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Show Government Canal is Now Open Project Renders Columbia River Nav gable For a Distance of COO Miles Big Eddy, Oro., Mny fi. While , massed bands blared nud thousands . on tho banks cheered. Tho Ual'cs-Co lllo cannl was formally opened hero luto today. Tho opening of tho wntoways means n frco rlvor from tho mouth nf tho Columbia to a dlstnnco COO miles Inland. Tho government hns beon working on It for tho last ton years. It tost $4,8C0,000. "Tho canal cost," sold Senntor l'olndextor of Washington, speaking at tho celebration, "will return to tho peoplo of tho northwest n thousand thous-and fold In tho cheapening ot transportation." trans-portation." Fifty young women broko upon tho locks of bottles of water from tho Columbia river and Its tributaries. Lieut. Col. Jay Morrow, United States engineers , corps, formally turned over tho completed project to tho peoplo of tho Columbia river. Celebrations havo been in progress from Lowlston, Idaho, down for nearly near-ly a week. |