<p>Waterway built between Lake Washington and Lake Union to transport logs by the Washington Improvement Company, ca. 1884
</p><p>On verso of image: ""[illeg.] the shoots"", shooting the chutes, El Comancho in canoe as it hits Lake Union from the log flume. This log flume once floated logs from Lake Washington to Lake Union to be loomed and rafted to saw mills. Shooting the chutes can only be done when gate is open between flume and old portage way which is now filled.
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCSH): Canoes and canoeing--Washington (State)--Seattle; Flumes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Montlake Cut (Seattle, Wash.); Montlake (Seattle, Wash.)</li></ul><hr>
This is not quite the same place as the present-day Montlake Cut, it's a few blocks south where eventually Washington State Route 520 went through.
Phillips, W. S.
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