The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-04-09
ALLOTS BIG SUM
FOR NORTHWEST
&,926,175 for Improvement Of
Oregon and Washington.
Other Projects Are Designated,
but Ffnishing Touches on
Cello Canal Deferred.

Washington, D. Cone million five
hundred thousand dollars has been al
lotted by the secretary Of war to con-
tinue work on the north jetty at the
mouth of the Columbia river during
the IL. months ending June 80, 1916.
This is within $250,000 of the
amount that would have been appro-
priated had the rivers and harbors bill
been passed as it was repuorted to the
senate and $3.50, 900 greater than the
amount proposed to be appropriated by
the house. Furthermore, this allot-
ment is the largest made out of the
$50, 100000 lump appropriation, ex-
cept the allotments for the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers.
The total amount allotted by Secre-
tary Garrison for Oregon and Wash
ington is So, 926, 175, or within $685.
500 of the amount carried by the rivers
and harbors bill when it failed. Some
Oregon projects will receive the same
amount provided by the bill, and in all
instances the amount allotted to these
projects is higher proportionately than
the average for the entire country.
The only important project for which
no allotment was made and for which
an appropriation was proposed is the
Cello canal, and this was left out be-
cause the $50, first recommended
was for finsihing touches, which can
be put on later.
Other allotments for Northwest wa
terways are as follows: Columbia and
Willamette, below Portland, $3.50, 900;
Coquille river, $4,000; Coos bay,
$4,000; Coos river, $4,000; Siuslaw
river, Slit, 800; Yaquina river, $4,000;
Nehalem bay, $1l6,175; Snake river,
100000; Upper Columbia river, Cello
Falls to mouth Of Snake river, $37,-
900; Willamette and Yamhill rivers,
above Portland, $25, 900; Cowlitz and
Lewis rivers, $4,000; Clatskanie
river, $1,000; Gray's harbor and bar,
100000; waterway connecting Port
Townsend Bay and Oak bay, SIS, 900;
waterway connecting Puget Sound and
Lakes Union and Washington, $17,-
900.
For other work on the Pacific Coast,
allotments were made as follows:
Los Angeles, $4,000; San Francisco,
$4,000; Oakland, CAL, $780,, 900; San
Pablo bay, SIS, 200; Humboldt bar and
bay, 100000; Petaluma creek and
Napa river, $3.50, 900.
The Mississippi river and its tribu-
taries receive the largest allotment Of
all. The Hudson receives 1880, 900
in all. General allotments for the
country at large include:
Hudson river, $877, ,780, in addition
to which there was appropriated by
separate acts 1922, ,220, making the
total for the Hudson 1900, 900; Del
aware river from Philadelphia to the
sea, 81, 900, 900; Savannah, Ga, $685.
900; Jacksonville, Fla, to the ocean,
$3.50, 900; Southwest Pass, Mississippi
river, $400, 900; channel work at Gal
weston, Port Bolivar and Texas City,
$3.50, 900; Houston ship channel,
5000, 900; inland waterway on coast Of
Texas, $625, 900; Mississippi river be-
tween mouths of Ohio and Missouri
rivers, $500, 900; mouth of Missouri to
Minneapolis, $1,O65,0 Missouri
river, Kansas City to mouth, $l,O00,-
900; Ohio river, open channel work,
1910, 900; locks and dams, So, 900, 600;
Chicago harbor and rivers, $3.50, 900;
st. Mary's river, Mich, 81, 900.