City of Seattle Records

At the meetings which have been held every Sat. for the past month many plans for setting the Finance Com. to work have formed and rejected. We have taken legal advice and are informed that the city as an incorporated body has powers that enables it to take the matter up and carry it forward with greater ease than a private corporation the county having no power at all to undertake the work.

The increasing necessity for this canal to the city must be apparent to you. At present are greater part of Lake Wash. water comes from Sammamish valley washing the surface of acres of low land part of which is oozey slimy bog. Mercer Slough also adds considerable acreage of bog not speaking of the submerged land at the outlet of the Lake at no great distance from the pumping station.