Moran Bros.
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- Mar 11, 1893Turning Slaughterhouse Waste Into GoldA new industrial plant on the Grant Street bridge aims to convert city scraps into exportable fertilizer for the Hawaiian market.Grant Street, Seattle, WA
- Mar 19, 1895The New Tide-Flat Plat Put a Foundry in the StreetSeattle shore owners crowded the county auditor's office to see how a new Elliott Bay plat redrew their waterfront—and some found their improvements sitting on paper streets.Seattle, WA
- Apr 27, 1895A First Day at Moran Bros. Ends Under a CogwheelSherman Scott, out of work and newly hired, was helping hoist pumps for a government dry dock when a donkey engine caught his foot. His coworkers raised money for his family.Seattle, WA
- May 2, 1895Forty Tons of Seattle Iron: Moran Brothers' Giant Pumps Head for the Dry DockThe biggest centrifugal pumps ever cast on the Pacific Coast leave Moran Brothers' foundry for the government dry dock, three machines able to empty it in two hours.Seattle, 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
- Jun 30, 1895The Navy Builds a Monster at Port OrchardIn 1895 the government rushed to finish the third-largest dry dock on earth on Puget Sound — a timber-and-granite pit big enough to swallow any warship afloat, and the reason Seattle's harbor would never be the same.Bremerton, 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