The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-18
been made. An appropriation of 5000 is asked

been made An appropriation of 5000 Is asked
for next year.
skagit. stillaguamish, Nooksack, Snohomish
and snoqualmie rivers. This plan OF improve
ment calls for the removing of obstructions.
VI the $4,000 appropriated. all but s2.304 has
Deen expended. An appropriation of $4,000 is
asked for next year
Chehalis River-This plan of Improvement
also calls for the removal of snags and obstruc-
uons. The sum of 10000 has already been ap-
propristeo and expe nded, and an additional
amount is asked for next year.
OREGON.
Coquille rfver-This improvement was began
In 1850. The plan provided for the construction
OF TWO parallel stone ettes 800 feet apart at the
mouth OF the river, in order to secure an eight
loot depth of channel and to make it safer
The work has progressed very satisfactorily. Toe
esumated cost was sl54,20o. of which $4,000
mas been appropriated, and all but $i0602 ex.
pended. 1t is now estimated that il will cost
s9i0o0 TO complete the work, and that $4,000
Can be proftably expended during the next
year.
Entrance OF Coos bay-This plan OF improve
ment provides for the removal of distractions,
ana BY erecting wood and stone jetty to keep
accretions from entering. The work was be-
gun IN 1879, when IL was believed 1t could be
finished for 100000. To date congress has ap-
propriated $2l3,750 OF which all but s3,4l2 has
been expended, and satisfactory results re-
ceiyed 1t is now proposed not to further
extend this jetty. but that two jetties be built.
one from Coos Head and one from the southern
END OF the north spit out towards the ending Mt
distance apart of 1850 feet The estimated
cost OF the new plan is 81. .466 4l2. 1t is recon-
mended that $750,000 be appropriated for the
next fiscal year, to be used on the new plan
In regard to arresting and controlling the move
ment OF sand by the wind, 1t is estimated that
this can be done st a cost OF $500 by sowing with
seed, and that if this is done 5000 acres would
have to be reclaimed to prevent sand drifting
into the harbor at Umpqua river The work of
removing the bars below Scottsburg has been
rarefuiy carried on, and now channel fifty
feet wide by twenty deep has been secured.
The sum Of 500 was appropriated, and nearly
all has been expelded. 1t is estimated that
1900 viii complete the improvements recon-
mended for next year.
Entrance to Yaquina bay-This plan of i'm
provement provides for dixie on the south side
OF the entrance, SO as to cause the south channel
20 shoal up and the flow be DETECTED north with
view to opening and maintaining channel
with seventeen feet at high water. Since 1881,
when the plan was started, 1886, 600 has been ap-
propriated, and all but about 5000 has been ex-
pended. The results attained have been very
satisfactory. 1t is estimated that it will require
$3O0,0O0 to complete the plans projected, and
that $l25, 900 OF that amount can be proftabiy
expended during the next year.
Tillamook bay and bar-No general plan of
improvement has been adopted for this work.
and the s52, 900 appropriated has been expended
in surveys and removing distractions II il
estimated that 900 can be used in compile ting
this work, and that amount should be appro-
prlated.