Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1881, Page 3

{ 1 A GREAT RIVER., The Mightiest Stream of the Pacific Slope-~Charncteristics of the Columbia, Cer. San Francisco Chronicle. The Columbia is without much doubt, the great river of the Pacific slope, and in regard to the volame of water which it pours into the ocean may without injustice be ranked with the mighty Mississippi itself. There is something in rivers of the first magnitude which appeals forcibly to the imagination of all men, and the bold adventurer who shquld dare to wade through those portions of con- gressional reports which have refer- ence to the appropriations made for internal improvements will quickly discover that rivers have been attend- ed to by conggress according to _size. Legislators can hardly be coerced into the consideration of such questions as are presented by the American and and other rivers that fall into the Sacramento, though of the highest importance; whereas there has been a cheerful acquiescence as to the necessity of improving the navigation of the Columbia. The size of the lattor river and the cubic feet of water which it pours into the Pacific inflame their imaginations,and as their ideas grow large and poetic so do the figures of the annual appr priations wax and swell. It is impo: sible for congressmen to visit the a tual scene of each proposed imprc ment. They have to make up their minds at second hand, and often through a medium of facts improperly colored, either through local prejudice or personal bias. Therefore, we find that they in their generous desire to develop the country and!maintain its natural arteries in a high degree of efficiency, do occasionally fall into pit«holes,and make huge blunders, we, the people, must not exult over them, but must remember that congressmen are but men, and not very superior men either. A DOUBTFUL UNDERTAKING. I have been led into this chain of remarks by a very natural process of thought. Standing here at the cas- cades of the Columbia, face to face with the government works now in progress, 1 cannot but be convinced that if no project of importance in- volving the expenditure of many mil- lions could be inaugurated by con- gress without a preliminary visit from a congressional committee, the present attempt in this spot would never have been made. I use the term attempt advisedly, pecause I am convinced that the undertaking never can be carried to a successful issue. The un- fortunate engineer in charge is en- gaged in a hand-to-hand conflict with one of the most potent forces of {na- ture, and can hardly be victorious. The scheme, which he did not. origi- nate, and of whose futility he must be convinced, but which he is expected to carry through successfully, happens to be in opposition to the great law by which the mountains have been con- verted from rectangular masses into picturesque peaks, with broad plains stretching faraway at their feet. He is expected to build a canal at the foot of a disintegrating mountain. Whether congress expects him to stop the pro- cess of disintegration, or to prevent the canal from being filled up, will be hard to determine. But it is obvious that for the canal to be of any utility towards the navigation of the Columbia one of these two things must be done. If we were Mohammedans we might in- voke the aid of Mohammed to re- move the mountain. If we were pa- pans, we might ask the Kobold to stop the falling earth at the brink of the canal. But in the nineteenth century, we, at least some of us, have learned to comprehend that natural forces are simply organic matter doing the expressed will of the Creator; and we do not invoke supernatural aid against the Most High. I have made no inquiries as to the paternity of this canal scheme, because it is quite pos- sible that the project as 1t issued from the brain of one engineer may have been perfectly sound and logical, and may have been turned into noth- ingness and folly by meddling poli- ticians, from the smaller considera- tions. For if the canal had been made upon the Washington territory side of the river there would have been nothing to impede its continu- ous and rapid progress to a triumphant conclusion, and to a busy career of usefulness ever afterward. And if we go upon the soundest principles of reasoning and ascribe to professional engineers the keenness and compre- hension which are their character- istics, we must come to the conclu- sion that in the original scheme that side was chosen, but that some politi- cal Ahriman pierced the egg ot the engineering Ormuzd and made con- fusion out of discretion. These are the facts. THE DALLES, The distance from Portland to Celilo is about 100 miles by the river, but in that distance the Columbia has two great impediments, one known as the Cascades, the other as the dalles. The readers of The Chronicle will be kind enough not to confound the lat- ter word with the bustling, brisk, live- and pleasure-loving town called by that name. The word is one of the French bits of ‘rude eloquence b which the voyageurs of the old Hud- son Bay company described striking objects, and is a proof that, unletter- ed as they were, and rough and un- cultured as we deem them, their hearts were deeply impressed by the beauties of the nature, and, their wits capable of recording these impressions by ex- pressive epithets, By dalles we m comprehend the pavement of a ter- race, but though there is nothing in the English language which comes so close to it as the cockney term ‘‘flag” for a broad stone used in making side- walks, yet this, though it conveys the sense of flatness, size and breadth, does not give the whole idea. The dalles implies the grandeur of a noble terrace, the splendor of the pavement of a palace, and the English tongue can only obtain this by an extended sentence, such as ‘‘broad flights of noble flag- ging,” all of which is implied by the one word, dalles. And it describes the scene perfectly, for the river finds its way through lava beds, which+ are actual terraces, and upon which the process of disintergration has up to the present hour made no mark and recorded no progress. They remain like great masses of iron ore. To overcome these terrible obstacles there is but one way, and that is to cut, blast, rend, trash through the lava by giant powder tor a distance of six miles at least, or nine miles accord ing to other caleulations, and give to the canal thus made some five or gix locks, for there is a fall from Oelilo to the end of the dalles region of some- thing like a hundred feet. As the minimum caleulation for such an en- torprise would be about 7,000,000, congress very wisely has had nothing to say to this part of the Columbia river, THE CASCADES, But the other impediment, the Cas- cades, is not 8o terrible to look at, though there is & strong probability that even here a successful canal in the Washington territory side could not be made for less than several mil lions. The Cascades, as the name implies, aro o series of rapids, which at low water are very formidable, but at high water can be surmounted by powerful steamers —save the last one The government engincersdetermined, therefore, to begin their canal works at this one, since this would afford the quickest relief to steam navigation and would enable the large vessels to get to the town of The Dalles without a check, From what T sce before me, their plan was to build two strong walls in the river; close to the south- ern shore, through which the river could flow unvexed by the rocks that form the raj They wero perfect- ly well aware that tne mountain was sliding down constantly, and that the wagon road to Portland had been let down bodily many feet in the course of a few years: but they adopted the view of the Oregon people that this was the effect of the rapid current of the Columbia river, which was continually washing the base of the mountain. They there- fore came to the conclusion that by making the canal they would create still water along the shore, and so the trouble would cease. How any per- son of common foresight and observa- tion eould have adopted a theory so ridiculous must ever remain a puzzle! For had the current of the Columbia been ten times swifter than it is, it could not have reduced the hard basalt upon the whole slope of the mountain into small pieces of shale. Admit- ting that it washed away the base, it could not disintegrate the whole sur- face. The process of disintegration is as follows: THE PROCESS OF DISINTEGRATION. Formerly basalt mountains as near- ly as possible rectangular masses. Upon these the atmosphere acts. The lightning tears away corners and leaves great marks upon the perpen- dicular cliffs—meteors rend away huge masses; earthquakes upheave great terraces, and leave gorges through which the rains that fall upon the plateau descend as musical brooks. But the great disintegrating agent is snow. The soow falls in the winter, and covers the monntain with a mantle of deceitful protection. In the spring the snows melt in the daytime under the fostering warmth of the sun, and the water fits itself into every crevice, every little indention and irregularity ofsurface. Then, at night time, it freezes, and as water expands in freezing with irresistible power, ‘the hard basalt has to yield. The inden- tation becomes a little larger, the crack becomes a chink, the chink widens into a fissure. The insidious water again begins its work with the next sun, and gets more and more into the surface rock. The balast has one law which it must obey—that of cleavage. Its cleavage is columnar, and as the water works upon it by alternate contraction and expansion it begins to cleave into small rectangular masses, with a col- umnar tendency. Then, under this superficial mass of shaly basalt the ‘water finds it way, and remains in pellets of ice until the sun is warm enough to melt them. As they melt they must go down sliding to the low- est level, and they bring with them the whole superincumbont stratum of disintegrated basalt that hides them from vision. When they get to the bottom they are the first beginning of aplain. The time comes, however, when the mountain, by continual wearing away, gets itself into such a condition that its detritus cannot reach the plain, but is compelled to form subsidiary hills. The water ac- cumulates under them silently until it acquires force to move the whole, and then the subsidiary hill, with all its trees, plains, orchards, housesand in- habitants comes shding down in fear- ful ruin, A SINGULAR FACT. Now the men who built the wagon road must be aware that this is true, because they noticed as a very singu- lar fact that about a foot under the shale there was a stratum of chunks of ice. But it never occured to them that melting ice must slide downward, because their brains were filled with the rapid current theory, although the Columbia has no more effect upon the mountain than I should have 1f I were tosneeze. The inevitable con- clusion to be drawn from this is that immediately the canal is built it will commence to fill up, Nor can it be dredged, because of the locks, Upon the Washington territory side the dis- intergrating process has been going on 80 long that a plain has been formed at the foot of the mountains which 18 several miles in width, Here the rail- road company have their portage, and here a canal could be dugwhich would be permanent. But I cannot avo'd asking the question whether it would not be more practical, more sensible, more remunerative, now to improve the bar of the Columbia rather than the Cascades! The time will come without question”” when a canal at this point will be imperative- ly required by the population of Washington territory and Oregon. But at the present time it does seem as if the feeling of the inhabitants was in favor of some improvements at the bar, There was a time when it was believed that this was not needed for it was supposed that eighteen feet at low § water was; ample for all re- quirements. But the tendency of commerce is to increase the size of steamers, and now the vessels that go from San Franciscoto Portland are obliged to lie outside until flood tide. When the weather is stormy they cannot cross at either high or low water, but must beat about in the ocean until it moderates and the bar becomes passible. When itis re- membered that there is no through railway communication between San Francisco and Portland, and the al- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JULY ternative is between some railroad traveling at each end, some pretty rough staging in the middle, and three transfers, there can be no sur. prise that people with baggage prefer to go by sea THE BAR OF THE COLUMBIA. But the sufferings of invalids and ladies in rough weather are really tor rible, and there is not the most re- mete possibility of any natural im provement. The trafic between the two citios is rapidly increasing, be cause there is great growth and much enterprise on a grand scale in Oregon; | and yet Oregon is and always will be dependent upon San_Francisco for many comforts and luxuries, even when the Villard ploted and Portland has double con nection with the eastern states. From every point of view, then, it would| seem desirable that congress should make some appropriation to improve the bar of the Columbia. Ttis the more imperatively needed matters look as if there was to be a vory material increase of population in Kastern Oregon and Eastern Wash- ington territory. The railroads are being built in the interests of the in- | people of San | habitants, which the Francisco will find yery ditlicult of bol The railroad lands, the very cream of them, are being sold for the price of government land, or in some casosa trifle more, Everything tonds to prove that there will bo in this ro gion great aotivity, great increase of population, RATHER SEVERE PARALLEL. Cincinnati Gazette, Col. Robert Ingersoll's view of Guiteau's sanityand motive is strik- ing and suggests a parallel: “Do you think Guiteau is insanc?” “No more than I am. Do you know that he has not yet given his true reason for shooting Garfield? He shot him,” smd the Colonel, “‘be- cause he had been put out of the White House. The d—d little egotist believed that he was mainly responsi- ble for the election of Garfield, and wanted official recognition and re- ward for his labor. He forced his way into the president’s room, and he was put out of it by his orders, This touched his vanity and so preyed on his egotism that he resolved on revenge. Having resolved to kill the President, he sought for a reason that would giye the color of justification to the act. Heis lawyer enough to know that if he avowed any personal hostility to the president his act would show malice; so he carefully refrained from any expression on the subject. “The quarrel between Conkling and the president gave him the desired reason. He put it on the ground of patriotism, and eagerly avows that he had no personal reason for shoot- ing the president. Have you noticed that never since his arrest has he alluded to the fact that he was ejected from the White House?” Guiteau fancied that his work in the campaign elected Garfield, Guiteau was ejected from the White House, and he resolved on revenge, and cunningly planned to give it the appearance of a political act without personal malice. For that was all his previous letter writing and his conned exclamation when he had done the deed. Another statesman has an idea that his part in the campaign elected Garfield and gave him a claim on all that Garfield has. The z\p\\uintuwnt of a man politically opposed to him to the New Yor lectroship ejected him from the White House; made him iunlnire articles malignant, slanderous, and despicable towards the prasident; made him throw up his seat in the senato, taking his colleague with hiu, Uering the senate to the demo- and then call upon ¢ legislature to re-clect him upon his own manifesto, which is a declara- projects -are com- | because | the New |} G_;dafi?ik Tlaad Rewa! g f that penetrates the Cor River to the Pacific 8! | GHICAGO ROOK ISLAND & PA. | CIFIC RATLWAY 18 the only line from Chicago owni Kansas, or which, by its own road woints 0 Missixa coxsrerioxs! 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