The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-01-09

ing III the Cascades, already referred co.
Vigorous Construction was expected; but it
ia understood that the financial arrange
ments in the est were the cause Ct delay
and this in turn operated to bring about
state of affairs which led to the passing of
the October coupon interest on the bonds
and the placing of the road in the hGnds of
a receiver at the end of October. The ap-
pointment as receiver of Col. T. E. Hogg,
the president Of the companies, on the ap-
plication of large majority of the bond
holders, gives cause tor hope that speedy
read diustment of the financial status may
provide the means for the early resumption
of work
Although the Oregon Pacific did not suf-
! fer, as did other roads in Oregon, from the
floods of February, 1890, yet much repair
ing work was necessary. This was vigor-
ous'y carried out, and though traffic be-
tween Yaquina aud the willamette valley
was only interrupted for three days, while
the waters of the Willamette, AIarys and
Yaquina rivers were at sheir highest.
The Willamette river bridge at Albany
stood splendilly the strain of the flood,
when the Salem bridge was swept away
only part of the up river protection pier
being damaged by the hoating drift, and
the structure of the bridge itself being alb
solutey intact.
IMPORTANT WORK UNDER WAY.
The value of the Oregon Pacific can not
be fully demonstrated until the completion
of the harbor works at Yaquina bay. A
long step towards this end has been taken
l by the handsome appropriation of $l65,OO0
2 by congress in the recently passed river and
harbor bill. Work is III progress already
| in the placing of stone on the north jetty,
which is intended both to narrow and pro-
tect the entrance.
About fifty men are at work at the gov
C ernment rock quarry, stripping and blast
, ing the rock, and ample Quantities of rock
will be available by the tins the winter
storms compel the suspension of actual
e work on the jettles until the coming spring.
;, 1t is intended by the authorities that the
4 Forth jetty shall be extended to sea, to a
J. point nearly parallel with the present end
e of the south jetty, before any futher pro-
! longation of the south jetty is carried out.
h Tie exp ,sure of the north jetty to the
II force of the Pacific breakers will compel the
:: use of stone of large dimensions i'll jetty
n work of very easy slope and wide base,
II Therefore this work can hardly be expected
n to progress as rapidly as the work on the
e south jetty.
n The steamship Willamette Valley has
l. hatyp ga m
4. francisco aud Yaquna without any kind of
], misadventure, so proving her exact adapta.
ir ton to the service in its present condition.
The completion of the jetties is intended,
in and expected. to facilitate the use of larger
L. steamships at more frequent Intervals, and
tn the development also of the harbor for
5e ocean going sailing ships. 1t is true that
~ this work has been in progress for nearly
i. ten years at a varying speed-being pressed
|,t forward when congress was liberal i'll appro-
e priating, and dragging along when means
" were limited.
It's AN INEVITABLE CONDITION.
OH But this condition is perfectly inevitable
it under the present system of appropriations,
ic and must he reckone1 with as a necessity of
Z
'' stantial progress in the providing of the
''e necessary plant, the completion of mechan-
ed ical preparations, the successful construc
Of ton of over a mile of jetty on the south,
:, the gradual deepening and Strengthening oi
Al the channel through the bar, its quicker
o1 restoration to normal conditions when dis
turbed by heavy storms, the convenience OF
the north lefty and the satisfactory cree
tion of the shore end of the same, and its
I'm CARRYING forward for loco feet towards it:
to destined termination. =.
eyf All towns along the Oregon Pacific have
,v slf .red, during 1890, in the awakening and
~ progress which has been common through
he out the Willamette valley. While this i:
th most evidently shown at Corvallis and AL
he bany, the smaller towns and villages have
II either sprung into existence, or have beer
~: greatly enlarged, and the tile of population
ers has run ahead of the railroad into the very
he heart of the Cascades.
1r. Nothing but the inability to secure title
l., to the timber lands beyond the line OF ex
isting surveys has prevented the the loca
ne tion of mills beyonl those already in oper
les alton as far east as Halsted. The comm!
mt year will doubtless witness the extension o
=. the surveys, and the inmost recesses of TIN
mountains will be surely reached with TIL
OF whirr and rattle of the saws, as well a
les with the whistle of the locomotive and tn
sx- rumble of the cars.
. LARGE EXCURSION BUSINESS.
-" The excursion summer traffic of the Ore
md gom Pacific to Newport and 4aquina on tn
west, and to the many points of beauty an
ma interest already reached by this railroad il
the mountains at The eastern end of tn
Oh road, was very large during the season q
I'M 1890, and was conducted entirely withou
-he accident. The ease with which the Cas-
md cade mountains could, by this route, b
" reached from Portland, and the Willamett
IN valley towns, was surprise to many
or Many were the camping outfits carried
res Gates and Halstet, and the white tent
'et were ooservapie u aliany ''''e 'a"'y ."
5on The little city of Newport, with its man
ed. additions and extensions, is stretching ava
ted over the cliffs towards Cape Foalweather o
10. the north, and Yaquina City owns about
many additions on the south, reaching OF
TO along the coast towards Seal rocks and A