Up to the time when the canal was turned over as completed to Major Poe, it cost in construction and repair $472,837.84. There was subsequently expended by Majors Poe and Weitzel $101,533.63, partly in repairs, but mainly in deepening the canal; and afterward, up to the close of the present fiscal year, $19,162.78 were expended in repairs and protection. It will thus be seen that the canal has thus far cost $586,111.56 in construction, improvement and repair.... Colonel Cram's original estimate of the cost of this work was $428,754. The whole amount appropriated has been $590,000. The annual cost of maintenance is $5,000. There are two light-houses on the banks. The value of the commerce which annually passes between the willow-clad piers of the canal is estimated by hundreds of millions, and in every season its cost has been more than made good by the disasters and delays it has averted. Mr. Chandler regarded his efforts to secure its construction as the hardest fight of his Congressional service, and there is nothing in his public life more thoroughly characteristic of the man than the skill, energy, and persistence with which he championed this measure in the face of the strongest obstacles, and in spite of repeated defeats, session after session and Congress after Congress, until entire success crowned his labors. Many others co-operated with him and aided in securing the ultimate victory; but circumstances and his indomitable will placed him at the front in the decisive struggle, and this great public work is an enduring monument of the value of his services to the vast commercial interests of the Northwest.