Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-14
FOR WASHINGTON
WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE FOR
THIS STATE.
General Summary of the Various
Measures for the Improvement
of Rivers and HarbOrs and Other
Enterprises of Vast Importance
to Welfare of Commonwealth.

Washington, July l0.-Nearly three
millions of dollars for projects in the
state of Washington were appropriated
during the late session of congress, and
in other ways the state has Jared excep-
tionaliy we'll at the hands of the federal
government. The items of appropria-
tions may be roughly summarized as
follows:
Aids to commerce, $l,0l2,225; Puget
Sound navyyard, $l,ll0, 800; public
buildings and sites, $3.50, 900; total,
$2,472.725. 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 sup
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 $34. 200; Blaine. 1925 900 Battery
Point, $4,000 Browns Point. (addi-
tionaD, $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 SIS, 900 for mouth of
Noosack river; Swinoish slough; Okano-
gan and Pend d. Oreille rivers. The
total amount for these improvements is
$7O4, $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,
$117, 900; Grays harbor jetty, $156,775
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 rifle. 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
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 Colnumbia 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 sl7 ,032 to reimburse
state for money expended in survey OF
public lands; school buildings at Tula-
lip agency, $50 900 school buildings at
Puyallup agency, $50 900; Mcneil is
land penitentary, steam lanuch, $500;
Seattle assay office, 1923. $40; Baker lake
fish hatchery, SO, 4S0, and many others,
including an important bill granting
pensions to Indian war surveyors.
The Puget Sound maynard was gen
erously provided for, the total appro-
priatious being larger than ever before,
and the provision for new work being
larger than any other hayward in the
United States. The value of this yard
is now so generally recognized that no
special efforts will need to be made in
order to insure large annual appropria-
tons.
ALARMING CONCLUSIONS.