Of putting a fence around tho
reservoir.
For several years Il was not an un-
usual sight after severe WtRdstnrm to
sec Ycsler aud Indians John aud Charley
laeoriously patting Gp the trou=hs.
Fiummer supplied his dock az the foot
81 Main Street with water by the same
kind ~ troughs. \ fine spring iust
aHoye the present gas holders furnished
an abundant flow. but not high enough
&c go over the hlgher ground between
she tide marsh ana the bav This iIfa-
Guilty was overcome ay the use of A
hydraulic ram that forced a par- of the
water high enough 10 90 over the knoll
and SO down Go she dock
These earlier artificial water supplies
We're succeeded hy lines OF wooden pipe
from a wooden tank ON James street
and Fifth avenue aud another from a
beautiful spring ON the hillside east or the
cid university These. in turn We're FOL
lowed by systems pat In by Denny a Nc
Coombs. ay the Spring Pin Water Com
pauy. by Charles Coppin, by the Union
water Company and many other small
firms in the outlying districts. The Spring
HIN Company was the first Ia pump wa
ter from Lake Washington into large
reservoir, and the Union Water Company
soon followed with a pumping plant on
Lake Union. Coppin dug a deep well and
erected a water tower, and IT one tina