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Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project . $2, 131, 412. 20
Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June
30, 1895..

Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and
harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893.
(See Appendix V V 3.)

500,000.00

4. Umpqua River, Oregon.-Just below Scottsburg, the head of navigation on the Umpqua River, are five sandstone ledges 12 to 15 feet wide, and from 1 to 2 feet below low tide at a low river stage. They are separated by pools about 150 feet wide and 5 to 10 feet deep at low water.

The Secretary of War having authorized the expenditure of the balance, $4,685.89, remaining from the appropriation of March 3, 1871, in improving the river below Scottsburg, a project was adopted in 1885 for excavating by blasting a channel 50 feet wide and 3 feet deep at low water through the rock ledges.

In 1890, a survey of the river having been made, a new project was adopted. This provides for the removal of bowlders and ledges in the wharf basin at Scottsburg and below this basin with a view to opening a channel 50 feet wide and 4 feet deep at low water, at an estimated cost of $9,000.

The expenditure prior to June 30, 1892, was $14,245.16. The project was nearly completed; work was interrupted, however, by rising water, and some rocky points requiring removal still remain."

There was no expenditure during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. The appropriations amount to $33,500.

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended...

Amount refunded June 9, 1892

July 1, 1893, balance unexpended..... (See Appendix V V 4.)

$1,443. 28 .18

1, 443. 46

1, 443. 46

5. Mouth of Siuslaw River, Oregon.-The Siuslaw River enters the ocean in the midst of a vast shifting sandy beach, without any headland or fixed point to determine or aid in determining the location of the entrance channel. The unconfined channel has a range of about one mile over which it wanders. The depth on the bar varies from 5 to 12 feet at low water, and the bar channel is very variable in position and direction. At times a channel is developed inside the bar, and running nearly parallel with the coast. This channel is narrow, ill defined, and dangerous, as boats have to pass through it in the trough of the sea. At other times there are two channels.

The plan of improvement is to confine the outgoing and incoming waters between high-tide brush and stone jetties, so located as to direct the currents upon the bar in a direction practically perpendicular to the coast. The north jetty will be 4,500 feet long, the south jetty 3,200 feet, and they are to converge to an entrance 600 feet wide at the crest of the bar.

The amount expended prior to June 30, 1892, was $30,417.86. The work done was of a preliminary character, and there were no results as regards improvement of the entrance. The amount expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, was $34,625.84.

The work has not progressed sufficiently to produce any results of importance on the bar.

The appropriations amount to $70,000.

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630,000.00

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30,1895 50,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirments of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix V V 5.)

6. Yaquina Bay, Oregon.-Before improvement the usual low-water depths over the bar at Yaquina Bay were from 7 to 8 feet. There were three distinct channels, known as the North, Middle and South channels. The South Channel was the one mostly used, but was rendered dangerous by rocks. The Middle Channel, though free from rocks, was little used, being usually the shoalest. The North Channel, besides being long and tortuous, was so studded with rocks as to be considered unnavigable. These channels were constantly shifting and changing in depth.

The project adopted in 1881 was to construct a stone jetty on the south side, in order to cause the South Channel to shoal up, and obtain a least high-water depth of 17 feet in the Middle Channel. The jetty was to be 2 feet above mean low water, and was to run out to sea a distance of 2,50 feet from low-water line. The stone was to be deposited from barges, and cribs were to be used if possible. Both were found impossible, owing to roughness of water, and the jetty had to be built from a tramway begun at high-tide level, making the projected length 3,700 feet.

In 1884 the jetty was extended 316 feet shoreward to close a washout, thus making its length about 4,000 feet.

The present project, adopted in 1888, is to raise the south jetty to full high water without further extension, and to build a mid-tide jetty on the north side about 2,300 feet long from the north head to a point opposite the end of the south jetty and about 1,000 feet from it. This project was modified during the past year to the extent of raising the north jetty to full high tide and building five groins from the south jetty towards the channel.

The amount expended up to June 30, 1892, was $535,348.26. The results were highly satisfactory. A low-water depth of 12 to 15 feet was maintained over the bar.

During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, $65,501.58 was expended. A minimum bar depth of 14 feet at low water was maintained during the year. A new complication, however, has arisen in the formation of an inner bar 2,000 feet inside the entrance. The appropriations amount to $635,000.

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$120,000.00

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1895 120,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix V V 6.)

7. Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon.-The channel over the bar is direct and shifts but little, so that the bar is considered one of the safest on the Oregon coast. A fair depth of water is maintained throughout the year, so that vessels drawing 13 feet can usually enter.

The bay at low tide consists of three channels of fair depth near the entrance, but shoaling to 1 or 2 feet near the head of the bay. Tillamook City, the principal town of the region, is situated on a tidal slough above the head of the bay, and can be reached only by light-draft vessels at high tide.

No general project for the improvement of the bay and bar has been approved. A special project was approved for the expenditure of the money appropriated by the act of August 11, 1888. This provided for a survey of the bar and entrance, and the construction of longitudinal and spur dikes and shore protection works to deepen the water over Dry Stocking Bar, at the mouth of Hoquarton Slough, and to remove snags and overhanging trees from Hoquarton Slough.

The existing and approved project is to make a navigable pass from the north to the middle channel, so that boats can go to points on the north shore and thence right on up to the head of the bay; to build a dike to deflect the waters from the south to the middle channel at Junction Bar, and to improve Hoquarton Slough by closing up one of the two channels at Dry Stocking Bar. The estimated cost of the work approved is $100,000. The expenditure up to June 30, 1892, was $4,922.95.

No work was done beyond making a survey of the bay and bar. The amount expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, was $363.34. No work under the project was done and no results obtained. The appropriations amount to $20,700.

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892

June 30, 1893, amount expended during fiscal year.

July 1, 1893, balance unexpended

July 1, 1893, outstanding liabilities

July 1, 1893, amount covered by uncompleted contracts..

$157.00

14, 546. 82

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1895 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix V V 7.)

$67.16 15,000.00

15,067. 16

363.34

14, 703.82

14, 703. 82

85,000.00 50,000.00

8. Entrance to Nehalem Bay, Oregon.-Nehalem Bay, at high water, is about 2 miles long by 13 miles wide at the widest part, and is connected with the ocean by a narrow channel extending in a southerly direction about 3 miles. This channel varies in width from 1,000 to 2,000 feet at high tide. It is separated from the ocean by a low, sandy peninsula, about 24 miles long and one-quarter mile wide. The entrance channel south of this peninsula is shifting, its northern and southern limits being about 1 mile apart. The channel across the bar at the entrance is ordinarily 5 to 6 feet deep.

The plan of improvement is to hold the channel in its southern position by building two high-tide stone jetties; the northern starting from the above-mentioned peninsula and the southern to start from the mainland; these to converge to an entrance width of about 500 feet, and then, if necessary, to run parallel for a sufficient distance to secure a bar depth of 8 feet at low water.

The cost was estimated in 1891 to be $712,338.

The amount expended up to June 30, 1892, was $415.08.

No work was done beyond making a survey.

There was no expenditure during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893; no results were obtained.

The appropriation is $10,000.

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended.
July 1, 1893, balance unexpended

$9,584.92 9, 584.92

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project...... 712, 388.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867.

(See Appendix V V 8.)

9. Upper Snake River, Idaho, between Huntington Bridge and Seven Devils mining district. This portion of the Snake River flows through a deep canyon and is swift, with many rapids and dangerous rocks. The bed and banks are hard basalt and granite. Navigation is almost impossible.

The plan of improvement, submitted in 1891, under provisions of river and harbor act approved September 19, 1890, is to remove rocks and reefs from a channel 150 feet wide and put in ringbolts and iron posts to assist boats in lining up. The estimated cost is $80,000.

The first appropriation for this work, $20,000, was made by act of July 13, 1892.

The amount expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, was $17,917.71. A large amount of rock was removed from the channel

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60,000.00

Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1895 25,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix V V 9.)

10. Upper Columbia and Snake rivers, Oregon and Washington.— Under the above head it has been deemed proper to include the continuous Columbia and Snake rivers from Celilo, at the head of The Dalles, to Asotin, Wash.

The Upper Columbia and Snake form a continuous line of navigable river, but broken by many rapids which render navigation difficult and dangerous. These rapids are in nearly every instance caused by rocky bars with occasional bowlders. The channels before improvement were crooked and narrow, the ruling depth at low water over many of the bars was 2 to 3 feet, and some were practicably impassable at low

water.

The Columbia was navigable all the year except when closed by ice; the Snake, however, was navigable only during high water, for three or for months in the spring.

Previous to 1877 $20,000 had been appropriated for the work of improvement, and had been expended in surveys and rock removal at the - principal rapids.

In 1877 a project was approved which provided for the removal of bowlders and reefs, and for scraping gravel bars in the Columbia and Snake as far as Lewiston. The estimated cost was $132,000.

By the river and harbor act of July 13, 1892, the upper limit of this work was extended from Lewiston, Idaho, to Asotin, Wash., a distance of 7 miles.

The present plan of improvement is to remove bowlders, gravel bars, and rock ledges, and put in such contraction works as may be necessary. The estimated cost of the work has not been accurately determined because of the lack of continuous and full surveys, and because, from the nature of things, it can not be, as many of the obstructions which it is necessary to remove are continually recurring.

The expenditure prior to June 30, 1892, was $142,717.27. A great deal of rock was removed, with very great benefit to navigation; boats were enabled to carry more than double their previous loads, and with greater safety.

The amount expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, was $20,248.71.

The worst rocks and reefs between Riparia and Asotin have been effectually cleared out. At two of the worst bars dikes have been partially built, which will soon be completed. They have already had a good effect in deepening the channel.

The aggregate of the appropriations is $271,000.

July 1, 1892, balance unexpended

Amount refunded December 24, 1892..

Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892

$8, 282.73 155.44 15,000.00

23, 438. 17

June 30, 1893, amount expended during fiscal year.....

20, 248.71

July 1, 1893, balance unexpended

July 1, 1893, outstanding liabilities

3, 189.46 350.00

July 1, 1893, balance available....

2,839.46

Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30,1895 20,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 and of sundry civil act of March 3, 1893. (See Appendix V V 10.)

11. Columbia River, between head of Rock Island Rapids and foot of Priest Rapids, Washington.-This portion of the Columbia River is about 60 miles long. The banks are precipitous bluffs, from 1,000 to 3,000 feet high. The neighboring country is rocky and sterile. Navigation is obstructed by Rock Island, Cabinet, and Priest rapids.

At Rock Island Rapids the river is divided by a large rocky island. The channel is obstructed by reefs, rocks, sharply projecting points, and extensive gravel deposits, which dam up the water to such an extent that its slope, in escaping, is very steep. The river here, at a stage 4 feet above low water, has a fall of 10 feet in 3,000 feet, and 123 feet in 8,000 feet.

At Cabinet Rapids a mass of basalt, projecting from the left bank, causes the current to impinge upon the nearly vertical rocks of the

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