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 328 FEDERAL REFOSTEB. �the Columbia. The highest water is 28 feet above low water, and during the past winter the rise was 21.6 above low water. The current in the ship channel along the line of the proposed bi-idge is nearly parallel with the direction of the opening between the piers, and varies in velocity from one to seven miles an hour, and at average high water is from three to four miles an hour. During the winter months strong southerly winds blow down the river for days at a time. The abutment pier is to be placed at the bank in front of the Morrison-street wharf, and the spaces between the next five piers are as follows: The first, 180 feet; second, a space on either side of the draw-pier of 100 feet eaeh ; and then two spaces of 200 feet each. The piers are constructed by driv- ing piles inside of wooden cribs, and filling the spaces between them with loose stone up to a little below low-water mark, and above with iron tubes filled with concrete, except the draw-pier, which is to be of masonry above low water. The spans are to be of wood, except the draw, which is to be of iron. The lower chord is to be eight feet above high water. The five piers east of the western abutment are now above low water. �On January 3d the plaintiffs filed their bill in this court to enjoin the defendant from constructing this bridge, on the ground that the same is and will be a serious and uulawful obstruction to the navigation of the river. Among other things, the bill alleges that Lownsdale is the owner of an interest in wbarves and warehouses on blocks 73 and 74 of Portland, on the west bank of said river, — a distance of about 600 feet above the location of said bridge, — of the value of $10,000, and that the plaintiff Hatch is the lessee of the whole of said property for a term of years at a rent of $700 per month ; that a large portion of the cpmmerce of the Wal- lamet valley bas been done through and at said wharves and warehouses; that a large portion of the wheat raised in said valley has been received and stored there for shipment in sea- going vesaels to foreign ports; that vessels carrying 2,000 tons can navigate the channel on the west side of the river for a distance of a mile above Morrison street, and therefore ��� �