The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-11
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celatrCnG Eesas Srnal5 sarsar. 1asa.s. Carter
saita tssS listtu tSlun 81 aa,s Garden bank
lfesr tho tEiat cstUy siis alar,s y considerable
ssiusiinlg eslsssl 1lr aas refuse mat
tes'gfran ,tlntsas wnrsSs ts1aS carried into
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gGSITsEs ~ a SAD SHoAL.
In ttis uinnlirr q Screven's ferry, ex-
ttsatinls mn -rtsTZ 3 80 $50 feet from the
vfisarf lima, there Is q thickness OF from
y "a ~ ipEihss q tar, rice straw, chaff,
ssiagvngs ABE ether refuse matter The tar
1Hulc .ef1 carried into the river collects
sim gIIcs. straw. ETC., and rapid shoaling is
tziis 1vsszls. Ashes, cinders and other refuse
IIs.zsr from steamers are dumped over
SGrx-G 81 that point and large quantities of
sand are worked down over the bulkhead
lines at the foot of East Broad street.
ACTION SHOULD RE TAKEN.
Lieut.. Carter said that while the shoaling
at the Garden bank is not due entirely to
these causes, yet they promote it very
city at once to stop the dump
ing of refuse matter into the river,
that being a far more serious matter
than the washing in of the sand. He said
that the shape of the bulk head lines had
something TO do with the shoaling, and
that revised bulk head line will be estab-
lished as soon as it is possible to obtain the
necessary data.
AT present, he said, the channel across
the Garden bank is in good condition, hav-
ing been cut out by the Ocean Steamship
Company last summer. The two dredges
on the work in the river are engaged on the
Wrecks channel, just below the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway wharf
Lieut.. Carter thinks that the jetty work
will be resumed the latter part of the year,
bids being open on Dec. 10.
THE BIDS FOR DREDGING.
The bids for dredging in the Savannah
harbor, the Brunswick harbor and in the !
Jekyl creek i>2rbor were opened yesterday |
10y the engineer IN charge of these works. |
For Savannah harbor, including the knoll, |
the bid was 1S13 cents per Gu ic yard; for |
the Brunswick harbor, p 1-25 cents per |
cutie yard, and for the Jekyl creek harbor |
2O12 cents per cubic yard. These bids were
ali accepted. They were made by dredging
companies that have been employed on
work in the Savannah harbor. The bids
that were opened some time ago for the
Savannah harbor dredging the price asked
was 1915 cents per cubic yard That bid
was rejected and new bids advertised for
which resulted in the contracts as above
Lieut.. Carter Will leave for Augusta |
Tuesday to look into the question of pro-
tecting the city from floods. His assistant
Mr.. Brown, is already in Augusta and will
aid in making the investigation. Lieut..
Carter said that he will return this week |
but that his assistants will remain and con-
tinue the investigation. 1t will probably
be several weeks before plan will be sub
United.
NO ESTIMATES FOR SAVANNAH.
There was a rumor yesterday that there
were no estimates for the Savannah harbor
III DOOk Vi 0oblIudlSS WHICH bQS CQleI OF |
engineers sends to congress, and upon which
the river and harbor appropriations are
based. A MORNING News reporter saw
Mayor Lester ye terday and asked him if
there is anything in the rumor. He said
that be thought there was. He said that as
he understood it the whole amount for the
S2foot Improvement for Savannah was APP
propriated 10y congress at its last session,
and that congress failed to make any ap-
proprietion for the 2o-foot project, although
there were estimates for that project and
and the project was urged upon the atten-
ton OF the river and harbor committee.
THE 2S-Foor PROJECT.
Technically, therefore, congress having
failed TO make any appropriation for the
2o-foot project, the chief Of engineers caa
not, in accordance with the law, send any
estimates to congress for it at the coming
session.
The engineer in charge of the Savannah
Iarbor has sent in estimates for next year |
TO the chief engineers, has he not!'
Il have no doubt that be has,
us there any way in which the estimates
can be got before the river and harbor COM
initteeF'
Eyes, as soon as the chief engineers re-
port, containing his estimates for the COM
ing year, is published, it will be apparent
that there are no estimates for Savannah
harbor. The congressman from this dis
trict will doubtless then address a letter to
the chief OF engineers asking him why the
estimates for Savannah harbor were
omitted. OF course the chief engineer will
give him the reason, and will forward to
him the estimates which have been fur
nished by the engineer in charge of the Sa-
vannah harbor Improvement"
'You don't understand that the chief of
engineers is at all hostile to the % feet
pTojectp
FAvoRs THE PROJECT.
ION the contrary, am thoroughly salts
fed that the engineer department favors
that project, and / understand that the
board of engineers that was here last week
were thoroughly satisfied that the improve
ment was a practical one and that the com
merce of this port demanded that it be
made at the earliest possible moment"
Twill the river and harbor committee
likely take notice of the estimates of the
Savannah harbor brought to its attention
in the way that you suggestp
"Of course it will There is precedent
for doing so. Only last session, If l am
not mis- taken, the estimates for some of the
improvements in South Carolina was
not in the book Of estimates, for the same
reason that the estimates for Savannah har-