New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-10-28
The sfnfc Works.


pended on the several State Works Of Internal In
proveinen, now il progress up 10 the present Tune,
showing arhe1 aHd BY ,1iom the expenditures we're
incurred. Ii Is well knowg that all the Canals
now in progress, including the gigantic Erie En-
largcnent. rsrs authorised and commenced ,n
I234-5-s, uiile the Van Buren, party bore w
checked seay IN ersry department: Of orr S:ate
Gorsr1.nneH;. and before the parry had been led
BY Senator Young & Co. into position OF deadly
hostility TO all Loans for prosecuting State WORKS
The Van Buren, Canal Commissioner. estimated
the entire cost of the Erie Enlargement al less
than Ten Millions; Mr.. Commissioner Bouck, the
late Van Buren, candidate fer Gsvsrnor, voted TO
make the Grand Canal feet by so instead Of by
20, or one-haIf larger than lis present enlarged
dimensions. GT The.e same Commissioners, who
had Estimated tie whole cos; a, under Ten Mil
lions lrent on to cOntrae. for o6eu. one-;hird Of
the ,sors and ailOt- more shan Ten Millions for
dong ttis fraction Of the undertaking. When
these contrasts were made public i;aPpeared that
what they Lad induced the State to undertake, in
the conviction that it would coat but Ten Millions,
,c0uld ineritajly cost orer Tr'esty.fre Millions
Such was the origin OF the Forty Million Debt.
It further appears that of all the work on the
Erie Enlargement vet commenced or Contracted
nearly Eleven Millions contracted by the Van
Buren, Administration and Commissioners, (who
held on till 1880 and only Three Hundred and
Forty Thousand 6, vet by the Wing Commits
sioners Read the following abstract from the
Official docs ncnts, remembering that Gov. Seward
wa, inausurated Jan. lsi, 1889, and the Wing
Canal Commissioners elected month or mere NJ
terward
ENLARGEMENT OF ERIE CANAL.
There was put under contract prior TO January
1882 over en.s hun red miles of Canal, including
the heavy rock cutting 4, L,ckport. with al the
mechanical constructions thereon, which compris-
ed more than 80 double and single Locks, besides
the double combined LOCKS at Lockpert-the
Aqueduc, ever tae Genesee river at Rochester,
the two Aqucducts over the Mohawk River-one
over Schsharo Creek and many others over small
er streams, including culvcrts, bridges, &c.
The estimated cost OF all the work under con-
tract for the enlargement OF the Erie Canal, as per
special report of the Canal Commissioners, l24l,
Assembly Document No. 203, is..--- ,02l 1882
OF when the present Commissioners
have put under contract.----.---. $40 CD
Total put under contract By former
Commissioners NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1861 ,839
At page % of Canal Commissioners
Report, submitted TO the Legsla-
,ure January 2lsr, 1889, Assembly
Document, 81, it is stated that the
estimated cost of the work under
contract is. Observation-Disclosures SIC, 4O5, 1913
The amoust ofwork put under contract
by them since is .--....... e75,92c
Total, II, 6sl $3.50
Tho present Commissioners have put
under contract only 34O093
Total, ..............$ l,O2l 1882
There has been paid ,he Enlarge
mont of the Erie Canal (see Report
efCommissioners of the Canal Fund,
l94l, Assembly Document 5, State
ment g. up TO the close OF the fiscal
wear, 1889, 3l,SlU1O
During the fiscal year $500. 1896, o3,2lS,S3
lS37, 636,3l2, II
1893, l, l63, 1876 II
Amount expended to the close
OF llle lISCdL wear 1000 'i""' -
And during the fiscal ysar 1899 1887, 1854
lS40, 1894 ,749, &C
1871, 9, 500 .00O, 90
Amount expended since 1888, 800. s., 81 ,335, 40
Total expenditures, -, SoI w ,22
More than seveneight, Of the whole has
been expended since the commencement Of Gov.
Stewards administration and more Than one half
u it under the present Commissioners. During
the last two seasons nearly all the Locks and prn-
cipal Aqueducis have been com peted, and will be
ready to bring into use next Spring, with about
twenty miles altogether of the trunk Of the En-
arged Canal
Black River Canal.
Amount of work put under
tract prior to January 1899, -. 81, 4le, 3O9,75
Since January 1899, and Up 22d
February, 1910, --.....-- SO, III $50
Since Feby. %, 1870, By present Com
missioncrs, ..-.....-........ 1858, 90
Total under contract, ------S ,6S0079,73
There has been paid on the whole work as fol-
Amt. 20 Sept. 80, 1887, s5a5s.55
durg. ifs. year 1888, 87.o6ool
lO3, ll5,76
" 1889, 5l3,l54,39
g % 1910, 537 ,9O5.l3
:" 1871, 35O,oOOOo I,4Ol.o57 50
Total Expenditures, .......sl,5O4,l 1928
This Canai j, in such state of forwardness a,
TO justify the expectation tina, the Erie Canal may
receive supply OF water a, Rome from the Black
River, through it during the mex. season, all ina,
at least some fifteen or twenty miles of the Canal
will be open for navigation. The whole may be
completed next season il funds are provided TO pay
fer it. To co this will require abou, $780,
more than has been appropriated for that object.