The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17
FOR WASHINGTON
WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE Fop
THIS STATE.
General Summary of the Var;on.
Measures for the Improvemen,
of Rivers and Harbors and Other
Enterprises Of Vast Importance
to Welfare of Commonwealth

washington, July iU.-Nearly three
millions of dollars for projects in tho
state of Washington were appropriated
during the late session of congress. and
in other ways the state has Jared excen.
tionaliy we'll at the hands of the fedora,
government. The items of appropria.
lions may be roughly summarized as
follows:
Aids to commerce, $1,O12,2 PUGET
Sound hayward, $1,1l0, 800; public
buildings and sites, $3.50 900; total
s2,472,725. This amount does not in
clude the general ''lump'' appropria.
tions in which the state will share
and which raises the grand total to
more than 100000.
The appropriations for Alaska, aside
from those provided for the regular sun
port of the civil government, consisted
chiefly of sums authorized to build
lighthouses.
In the Washington items enumerated
above, "aide to commerce" is used to
include both river and harbor improve.
ments and lighthouse construction.
The lighthouse appropriations for Puget
Sound this year are as follows, amount
ing to SOL. 700; Blaine, $25 900; Battery
Point, $4,000; Browns Point. (addi
tional. $4,000.
The river and harbor,, Improvements
for which appropriations were authoriz-
ed during the session just closed, are
the following:
Olympia harbor; Tacoma harbor:
Grays harbor, inner harbor; Whatcom
harbor; Lake Washington canal; Co.
lumbia river at the Cascades; at the
Dalles and Cello, conditionally; Van
couver; Upper Columbia and Snake
rivers; Cowlitz river; Puget Sound trib-
utaries, including $l5, 900 for mouth of
Noosack river; Swinoish slough; Okano-
gan and Pend d. Oreille rivers. The
total amount for these Improvements is
$704 $50.
Added to these appropriations, which
are named in the river and harbor bill,
must be the following from other APP
preparation bills: Everett harbor,
sll7. 900; Grays harbor jetty, $l56,775
These surveys in Washington, looking
to further river and harbor improve
ments were authorized to be made:
Snohomish river, between the city Of
Snohomish and the confluence of the
Skykomish and Snoqualmie rivers, in
Guiding Stretchs rife, with view to
providing channel of sufficient depth
and width at low water to accommodate
steam vessels which may reasonably be
expected to navigate said waters.
The Puyallup and other waterways
not already surveyed. of the harbor Of
Tacoma, with view to further harbor
improvements.
Columbia river. between Vancouver
and the mouth of the Willamette, with
a view to ascertaining the effects of the
dikes and other works between the
points named. Also board surveys to
the Lake Washington canal and the Up
per Columbia river.
Another laid to commerce, in which
the state of Washington is directly in
terested, is provided for by the appro-
priation of 1926, 900 for lighthouses in
Alaska. This raises the total amount
appropriated for this work to $426, 900,
and insures the constructionof the
lighthouses.
Some of the measures, besides those
already mentioned passed by congress
during the late session are these: For
the protection of game in Alaska; ex-
tending SUPPORT facilities at Sumas;
granting state lien lands in cases in
which settlers have located on school
lands; increasing the salaries of deputy
collectors at Seattle and Tacoma; I'M
provement of Mount Rainier park; ex-
tending time for desert land payments;
appropriation of $1,000 to reimburse
state for money expended in survey oil
public lands; school buildings at Tula-
lip agency, $50, 900 school buildings at
Puyallup agency, $50, 1000; Mcneil Is
land penitentiary, steam lanuch, $soo;
Seattle assay office, $23, $40; Baker lake
fish hatchery, SO, $50, and many others
including an important bill granting
pensions to Indian war surveyors.
The Puget Sound navyyard was gen.
erously provided for, the total appro-
priations being larger than ever before,
and the provision for new work beng
larger than any other hayward in the
United States. The value of this yaru
is now so generally recognized that no
special efforts will need to be made III
order to insure large annual appropria-
tious