The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-09
PubIFc works In.IouIsInn...
New Orleans Picnyune.

Public Works In.LouisIatna.
New Orleans Picayune.
A reporter yesterday called on Major
Amos Stickney, U. S. Engineer, in
charge ofriyer and and harbor improve
ment in this district, embracing the
lower portion of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, and requested information as to
the arrangement made by the Missis-
sippi River Commission, putting him in
charge of all the operations, under the
direction of the commission, for the
lower river
Major Stickney said he had received
no official advices in regard to the mat
ter SO far, but he had no doubt that
the action Of the River Commission
was as stated in the kilograms, and he
expects to have charge of the works
projected by the Commission in the
country southwark from near Vicks-
burg. lie takes it for granted, in the
absence Of specific information, that
the commission will act as a sort of
legislative body, laying out pro
gramme Of operations which the en-
gineer of each district will have TO
carry into execution, and he expects to
60 to Memphis to the next meeting of
the River Commission which is to be
held there shortly.
Major Stickney said that the bust
ness Of improving the harbor front of
the city, which had been turned over
to the River Commission now comes
back to him and plans and reports
made on the subject by him some time
ago will come up now for consideration.
In this connection, the following
figures of the appropriations made by
congress in 1881 for the river and har-
Dor work of this district, the amounts
expended and the amounts estimated
to be needed next year, and the amounts
appropriated by congress in 1882, will
be interesting, and they are here put
on record:
For Pearl River from Jackson to Car
thage, $4,000 appropriated, $661.66
expended I; estimated for coming year,
$25, 1000 F.; appropriated in 1882, S25O0.
For Pearl River below Jackson, ST0,-
900 appropriated S2,O75 expended
S25,04o estimated appropriated in
1882, $4,000
Amite River, $4,000 appropriated,
1902 expended ; $I0,76O estimated.
Vermilion River, $4,000 appropri- |
ated G5l72 expended ; nothing esti-
mated.
Tangipahoa River, $1,000 appropri-
ated $4,000 expended /; s57oo esti-
mated
Tchefuncta River, $4,000 appropri-
ated $45,776 expended $3460 esti-
mated ; appropriated in 1882, Sl5oo.
Bayou Teche, from st. Martinsyille |
to Port Barre, $4,000 appropriated
$6536 expended s3O,69o estimated.
Bayou Black, $4,000 appropriated
$4959 expended $27,520 estimated
appropriated in 1882, $4,000.
Bayou Courtableau, from Port Barre
to the Atchafalaya, $4,000 appropri-
ated; S89l4 expendedI $4,000 csti-
mated.
Bayou Tcrrebonne, $685. 500 appro-
priated $l7,2l2 expended $4,000
estimated appropriated in 1882,
$1,000.
Bayou Lafourche, $4,000 appro-
priated; S2o,336 expended $500
estimated.
Calcasieu River, from Phillips Bluff
to its mouth, $4,000 appropriated but
no work done; appropriated in 1882,
$1,000.
Calcasieu Pass, $4,000 appropri-
ated and Sll,s43 expended /; appro-
priated in 1852, $1,000. There is an
appropriation for 1882, for Tickfaw
River of $4,000
In the district of Capt. A. N, Miller,
whose headquarters are in Memphis,
but whose jurisdiction includes North
Louisiana, appropriations are made
as follows:
For Bayou Bartholomew in Louis
lana and Arkansas, $1,000.
For BGnf River, $4,000
For Red River, from the Atehafa-
laya to Fulton, Arkansas Or the Qua
chita, $4,000.
OF course the above have nothing
to do with. the Mississippi River Com
mission whose operations and funds
are seperate from the general river and
harbor work.