The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-05-06
FACTS ABOUT THE CANAL


1900 force of 25 will be the locks
Eight killed on the works-ess than one year.
upper of the waterway at Cello falls and the lower
at Big Eddy three miles above The Dalles.
canal 8 miles long, IS feet wide and eight feet
deep at low water There which IS feet wide
and 800 feet long,
and affords boats uninterrupted navigation from the mouth of the
Columbia lewiston Idaho 500 miles inland the Snake river
largest locks the twin chambers at Big Eddy These
two locks boats 20 The locks operated
hand.
Boats will allowed greater speed than six miles
hour through the require 20 minutes pass each
lock- will make the running time about three hours the
canal
A mountain of rock removed make way
the channel excavation included 10O00 cubic yards of
rock and 6O6 900 sand common dry and subaqueous.
The work done under the supervision of Colonel Jay
Morrow army corps u A. with headquarters at Portland
Captain H. Dillon the engineer ION the job when the work
was finished. F. C. Schubert was his assistant
From engineering standpoint the finished canal is
achievement of the of the United States
only what has been accomplished at Panama Con-
by that shattered the
like glass the officers charge of the work have
voked similar in the of dynamite this time harnessed
carefully controlled the calculations of scientific build
half the length of the CANAL than four miles,
they channel capable of carrying steamboats, through
the solid rock Oregon Clearly cut than
itself of
less flow Where stone had not been placed naturally the
substituted walls To the precptous
plunge through the rapids they have built locks that
raise boats, approximately, 80 feet in the air.
been interrupted by failure of
appropriate funds but its supporters in Inland
Empire determination surrendered expectation OF seeing
the day of fulillment this week brings them.
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THE KNOCKERS CREED
BELIEVE that nothing right that everything
believe that alone have the right ldea The town is
wrong editor wrong the teachers the people
the things they doing are wrong ana tney are
ing anyhow believe could fix things
if they If they don't will get lot OF other
fellows myself and will have law passed to make others
do the things the WE want them DONE
believe that the town ought to grow is too big
now believe fighting public improvement and in spoil
everybodys always to the front in opposing
things and never yet advanced idea supported
of man. woman child opposed to fun and am happies
at funeral believe in starting reforms that will take all the
iov out of life It's world and glad of it. Amen
LOCAL FELLOWS NOT TO BLAME
it is that parts of Tuesdays festivities did not
slim along the smoothness characteristic of other ce
staged by the past the blame for the
den in question fairly be laid to the committee
anqements IT, instead of struggling along hours apart the
boats from Lewiston had arrived time and fleet Kenne
front celebration undoubtedly carried
out without hitch to the day. 1t looks to us though
a committee charge of the fleet to be blamed for
ting distinguished to this point anywhere
near schedule time and prophesy that they don't
along the the Kennewick
the only one disappointed before Astoria reached
GROVE LOOKS GOOD
uR editor R. he's down the river with the fleet
and left line-nor his shadow-of editorial
and somehow other this has to be filed While we here
~ the shop get chance take the the river
w did get down to the Tuesday, helps lot
That of trees down on the river has been there
tho Oldest inhabant remember we dare saw that
hut few of people of the community possibilities
- tho Mace committee of the local Cello ceero
on got it and cleared the underbush Numerous