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31 stories matching expend
- Seattle Bets on a Canal, Tide Flats and a New Iron Works
A state press report says Seattle is the one Washington city with major projects this year: a $900,000 canal and tide-land scheme, plus an iron furnace and car works backed by New York capital.
- Spokane Buys Itself an Army Post
Boosters raise cash and acreage for a new military post on the ground of an 1858 campaign against confederated tribes.
- Seattle Raises Half a Million for Its Canal—and the State Cheers
Citizens subscribed $511,000 toward the Lake Washington canal enterprise, a private subsidy that boosters promised would unlock millions in commercial development.
- Seattle Spends $100 on Seeds to Put the Unemployed on the Land
The city council backs the Pingree plan, buying garden tools and seed for indigent residents to cultivate vacant lots and raise vegetables.
- Keeping the Miners Fed When the Coal Market Collapsed
Receiver John H. Bryant asks a judge to spend $500 clearing company land near the Gilman mines so idle miners can grow hay for the company's horses — and keep drawing wages through the slump.
- The County That Forgot Its Southern Neighbors
Settlers south of the Nisqually say Lewis County has never spent a dollar on their roads or bridges, and now they want to bolt for Pierce County.
- Who Owns the Mud Beneath Smith Cove?
Seven King County men file claims on twenty acres apiece of Seattle tide flat, then protest the state's plan to fill and sell the same ground out from under them.
- The Streetcar Franchise Seattle Couldn't Enforce
Alderman J. Eugene Jordan accused the Yesler Avenue Cable Car Company and its City Council allies of dodging a franchise requirement to double-track the line—while the city pleaded poverty and working men waited for jobs.
- New Whatcom’s Ledger Had a Credit Side, Too
After a defalcation and the Panic of 1893, New Whatcom’s mayor and a local editor argued over whether the city was broke or merely bruised.
- The General and the Missing Military Money
A Senate committee says Washington's adjutant general ran the militia like a personal fiefdom, blew through his appropriation and left the state with a military deficiency.
- Seattle's $3 Million Steel Dream on Salmon Bay
A new blast furnace and steel works promised thousands of jobs, a freight-car plant, and 23,000 new residents—if the boosters were to be believed.
- The Fight Over the Road Through the Cascades
A state wagon-road bill sets Cascade Pass against Slate Creek, with mining claims, Lake Chelan freight and a $33,000 price tag hanging in the balance.
- A Cold Night at City Hall
Seattle's council confirms a fire commissioner, stalls a plumbing nominee accused of theft, and warns unemployed workers to stay away.
- The Navy's Giant Dry Dock Needed One More Appropriation
A $200,000 federal appropriation rescued the Port Orchard dry dock from a year's delay, a rare bit of good news for Puget Sound's naval future.
- The Road That Was Supposed to Build the Puget Sound Country
A canvasser reports that Seattle merchants back a permanent state road to Tacoma, promising winter travel, jobs for working men and a rush of small-holding settlement.
- Britain Is Quietly Mapping Alaska's Border, Former Federal Attorney Warns
In a Seattle interview, C. S. Johnson says the British government is spending freely to survey disputed Alaska territory while the U.S. government stalls, and Alaskans fear losing valuable mining districts.
- When a Railroad Pass Was a Bribe in a Pocket
A Tacoma editor demands Washington's lawmakers enforce the constitutional ban on free train passes, arguing the 'courtesy' bought influence one legislator at a time.
- Tax Delay Threatens Seattle's First Great Paving Program
A new revenue law lets property owners postpone half their taxes until November, and the road fund is so short that the city may stop accepting new street-improvement petitions.
- The Home Market Fight: Farmers Say Seattle Merchants Look Past Their Own Fields
A Port Angeles farmer’s letter to the Post-Intelligencer argues that Seattle merchants undercut local growers by buying from California, Oregon, and Chinese gardeners—and warns that the city’s food economy is bleeding money out of Washington.
- The Reverend’s Estate: A Seattle Administrator Accused of Paying Himself First
Rev. L. Parker wants the court to approve his accounts, but a special administrator says he spent estate money without permission, inflated legal fees, and sent a mortgage to his brother in Canada.
- Free Farms for the Worthy Poor: Seattle Tries the Pingree Plan
A Detroit-born scheme to hand out quarter-acre plots to the destitute is taking root in Seattle, with hundreds of families already on the waiting list.
- Seattle's Canal Backers Turn Up the Pressure—and the Cash
Boosters behind the Lake Washington canal reported fresh subscriptions, promised a gravity water supply for the tide flats, and argued the city could not afford to miss its chance.
- Whatcom's Mayor Reads the City Its Ledger—and Says the Spending Stops Now
With $147,000 in bonds, $77,000 in warrants and defaulted interest on the books, the new mayor demanded retrenchment and a return to municipal credit.
- The Cable Company Wanted More Time. Yesler Avenue Wanted Its Double Track.
In 1895, Seattle’s aldermen weighed whether to give a struggling street railway more time to double-track Yesler Avenue—or force it to honor the franchise the neighborhood had bought into.
- Seattle Offers a Bluff to Win the Army's Guns
Gen. Otis wants a garrison on Magnolia Bluff to guard Puget Sound — but the land the government thought it already owned has been quietly claimed out from under it, and Fort Townsend is running dry.