Bowers Dredging Company
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- Jun 2, 1895The Dredge That Built a Dyke — and Then Went to Dig Seattle's Ship CanalAt La Conner a 200-horsepower suction dredge finished carving Swinomish Slough, pumping mud a thousand yards to wall off the tide. Next week the Anaconda leaves for Seattle and the south canal.La Conner, WA
- Jun 29, 1895The Dredge That Would Carve Seattle's Ship CanalIn 1895, Eugene Semple's Seattle & Lake Washington Waterway Company signed the largest dredging contract ever awarded in America — 35 million cubic yards of tide-flat muck, at 18 cents a yard, to cut a canal from Puget Sound to Lake Washington.Seattle, WA
- Jul 2, 1895The Anaconda Goes Into Elliott Bay to Eat the FlatsThe giant dredger that will dig the Lake Washington canal is launched at Moran's foundry tonight — and its pumps, chewed to honeycomb by Swinomish sand, hint at how hard Elliott Bay's bottom will fight back.Seattle, WA