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prevented cultivation of a large area
and this year promises to be worse.

About 12000 acres of the richest land
of the Co. are certain for all time, to
remain useless or partially useless unless
an additional exit for the water can be
made.

From an early period the digging
of a ship canal has been decried
feasible and of the utmost importance
to the shipping of the Pacific and
Seattle one of its chief commercial
cities.

The question of drainage has been
subordinate to that commercial use
but in the past five years the great growth
of Seattle and the problem of supplying its
citizens with pure water has been added
another reason why a canal should be dug.

A ship canal is impossible for us to
obtain at present but a canal sufficient
for drainage and sufficient to cause the
pure water of Cedar river to flow past the city's
pumping station and at the same time
prevent the stagnant water from Sauak
then too. Look at the inc.