@article {18101,
	title = {Examination and survey of Alsea Bay and Bar, Oregon},
	volume = {63rd Congress, 3rd Session, House Doc. no.1593},
	year = {1915},
	note = {Another attempt to improve the bar at Alsea Bay met with failure. Estimated costs were $640,000. "Local interests" could only afford to pay about 15\% of the total cost of the project. The report has a nice description of the Bay and River, and an extensive report on commerce in the area, including a list of vessels calling at Alsea Bay in 1913/1914. "It is estimated that the total growth of merchantable timber tributary to the bay amounts to about 1,500,000,000 feet b.m. [board measure]"  Available in Google Books, and begins on page 462 of the scanned volume.},
	pages = {15 p,},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {Alsea Bay, Alsea River, economics, historical, hydrography, navigation},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/483kxch},
	author = {U.S. House of Representatives,}
}
@article {36301,
	title = {Preliminary examination of Alsea River, Oregon},
	volume = {55th Congress, 2nd Session, House Doc. no.111},
	year = {1898},
	note = {Describes improvements made on Alsea River from "The Forks" of the Alsea (31 miles upriver) to the head of tidewater. This work, completed September 14, 1897, provided "a high-water boat channel varying in width from 20 to 50 feet, clear of obstructions above the plane of low water, whichmay be run with comparative safety on any ordinary rise.""The method of navigation on the river, as described in previous reports, is by means of rough scows 15 to 40 feet in length and 5 to 10 feet in width, having a loaded draft of from 12 to 18 inches. These are loaded at "The Forks" during time of freshets with the produce of the upper valley, such as wheat, flour, bacon, lumber, etc., and floated to Waldport, at the mouth of the river, the run under favorable conditions being made in about ten hours." No further improvement recommended.  Includes folding map. in Google Books.},
	pages = {3 p,},
	keywords = {Alsea Basin, Alsea River, hydrography, navigation},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/y46o5u9q},
	author = {U.S. House of Representatives,}
}
@article {36296,
	title = {Survey of Alsea River, Oregon},
	volume = {53rd Congress, 3rd Session, House Exec. Doc. 235},
	year = {1895},
	note = {Includes fold-out map. The improvements recommended here deal with the Alsea River, not the bay or harbor. They are measures such as removal of boulders that would help farmers and loggers move their products on the river. "The only alternative for getting out the products of the Upper Alsea Valley is the tedious and costly haul over the rough mountain road to Corvallis, the cost varying with the condition of the road from 50 cents to $1.25 per 100, with an absolute impossibility to get products out by that route for the major part of the late fall and winter seasons."  Describes the river below the falls--rapids, islands, sharp river bends and boulders noted. Cost of improvements would be $3,000 and was recommended.},
	pages = {5 p.},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {Alsea Basin, Alsea Bay, Alsea River, hydrography, navigation},
	url = {https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/js956g62p},
	author = {U.S. House of Representatives,}
}
@article {36276,
	title = {Alsea Bay and River, Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of the examination of Alsea Bay and River, Oregon},
	volume = {51st Congress, 2nd session, House Exec. Doc. no.85},
	year = {1891},
	note = {Nice brief description of the Alsea Valley in 1890, including the local economy, town sites, etc. Recommends against development of the harbor. Captain Thomas W. Symons of the Corps of Engineers observed, "It would seem that the Alsea country should utilize the improved harbor of Yaquina with its railroad and steamship facilities for the development of its own resources rather than that the Government should duplicate the Yaquina improvement works at the Alsea, at an expense of over $500,000."},
	pages = {5 p.},
	institution = {U.S. Government Printing Office},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {Alsea Bay, Alsea River, Alsea River Basin, hydrography, navigation},
	url = {https://tinyurl.com/y6yljhzm},
	author = {U.S. House of Representatives,}
}
@article {18161,
	title = {Survey of Alsea River, Oregon},
	volume = {52nd Congress, 2nd session, House Exec. Doc. 53},
	year = {1891},
	address = {Washington, D.C.},
	keywords = {Alsea Basin, Alsea Bay, Alsea River, hydrography, navigation},
	author = {U.S. House of Representatives,}
}
