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-2-E.T. Parsons. the condemnation award were allowed to finish logging certain lands. We have moved industrial camps and
several hundred people entirely out of the watershed and today it is almost free from human life other than above. This district
embraces 87,000 acres of land, nearly all owned and controlled by the City of Seattle. The Milwaukee Railroad was required
to build as far hack from the river as possible and. to build a dike between the railroad track and the river so that by no
possibility could anything from the rain reach the river without passing through soil and in all human probabilities being
exposed to direct sunshine between the dike and the track. The bridges across the main river are specially constructed and
are absolutely water tight. Anything from the bridges is carried across by gutters (water tight) down Into sinks at either
end of the bridges. I am sending you a copy of our ordinance covering our Cedar River watershed. We have, however, a very
strict State enactment which gives us complete control. We have two sanitary police men at all times in this district and
in summer season we have three or four. The Milwaukee pays about half of the expense of this patrol. Respectfully, J.
E. Crichton COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH. JEC/B 06321