, 1890-04-03
TIE GREATCOLUMBIA
Appeal to Congress for tho Re-
moval OF DISTINCTIONS at
Little Dalleg.
Fifty Thousand Dollars Required
to Open This Matchless
River.

Hon. NJ. II. Randall, of Stevens
county, who has been in the city n
day or two, on his way home from
Olympia, handed the REVIEW a
COPY of the memorial to congress,
introduced by him and passed 10y
the Legislature, praying for an ap.
preparation for the removal of oh.
structions in the Upper Columbia.
lnasmuch iri the memorial has never
been published in full, IL will doubt
less bc interesting Ia many readers
To the Honorable the senate and House
OF Representatives. Of the United
states, IN Congress Assembled;
Your mcmoriulists, the legislative
assembly OF the state of Washington, re-
spectiully represent that the Columbia
river one OF the great waterways Ot the
world, can, with slight expense, be
made navigublo from Kettle fRlls, in
Stevens county. state of Washington, to
n point In British Columbia moro than
30 miles distant; that said river, above
said fails, traverscs a country OF I'M
cScclltd fertility, rich in the pro
cious minerals IN coal, iron. marble and
Limestone, and In vast forests Of pine,
lir aud cedar trees; that Northeastern
Washington, In the center Of which lies
lhc great and thriving city Of Spokane
aus llf'aAN W w HANAWEAlN lllNb tblllltt~
ton with said country by means of said
river, IN order that there may he q
mutual interchange Of products; that
the said Columbia river is navigahlr in
British Columbia to aud above the cross.
ing OF the Canadian Pacific railway, and
the said country will be greatly bene-
hted by tho competition for its
irciRhts of that great tTlnscontnentnl
line; that Kettle Falls on said Columbia
river Is the natural and only point at
which It il practicable for lines of rail.
way and other highways to approach
said Columbia river from Northeastern
Washington, and that n line Of railway
from said Spokane Falls 10 said point Is
now completed within n few miles of
said kcttlo Falls, namely, the spokane
Il Northern railroad; that the only oh.
,tflCtiouS IN said river above said Kettle
Falls, for more than 80 miles, are at q
place called the Little Dalles; that said
ubstTuctiuns are Uncomfortable and can
be removed, ana tho river rendered nav
igablc at all stages OF water nt an cXpcnd-
iturc OF not to exceed $50 600, as r.
shown by the report of Lieutenant
IhOmns w. Symonds, Engineer Corps,
l. =. A., made In the year 1881, senate
executive document 1856; that consider
able trriliC between Northeastern Wash
ington and British Columbia has existed
and been carried on by means of line
OF sioIinhOats above said Little DIllCs,
hut ull freight to and from said boats
has hccn required TO be frpightcd by
teams Tor long distance over difficult
and dangerous roads, and for this reason
the said traffic has languishcd aud
nearly died away, but that the said
traffic will he revived aud immeasuraby
Increased with the competition uf the
line of the said Spokane n Northern
railway to said Kettle Falls, and with
tho removal of tho distinctions in tho
said river at the Lutte Dallcs.
Wherefore your memorialists respect
iully pray that an Appropriation of u
your honorable bodies for the removal of
the distractions in said river at the
Little Dnilcs, said appropriation to DO
expended under the direction Of the
general government as in other similar
cases.