Seattle Raises $50,000 to Start the South Seattle Canal
A state paper cheers Seattle's nerve as the subsidy is secured and digging begins on one of two canals meant to remake the city's waterways.
The subsidy of $50,000 necessary for the commencement of the South Seattle canal has been raised, and work on the great enterprise has actually been commenced. The pluck of Seattle is something to be commended. With the work of building two great canals going on, that enterprising city will have her hands full for a few years to come.
“The pluck of Seattle is something to be commended.”
Seattle’s port and lake connections were built on exactly this kind of subsidized infrastructure gamble, with boosters promising that canals would pay off for decades. The same arguments about public money, growth and who benefits still surround the city’s major transportation projects.
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