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- $10,000 for a Road, and Not a Shovel of Dirt Turned
A $10,000 appropriation for a Newport-to-Columbia road vanished into surveys and clerical work, The Miner charged, leaving Stevens County without a graded mile to show for it.
- The Road Money That Went to Colville
Ten thousand dollars was appropriated for the Newport–Orient state road. Six thousand of it vanished into 'preliminaries,' and the actual construction ended up in the county seat instead of at either end of the road.
- Twenty Thousand Acres vs. the River: Calispel Valley Takes Its Case to Congress
Farmers around Usk and Cusick organize a diking district and send a committee to Spokane to beg a rivers-and-harbors congressman for a dredge, a dike, and a federal appropriation.
- The Dredge Gappa Bites Into the Pend Oreille
After years of waiting, a Seattle contractor's steam dredge finally starts cutting a federal channel just below Boundary Island — and Newport's steamboat men begin to talk about a river that never runs dry.
- Twenty-Four Miles of Missing Road Between the Mines and the Smelter
Citizens of Northport, Orient and Metaline pay for their own survey, then head to Olympia to ask the legislature for a wagon road that would tie Metaline's ore to a smelter — and Metaline to Newport.
- The Road Newport Was Promised—and the Colville Detour That Ate It
State Road No. 3 was supposed to run from Newport through Metaline and Northport to Orient. Instead, Newport’s share of the money went to surveys and improvements near Colville, leaving the lower river country with nothing but promises.
- Dredging the Pend Oreille for Steamboats
A Seattle contractor will put a centrifugal-pump dredge below Boundary Island, aiming for a 70-foot channel six feet deep so river boats can stop creeping over the bars.
- The Old Folks' Day and the Empty Pew
Newport's Methodist congregation honored its elders with lined-out hymns and a shared meal—then buried an invited guest before the day was over.