Report on Umpqua Harbor and River, Schofield River at Reedsport - U.S. Senate, (81st Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document, 1950)
Recommends that the current project, which began with the construction of the north jetty in 1940, be expanded to include a channel into Schofield Creek. Reports on the rest of the project, which was 97% complete at the time of writing.
Keywords: Gardiner (Or.); harbor; jetties; navigation; physical modification; Reedsport (Or.); Scholfield Creek; Umpqua River; Winchester Bay

Umpqua Harbor and River, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of the Army, transmitting to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate ... a review of reports on Umpqua Harbor and River, Oreg., and further improvement of Winchester Bay, - U.S. Senate, (80th Congress, Second Session, Document, 1948)
In addition to channel improvements, this document outlines a plan to dredge a channel into Winchester Bay. Chart. Senate Document no.154.
Keywords: harbor; jetties; navigation; physical modification; Umpqua River; Winchester Bay

Umpqua Harbor and River, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce United States Senate ... Report on the Umpqua Harbor, Oreg., with a View to the Improvement of Winchester Bay, Oreg. - U.S. Senate, (77th Congress, 2nd session, Senate Document, 1942)
War has a way of making ports and harbors more important than they were previously.
Keywords: dredging; harbor; navigation; physical modification; Umpqua River estuary; Winchester Bay

Report on reexamination of Umpqua River and Harbor, Oreg. - U.S. Senate, (76th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document, 1939)
Senate Document.
Keywords: harbor; jetties; navigation; physical modification; Umpqua River

Umpqua Harbor and River, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War to the Chaiman of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate in response to a resolution of the Committee: A report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, on reexaminaton . . . - U.S. Senate, (75th Congress, 3rd Session, Senate Document, 1938)
Full title: Umpqua Harbor and River, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War to the Chaiman of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate in response to a resolution of the Committee: A report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, on reexaminaton of Umpqua Harbor and River, Oreg.
Keywords: harbor; jetties; navigation; physical modification; Umpqua River

Authorizing preliminary examination of Umpqua River, Oreg., with view to control of floods - U.S. Senate, (74th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Report, 1935)
Senate Report
Keywords: dams; flooding; hydrology; streamflow; Umpqua River

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting copies of treaties between the United States and certain Indians in Oregon, in response to Senate resolution of September 2, 1893 - U.S. Senate, (Executive Document, 1893)
Includes an 1855 treaty in which Native American representatives, including representatives of the Umpqua people, ceded their rights to all land west of the Coast Range, except for reservation lands, to the U.S. Government.
Keywords: historyical; Native Americans

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of Maj. G.L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, of surveys of Cowlitz River, Washington Territory, and Umpqua River and Alsea harbor and bar, Oregon; also survey of bar at mouth of Columbia River - U.S. Senate, (Senate Executive Document, 1879)
"Gardiner City, a small town of 300 inhabitants, 8 miles from the sea, is the head of navigation for sea-going vessels, and Scottsburg, 17 miles higher up, is the head of navigation for river boats. Between these two towns there are no roads or trails, and the people are dependent upon the river for their communication. The commerce of the river is carried in two small river boats, which draw not to exceed 3 feet. Except over the bars at Brandy Island, Echo Island and mouth of Dean Creek, there is plenty of water at low stage to meet all the necessities of the commerce of the river." (from letter by G.L. Gillespie, Major of Engineers) In Google Books. 46th Congress, 2nd session, Senate Exec.Doc. no.34.
Keywords: Gardiner; navigation; physical modification; Scottsburg; Umpqua River

Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of December, 1870, information relative to the probable cost of the improvement of the Umpqua and Willamette Rivers, in the State of Oregon - U.S. Senate, (Senate Executive Document, 1870)
Senate Executive Document. Estimate of the cost to make the Umpqua navigable from Scottsburg to Roseburg is given as "about $22,500." Includes report of survey of 1870. A "small stern-wheel steamboat ... had, during this year ... ascended the river from Scottsburg, 25 miles from its mouth, to Roseburg, a distance by the river of about one hundred and twenty miles; but that the river had such a rapid current, and so many obstructions, that the boat had to be hauled through the rapids by lines, and was six days in getting to Roseburg." Lists and describes rapids on the river. Report also includes study of possible improvements on the Willamette River. Available in Google Books.
Keywords: Crow's Rapid; Delaney's Rapid; Hart's Rapid; historical; Mill's Rapid; navigation; Sawyer's Bend; Umpqua River

Resolution of legislative assembly of Oregon for increase of mail service between New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Umpqua Harbor, and Astoria, Oregon Territory - U.S. Senate, (1853)
33rd Congress, 1st session, Misc. Doc. no.33. The Oregon legislature requested increased mail service via the Isthmus of Nicaragua, in addition to Panamanian service, "thus securing semi-monthly mails by both routes." In Google Books.
Keywords: history; Umpqua River