The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-12-31
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errors and railroad men and cabinet
mem beers, who all united in giving
encouragement to the movement. It
/ is proposed, as l shall later explain
to you, that a bill providing $780,
i 600, 900 a year for the next ten
/ years, or an aggregate Of $500,000,-
600, be introduced in this congress
and we have the most flattering as
surances that such a measure will be
passed What we ask now is that
! all the people unite in sending me-
MORALS to their congressman and
| senators urging them to support this
| bill With such an expression of the
unanimity of public sentiment, ii
cannot fail
LAS for the progress of work on
the Columbia river, some of you may
not know that we have the river
open already from the ocean to We
natchee with practically but one bar
rier-or,, at least, one serious bar
rier. That is the Cello rapids, and
we have there already an improve
ment in the nature of canal and
locks so far under way that if we
can get some additional funds it will
| be completed in two years. Then
after Cello we have Priest rapids.
But already there is a canal there.
The Hanford irrigation and water
power canal has a width of 80 feet
and water depth of 10 feet. All
that remains for the open river peo-
pie to do is to put in a lock at the
lower end-quickly and easily done
and there you are: the river open
from Rock Island to Astoria! Then
few blasts at Rock Island-and
there you are again: the river open
from the sea to Okanogan'
These things are not only possible,
but they are coming soon, if We will
but bestir ourselves.
You people here have an espe-
tween here and Bridgeport, and
above Bridgeport. The extension of
transportation facilities to the large
country there and the making of it
tributary your city, as well as the
extension of your connections and
trade in other directions, is destined
to make of Wenatchee a large city.
Wenatchee ought in twenty years to
have a population of 100000"
Walter NJ Olive and Captain Fred
McDermott followed DR.. Blalock.
Mr. Olive stated that he had under
stood that of the money appropriate
ed by the state Legislature last year
for use on the Columbia river that
the river above Wenatchoe was to
have had a share, but the lcne had
been spent there.
Captain McDermott said that ne
would relieve the doctor from ex-
planning this point because he had
found that the doctor now already
fully. appreciated the situation of the
great country beyond transportation
facilities above Bridgeport, and that
he would take steps Immediately
upon returning to Walla Walla to,
if possible, have part of that fund
diverted to the northern end of the
river. This would bring great and
immediate benefits to the upper
country.
Thereupon Mr.. Olive moved, and
Captain McDermott seconded the mo-
ton, that vote of thanks be ten
dered to DR.. Blalock, and that a
resolution be drawn expressing the
sense of the meeting that our rep
resentatives in congress put forth
every effort to secure the desired ap-
preparations, as recommended by the
open river congress, to improve the
country's rivers.
j The chair appointed the two gen.
tlemen mentioned and Mr.. D. Gen
singer to draw up resolution.
:. :. Pass Resolutions.
The following resolution was
drawn:
1--WE, a committee of a mass meet
ing of the citizens of Wenatchee
heartily endorse the open river move
ment as advocated by DR.. Blalock,
and recommend that the Wenatchee
Commercial Club endorse the plan
proposed by the rivers and harbors
congress to have the national con.
gress appropriate the sum of $780,
100000 for the Improvement of the
rivers and harbors of the United
States, to be expended at the rate OF
$5O,OOO,OOO annually; and we most
earnestly request our senators aud
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