The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-03-11
THE MEANING OF CELLO

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follow though good sderacked This one
those occasions We had intended to write few
setting forth think the Cello to the Columbia
country We find that the writer of the editorial columns
Of Oregon Journal had the intention and has
could have consequently are giving
our readers his editorial instead Of It follows:
There bigger the Northwest in 1915 than
the formal opening Of the Cello canal
1t will make history It will ordain change 1t will trans
form communities. will alter programs and
It will not be final accomplishment but beginning.
great things that to follow the triumph OF man over the
rocky barrier that locked the lower Columbia against It's
will natural order but will take time for the
full adjustment to be made.
The power that great exert in directing the
course of traffic will gradually It impos
power exered before because of the rocks and
rapids at Cello.
upper lower will be joined and the OF
the the other The handicap will be
gone and the forces little used in the moving waters will be
united haronzed and utilized for the OF
products and the lowering of charges.
Destiny will work Fate will order route for
commerce giant and by that
great natural law the products
the North the products of the inland basin and the products
of Western Canada will be moved downhil to the
period required for these changes will depend largely
upon enterprise purpose of the cities along the great
waterway The transformation will be swift be tardy
corg the vision and the activity of the personal equation
That it will positive because If here have not
the energy rise to the opportunity other will
come with to and the great benefits the
order will bring
It is scarcely possible meaning of Cello
primal history the Northwest It
mammoth milestone in the onward sweep of empire.
Do Portlanders comprehend it's meaning to them?
THE PORT ELECTION
WYE CANNOT think that voting create port dis
w tct the people of Kennewic have spoken wisely Even
though may many years before the
traffic has developed and to that stage where harbor
the people by their vote last Saturday
have placed themselves the side of They have
pressed faith future the Columbia and
the judgment that the control of the waterfront should
be in public We believe that anyone will
have regret affirmative question
taxation egaed by the creation Of the district will
onerous to any property
That Kennewicks action has only brought favorable
publicity but endorsed by other and larger cities shown by
the following editorial from the Oregon Journal:
Saturday Kennewck in getting ready for the opening of
the Cello canal voted in special election to create port
district.
the city Kennewck and property
within mile Of the city limits each direction The purpose is
provide organization funds through
nent districts taxation whereby may improved
public warehouses be erected and maintained and all
harbor facilities be publicly controlled The of Port
with it's waterfront has been without its warning
other cities Thus early in its waterway city, Ken
preparing prevent such of its waterfront needs
from passing into the hands of private By vote of the
people there will be public ownership OF the docks
wharves, and public control of all harbor facilities
It the by which that city get the utmost
it's position the waterway to to the It
guarantee against that monopoizaon railroads
interests of water fronts and terminals by which
competition has been effectively stranpled
It process by which forever keep it's
highway and to the markets world open
unhndered and by which it's position influence
prosperity be held back monopostc agencies
intelligent and safe that of the present
succeeding generations should be by every city and
town O. the Columbia.
incidentally Kennewks action sign the activity that
the Columbia cities the of the
opening of the Cello canal It should meaning for Port
land.
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" ENNEWICK AND PASCO taken oath to divorce all
feelings of jealousy and rivalry that they might join hands
in soemnizng the wedding of the and Snake rivers