Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-01-29

. cnarSe OF river ana HOFDOr Work IL
Oregon and Washington may b
taken as indicating two things
first, purpose to undertake active
ly the work of removing the bar
riers to navigation between Celilt
and The Dalles; and, second, ap
proval of Captain Harris plan fo
doing this great work. Captain
Hart's recommendations have long
been under consideration at Wash
ington, and the department has no'
yet declared it's Judgment concern
ing it, but it is not likely thai
their author would have been re.
called to service here if it were not
in mind to make use of the plan
which originated with him tand
whice is identified with his name
Captain Hart's plan, which was
submitted to the Chief of Engineers
in November, 1900, is by a series
Of canals with locks connecting
with links Of the natural river
channels to make a clear connec-
tion between navigable water below
the distractions at The Dalles and
navigable water above the obstruc-
tions at Cello, total distance of
about ten miles. 1t is for a work
designed to duplicate in connec-
ton with the distractions of The
Dailes the work already achieved
at the cascades-the project now
presented being one vastly greater
in every way than the one accom-
plished. In Captain Hart's own
words, in an official report made to
the Chief of Engineers, in No
vember, 1900, his scheme Includes:
First, the construction of a canal about
5000 feet long with two lifts of about "a
feet EACH extending across the peninsula
on the Washington shore in the vicinity
OF Cello Falls; second, the removal of |
the worst obstructing rocks at and below |
Ten Mile Rapids and the opening re-
| of oh ol lono bo of
ing high water channel on the Washing
ton shore Immediately north and
parallel to Ten Mile Rapids; third, the
of a canal about 5000 feet |
long around Five-Mile Rapids, having
two locks Zone of 33 teet lift, and one to
be used as guard lock for use during
high stages, this canal to be aoug the |
Oregon shore, its lower end oaenng |
below Big Eddy and its
upper end to be Immediately above the
head of Five-Mile Rapids, utilizing thia
canal, as far as practicable, the more
northerlv of the two natural hg-water
canals or channels which now parallel,
On the south, the greater portion of the
Five Mile Rapids fourth, the construc
ton of a submerged dam or wer i'm,
below the head of Five Mile
Rapids, which will raise the present
evel of the low.water surface ap-
20 feet, thus drowning out
;he rapids below this dam aud Cello
Falls and reducing the currents in the
liver between the canal around Five
Nile Rapids and that around Celllo
Falls, especially at low stages, by in,
reasng the area of the cross.section of
and diminishing the surface
lope; fifth, the removal of the worst
obstruction rocks at Three-M Mile Rapids
The proposed canals are to be
IS feet wide at the bottom, cut through
old rock, with the natural conditions
# the sides as left after blasting it
to prevent injury to
essels.
This is the vital part of report
which makes book of many pages,
nd is accompanied by many maps
nd drawings setting forth the
onditions in detail, with devices
" which Captain Harris proposes
o overcome them. The estimate of
he work as whole foots up So
GA, ,371.
Captain Harts' plan, when it was ,
nnounced two years ago, COM ,
lended itself at once by its CON-
ION sense, its thoroughness and its
of a positive and final, 7