Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-14
A Years Work of the Navy Department
Upon Them.

Years Work of the Navy Department
Upon Them.
WASHINGTON, November Commo-
dore White, Chief of the Yards and Docks,
reports to Secretary Tracy that the appro-
prlations for the past year were judiciously
and economically expended. The esti-
mates from the different navy yards and
stations aggregate S., ,2Sl ,204 43. which the
Bureau reduces to 81, ,S05 266 80. The
Commodore says the general condition of
Government property is lamentable, and
he recommends sufficient appropriations to
prevent decay and deterioration, which he
estimates at $3.50, 900, and also $500, 600 to
keep them up. He reports that Rear Ad-
miral Kimberly has concluded his surveys
and reported on the best sites for a coaling
station at Pago Pago, Samoa.
For the Mare Island Navy Yard Commo-
dore White asks the following appropria-
tions for the year ending June 80, 1891:
For general maintenance, $4,000; for
civil establishment, $12 S57 SO; complet-
ing repairs to sectional dry docks, $4,000;
bridge across sectional dock basin, 81 600;
boat landing, S3,0005 sinking artesian well
las much as may be necessary, $40 900;
building wagon road toward the cemetery,
magazines, etc, s. 600; replanking wharves,
So O0O completing electric light plant, $780,
900; moving ferry slip back and straighten-
ing seawall, $40, 900; dredging, $4,000; gate
and guard house, $40 600; for iron plating
shop, same Act, $7,755 40; for roads along
waterfront and about the shops, same Act,
$1,000; for extending quaywall, same Act,
$4,000; for continuing work on granite
dry-dock, same Act, $4,000.
Commodore Benham's estimates for
yard Improvements differed very materi-
ally from the above ss follows For timber
shed, $57, ,760 80; for rolling mill Bureau
of Steam Engineering, $40 600; for boat
landing, $1,000; for roads, $25, 600; for gate
and gate house, $50, 900; for extension of
quay wall, $3.50 600; for erection of two II
ton swinging cranes, $1,000; for dredging,
$4,000; for artesian well, S22 600; for NOV
ing ferry slip inland, etc, $50 l47; for cais-
son, $1,000; for gas holder, $16,664; for
road from stables TO lighthouse, S., 900; for
bridge across sectional dock basin, 81 695;
for mud dredger and scow, $40 600; for re-
placing wharf in rear of seawall, $5 200;
for widening the gauge in railroad tracks,
Sc 800; proposed steel ship building plant
for the Bureau of Construction and Repair,
for grading 500 900, for alterations and i'm
provements in the ship-fitter and furnish
ing shops, including the leveling of floors,
the removal of partition walls and Chin
neys, the filling in OF clstern, the building
of pattern shops and galleries, the laying
of foundation ready 10 receive the new
250 horse. power engine, and the building
of house over the engine, $45,0 900; for five
sheds, complete, with floors, corrugated
iron roofs, skylights, etc., 100000; for rail-
road tracks, turntables and rolling stock.
SIS 600; for adaptation of dock basin for
building slip. $4,000; for electric light
plant, $1,000: for wharf in front Of sawmill,
$4,000.
OF the Northwest Coast Navy Yard and
Gulf Coast Navy Yard the Commodore
says be waits the reports of the Commits
sion with interest and hopes Congress will
take immediate action regarding whatever
cities are selected, as navy yards are essen
tial in their localities.