Capt. Thomas W. Symons
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- Aug 27, 1894How Everett Got Its Harbor Money—by Telegrams and Western NerveA seven-month lobbying campaign, a reluctant War Department and a $10,000 dredging appropriation: inside the fight to make Everett a deep-water port.Port Gardner, Everett, WA
- Mar 5, 1895A Canal to Nowhere? Engineers Dismiss the Hood Canal CutA proposed channel from Hood Canal to North Bay would mean moving millions of cubic feet of glacial gravel—but a federal report finds too little farmland, commerce or ore to justify it.Allyn, WA
- Mar 14, 1895The Ditch That Would Cut Seattle in TwoWashington's engineers begin staking the route of the government's Lake Washington canal, and condemnation suits are expected to follow on their heels.Seattle, WA