150 Years 1857-2007 The Dalles THE DECADES OF HISTORY February 28, 2007 Military Wants Road to Ft. Boise for Protection MILITARY ROAD from Fort Dalles to Fort Boise - The importance of opening a road from Fort Dalles to Fort Boise, in a military point of view, has heretofore been overlooked. It is evident that for years to come military posts must be kept up in the Boise and Owyhee country, as a protection against Indian outrages, and to ship supplies to these points by a circuitous route is not to be thought of. We are quite sure that if proper representation be made, at the next session of Congress, an appropriation, either of money or lands, or both, can be secured for the purpose of opening the road. We have it on competent authority, that the Department Commander, a gentleman who has spent several years in traversing the country, favors the proposition as a measure of economy to the Government. Referring to the proposed road, a high military authority says: "The figures will show that a good road from Fort Dalles to Fort Boise in the item of transportation of army supplies and troops, will in two years save the General Government a sum sufficient to make the road." With this road finished and in working order, the Salt Lake mail would find its termination at the Dalles, and the whole country beyond would look to this point as the base of supplies. We have here outlined a measure in which the whole country is interested, and we have only to hope that it will be taken hold of and pressed to an early completion. August 25, 1865 Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program