Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-01
WORK PLANNED AND FINISHED.

Estimates Submitted for the Coming
Year for Lake Cities of Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON, y. c., Oct. 30.-Esti-
mates of army engineers of amounts
which can be proftably expended IT,
Improvement of rivers and harbors
were given out to-day. There is also
submitted reports showing the
present condition of government
works and other information which
will form the basis of the
river and harbor appropriation bill.
The report states that the Milwaukee
harbor of refuge when completed will
furnish All acres Of safe mooring ground.
The actual length of the breakwater
when completed will be 7,250 feet. At
the close of the fiscal year there
1850 feet of substructure and $3.50
feet Of superstructure will be completed
One hundred feet of substructure and
800 lineal feet of superstructure were
badly damaged by the storm of last
April. On July l there was an availa-
BILE balance Of SOC, S4S. IS. The estimate
of the amount needed for the next fiscal
year is 100000.
For Milwaukee harbor the only eX-
penditures now demanded are for re-
pairs of piers and dredging. The total
cost to date is $651 1868, Of which $32,-
1856 was contributed by the city Of
Milwaukee. SOundings taken in May,
1893, show a channel between piers 100
feet wide and II feet deep. The esti
mate for the next fiscal year is $50, 900.
Constant shoaling at the entrance to
Racine harbor shows that the piers
no n,ytn
to maintain the intended depth, and
! 100 feet Of superstructure of the piers
should be rebuilt. The estimate OF the
amount required for the next fiscal
year is 500 800.
The sum of s., 1852 was expend-
ed in dredging the channel of Keno
sha harbor SO as to have u depth
of Is feet and a width of so feet. The
work Of extending the north pier 100
feet and the south pier 30 feet is now in
progress The estimate for the next
fiscal year is $40, 800.
The estimate Of the amount needed
for continuing the Improvement of Port
Washington harDor is $4,000. At She
boygan harbOr the work of pier extern
sion and dredging is now in progress
and will result in channel midway be-
tween the piers 100 feet wide and Is
feet deep. Estimate, $lO6, 900.
During the past fiscal year at Mani
towoc, $2,207.S2 was expended in
dredging Alb cubic yards..of material
from the channel, which now shows a
depth of seventeen feet between piers.
Estimate, S3S, 900.
At Two Rivers harbor. the south pier
and sand fences have been repaired and
new fences built on the north side of
the harbor. There is now channel
40 feet wide and y feet deep nearly
completed. Estimate, $4,000.
Dredging and pier extension have
been continued at Kewaunee. The COM
pletion of the railroad between Ke-
waunee and Green Bay, forming with a
line of steamers and other railroads
through line between the Mis-
souri, River and the Atlantic
seaboard, has greatly increased
the importance Of this harbor.
Two steamers for the carriage of TWEEN
ty-four cars each between Kewaunee
and Frankfort have been operated dur
ing the past winter and spring. The es-
innate for further extension of piers
and dredging is SIS 900.
For Ahnapee harbor the estimate for
continuing pier extension, repairs and
Dire 1ging is $4,000.