Tillamook headlight., June 27, 1901, Image 4

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JUNE 27, 190L
I year on account of the heavy discharge of detritus during the
Middle Channel dike...........
Repairing dike north side Dry
Stocking Bar................ ..........
Repairing Wilson River dike...
1.334
“"““nipr^’nient of the bar: The Port of Tillamook demands
in dredging this shoal. A range was set up on
4.728
33.043
3.906
shore at Dicks Point along the center line ot this
as a matter of light, justified by the resources of the county, bv
66
the amount of money which has been derived by the General
dredged cut.
OF THE
Government from the sale of lands within the boundaries of
The work of widening by dredging the
21,56«
96,1005
12,546.6
the countv, and on account of the great consequent increase of
Total......................................
channel opposite Bav City, dredged in former
All the brush mattresses and rubblestone filling the value of natural resources of the Nation, the establishment
years through the mud flat separating Bay City placed in the dikes during the past year, and and maintenance of a channel on Tillamook bar carrying thirty
Channel and Garibaldi Channel, so that this that remaining to l»e placed is provided for by feet of water.
_
A _
OF THE
As to the commerce of the county and the traffic upon
channel will have a width of about 7o feet, was an informal contract with G. W. Kiger, ot Tillamook
l>av:
The
following
statistics
are
taken
the
fivers and Harbors Appropriation commenced with the snag scow and crew June 16, Tillamook, Oreg., made consequent to a circular | official estimates made under direction of Captain from
W. W.
1900, and is still in progress. This dredged chan­ advertisement dated March It», 19oo, inviting Harts and Captain XV. C. Langfitt and kindly furnished to us
Committee
nel, as originally excavated, was about 4o feet bids, the prices for the materials in place being, under instructions from the latter:
wide and about 9 feet deep at mean high tide.
Commercial Statistical Report.
Of the House of Representatives of the
The length of the ditch to be widened 3o feet is brush fascines, $3 per cord; galvanized iron wire,
United States Engireer Office, 1 illamook,
61/2
cents
per
pound;
lumber,
$16
per
looo
feet
85o feet. Up to June 3o, 19oo, it has been wid­
Unied States.
measure; spikes, 5 cents per pound; stone, Oregon, January 1, 1901.
ened 3o feet for the distance of 5oo feet. The board
C apt . W m . W. H arts ,
At a meeting of the Port of Tillamook Com­ average depth excavated thus far in widening the $1 per ton. The placing of materials under this
Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army,
mission held in the office of the bank ofC. & E. ditch has been 5 feet, and 2,777 cubic yards of informal contract has just been commenced.
Portland, Oregon.
Thayer, Monday, 17th instant, those present material have been dredged.
The dredging, construction of new dikes, and
The material
C aptain : I have the honor to transmit here­
being, President A. J. Cohn, F. R. Beals, J. A.} dredged at this place has consisted of the kind of repairs made to other dikes, during the past year
Taft, A. McNair, J. A. Todd and I). T. Edmunds, mud usually found on mud flats.
has resulted in obtaining a channel so that with a commercial statistical report tor the port
the following proceedings were had:
Five spur dikes, 154, 255, 186, 147, and 63 vessels drawing 9 feet of water may at mean high of Tillamook for the year ending December 31,
It was declared to be the sense of the com­ feet long, were constructed on the south side of tide reach Tillamook, which is the depth called 1900, which includes some data pertaining to the
mission that representatives should be sent to Hoquarton Slough opposite the dike built in for by the existing project. Considerable more resources tributary to Tillamook Bay, Oregon,
Portland to meet the Rivers and Harbors Appro­ former years on the north side of Dry Stocking work will be required, however, to make the dikes which might be of some interest to you.
priation Committee of the National House of Bar. These dikes extend into the channel at right already constructed permanent.
VESSELS.
Representatives and submit to that body the angles to the current, and are designed to nar­
Number of vessels arrived and cleared from
7 he location of the selected channel from the
necessity for the improvement of Tillamook bay row the channel and produce scour on Dry Stock­ lower bay up to Dicks Point is marked by seven Tillamook Bav during the year ending December
and bar.
ing Bar, so as to maintain the channel dredged beacons of four piles each, and shore ranges in­ 31, 1900..........
61
Upon motion of F. R. Beals, Hon. B. L. Eddy through that bar March 26—May 18, 19oo. dicate the channel dredged through Dry Stock­ Passengers arrived duringyear by sea............... 688
and C. Thayer were chosen.
With the exception of the 25 feet of the channel ing Bar and the channel dredge through the Passengers departed during year by sea........... 510
The following document, prepared by Mr. end of the upper dike, each of these dikes consists shoal near the old mouth of Wilson River.
Remarks: The steam schooner W. II. Harri­
Thayer, at the request of the Executive Com­ of a row of piles (the piles in each row being 6 feet
son, tonnage registered 75, and steam schooner,
The
purchase
of
a
scow
needed
as
a
tender
mittee, to be presented in printed form to the apart, center to center), waling strips on each
Sue H. Elmore, registered tonnage about 150,
National Committee was submitted, and after side of the row, and sheet piling driven 4 feet into for the combined dredge, pile driver, and derrick attempted to make weekly trips between Astoria
scow
was
authorized
by
the
Chief
of
Engineers
j
considerable discussion, in which all present took the mud bottom and spiked to the waling on the up-1
i
February 9, 1900. This scow was built at Port­ and Tillamook City, Oregon, drring the summer
part, was unanimously adopted.
stream side. The 25 feet of the channel end of the land Oreg., under an informal contract with J. F. months, and irregular trips during the winter
Tillamook Bay: The requirements of this bay upper dike consist of two rows of piles, 6 feet
months.
must be taken tip in two separate, di-tinct apart, the piles in each row being 6 feet apart, a Steffen, for $750. It is 60 feet long, 24 feet wide,
The steam launch Louise, tonnage 8, and the
and 4 feet deep.
It was towed from Portland
propositions.
double w aling strip bolted on each side of each to Tillamook Bay by U. S. steamer General H. G, steam launch Annarine, tonnage 15, plv between
The first project involves a continuance of the row 8 inches below the top of the piles as sawed
the different points on Tillamook bay, carrying
work heretofore undertaken and now in progress, off. To the top of the pdes which project above Wright in June, 19oo.
Authority to purchase about 1 acre of land on freight and passengers.
that is the improvement of the channels inside the the waling strips cross pieces of timber were spiked,
IMPORTS.
Hoquarton
Slough, near the town of 7'illamook,
bay. In reference to 4his the following is the to prevent drift from lodging between the rows
General
Merchandise:
3,415 tons, average
was
given
by
the
Secretary
of
War
April
lo,
1900.
report of Wm. W. Harts, Captain Coqjs of Engi-1 and to strengthen the work.
eners published in 19oo:
The work of filling the channel end of the This land and its water front are needed as a place value $125 per ton, total value,............... $426,875
Remarks: Will state that the average value
IMPROVEMENT OF TILLAMOOK BAY AND upper dike with brush and rubblestone is now in to store and moor the Govrenment plant when of $125 per ton for general merchandise brought
not in use. 7'he papers pertaining to the title to
j
progress.
BAR, OREGON.
into Tillamook bay, as submitted to you in this
Two spur dikes, 356 and 313 feet long, were the land are in course of ¡»reparation.
Location and history of improvment: Infor­
report, was the result of inquiries made of differ­
It
is
estimated
that
the
various
dikes
con
­
mation in detail concerning the location, original partially constructed on the south side of the structed in past years and those now in course ent merchants as to the average cost per ton of
condition, history of improvement, and other data channel opposite the old mouth of Wilson River. construction, with the improved channels may of general merchandise received by them. After
These dikes extend into the channel at right
is cited in the summary of this report.
made pratically
permanent with the averaging the value of twelve different shipments
Present project: The present project provides I angles to the current, and are designed to narrow be
which included salt, feed, flour, hardware, boots
for obtaining and maintaining the least depth of the channel and produce scour, so as to maintain $27,000 given in the appended money statement and shoes, ready made clothing, groceries, dry­
as
the
amount
that
can
be
profitably
expended
the
channel
dredged
through
the
shoal
at
that
9 feet at mean high tide in a selected channel from
goods, etc, in fact everything imported which is
These dikes are for maintenance of improvement in fiscal year needed to supply the wants of some 5000 pros­
a point in Bay City channel opposice Bay City, place May 19—June 2, 19oo.
Oregon, up to Tillam > >k on Hoquarton Slough, abouti, 2oo feetapart, and each istoconsist of two endingjune 30, 1902, in addition to the balance perous inhabitants, including transients.
so that small coasting steamers may reach Tilla­ rows of piles, 6 feet apart, the piles in each row available July 1, 1900, this work of maintenance
EXPORTS.
mook, the principal town of the vicinity, the being also 6 feet apart. All the piling, waling to consist of maintaining and operating the snag
Lumber: 7,390,000 feet B. M., valued at
proposed channel and depth to be obtained by spikes, and bolts for these two dikes are in place, and dredge boat whenever required during this $12 per M., total value.................................. $88,680
constructing deflecting dikes of timber filled with and it is proposed to complete the dikes by filling time, and of so filling and banking up the sides of
Remarks: Mr. C. B. Hadley, superintendent
rubblestone and brush. The depth across the bar the space between the two rows of piles of each thedikes with rubblestone that the dikes will con­ of the Tillamook Logging Co., informs me that
tinue to maintain the selected channel after the
at the entrance to the bay, anil in the latter up to dike with brush and rubblestone.
One spur dike 581 feet long was partially piles and timber portions of them have become his company has over 12,000,000 feet of saw-logs
Bay City, being sufficient for these vessels, the
in the waters of Tillamook bay and some of its
constructed
on the cast side of the channel oppo- ' decayed.
project does not provide for any improvement,
site the souhern end of the dike built in former
Mr. Frank Batter, inspector, has been in local tributaries, and that the mill wharves are
below Bay City.
Operations under ¡»resent project up to June1 across the head of Middle Channel. This newspur charge of the work in progress during the past covered with lumber awaiting shipment. These
conditions are due to their inability to secure
3<>, 1899: A number of deflecting dikes had been years dike extends into thé selected channel at right fiscal year.
vessels to carry lumber from Tillamook bay.
M oney S tatement .
constructed at various places along the selected angles to the current, and is designed to narrow
Dairy Products, Canned and Salt Salmon,
July I, 1899. balance unexpended..................................... 324,838.86
channel, to cause scour on shoals and to confine the channel and produce scour on a shoal tn n June
30, 1900, amount expended during fiscal year..... 12,162.42 Chittim Bark and Hides: 3640 tons, with an
tioned
in
the
Annual
Report
of
for
1899.
This
the incoming and outgoing tides. This work
approximate value of 10 cents per pound, or
resulted in obtaining a channel having the least dike consists of two rows of piles, 6 feet apart, » Julv 1, 1900, balance unexpended..
12,676.44
total value of,................................................. $728,000
depth of about 8 feet at extreme high tide from the piles in each row being also 6 feet apart, All ju iy I, 1900 outstanding liabilities
1.74252
Remarks: The exact amount of dairy pro­
the piling, waling, spikes and bolts for this dike
Bay City up to Tillamook.
(Iperations during fiscal year ending June 3<>, are in place, and it is proposed to complete the July 1, 1900, balance available............................................ IO»933-92 ducts exported as mentioned above is not known
being the output of some eleven butter and cheese
19oo: In the last annual report, it was stated dike bv filling the space between the two rows of f Amount (estimated) required for completion of
factories and many private creameries and
piles
with
brush
and
rubblestone.
existing
project
..........................................................
27,000.00
that proposals had been invited by circulars for
dairies.
that can be profitably expended in fiscal
theconstruction of a snag scow, and for furnishing
During the past winter evidence of scour was j Amount
year ending June 30, 1902, in addition to the
Cattle: Cattle of all kinds, the number is
the necessary equipment for it. This snag scow noticed around the southern end of the dike built1 I
balance available July 1, 1900, for maintenance
estimated
to have been about 6,000 head, sold at
was built by the Tillamook Lumbering Company, in former years across the head of Middle Channel. *i
of improvement......................................................... 27,000.00
an average price of $20 per head, or a total
of Tillamook, Oregon, during the past year. To check this action the southern end of this dike Submitted in compliance with requirements of sec­
value of,................
$120,000
tions 2 of river and habor acts of 1867, of section
The work of constructing the scow was commenc­ was extended along the edge of the mud flat for
7 of the river and harbor act of 1899, and of
Horses: Parties
considered
responsible
ed by that company in August, 1899, but it was the distance of 3oo feet by driving a row of piles I
sundry civil act of June 4, 1897.
inform me that some sixty head of good horses
not completed and turned over to the United 6 feet apart, and it is proposed to place brush
APPROPRIATIONS.
were shipped out of Tillamook during the year,
States until February 27, 1900. The scow is 7o mattresses weighted with rubblestone between Act of—
August ii, 1888......
feet long, 3o feet wide, and 4 feet deep.
It is the piles forming this extension.
#5.200 which were sold at an average price of $100 per
September 19, 1890
500 head, or a total value of............................. ....$6,000
e<|uip|K‘d with a hoisting engine, a:,4-vard orange-j
7'he condition of the dike built in former}
July 13, 1892............
15,000
Swine: Fifty head valued at,..................... $500
peeldre.lge bucket, a piledriver andaderrick. The years on the north side of Hoquarton Slough at
August 18, 1894.....
16,000
Sheep: About 350 head, valued at,...... $1050
hoisting engine, dredge bucket, pile-driver hammer, I Dry Stocking Bar at the beginning of operations
June 3, 1896............
17,00
Remarks: It is difficult to find out the exact
March 3, 1899 .......
and the greater portion of the derrick fixtures were this year is shown in photographs Nos. 6 and 7,1
25,000
number of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, etc,,
furnished by the United States, the Tillamcok following page 3218 of the last Annual Report.
Total..............
78,700 shipped out of Tillamook during the past year.
Lumbering Company placing them in position on This dike, as originally built, consisted of two
The number and value can only be considered
the scow. The cost of the scow was Jfl,27o,» rows of piles 6 feet apart, a waling strip near the I
COMMERCIAL STATIST1CS.-
approximate, and in collecting data it has been
equipment .$1,45o.9o, total $2,72o.9o. The cost tops of the piles, cross braces from one row ofpiles
Tillamook Bay is in the collection district of Oregon.
of the hoisting engine is not included, this engine to the other, the space lietween the two rows of Astoria near the mouth of the Columbia River, is the nearest my intention that the estimates given in this
having been on hand at Cascade Locks, Oregon, piles being filled with brush mattresses and rubble­ port of entry. The nearest light-house is at Cape Meares, report can be regarded as conservative.
4 miles south of the entrance to Tillamook Bav.
for some years past.
stone. Some of the piles, waling, cross braces,! alxiut The
RESOURCES.
following statistics are tor the calendar year 1899:
On March 5, 19oo„ the snag scow was and stone of this dike had been carried away bv
Timlier: It is generally understood or known
The number of coasting vessels that called at Tillamook
¡»laced in commission with a crew of about ten heavy drift during freshets, so that it permitted Bay during the year was 7«. Of this number 27 steamers and that there are about twenty-one townships of
vessels proceeded only as far as Garibaldi or Hobsoti- good timber land tributary to Tillamook Bay.
men. and betwee.1 that date and March 2o, 19oo, some of the flow to pass through it and down a 15 sail which
are just inside the entrance to the bay; the re­
256 obstructing snags were removed from the channel north of Dry Stocking Island, instead of ville,
mainder, 36 steamers, proceeded of Tillamook City, the head The estimate made of above timber lands is 5,000-
channel of Hoquarton Slough, between Tillamook down the main channel of Hoquarton Slough of navigation.
000 feet to each quarter section, , or a tot.d
south of this island, as designed. During the past
and Bay City.
number of feet, board measure, of timbe; \
RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.
The existence of three shoals in the selected year this dike was repaired by driving new piles
of,...................
15,120,000,000 1
Articles.
Receipts.
channel was mentioned in the last Annual Report, between the piles driven in past years, bolting to I General merchandise...........
Remarks: The above estimate has been made
Tons.
one at Dry Stocking Bar, one near the old mouth same the necessary waling strips, and then placing
— 4.963 from the report or estimate of a number of
...
60 persons who are consider«! competent cruisers of
of Wilson River, and one opposite the southern sheet planki ig along 63o.5 linear feet of the Machinery and implement
end of the dike built in former years across the upperside of the dike, ¡thus stopping the flow
timber lands.
.
Total.....................
....... 5.023
head of Middle Channel. The necessity for widen­ through the dike.
Its value cannot lie given here for the reason
Articles.
Shipments.
The dike across Wilson River, built in 1895,
ing the channel dredged in former years, through
that the ¡»rice paid for stumpage varies from 50
Tons
the mud flat separating Bay Citv channel and was repaired by replacing three piles which had ; Lumber (12,389,044 feet)..
......... 18.584 cents to two dollars per thousand feet B. M.,
Garibaldi channel, opposite Bay City, Oreg., was been carried away. A small quantity of brush Canned salmon (incases*.
■........
354 depending largely upon the location of the timber
Butterand cheese.............
624
also mentioned in the last Annual Report, as well and rubblestone tilling remains to I k 1 placed in | Cattle
and the facility of shipping the same. As evidence
.........
2
5
as the necessity for making minor repairs to var- this dike to place it in good condition.
in support of the above estimates I note that the
All piles, lumlier, bolts, spikes, and wire cable
ions dikes built in former years. During the past
Total............................................................................ 21,812 records of Tillamook County show that up to
year drtdging was done, new dikes were con- used during the past year in constructing new
Number of passengers arriving and departing bv sea during March 1st, 1900, about 170,000 acres of timlier
■
the
year,
480.
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8
strutted or partially construct«!, and others were dikes and repairing others were furnished in ¡dace
Steam schooners \V H. Harrison, tonnage 75, and R. P. land has been taken up under cash entries, the
by O. J. Painter Nolan, of Tillamook, Oreg., under Elmore,
repaired as stated lielow.
tonnage 62, made weekly trips between Astoria. Oreg.} purchasers paying the U. S. Government $2.50 per I
The work of dredging a channel l.loo feet an informal contract. Operations under this j and Tillamook City, Oreg., during the summer months, and acre outs de the railroad limits.
:
long, 60 feet wide and lo feet deep at mean high informal contract were commence.! September 1 irregular trips during the winter months Steam launch
Coal: It is reported that measures of Lignite
Louisa, tonnage 8, piled between the different points on Tilla­
tide through Dry Stocking Bar was commenced 8, 1899, and completed May 7, 19oo. The prices mook
Bay. carrying freight and passengers. Various steam and or Brown Coal nave lx*en located between the
with the snag scow and crew March 26, 19oo, and for the materials tn place in the complete work coasting
vessels made irregular trips between Garibaldi or waters of the Nehalem and Tillamook Bay, but
completed May 18, 19<>o. The average depth were: Piles, 11 cents per linear foot; lumber $16 Hobsonville, Oreg., and San Francisco, Cal., carrying lumber their extent and marketable quality is not suffi­
excavated at this bar was 2.4 feet, and 5,7o4 jier 1 ,ooo feet board measure; spikes, bolts, and to the latter place for market.
ciently known to appear by figures in this report. I
cubic yards of material was dredged from it. This wire cable, 5 cents ¡x r pound. The quantities of
The recomendations contained therein meet with the
From ihe first of January, 1901 the number of vessels |
material was composed of sand anil gravel largclv materials placedin the diAesunder this informal approval of the Port of Tillamook Commission as representing
passing in and out over the Tillamook bar was, up to the first |
the citizens.
mixed with tree limbs and snags. Portions of contract were as follows:
»• June................................................................................................. ill I
Spike»,
The Port also demands that the appropriation be increased
this bar were tound to l»c tilled with brush and
tonnage................................................
10,799 1
Piles.
Lumber. bolts, and to provide for the purchase and maintenance of what is known Total
Passengers carried........................
..'418 1
limbs forming compact rack heaps. Sixty-three
wire cable. as the Bowers dredge. The scope of tile contemplated im­ Lumber exported 4.868,851 ft. worth,’.’.’..’
#50.000 00 I
large snags were encountered and removed in Spur dikes south side of
provement should also be extender! from its Bay City terminus
The all important shipments from Tillamook will always
Linear ft. Ft. B. M.
Dry Stocking Bar;
Founds. to below Garibaldi.
dredging this bar. A range on shore was set up
be lumber and dairy products.
The value of the latter is
2,109
8.782
Vpper dike............................
The Port feels also justified in demanding a depth of ten greatly affecterl by the promptness anil reliability of shipment
■.213
in the center line of this dredged cut.
No. 2 dike..............................
590
812
5.733
feet in the channel from inside the bar past Bay Citv and up to which is entirely in this case controlled by the condition of
The work of dredging a channel 895 feet long,
310
No 3 dike.............................
3.213
the docks at Tillamook City.
372
the bar during the winter months.
10.996 5
No. 4 dike.............................
60 feet wide and lo feet deep nt mean high tide
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■ 34Ö
A Bowers dredge is asked for as a matter of economical
The direct loss to the dairy industry of this county during I
65o
t.003
7437
handling of the detritus. The result of relying entirely upon the last four years occasioned by shifting and rough bars an<!
through the shoals in the channel opposite the Lower dike .........................
Spur dikes south side of shoal
the
force
of
the
channel
waters
has
not
been
at
all
satisfactory
old mouth ol Wilson River was commenced with near old n oath of ilson River:
disappointment in shipping cannot be placed at less
at Dry-Stocking, nor as a matter of fact at any other point on consequent
than $25.000. This loss will be a proportionately greater one I
the snag scow find crew Mn_v 19, 19.»o, and eom- Vpper dike........................ .
7.671
3.7855
the bay. The present dredger has accomplished more than all for every year that the bar is left unimproved.
2.S27
pleted June 2, 19oo. The average depth exca- Lower dike...............................
4 992
the dykes that has ever been put in. It is to be noted that the
Lumber Shipments: In the present condition of the
dredging of a comparatively small number of places will give
vated at this shoal was 1 foot, and 1,988 cubic Spur dike < as side of shoal op­
posite southern end Middle
the
required depth of ten feet The maintenance of the same Tillamook bar San Francisco is the only available shippi®#
yards of material was dredged from it. A large
..
point.
Grays Harbor in the state of Washington is perhaps
Channel dike ....................... ..
■4.232
4. *35
is, of course, a matter somewhat of conjecture although it must
amount of brush and snags was also encountered Extending southern end of
be expected that more or less work will be necessary every too miles further from San Francisco than is Tillamook
MEMORIAL
Port?Tillamook Commission
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n
it is likewise a lumber shipping port.
The difference!«