City of Seattle Records

at Kirkland Houghton and other parts of the Lake and that more or less sewage and in increasing amouts will find its way into the Lake.

Lake Union is almost in the heart of the city, how important then that it be kept from becoming a stagnant disease breeding pool.

This canal will secure for the city at a very small expense, as good a water supply as the plan of Engineer Benizette Williams which if we mistake not would have cost the city over a million and a half dollars.

We come before you asking that you will dig this canal in the name of the city, using the legal power which we understand is granted you as a city. The owners of flooded lands stand ready and willing to bear the greater part of the expense and are waiting to know if subscriptions shall be made payable to the city or not.

The evil consequences of the failure to give relief at this time are very great