The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-06-09
The Nzenos7ia HEarbor and sMe
syaslkegan Gazette.

The Kenosha Harbor win now admit
along the South Pier vessels drawing ten
feet, and will soon have 10 feet depth OF
water. 1t has long been understood that
there is no better place than the outlet OF
Pike creek for harbor on Lake Mich
gan The United States Civil Engineers
have so reported from the earliest surveys
down to the latest. And all who have
Informed themselves on the subject, in
Congress or out, know such to be. the
fact The harbor is now almost completed
The South Pier is carried out into the
lake as far as has been contemplated
The North Pier needs to be carried out
still farther-to a depth of water where
the loose sand will not be foated into the
harbor This is well understood by the
Engineers having charge of the harbers.
And it is well understood b. the Com
nittees Of Congress on Rivers and Har-
b6rs. The appropriation bill for Rivers
and IIarbors which has passed the House
contains $4,000 for Kenosha This bill
will undoubtedly pass the Senate and
become law The difficulty has beer
that Congress has been slow in passing
the appropriation bill. It should have
been passed by the first of March, and
not delayed till the first Or fifteenth of
July In consequence Of the delay of
Congress the City Government had to
remove the obstruction And since it
commenced action it has made haste and
has been successful The harbor is now
open to the largest class of vessels
Improvements are being made for The
accommodation of the business to be
done through the harbor. Mr. Harkin of
Racine is buildingsa dock on the west
side Of the harbor. He has the dredge
excavating, and a pile driver driving
piles for a dock The Kenosha and
Rockford Railway furnishes Transports
ktion for lumber and other articles to
Rockford and he west through the Ken
osha harbor much cheaper than by way
Iof Chicago. And When the Railway
from Rockford to St, Louis is completed,
a way Of transportation through Kenosha
harbor to ST. Louis, Kanscs City, and
all the country in that direction, will be
open, nearer and cheaper than by way OF
Chicago. And part of the Transports
ton from lake Michigan to the South
west, and vice 0ersa, will find its way
through Kenosha harbor
Kenosha harbor is already in oonnec
i ton with the Pacific Ocean by the Paei
! fic Railway, and with Japan and Chin;
by the Pacific Ocean. Such in brief, i
!. the condition and.connections of Z enoshs
harbor And it only remains for the ad
vantages which nature, sciencea and ar
has given Kenosha harbor, for it to be
come place of no uncomfortable ship
ping interest.
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Under these circumstances there is on
paper, andsonlys one, which raises it.
voiceagainst Kenosha harbor, and agains
; any more appropriations being made b,
Congress for its improvement. That pa
per is the Waukegan Gazette. The Gazett
, hopes no more money will be thrown
away upon the Eenosha swindle. TIL
Gazette is sad and forlorn and we'll it ma,
be. It is all alone in it's glory in oppo
sing an appropriation for Kenosha har
Dor. Our sympathetic nature reall
F makes us feel for the Gasstts We com
= miserate its condition and would be glac
$ to migitate its suferings We recon-
y mend the Gazette to console itself wit
g the expectation chat the appropsiatlo
= will soon be made, and the harbor impre
4 we'd, and that the world, and possibly il
self, may still survive the appropriation
/ and improvement which tits pleased t
/ call the Kenosha swindle. 5.
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