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BOLAND-B9403
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- 1924-02-08 (Creation)
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Dredging operations on the City Waterway. View of clam shell dredging apparatus and log dump. The City Waterway (now Thea Foss Waterway) was being dredged in February of 1924 to make the waterway deeper so that industries located at the upper end of the channel would be accessible to ocean liners. One beneficiary of the deeper waterway would be the Wheeler-Osgood mill who would be able to load lumber directly onto the big liners from their own modern dock. Henry & McFee of Seattle had been awarded the $23,000 contract to remove about 78,000 cubic yards of material so that the new depth would be 19 feet at low tide. September 25th was the deadline to complete the work. G36.1-075 (TNT 1-21-24, p. 1-article; TNT 2-11-24, p. 5-alternate picture & article)
Dredging--Tacoma; Underwater drilling--Tacoma--1920-1930; City Waterway (Tacoma); Logs;