Show WOULD COST TOO MUCH IMPROVING THE CIEAUWATBB RIVER IMPRACTICABLE Demand of Commerce Will Not Justi fy the Expense According to Report Re-port of Engineers TRIBUNE BUREAU BUREAU 601 Fourteenth Street V Washington D C Oct 2D 1900 The annual report of the chief engineers engi-neers which was made public today details the work of Improvement in Yellowstone park during the last fiscal year He asks for an appropriation of 5380900 for new work to be l done in the fiscal ycaf 3D02 in adcitiOnThhicbai r I ance of 01271 now available and for 15000 for the maintenance improvements improve-ments already made He urges ns a mater of economy that the money for l completing the projected Improvements In the park be provided In the shape of continuous appropriations within a period of three years IMPROVEMENTS IMPRACTICABLE The report says that tile improvements Improve-ments of Clearwater river In Idaho are impracticable except at an enormous enor-mous cost which Is not Justified by the I present commerce Besides It says I that the projected construction of two lines of railroad parallel with the river from Lewlston to Riparla Wash renders ren-ders the Improvement of the river unnecessary un-necessary as they will be able to handle han-dle t all the commerce of that section PENSIONS GRANTED IdahoOriginal Butler Rape Harp ster C widow Adell Meek Fletchers 5S WyomingWIdow Jemima Heckln ger Sundance S RAILROAD LAND PATENTS The Secretary of the Interior has approved ap-proved a patent of 160 acres In the Salt Lake City land district Utah and eighty acres In the Cheyenne land district dis-trict Wyoming to the Union Pacific railroad |