The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
FOR DEEP MATER.
The .Hold-up of the Yaquina
Contract Creating a Stir
Throughout the State.


to act in the matter of the Yaquina bay
Improvement has created stir through.
out the Valley aud mass meetings have
been held to discuss the situation in sev
eral towns. Boards of trade and city
council. have passed resolutions urging
the war department to ta.e-up the mat
ter at once, aud it is hoped that Secre-
tary Alger will be induced to tax. some
favorable action in the premises shortly
after the convening OF congress.
Although the counties of Linn, Lane,
Polk, Marion. BentoH and Lincoln are
takin: the leaI in the matter, the inter-
prov .meuts is by means conGned to
these counties. Through ,ut the state
the matter is being agitated and the citi-
zens ge.crally are enthused IS never be-
fore.
The attitude Of the Oregon delegation
toward this improvement and the intsr-
est DISPLAYED by each nleml er thereof,
Certainly argues we'll for tie sue 'ess of
the movement. Saturday last Congress
men Ton:.u~ and Ellis, accompanied by
delegations .f prominent citizens from
Independence, Albany, Eugene and Cor.
Wallis. visited Newport, and at public
meeting discussed the situation in de-
tail. Congressman Tongue is particular
ly alive TO the situation and in his ad
dress stated, among other things. that he
found he citizens of the Willamette
Valley from Roseburg to Portland and
from the Summit of the Cascades to the
coast, intensely interested in the conf
pletion Of the work at Yaquina. From
statistics which he iad obtained he
shove. that by shipping from Yaqnina
direct TO Liverpool, which would be pos
sibls with the completion of the coutcia-
plated improvements there, the annual
saving by way of freights, to the pro.
ducers of the Willamette Valley would
aggregate as much as or more than the
total oatlay contemplated i'll the river and
harhor ill of 1896.
Congressman Ellis also spoke eatllasi
astically. He said the whole state felt all
interest IN Yaquina aud that the benefits
that would accru: to the citizens of West
era Oregon tlirsagll Yaquina bay, would
be shared by the people of bis district.
He promised that upon the arrival of the
delegation at Washington bombard
I +ment of the war department would begin
and that Secretary Alger would be given
ruff1 he 1oG,,ofo
swer.
Ju.ge Burnett of this city followed
with a staining speech, in which hs
claiAed that not oaly Oregon, but the
United States was interested in the iiu-
provement Of Yaquina harbor. 1t was
important that the work 60 forward, not
only from q commercial standpoint, but
because of the utility of Y.quina bay as
harbor of refuge.
c. B. Montague, of Albany, also spoke
earnestly i'll favor of the improvements.
He said that we were all interested in
the matter as citizens, and that politics
should be eliMinated in our efforts to
gathsr inform alton and otherwise aid the
delegation in its efforts to secure favor
able action by the war depaament.
At the conclusion of the meeting
committee of Eve, consisting of R. A.
Bensell, NJ. N. Davis, Ben Jenes, F. NJ.
Carter aud Henry Nice was appointed to
gather statistics bearing on the CONNER
cial Importance of the Yaquina harbor,
which are to be forwarded to the delega-
sense of the meeting that similar COM
uittee should be appointed in all the
counties Of the valley to gather informa
tisn to he used in the presentation of the