The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-09
Extension of Time Also Granted
to Fill in Tide Lands.
WORK TO BEGIN IN 90 DAYS.
Bi9 Undertaking. of Seattle and Lake
Washington Waterway Company
to BE Resume d-Morris q White
head, BANKERS, Advance $1,000
900 ON state Certificates to
Finance the Great Undertaking.

The Post-IntellIgencer Is informed by
President Semple. of the Seattle & Lake
washington Waterway Company, that
his company has concluded a contract
with Morris e. Whitehead. bankers, of
Philadelphia, Denver and Portland for
the sale of 10000 of the state certli-
Gates issued under the contracts of the
Seattle &c Lake Washington Waterway
Company for filing tide lands and exca-
waiting waterways in front of the city
of Seattle
The contracts with Messrs Morris &
Whitehead were signed on the 2lst of
February last, but were made to de-
pend upon the rendition OF a favorable
opinion from Judge John F. Dillon the
great corporation lawyer of New York.
This opinion was received at Portland
last week. and Mr.. ]. Fl. Morris. with
his attorney, Hon. r. E. Moody, imme-
diately came TO Seattle to close UP the
deal.
President Semple went to Olympia on
Saturday TO present a petition to Rob-
ert Bridges, commissioner of public
lands, for extension of time on the
waterways contracts. The petition was
favorably considered on Monday. and
the time extended until October. 1904.
1t Is the intention of the Seattle e.
Lake Washington Waterway Company
TO resume operations soon as a plant
can be gotten ready. which will be with
en- extension Of eight years but the
commissioners would only grant the ex-
tension for four years, and made the
imperative condition that work should be
resumed in ninety days
Details of New Fiji.
The new NIL Will be continued from the
southern limit OF tho existing fll. and
the Centennial MIN island will be con-
nected with the high land, thence 1t will
continue southwesterly. along the inner
harbor line to the drawbridge OF
the Terminal Railway Company,
thence south, along the east
margin of the East waterway. This
will make the frontage of the east wa
terway available for wharves, and will
create an interior settling basin which
Will be Allied by materai from the hill
section.
The waterway company expects that.
by t the l St. of of pecembeS t. win be ex-
tion OF It's plans.
Tho following Information, mainly taken
from the report of President Semple to the
% % q Rte1e lands te a ina prn't "a
found interesting In view of the renewal OF
The work was insaisurated July %, 1897.
tion and beginning the excavation of the
east waterway az delineated on the official
maps OF the state. The Anaconda wa.
Python, and both those dredgers continued
In active service. working night and day,
until July. 1897, when legal complications
caused a suspension OF the work During
that time $z7s ,9a2 IS was expended the east
waterwav excavated to the required width
and depth for a distance Of 5000 feet 17S4-
900 cubic yards OF material moved, much Of
II over n mile. and over seventy acres of
land raised above high tide. A detached
Ill was made for the Centennial Mill Com
pany, a slip excavated alongside of the
same, and this island connected with the
main fill by substantial trestle carrying
railway and wagon tracks.
Very particular surveys were made. both
OF the tide land and highland sections, the
latter being gone over many times at
great expense. and a fine contour man
thereof made.
Tide Land Claimants.
The work would have been continued but
the fact that a number of tide land claim
ants refused to take up their obligations
for filling and raised questions OF law In
regard TO interest payments that neceesl-
tated halt until tho questions could be
authoritatively settled. Suit was brought
against the delinquent tide land claimants
and was decided at all points by the SUI
preyne court. In favor OF the contentious of
the waterway company. Since then the
tide land claimants are not only having
their installments promptly. but IN many
caser demand TO pay the bill I'm fun
The existing I'LL IL now almost entirely
covered by structures for mercantile and
manufacturing purposes the only vacant
railway companies and reserved for depot
md other terminal purposes, The elah.
crate terminals outlined hy James ]. I'M
OF the Great Northern Railroad Company
In his speech before the Chamber OF Com
mcrce last month. will be on the existing
III and the continuation thereof now To hs
Immediately undertaken by the waterway
company.