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or longitudinal dikes at the several localities where most needed, and in order to narrow and thereby obtain a greater depth of water and a more uniform steamboat-channel of the river. At the points where the work is to be executed, the bed of the...
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empty into the river below Harrisburg, the Mary's River immediately above Corvallis and the Long Tom above Peoria. The river has but recently left its old bed and made a cut across a neck of land into the Long Tom, using the bed of the latter...
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brought down from above and lodged on the bottom ; together with the additional work of filling up as far as possible the heads of all useless sloughs. "Most rivers acquire in time a fixed regimen, although periodically, and sometimes...
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out perfectly clear of the water, and afterward cut into several pieces, so as not to again become an impediment in the channel. The case alluded to fully demonstrates the very sudden changes in the channel of the river; an old one used for many...
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of locks 210 feet long by 40 feet wide, and 10 feet lift to each." " The height, from the head to the foot of the falls and rapids, is 39.75 feet in a distance of 3,100 feet. The difference between extreme low and extreme high water at the foot of...
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tion have, in addition to the many boats now plying upon the river, already completed, or are about to do so, several new light-draught steamboats for the trade of the Upper Willamette. The Champion, the Orient, the Occident, the Bonanza, and the...
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Distance from Oregon City and between intermediate points by water—Continued.
Names.
Miles.
Length of dams in feet.
Remarks
Matheney's Bar 57
Wheatland 1 58
Beam Island 58 1/2
Beaver Rapids 3 1/2 62
Lone Tree...
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Distances from Portland by the Oregon and California Railroad.
Names. Miles.
Portland
Oregon City .. 16.16
Salon ............................................. 37. 53
Albany 28. 81
Harrisburg.......... 25.166
Eugene City 18.124...
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Distances from Portland by the Oregon and California Railroad.
Names. Miles.
Portland
Oregon City .. 16.16
Salon ............................................. 37. 53
Albany 28. 81
Harrisburg.......... 25.166
Eugene City 18.124...
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the[i]r operations for the season. The following is a resume of the nature and quantity of the work accomplished during the fiscal year, and which continued until the limited appropriation became exhausted
SQUALLY HOOK RAPIDS.
The...
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Cubic yards.
Rock A 17.05
Rock B 140.30
Rock C .89
Total 158.24
UPPER UMATILLA RAPIDS.
The superintendent of work reached this locality with men and material transported on his small boats transformed into wagon-bodies and placed on...
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on account of the boats not being entirely manageable. At the head of the rapid the river has a velocity of twelve miles all hour." To make the High-Water Channel perfectly safe at every stage of water, it was estimated that it would require the...
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Cubic yards.
Rock No. 8a
Rock No. 8b 42.18
Rock No. 13 55.40
Rock No. 11 49.48
Two small rocks near No. 14 13.00
Total 192.06
Sum-total of quantities displaced at both Squally Hook and Umatilla Upper Rapids during the winter...
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from three to four additional trips per season to Lewiston, Idaho Territory, situated at the junction with the Clearwater. While navigation remains open on the Columbia to Wallula during the entire season of low water, and is only suspended on...
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important points above: Brown's, Penawa, and Selkirk; the latter only seven miles by water below Lewiston.
After leaving Texas Creek, and before arriving at Lewiston, some interesting settlements and Indian villages are observable from the boat,...
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Lapwai, situated on Lapwai Creek, three miles above its junction with the Clearwater ; the latter, which is but a mountain stream, is only navigable for steamboats as high up as that point, and then only for a few months during a very favorable...
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of the Government should be still further manifested, by promoting with ample appropriations a continuance of a work so beneficial to the country. In order to exhibit the great height above established low-water mark reached by the Columbia,...
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table of distances between the different points on the several rivers has been also prepared. The following is a copy :
miles. Remarks.
Portland--
Mouth of Willamette 12 12
Fort Vancouver 6 18
Lower Cascades 50 68
Upper Cascades 6...
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of the river during the winter and spring months, together with the reputed dangerous character of the channel its passage through the canons, from rocks jutting out into the stream and dashing its angry waves high against the opposing banks,...
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of the same name. The river there widens out very considerably, and a convenient basin was found in which to lay her.
The falls or cascades are three miles below Lime Point. The latter is the only place where a mass of limestone, in contrast...
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the much larger animals, were driven over the trail by the ordinary appliances of much shouting and many stones to urge them forward. The pilot and engineer proceeded on foot ; after three miles of the worst road of the whole route, the party with...
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same character, very narrow with perpendicular cliff rocks, at a height of from 25 to 30 feet. From the tops of the bluffs the hills rise at a steel) acclivity to the snow-line which marks their crests. While stopping at the Oregon Bar to wood up,...
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only again occasionally touches it at a few particular falls or rapids, such as at the mouth of the Salmon, where the natives go to fish. The other approaches, few and far between, are only used by the Indians, while herding their horses and...
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it became a painful duty to announce to the Chief of Engineers. He was true to his manhood and his profession ; and, as then truly written
He was a most able and reliable civil assistant, always prompt and energetic, perfectly fearless, inured...
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it became a painful duty to announce to the Chief of Engineers. He was true to his manhood and his profession ; and, as then truly written
He was a most able and reliable civil assistant, always prompt and energetic, perfectly fearless, inured...
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