Talk:Eugene Semple

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This is just a basic information page, with dates, places, and photo, for the governor of washington territory. It includes a link to a digital book with more information and connects to the list of governors. As part of the list of governor's, having this page allows the links to flow rather than dead end. - R. Edwards

Semple and his canal[edit]

I put in the basics here, but there probably should be more about complex financing, technical difficulties, accusations of corruption (especially about how much city water was used for sluicing), and about how, using the legislation he himself had pushed through, he may well have focused more on filling marketable tidelands than on actually building a canal. Perhaps the attempted canal deserves an article of its own? I'm not sure. There is already a bit more on this at Regrading in Seattle#Cutting through Beacon Hill. - Jmabel | Talk 07:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]