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528 F AUG 25 1890 Petition of Property owners for Regrading of Depot Street from Front St to Elliot Bay and change of grade.

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Seattle, Wash., August 25, 1890

To the Honorable, the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle:

The petition of the undersigned, property owners along Depot street west from Front street and vicinity, respectfully represents:

That by resolution duly passed May 9, 1890, your Honorable body ordered Depot street west from Front street to Elliot Bay to be regrded so as to give access to the wharves at the foot of Depot street, and that the City Engineer has prepared a profile showing a grade of 33 feet above datum at the intersection of Depot and Banner streets That by ordinance passed August 15, 1890, no. 1447, your Honorable Body fixed the grade of Depot street at the intersection of Banner street at 40 feet above datum. That said grade of 40 feet at said intersection of Depot and Banner streets is such as to make it impossible to reach the wharves at the foot of Depot street; that from Depot street at a grade of 33 feet above datum an incline can be built to reach the wharves and can be used by loaded teams, but that access to said Wharves with loaded teams will be cut off if Depot street is allowed to remain at an elevation of 40 feet. Your petitioners further represent that no one will be injured if said Depot street be regarded at an elevation of 33 feet at the intersection with Banner street, but that said street will then make considerable property accessible which is otherwise inaccessible. Your petitioners therefore pray that your Honorable body will ordain that said Depot street regarded at an elevation of

38 feet above base or datum at the intersection of Depot and Banner street, and at other points corresponding thereto from Front street to Elliot Bay. And they will ever be.

L. C. Whitford P. B. M. Miller S. E. Baldwin By Everett Smith, Agl. B. A. Ambers John Hoodburmann C. W. Howe William Flindall Peter Moore John Blass R. S. Thurrel A.E. Guy & Co L. M. Newman T. Washburn A. Krug E. Mills & Co T. Moshbrunn G. Lockwood J.H. Petersen D L Ballons Louis Turner E Sobe & C Bell Coleman A. A. Denny D Rohlfs Chas. E. Plimpton James A. Hall