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Show GOVERNMENT CANAL IS OPENED TODAY Big Lddy. Ore. May 5 While I massed bands blared ami thousands, on the banks cheered. The Dalles Celilo canal was formally opened here) late today. Th opening of the waterway means! a free river from the mouth of the Columbia to a distance i00 miles Inland. In-land. The government has been working on it for the last ten years.' It cost $4,850,000. ' The . ana! c ost." said Senator Poiu-dexter Poiu-dexter of Washington, speaking at the celebration, will return to the people peo-ple of the northwest a thousand fold in the cheapening of transportation Fifty young women broke upon the1 locks bottles of water from the Oo himbia ri"r and its tributaries. Lieutenant ( olonel .Jay Morrow. United States enginers corps, formal-l formal-l Iv turned OVei the completed projeCl to the people of th" Columbia river ' Celebrations have been in proR-ess from Lewiston Ida., down, for nearly, a week. |