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Rh head of Oregon Slough and in dredging. As the importance of ancouver as a commercial point is steadily increasing, further work will be required to secure a channel of adequate depth.

The locks and canal al this point, which serve to overcome the obstacles known as the cascades of the Columbia. were opened to traffic in the year 1896. Substantially it is a completed

work, but there are some things which remain to be done that were recotn’nemletl liv tIW eligiTweririg leI)artlllent which would fadijiate to some extent the. THovernetit of vessels through ilk lrwl and at the same time complete then’ as originally intended.

This work cons,sts of bt’ihIi”g the land ‘vail of the tipper lock steps officc buildings. etc. These Ineks are sttiated about 6c miles ax,vc Portland. T}ic effect of tile opening of these locks on rates to river poilils as far as The Dalles was ‘istantancntis. Prior to their being opcncd the State had built a Portagc Railway lo a temp’rarv e,-jcdicnt pendn heir cmli— I,ktic’n. w}IIL+ ‘‘as allahiflonefi a S{uT% as (lie locks wci completed.