The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-11-23
PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF AN ELECTION CALL
ED AND TO BE HELD FOR THE
ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF
A COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME
OF HARBoR IMPROVEMENT IN
THE PORT OF KENNEWICK,
HERETOFORE ADOPTED BY
THE PORT COMMISSION OF
THE PORT OF KENNEWICK,
AND FOR THE ELECTION OF A
PORT COMMISSIONERS OF COM
MISSIONER'S DISTRICT NO. 3.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
special election will be held in the
Port of Kcnnewick on the End day of
Decen Der, 1916, for the purpose of
voting upon the ratification of the
comprehensive Scheme Of Harbor I'm
provemcnt adopted by the Port Com
mission of the Port of Kennewick,
by resolution passed and dated on the
22nd day of May, 1916, which compre-
hensive scheme of Improvement as set
forth in said resolution is as follows:
General Fe; lures: The requirement,
] construction, maintenance, operation,
| development and regulation Of a sys-
tenn of harbcr Improvement, rail and
| water transfer and terminal facilities
within the Port District of the Port
of Kennewick.
These general features to be accom-
plished by the acquisition Of such
| tracts of land with the adjacent shore
lands or leasehold interests in ada
| cent harbor area as may be found
necessary and convenient, or by the
acquisition Herewith or construction
thereon of piers, quays, slips, grid
| irons, wharves, boat landings, ware
houses, storehouses, elevators, grain
bins, cold storage plants, lumber
wards, coal bunkers and oil tanks, to.
| gether with modern appliances for the
economical handling, storage and
transfer of freight and handling OF
passenger traffic, also the constructor
of railway and terminal tracks ano
yards, and the equipment and opera.
ton of the same so as to accomplish
the convenient and economical trans.
fer of freight between shipping ano
railway and to and from warehouse
storage houses or factory to or from
rail or water; requirement or con
struction and operation of ferry boats
tug boats, scows, bridges, subways
tramways, cableways, and conveyor'
to be operated in connection with the
foregoing.
The particular features of the plan
so far as developed and which, in con
nection with the foregoing genera
features and general method of &C
complishing of the same, constitute
said comprehensive scheme of harbol
improvement, consists Of the follow
ing parts designated as units, to-wIt
Unit 1. For the accommodation O
! river traffic, the requirement of al
or such portions as may from time t,
time be required of all shore lands an
other property lying within the fol
lowing described limits:
Beginning at the point at the
intersection of the easterly line of
Lot 81, Kennewick Shore Lands
and the State harbor line, thence
southwesterly along the easterly
line of Lot 81, and said line pro-
duced to its intersection with the
southerly line of the public road
: located along the northerly line OF
sections 1 and 6, TIP. g., N, r. 20
and 80, E. Of the Willamette Me-
ridian; thence westerly along the
southerly line of, said public road
to its intersection with the west
erly line of list street, produced
southerly, thence northerly along
the said westerly line and line
produced to its intersection with
the government meander line
! along present southerly bank Of
the Columbia river; thence north
westerly along said meander line
to its intersection with the east
erly line Of lot IL, Kennewick
Shore Lands, thence northerly
along said easterly line and line
/. produced of Lot 10 to navigable
water in the main channel of the
: Columbia river; thence following
down the Columbia river approx
: mately along its southerly line of
navigability to the point of be-
Z ginning, all as indicated on Draw
ing No. 1, entitled Port of Ken
newick, Map Showing Compre-
hensive Plan" -
and the acquisition, construction
maintenance and operation by leas
J. or directly on the same of wharf {
Il WLdINCS Szii0 VOL OAsOAcSSt OWL SASok'~
cold storage plants, coal bunker
s grain bins, elevators, oil tanks an
: freight and passenger sheds. with a
e proper facilities for the accommods
Z ton, storing, hauling and transferrin
i freight and commodities, with II
e necessary equipment and appliance
n also for railroad tracks; also II
h necessary dredging to secure ar
= maintain a navigable depth of waite
IS at said wharves or sheds, and the col
= struction and maintenance of a waite
+ way between Clover Island and tt
government meander line along Il
Il present southerly bank of the Colun
: bia river.
- Unit 2. For the accommodation I
! river traffic, the Improvement of Il
- public place at the foot of Mint
Street as reserved in the plat Of Il
Kennewick Shore Lands, all as il
L Dictated on Drawing No. 1 entitls
: sport of Kennewick, Map Shown
Comprehensive Plan" by the acquis
ton, construction, maintenance ar
operation by lease or directly