Port Series, Issue 37U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - Harbors |
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... feet wide and 8 feet deep at mean lower low water ; for a settling ba- sin with a capacity of about 200,000 cubic yards , 1,200 feet long , 700 feet wide , and 12 feet deep at mean lower low water , in the upper harbor in the vicinity ...
... feet wide and 8 feet deep at mean lower low water ; for a settling ba- sin with a capacity of about 200,000 cubic yards , 1,200 feet long , 700 feet wide , and 12 feet deep at mean lower low water , in the upper harbor in the vicinity ...
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... feet facing the 8 - foot channel from the bay . At this point , the channel has been enlarged by dredging a settling basin to a depth of 12 feet , 700 feet in width , and 1,200 feet in length , which serves as a convenient turning basin ...
... feet facing the 8 - foot channel from the bay . At this point , the channel has been enlarged by dredging a settling basin to a depth of 12 feet , 700 feet in width , and 1,200 feet in length , which serves as a convenient turning basin ...
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... FT. ) LOAD CAPACITY PER SQUARE FOOT ( LBS . ) CARGO DOORS Great Northern Railway ; one 400 - foot spur track serves tanks in rear of wharf . ( marginal and ac- cess ) concrete , 15 feet wide , from California Street . One 8- and one 4 ...
... FT. ) LOAD CAPACITY PER SQUARE FOOT ( LBS . ) CARGO DOORS Great Northern Railway ; one 400 - foot spur track serves tanks in rear of wharf . ( marginal and ac- cess ) concrete , 15 feet wide , from California Street . One 8- and one 4 ...
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... foot timber bulkhead with solid fill , on which the plant is situated . The wharf has two approaches and provides 875 feet ... wide East Waterway , north of the foot of Hewitt Avenue , the Scott Paper Company , Soundview Division , owns and ...
... foot timber bulkhead with solid fill , on which the plant is situated . The wharf has two approaches and provides 875 feet ... wide East Waterway , north of the foot of Hewitt Avenue , the Scott Paper Company , Soundview Division , owns and ...
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... feet southwest Port Gardner Bay , 2,500 feet southwest Mukilteo . of foot of Hewitt Avenue . of foot of Hewitt Avere ... wide . feet wide under railroad track . None . Via foot of Hewitt Avenue , brick , 30 feet wide . Through 2 - inch ...
... feet southwest Port Gardner Bay , 2,500 feet southwest Mukilteo . of foot of Hewitt Avenue . of foot of Hewitt Avere ... wide . feet wide under railroad track . None . Via foot of Hewitt Avenue , brick , 30 feet wide . Through 2 - inch ...
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AREA FOR CARGO available to vessels barges Bellingham Bay boom British Columbia CAPACITY PER SQUARE CARGO SQ.FT charges commodities Company conveyor Corps of Engineers crane Creek Waterway DEPTH ALONGSIDE docks Engineers Port Code equipment Face feet feet wide fish floating Hand extinguishers Hewitt Avenue Hydrants LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED LOAD CAPACITY LOCATION ON WATER Log Dump Lumber marine railway Maritime Administration MECHANICAL HANDLING FACILITIES Milwaukee Mooring North side feet Northern Pacific Railway Northern Railway NUMBER ON MAP Open pile operated Pacific Coast ports Paul and Pacific Port Angeles Port Gardner Bay Port of Bellingham Port of Everett Puget Sound rail RAILWAY CONNECTIONS rates Receipt REFERENCE NUMBER REGULARLY USING TERMINAL repair Seattle shipments short tons Snohomish River SQUARE FOOT LBS STEAMSHIP LINES REGULARLY surface track Tariff timber-decked tons trade trestle trucks TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION USABLE BERTHING SPACE Wash Washington waterfront Weyerhaeuser wharf wharves Whatcom Creek WIDTH OF APRON wood
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Page vii - ... to investigate any other matter that may tend to promote and encourage the use by vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports...
Page xiv - The commission for good cause shown may allow changes without requiring the thirty days' notice under such conditions as it may prescribe. No corporation or municipality shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than the rates and charges applicable to such...
Page vii - ... to advise with communities regarding the appropriate location and plan of construction of wharves, piers, and water terminals ; to investigate the practicability and advantages of harbor, river, and port improvements in connection with foreign and...
Page xiv - ... receiving the prescribed signal: Provided, That the draw shall not be opened when a train is approaching so closely that it cannot safely be stopped before reaching the bridge, or when a passenger or mail train is approaching within sight or hearing of the drav/ tender.
Page xiv - ... are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or in anywise in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine and prescribe the just and reasonable rates and charges...
Page 71 - LAOS, for the common good of shippers and carriers, by providing just and economical cooperation between the steamship lines operating in such trades...
Page xiv - ... Commission, or that any rule, regulation, practice, or contract affecting such rate, charge, or classification is unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, the Commission shall determine the just and reasonable rate, charge, classification, rule, regulation, practice, or contract to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order...
Page xiv - Two long distinct blasts of a whistle, horn or megaphone, or two loud and distinct strokes of a bell, to be repeated at regular intervals until acknowledged by the vessel.
Page xiv - And whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing, had upon its own motion or upon complaint...
Page xiv - When fog prevails by day or by night the draw tender, after repeating the call signal, shall toll a bell continuously during the approach and passage of the vessel.