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.
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UARBOR IMPROVEMENTS
Til« followii¡g; if* tafcoi from the
report of D. B. Ogilew, engineer,
who was in charge here last sea-
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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.
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(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
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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,
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The usesofa steam box, in con
it has Ireeir deemed Iresl Io modify
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nection
with dry kilns, is destined
the original project by providing
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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
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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
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pended on the project during the
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...
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
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^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.
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