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leave» hi the ireagury, avail, able for the work whenever start ed, »9,584,92. No project lor the improvement of the Nehalem having been defi nitely and formally decided upon, and uo work of construction hav. ing been authorized or commenced I refrain from making any recom- mendatioiis as to future appropri ations or as to the amount that could be profitably expended upon the work during the next fiscal year. ---------------------- - TI iih Gt tlliiiiiooli ijeabliiiht. T he C ounty O fficial P aper rcuusMsn bvkkv thvksoav by T ub T illamook H baduout C ompany , ■ ■ ( LN CO R HMIA T K W. E. D. J ones , E imtok axd or stirs« Kirnus. (tLIRlCXLY 1XADVANCR-1 hates O ik * year »¡X llljDlltllS Three loontlie II bO. ■Tu tti. aixvMurrisi.HG. mates . fo.7& pi»y«r J6.75 m . .....■’ " a».»« ms ■ Z Z S-°° *•” ■ 7 „ ,6oo° n l z :: >».yo kxxoo r,Dcnl notic**. ioe>*. p«r line; »•»«> 5«ts- the &c«t iiiftcrtk»». only 5c»« p«r Line wr nret insertion for reguta? twh erluw-t». Loe»l, Found, r« Kent, E of S h U.’, Wswtea, »nd Special n&lH’es, hb c!<ti»si tied "atl" co’.tmins, itt Blie rate of uue cent P*r word C gt tti *4 tioii and h«l> rate* tlM ieufter. Legal notice«, Nonpareil. per line loi first ii!*eiti</ii :vn«l fats per line Uw W<i wehee qtteot inaeitioB. notices or commo nicatior.s should he sent in hs early in the week as pu^ible. i inch, per month Leol, ’• UARBOR IMPROVEMENTS Til« followii¡g; if* tafcoi from the report of D. B. Ogilew, engineer, who was in charge here last sea- noii : ■ ■ * ■ 4 « ■ ■ * ■ a f ■ « 9 ■ GRAND CLEARANCE FOR THE NEXT M DAYS » fl 1 ■ 1 1 ■ fl Lendine 1 " LUMBER NEWS — It nutj not lie new, but ii isuev ertheless a fact that red cedar shingles and cedar lumber are re placing the redwood article in Cal ifornia. Botli can ire laid down in competition a-nd are gaining a foothold, especially in Southern California. In the midst of the talk of war and finances the Nicaragua canal seems to have been forgotten. That is a bad sign. The people of the Pacific coast must lie the ones to see that the canal is kept before the people, ami the lumbermen, whose interests are paramount, should be the first to stir up the coast representatives iu congress. The canal will make the coast the most prosperous section in the world, and the lumber interests the greatest of all. 1 *' 1 V s* Ii (I'rvtn Luniber Trade Journal.) Mr. David B. Ogden, assistant engineer, who has had local charge of the work for the Government, « spent the ¡reriod of waiting is mak I ing valuable surveys of the net ■ work of sloughs mid rivers enter N ing the bead of Tilh»m.s>k bay. From bis surveys and the stud ies which have been made el the problem during the past, few years, ■ The usesofa steam box, in con it has Ireeir deemed Iresl Io modify ■ nection with dry kilns, is destined the original project by providing ■ to become quite a factor in the rail for different works which are be trade of the Pacific Northwest. lieved to bo essential to accom Where inside finish is wanted and plish the desired end. lumber free from checking is desir The Dry Stocking dike lias been ed, the steam box is all right. Live completed, but lias not Ireeir suc steam will drive the sap and pilch cessful in deepening the channel to the surface, where dry heat over the bar there located. This bakes the surface, leaving the cen is due to the deflection ot waler ter full of sap and moisture. Steam which formerly ran over the bar should be turned on three days into other channels. As shown on and a moderate dry heat three the map the Trask river Ims two days, and there will be no pitch mouths or forks; one discharging stains or checking in fir lumber. into lloquarton slough above Dry Tlm majority of the steam box Stocking bar, mid one into Tilla users do not apply live steam long mook river, which Hows into the enough to the lumber, and what bay below Dry Stocking. little complaint heard arises from The first mouth, locally know n not “cooking” the lumber emougli. ns North Fork, Ims become clogged lip so with timber jiuns as to divert The Oregonian’s New Year edi most of the water into the South tion is the best annual issued so Fork. far by I lint paper. I he It is proposed the evil by building n Americans nre a peace loving bend of I lie Soul Ii re people, yet, every mother’s son of moving th« jams us are ready to maintain the dig Fork. It is also | nity of the nation no matter what a stronger How to the North Fork it limy cost. past. Dry Stocking bar by cutting out a long bend of tlm fork l>y il is a slmme to see so good a means of a dike thrown across it building ns tlm Williams mill and the enlargement of tlm artili- frame going to ruck. Some capi rial cliannel at Oxbow Bend. It talist ought to lie induced Io buy is Imped Hull by means of these it mid put in a good plant. works Dry Stocking bar wil bo scoured out mid n good channel Great Britain trained us to light maintained through it. hard over one hundred years ago, Tlm Junction bar dike is being gave us a few lessons in 1812, and extended 2.0*10 feet iis indicated. shouldn't attempt Io give us any The condition of Junction bar more lessons in the art just at is aggravated by Wilson river, present. This river has two mouths, mid it is proposed to close the upper one All this talk about our defense- in order that it may unite with tlm , less coasts, lack of war ships, II main through channel by its lower small regular army and so-forth,is mouth only. [This dike has been al! fal-de-ral. We are in belter built.] shape to lick England than we Farther dow n tlm bay a serious were the other time. SKETCH OF TILLAMOOK BAY. condition exists, which has caused much trouble. On the upper part The war scare is dying down. of the buy there are two elimmels There is an impression that the manent in location mid well direct year to clear out the w rack heaps insula torms the northern shore of north jelly to rest on the end of crossing each oilier, the Main or dispute may be settled amicably. Garibaldi channel being crossed ed against the narrow intervening of the north branch of the Trask, he entrance. Between this mid the sandy peninsula, and the south sands between the North Fork and place a jetty just below the the main shore, which limits the jetty upon I he mainland, the oh. It is probable that both sides will by tlm Kilehis river mid a corre and Garibaldi channels. [This ditch. This would force a great entrance on the south, is n dis ject being to hold l lie channel ¡n be willing to arbitrate rather than sponding continuation of it on the see bloodshed by two nations (hat dike, also, has been finished.] deal of water over Dry Stocking tance of one mile. The entrance its soul lively posit ion. west, marked on tlm map Middle Theeost of'tl.e wmk asestimat- ,"eHocloHel>' "" E"K,“",, All the works bava been ap- and have a beneficial effect. It is channel shifts within these limits channel. proved as a part of tl.o generili edbyCapt. W. Y ung, Corps of ,U,,Ube Unite<1 S ‘ " ,e8 ' However’ proposed also to shut up the south of one mile, occupying sometimes It is in the neighborhood of this project. Engineers, was »325,927.50. tl,e,e wil1 be •'««'k-down by branch of the Trask by means of a southerly position and some crossing that vessels tied great The completion of tiie through a dike, forcing all the waters of times a northerly one, mid some Subsequent estimates made ¡„ America, trouble from shoals mid shifting 1'r.isk river through the St Dwell channels. At this place tlm fol channel direct to Tillamook city times there are two channels sep May, 1891, show that the cost was ditch.] and its improvements in shoal lowing work is proposed as part of arated by a sand island, bare at underestimated, and that the work ,, American women are patriotic. That is what helps in war. Our 8 Ell A I.EM BAY. places will be of great convenience I he general project: low water. At the time of survey will cost »712,388. I women will put on breeches, if First. To build a dike dingou Io I he commercial interests of I lie Nelmlem bay at high wnter is of J ii lie, 1889, a depth of ti feet The appropriation according to | I ally across the Kilehis river chan* bay. It is estimated that the sum about 2 miles long by lj miles was found on the bar at the north the act of September 19, 1890, ” “fori necessary, plow the fields, raise I crops, clear more land, and ¡fit- nel, as shown on tlm map; its oh. of $50,(MM) can be profitably ex wide al widest part, and is connec ern channel. The ordinary bar commencement of jetty “ * “ r construe. pended on the project during the ...... ... Hiiiiex to the pinch do a little figlit- ject being to divert the Kilehis in ted with the ocean by a narrow depth limy be slated to be about 5 tion” is $10,000. fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. to tlm North or Bay Oily channel, to Jun ................. ^l*' wo,nen would not channel extending in a southerly to t> feet at low water. The amount expended [ This sketch is taken from tlm direction alront 3 miles. j respect their husbands if they enlarging this channel mid thus This 1 he plan ot improvement recom 30, 1894, was 8415,08. aiding in its union with the upper map in ('apt. Hymen's report, and channel varies in width from mended by Captain Young was to No work other than the making wouldn't get out out and fight. It A marks 1,(KM) to 2,000 feet at high tide. build two high-tide stone jetties Garibaldi channel. [This dike is is practically correct. is hard to conquer such a people, of a survey was done and no re completed.] tlm Dry Stocking dike, B the dike A low sandy peninsula alwiut 24 converging until i and England ought to know it. the distance sults were obtained. Second. To build a dike across at the mouth of Wilson river, U miles long and one-fourth mile apart is about 500, and then if , Even the small boys here know Oil July 22, 1892, in accordance the head of the Middle channel. the long dike at Dick’s point, and wide lies to the west of this chan necessary, running out to sea par arms, and some with instructions, the money on i how to handle fire ... ... The object of this is to unify and X tlm dike at Middle or Blind nel and separates it from the allel to each other to such distance , hand pertaining to the improve very young men (boys) did good concentrate all the flowing water channel. Tlm Stillwell ditch is ocean. the late rebellion. as will insure a low-water depth ment of Nehalem bay was turned I service in _______________ so as to make a deep channel, per marked Z, and it is expected next The southern end of this pen- on the bar of at least 8 feet, the .into the United States treasury! Ripans Tabules cure bad breath. COHN & CO M ti - f ’
