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WAstT1 I t e r . )WN AND COUNTY PROGRESS AND DOINGS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. ttu | > r .B i. C o u r t o f Ätt? t V » « l i i n g t o n S u s t a in « A c t a of C u p l t o l C o u m ila a lu u - O v e r 5 0 0 vhioh iu , N o u .lt .a d IC ntrlca F i l e d lu t h e N ea F o rce K e a e r v u t i o n - O r e g o n N e w . . Than N ever. on Journal.] f the administration's. amf( st« d two year ago.f' necessary to apeak eon nd the country woulJ some humliating ex| better late than neve ini. We can afford gones. ><n W i l l A . » c u t . fork Time«.] day in the message!] is a clear, grave assir- uited Stales willJfs- her asking nor ace<U- independent state on o that principle, mon fe Great Birtain will t principle, in j any an nation w ill staid. 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I and si; power The coma, railw lookt ex ten Tb warn a ue to tl A o . l I IT W I 1 M INDUIS Much valuable data ia contained in the recent annual report of the engineer lu charge of the improvement of the Willamette and Lower Columbia river and their tibutariea. It ia a very ex haustive report and covers compre hensively all the improvements and surveys under Major Post’s charge. | The report was transmitted to oongress by the secretary of war, who summar ized its principal features in hia own report. Mouth of the Columba river, . Oregon and Washington— The project • for this work was adpoted in 1894. ¡During the year ending June 80, 1895, 1138,900.1 tons of rock was added to the Ijetty which was raised to its com- Lpleted height for a length of about r three and a quarter miles (station 53 to station 380). Groins Nos. 8 and 4 . each 1,000 feet long were also finished and the main line of the jetty with the exception of about 700 feet at the linshore end, where some additional I rock is still required, was completed. I An elevated track for use in construct- I iug the shore revetment whioh has a total length of »,«75 feet, has been ¡ o f uearly finished. Soundings taken in j May and Jane, 1895 show that there is | Jnow a direct channel over the bar th seven-eights of a mile wide and thirty ' feet deep at low water and that for » width of one-half mile the low wat' channel depth is at least thirty-i feet. Colombia and Lower Wiliam .rivers below Portland, Or.— The- Jjeot for improving these rivers, u&“ pte.. (in 18,".7 avri rat.-iified iik-’.89 '., «¿intern- kulmtea securing a channel from Port- land to the sea having a low water | ‘ depth of twenty-five feet. Prior to commencing the improvement the low water depth of the channel was from ten to fifteen feet at the shoalest places. Up to 1891 this depth had been in creased to ninteen feet by the construc tion of dams at Swan island chute, at Willamette slough, and at other sloughs in the Willamette river neai its mouth, and of a dike at St. Helen and dams at Bnrke slough and Marti1 slough in the Columbia river, tb effect of these works being aided b dredging aud bank protection whe most needed Since the modificatu of the porjeot so as to secure a ohaim depth of twenty-five feet, dikes ha been built by the port of Portland a St. Johns and Postoflice bars in I Willamette river, and at Walks island, Snag island, and Cathlai bay iu the Columbia river. This < poratiou has also dredged the chai at Swan island aud Postoffice bs the Willamette river and in the lnnibia river at the month of Willamette, at S t Helena, at Mar island, at Walker’s island, an Cathlamet bay, removing a toti 320,341 cubio yari of materii these points. The work done 1 United Slates has consisted in ex iug the dike at SL Helens, in cons ing a dike at Martin's island, Columbia river, in dredging the “ els of both rivers at various aud the removal of snags w’ necessary. During the year June 30. 1895, the dike at J island has been thoroughly r aud dredgiug hHH been oarrier maintain, and, us far as prsctic increase the depth of the chHUi' Portland to the sea, the total t o f material removed being cubio yards. In the Willamet' ing was done at Postoflice b# the mouth of the river, aud ii lumbia river, on the bars at point, at Martin’s island, t rock, at Walker's island, and Astoria. Vessels drawing tv can now pass over the shoal % at low water, and, by taking i o f the tides, v.essels drawiu, three feet of water or more to Portland without difBe lr ''ia river between ' W^ah., aDd the mouth of ’ river—The project for thi nient, adopted in 1892 > Pi the construction of a low the slough on the Oregon t den island to increase th water, and by the additio remove a troublesome bar channel. Work daring tl has consisted in dredging the notrh side of the islan lief of navigation, the d< bars having been increa feet to thirteen feet a Willamette river, a and Yamhill river, ( time of the adoption of jeot, in 1878, the mouth river, forty miles abov the head of low-wal with a draft of two an The project of 1878 improvement of the r- moval of obstructions ,1 tiou of dikes to contra/ at shoal places so as tc able channel for light-i Portland to Eugene. , miles. This project / 1892 to include the f tions in the Yaml mouth to McMln. river and harbor actiW allotments of t3,oo<* spectively, were m. from the appropriate the Willamette ri» Daring the past y« tions have been o land to Eugene i river and to MoM*- hill river. A ably ■ xpeno June 30, 18: Da w