The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-19


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me auxiliary power mentioned would come
frou sow wheel anchored In the cleared
rapids with line leading down to the boat to
u assisted.
Power Of the same kind II adopted by the en-
Gineen for the improvement Of navigation at
0oh1net rapids, - the best and quickest means
- insisting boats. The cost thereof would only
- 3lOoQ Descending boats, it II said, can pass
freely, and from here down to Priest rapids the
distance 10 forty. five miles over good river.
Il q proposed to overcome Priest rapids with
the same auxiliary power. only more OF It, and
aloo 70 clear out channel way BY blasting .
portion Of the submerged rocks. Clearing out
these rock distractions will cost $4,000 The
anxiliary power needed will be furnished BY =
sow wheel in rapid numbered 1: another 1t
rapid No. 8, and no further Improvement will
~ needed until rapid No 10 reached, where
EN- pen rapid No. 2, the engineers say, after the
Two large rocks in the channel are removed.
This auxiliary power win cost $500 and, with
contingencies, 5000. the Priest rapids will re-
quire an outlay Of >6s.0oo
This makes the total cost Of improving this
reach Of the Columbia river $lSS, 900, one-half Of
which, or $4,000. viii soon be available for ex-
penditure in this fiscal year. The improvement
q expectsd to give depth Of i've feet ct low
watef stages.
OF the balances Of the $4,000 appropriated,
$4,000 win be used In making . complete sur
voy Of the nver from the International boun-
daxy line to Rock Island rapida This reach ID
0aid 70 b almoet ~ miles In length.
The work ON the collection Of rivers rising
On the western slope of the Cascade mountains
and emptying into Puget sound between the
forty-ninth and forty eighth parallel 10 Of CON-
tinuoas kind. never completed, and consists Of
ANNA n N1nnpfug mi M fha 0f 9TH
which they are encountered. The aggregate
lsngth Of al these rivers il about $50 miles, and
the engineers will have their full estimate OF
$4,000 % keep them cleared during tho next
fiscal year. The rivers are: 6kagit, Stillaguam-
ish, Nooksack, enohomish and Hnoqualmie,
the last named . branch Of the enohomish.
The work contemplated viii be the removal oil
logs, suags trees and other distractions to their
navigation. The snag-boat will DO passed from
one river 70 another, doing service In each o.
far - the necessities Of its commerce require
and the money on hand will permit
Three thousand dollars IL the sum that can
- used ON the Chehalis river, and which will
- used In removing logs snags and other OBJ.
structions from it, bed and banks, % a. to pro.
vide . navigable channel-way during it,
medium and higher stages for steamboats, from
Claquato to Its mouth In 0ray's harbor. This
distance d nearly 100 miles. By the removal OF
such distractions the engineer say good all
the-year-found channel can be provided from
Elma to the mouth. . distance Of twenty-eight
miles
Il takes 1900 year to maintain the channel
already secured in the Cowlitx river, and this
amount will be spent to secure q light draught
navigation mp to Toledo, little more than
thirty miles above the mouth, and then with an
additional $1,000 TO extend operations up tc
Klickitat bridge, about twenty miles further VI
stream, making fifty miles Of navigation on the
Cowlitx The shore win also be protected a
such points - bad caving occurs.
Aside from the work on the Columbia river a,
Priest and Rock Island rapids. which ha.
already been described. the engineers will have
$4,000 to use on the upper Columbia and Snake
rivera Ten thousand dollars Of this will be ex
pended upon Long crossing bar. in Snake river
for the purpose OF gaining at least three foo
channel across II, and the other half will bs
spent in submerged rock blasting and bal
ecraping to secure q low-water channel of Eve
and onshsn feet In the Columbia O. far a,
( AinswoEth.
The jetty work ct the mouth Of Columbis
river win, Of course. b continued, but NO de
ecrfption 10 necessary. "a It IL classed Al ar
Oregon improvement The above 10 all the rive,
and harbor work contemplated in Washington
except the surveys of new works. which viii be
completed - soon as possible.