Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-03-14
,ounty, Oregon, thursday, March u, 1906.
THE T4QULN4 BAR,
HernlGRu'S Bill and the
Committee Report of
the Same.

We have before US the bill of
Mr.. Hermann providing for a new
survey and report on project for
deeper water on the Yaquina bar.
The bill recognizes the prejudice
that is supposed to exist id the
minds of some of the government
Of the Pacific coast, and
provides that the work shall be
done by engineers that have been
stationed elsewhere than on the
Pacific coast. The bill is as fol-
lows:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and |
House of Representatives of the
United States OF America in Con-
gress assembled, That the President
of the United States is hereby
authorized 10 appoint a board, TO
consist of three officers Of the en-
gineer corps not below the rank of
lieutenant-colonel, who, together
with the chief Of, engineers of the
United States army, shall make. a
careful and critical examination of
the bar Of the Yaquina Bay, in
Oregon, with a view to project
for deeper water, and shall report
the result of such investigation,
with estimate of cost, to the next
regular session of congress: Provid-
ed, That such selection of engineers
shall be from those not stationed
on the Pacific coast: And provided
further, That the cost of said in
vestigation and also surveys and
the expenses of said board shall be
betrayed from the balance ofmoley
available Of the appropriation made
for improving the harbor ON va
quina Bay, in Oregon, by Act ol
Congress of August seventh, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-four." i"
The bill was committed to the
committee on rivers and harbor:
who made the following report:
1.-The Committee on Rivers auc
Harbors, to whom was referred th'
bill (H. R. s939) providing for thu
appointment of a board of engineer
to consider and report OH a new
project for deeper water OH the ba
of Yaquina Bay. in Oregon, having
considered the same respectful,
report as follows:
That the project Of 1888, a
modified in 1892, requiring tn,
north jetty TO be raised to full higl
tide, and that five groins be bull
from the south jetty channelward
in order to prevent the current
undermining the jetty, is nearl
completed, and it is found that sal
project has produced a depth c
ID feet at low water on the bar a
the entrance to the bay, and thi
bar depth and location of channe
has been kept uninterruptedly dur
ing the entire year. We find, how
ever, that the importance of thi
bay is such that deeper wate
should be provided on the bar, wit
a view Of accommodating the deer
draft foreign shipping which is nov
offered additional inducement
enter by reason of the contemplate
extension eastward of the Orego
Pacific Railroad, which it is pre-
posed, under the new managemer
now about to assume ptoprietorshi
and control, shall connect wit
eastern terminals, and thus make
trans-continental railway with /
western terminus on the waters I
Yaquina Bay.
This will SO enlarge the presel
traffic, already. large and increasir
from and to the great Willamet
Valley, as to justify and imper
lively require deeper water thf
has so far been obtained by Il
existing project. The bill no
recommended proposes a board
three engineer officers of the Unit
States Army, under the grade