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Coal fleet arriving at Portland daring twelve months ending June 30, 1884.
[Compiled from statements furnished by James Laidlaw & Co. and J. M. Fox, coal agent, Oregon
Improvement Company.]
Number of cargoes.
Months.
Amounts.
Domestic....
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Coal fleet arriving at Portland daring twelve months ending June 30, 1884.
[Compiled from statements furnished by James Laidlaw & Co. and J. M. Fox, coal agent, Oregon
Improvement Company.]
Number of cargoes.
Months.
Amounts.
Domestic....
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Fort Canby tug does not use it, but makes the outside passage. The indenture on the river side of Clatsop Spit has widened and extended
towards the sea.
The most important change in reference to the jetty construction is
the shifting of the...
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in a fog, and became a total wreck. During the same month the pilot schooner Cousins grounded on the sands at the mouth, was abandoned and totally wrecked on Clatsop Beach.
It is judged that the present appropriation will permit construction of...
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Recorded shipping.
Coastwise. Foreign.
Ports. Entrances. Clearances. Entrances. Clearances. No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage.
Portland (for 13 months) 205 261, 582 1 155 219, 658 45 42, 835 93 91,336
Astoria (for 12...
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Columbia River lumber fleet for year 1883-'84.
[Furnished by Capt. George Flarel, with additions from reliable sources.] Months. No. of
vessels feet. Value, July 5 2, 028 $20,289
August 3 1,505 15, 049
September 3 1,440 14,401...
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Columbia River lumber fleet for year 1883-'84.
[Furnished by Capt. George Flarel, with additions from reliable sources.] Months. No. of
vessels feet. Value, July 5 2, 028 $20,289
August 3 1,505 15, 049
September 3 1,440 14,401...
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To preserve record of an unusually low stage which occurred last summer, gauge readings were resumed in August at the regular stations. Examinations, including leveling from gauges to benches, were made in October at the stations Corvallis,...
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COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.
The Willamette River is in the collection district of Willamette. The nearest port of entry is Portland, Oreg.
The nearest works of defense are at the mouth of the Columbia River.
The revenue collected during the...
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the head of ordinary continuous navigation on the Snake, is $4,554. On the Columbia, between the Snake and Priest Rapids, there does not appear, from examinations and reports of pilots, to be any need of improvement; but I judge it is well to...
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removed, and their removal was to a depth of 5 feet below low water. This gave a depth of water at no place less than 33 1/2 feet in a channel nearly straight, and 100 feet wide where narrowest. There yet remains at the head of the channel a large...
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Abstract of contract for improving Upper Columbia River, Oregon, in force during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1884, in charge of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers.
No.
Name and residence of contractor.
1 Frank T. Dodge,...
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Below Riparia.—Gore's Dread, Long Crossing, Couch Island Rapid, bar below Ford's Island, Copeley's Cut-off, Three Island Bend, Tiger-head Crossing, Perine's Defeat, Ainsworth Bar, and bar at mouth of river.
The passage of many of these places...
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ing through Colfax to Moscow, Idaho. This railroad runs parallel to the river at a distance varying from 4 to 18 miles. Its construction tends rather to develop new fields than to diminish the trade of the river.
* * * * * * Hereto is appended...
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No obstructions are found on the rapids. The only improvement required is the widening of the river at the chutes to distribute the fall with greater uniformity over the length of the rapid.
At the shoal above, the selection of a channel and its...
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the piers and abutments for the railroad bridge built by the Northern Pacific Rail road Company across Snake River at Ainsworth was taken from this place.
23. Wawawai.—Grain shipping point on the right bank of the river.
24. Upper Log Cabin...
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It is reported that the current is strongest here when the water is at a stage 4 feet above low water. No obstructions discovered or reported.
29. Ilia.—Warehousehouse and shipping point on the left bank.
30. Swift at Paine's...
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The removal of the bowlders referred to is all that is required to free the channel in the vicinity of the bar. Their position and contents can only be ascertained by a careful survey.
Though no shoal rocks were found in the channel through the...
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be removed. Two other rocks, the one at the head of the rapid and the other at the foot, should be removed to afford an unobstructed passage through the rapid. It will; probably be found necessary to lower the gravel bar in addition to removing...
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64. Ford's Landing.—A shipping point on the left bank of the river for grain from Eureka Flat.
65. Shoal opposite the foot of Ford's Island.—A diagonal bar crossing the river. The channel carries a minimum depth of 5 feet, and is...
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current which characterizes this rapid can be reduced only by widening the waterway. This would involve extensive rock blasting, which is not at present necessary, as the passage of the rapid either way can be made at low water without risk or...
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Bench on top of ring-bolt near edge of water on rocky point opposite the first telegraph pole above the whistle-post on the railroad, and 3/16, mile above the 300th mile-post. Elevation 27.39.
The first of these two benches is marked, with...
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Table of distances of points on Snake River from Lewiston and from its mouth.
[Compiled from surveys made for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in November, 1871, by P.
G. Eastwick and J. R. Maxwell, assistant engineers.]*
Localities....
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