On the east side of the waterway a large portion of the port business is carried on at the terminal open to the public. The terminals owned and operated by the port commission are among the most modern and best equipped piers in the harbor. These are the terminals located at Spokane, Hanford, Stacy, and Lander Streets and known under these names. At the Stacy-Lander terminal a four-story warehouse has been constructed at the end of the slip for dry storage, while extensive dry and cold storage facilities have been provided at the Spokane Street terminal. The Hanford Street terminal is the grain-handling terminal of the port commission; the 1,500,000-bushel grain elevator is located at the rear of the wharf, with a grain gallery extending along the entire berthing space. All of the terminals of the port commission have adequate rail connections with the joint-user track on Marginal Way. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad owns and operates two facilities in this section, one of which is used for handling general cargo in the overseas and domestic trade and the other, directly across the slip from the ocean dock, is used by this railroad for the transfer of cars to floats destined to points on Puget Sound. Albers dock, at the entrance to East Waterway, is used primarily as a plant accessory to the Albers Bros. Milling Co., but general cargo is also handled for both foreign and domestic traffic. The Associated and Standard Oil Cos. maintain oil handling and bunkering stations at the foot of Holgate Street. Two marine repair plants, a boiler works, and one private fish handling plant are also located along East Waterway. On the west side of East Waterway there are three wharves, the most important of which is the plant of the East Waterway Dock and Warehouse Co. This terminal provides quay-type berthing space of 1,850 fect for both overseas and coastwise traffic and is the regular terminal for several steamship lines operating to the Orient. It is one of the largest vegetable and fish-oil terminals in the country, having a capacity of 4,200,000 gallons with complete modern handling equipment. Warehouse space has also been provided for dry storage. Spur tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. provide adequate rail connections. The other wharves in this section are used for handling sand and gravel, oil, and molasses. End of Harbor Island.—On the north end of Harbor Island there are seven piers-four outfitting piers at the marine repair plant of Todd Seattle Dry Docks, Inc. and three oil-bunkering stations owned by the General Petroleum Corporation and the Sunset Oil Co. West Waterway. There are 14 piers and wharves on West Waterway from the north end of Harbor Island to the Spokane Street Bridge, 7 of which are located on the east side and 7 on the west side. The Harbor Island dock is used by the Harbor Island Dock & Warehouse Co. for the handling of grain and grain products. The Todd Seattle Dry Docks, Inc., wharf is used as a marine repair plant outfitting wharf. The remainder of the wharves on this side of the waterway are used in the private business of their operators and are not open to the public. On the west side of this waterway the most important wharves are those of the Drummond Lighterage Co. and the Ames Terminal Co. The former terminal consists of two wharves which are used for handling general and bulk cargo in both foreign and domestic trade. The Ames Terminal is well equipped with warehouses and mechanical handling equipment to handle overseas and coastwise business. Two wharves are used for handling lumber, one as a private industrial wharf and one for mooring contractor's floating plant. Duwamish Waterway.-There are nine wharves located on this waterway. On the east side of the waterway there are six wharves, four of which are used as accessories to industrial plants, one as a marine repair plant, and one for handling lumber. On the west side there is one lumber handling pier, one ramp used for launching seaplanes, and one industrial wharf. West Seattle. There are seven piers and wharves in West Seattle west of the West Waterway. Three are lumber handling piers, two are used in connection with marine repair plants, and two for handling grain or grain products. Inner Harbor.-The inner or fresh water harbor of the port of Seattle includes all the water area above the Lake Washington Canal locks located between Shilshole Bay and Salmon Bay. There are 48 piers and wharves located on the Lake Washington Canal, which includes Salmon Bay, Lake Union, and Union Bay, only six of which are classed as public wharves. These are used almost exclusively for local traffic; however, some ocean traffic is handled in this section of the port at the wharves of lumber companies shipping lumber in the foreign and domestic traffic. There are 15 facilities used for marine repairs and outfitting piers, 7 as oil handling facilities, 3 as sand and gravel receiving plants, and the remainder as private facilities for use in connection with the business of the various operators. The 19 piers, wharves, and docks located on Lake Washington are used entirely for local traffic, 6 being used as ferry slips and landings, 6 as public landings for small vessels, 3 as lumber mill wharves, and 1 as a marine repair plant. The others are used as private wharves only. There are also three piers located north of the port proper at Point Wells and Edmonds which are used as oil handling and fuel oil bunkering facilities. The facilities owned by the city and county are principally mooring piers and do not compete in the freight handling business in the port. Detailed information regarding the various piers, wharves, and docks at the port of Seattle is contained in the following table: Railway connections.. Steamship lines using terminal.. Water supply. Electric current. Remarks. 2 20-ton electric freight elevators; 4 movable Blue Star Line, American Mail Line, Westfal 1 100-ton shear-leg derrick; 1 35-ton steam locomotive crane, 40-foot reach; 2 20-ton electric freight elevators; 8 movable second-floor loading platforms; 1 railroad track scale; 1 fumigating plant, 80 by 90 feot. (See reference No. 1, pier 41 for additional equipment.) 1 84-foot fixed electric belt conveyor. |