Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-02-03
Liberal Treatment Received in
Rivers and HafbOrS Bill.
HARD FIGHT FOR CELLO CANAL
Oregon and Washington Improve
ments Have a Grand Total
of $l.345, 900.

unprecedented pairing down Of river
and harbor appropriations this year,
and in face of the efforts of Republican
leaders in congress to enforce the most
rigid economy, the Columbia river has
been exceptionally we'll cared for in
the river and harbor bill just COM
pleted by the house committee. While
the appropriations are not as large as
asked for, they average up we'll along
side those made for other sections of the
country; in fact, Chairman Burton ad-
mitted today that he thought the Pa
cifc northwest had received more lib
eral treatment than any other part of
the country.
The appropriation which is most
gratifying to friends of the Columbia
river is that which insures the build
ing of The Dalles-Celilo canal. Mr..
Burton, backed by almost the entire
committee, stood out against this pro-
ject more persistently than against any
other proposition brought before him,
and it was only under intense pressure
that he yielded.
1t was the hope and intent of the
friends of this project to have it made
continuing contract. Could this have
been done, the canal would have passed
beyond the jurisdiction of the river
and harbor committee and would have
received an annual appropriation in
the sundry civil bill, in amounts suffi-
cient to pay for work as it progressed
until completed. But on this point
Mr.. Burton was unyielding. Never
theless the final action of the commit
tee is in the nature of compromise,
for while an immediate appropriation
of $50, 900 is made, the army engineers
are authorized to make contracts for
$3.50, 900, which is equivalent to an ap-
preparation of 100000. The $3.50, 900
not carried by this bill will be incor-
porated in the sundryi civil bill next
session, in plenty of time, according to
the engineers, to meet payments.
There is strong hope that by the time
this money is expended congress will be
willing to make the Cello canal con-
tinuing contract, so that it need not
again be considered in the river and
harbor bill.
Three other Columbia river appro-
priations are split up like for the Cello
canal. Three hundred thousand dol
lars is made Immediately available for
the mouth of the Columbia, and the
engineers are authorized to make con-
tracts for $500, 900 additional, this last
sum to be carried in the next sundry
civil bill. Likewise, for improving the
channel from Portland to the sea,
100000 is appropriated in the river
and harbor bill, and $125, 900 addi-
tional will he carried in the next sun
dry civil bill. For dredging a 20foot
channel between Vancouver and the
mouth of the Willamette $50, 200 cash
s appropriated, and another 100000
will be provided next year in the sun
dry civil bill.
The following amounts are all ,wed
or Washington:
!. Tacoma, harbor, dredging Puyallup
waterway, $4,000 cash; 500, 900 in
sundry civil bill.
Lakes Union and Washington canal
$125, 900 for dredging at Ballard and
authorization of new survey to deter.
mine whether a one-lock canal can be
substituted for the two-lock project.
Grays Harbor, 100000.
Inner Grays Harbor, 100000.
/ Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, $40, 900.
, Puget sound and tributaries, $50, 900
, SnOhomisb s]onoh S5 600
! Okanogan and Pend d'Oreille, $15,
| 900.
Stretches rifle, $65. 900.
: Bellingham bay, $35 900.
: Everett harbor, new survey.