Celilo Canal was a canal in Oregon connecting two points of the Columbia River , just east of The Dalles .
15-402: Celilo may refer to: Celilo Canal Celilo Falls Celilo Village, Oregon Celilo Converter Station The Celilo (tribe) of Native Americans Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Celilo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
30-487: A native shaman. Ross wrote of his visit to the "strong and rocky rapid" where he met a man "called Haquilaugh, which signifies … priest." Haquilaugh was an influential Wanapum leader, for whom Ross gave the rapids its English name. At Priest Rapids the Columbia River narrowed and flowed quickly, making it an ideal salmon fishing site. There were several rapids and fishing sites, and a dozen or so Wanapum villages along
45-786: The Celilo Canal organized the Open River Navigation Company, and put the Charles R. Spencer and J.N. Teal on the run from Portland to The Dalles, Twin Cities and Inland Empire on the route up the Snake River, and Relief on the run from Celilo to Pasco, Washington. Mountain Gem supported Relief above Celilo Once the canal was complete, navigation was open on the Columbia from the mouth of
60-469: The Columbia River. The canal and all related works were flooded following the completion of The Dalles Dam in 1957. 45°38′58″N 121°02′58″W / 45.649543°N 121.049514°W / 45.649543; -121.049514 Priest Rapids Priest Rapids was a narrow, fast-flowing stretch of the Columbia River , located in the central region of the U.S. state of Washington . It
75-536: The channel is obstructed at two different points. One of these obstructions is formed by what is called the Cascades, a series of rapids located 60 miles (97 km) from the city of Portland. Here the government built, about twelve years ago, a lock canal. The canal has a depth of 8 feet (2.4 m) and is 3,000 feet (910 m) long, and it contains two locks, each of which is 462 feet (141 m) in length, and capacious enough for much larger craft than pass through it to
90-409: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celilo&oldid=932751681 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Celilo Canal In the natural state of the Columbia River, there
105-518: The nearest stations by freighting outfits. As the improvement referred to will allow craft carrying nearly a thousand tons to ply upon the upper Columbia, It must be regarded as one of the most important engineering projects which has yet been undertaken by the government. The federal government spent 5 million dollars on its construction. For an inaugural cruise, the steamer Undine left Portland April 29 and arrived in Lewiston, May 3, 1915. Boosters of
120-566: The river all the way to Priest Rapids , and, up the Snake River, to the mouth of the Grande Ronde River near Rogersburg. However, completion of the canal came too late to fend off competition from railroads, which had taken away most of the steamboat's business. Riverine transportation above Celilo never reached the hopes of the proponents of the canal. Only in the late 1930s did the development of wheat barge traffic, eventually driven by diesel towboats, become an important transport method on
135-479: The river. This was replaced in 1863 by a 13-mile (21 km)-long portage railway owned by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company . A number of studies and false starts were made towards building a canal around the falls, but construction on what was to become known as the Celilo Canal did not begin until 1905, and then took ten years to complete. In 1909, Scientific American summarized the status of
150-508: The upper river. With the aid of the canal, steamers can travel from Portland to what are called the Dalles, a distance of about 200 miles (320 km). Here, however, the natural obstacles are very great, and to overcome them an elaborate engineering scheme Is now being carried out. The river, for a distance of several miles, flows swiftly through a series of gorges which it has cut out of the rock formation in this part of Oregon. Scientific American
165-473: The west bank of the Columbia River at Priest Rapids. Priest Rapids Dam , built in the 1950s, submerged Priest Rapids, taking advantage of the river's drop for hydroelectric power production. Thus today there are no rapids at Priest Rapids. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Priest Rapids 46°45′17″N 119°58′20″W / 46.75472°N 119.97222°W / 46.75472; -119.97222 This article related to
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#1732873464593180-469: The work and its objectives: The Columbia River, which is the most important waterway in the western part of the United States, extends a distance of 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from Its mouth to British Columbia, where it has its source. Including its tributaries, it forms a system of waterways available for steamboats and barges aggregating 2,132 miles (3,431 km). This is not continuous, however, for
195-460: Was also optimistic about the prospective economic value of the canal: [A] very large area of Washington and Oregon may be reached by river craft. This area comprises not only an extensive wheat-growing country, but cattle and sheep ranches and fruit farms, as well as an extensive mining district. There are some counties in this region which are entirely destitute of railroads, and their commercial products are hauled from 50 to 75 miles (121 km) to
210-481: Was an 8-mile (13 km) stretch from The Dalles to Celilo Falls that was impassable upstream and navigable downstream only at high water and at great risk. Celilo Canal was built in the early part of the 1900s to allow steamboat and river-borne traffic to bypass that stretch. In 1858, a 19-mile (31 km)-long wagon road, the Oregon Portage Railroad , had been built around the falls on the south side of
225-535: Was flooded by the construction of the Priest Rapids Dam in the 1950s. Before the dam's construction, the river dropped 20 feet (6 m) over a short distance. In total Priest Rapids consisted of seven separate cataracts along a 9-mile (14 km) stretch, over which the river dropped 72 feet (22 m) altogether. It was given the name Priest Rapids by Alexander Ross of the Pacific Fur Company in 1811, for
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